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IBM to spend billions to get in the weather data business

article published on 28 October, 2015

IBM is set to acquire the digital and data assets of the Weather Channel in a deal that could top $2 billion. While the deal will include the website, apps and intellectual property it will not include the legacy TV channel business. Weather Co., the parent company of The Weather Channel, was acquired by private equity firms in 2008 for $3.5 billion and has built its digital assets ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		28. October 2015 @ 15:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
And this FULLY explains why the Weather Channel's website, weather.com has been BRUTALLY inaccurate and and unreliable as of the past year(ish)

And truly; weather.com is terrible. NOTHING like their tv channel.

Good riddance to this crap and let IBM have it, as they might actually improve upon it.......maybe

Otherwise, i've switched to NOAA's weather and Intellicast.com


TWC's app is just as bad as their website too. Virtually useless!
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