Possible Clues:

• Tech giant with a striped logo
• Company with the most U.S. patents per year since 1993
• Inventor of the UPC
• Co. founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
• Company nicknamed Big Blue
• Computer giant whose motto is "THINK"
• Computer giant whose motto is 'THINK'
• Co. behind the "Jeopardy!" champion Watson
• It began as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
• Company aka Big Blue