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IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business (www.cnbc.com)

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IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business::IBM will sell The Weather Company to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum, it announced Tuesday.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why on earth did IBM buy the weather channel?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago

Data, probably.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

BM planned to leverage its Watson technology as part of the acquisition, foreseeing its use for weather analytics and predictions. The deal, which closed the following January,[27] does not include the Weather Channel itself, which remained owned by the Bain/Blackstone/NBCUniversal consortium, and entered into a long-term licensing agreement with IBM for use of its weather data and "The Weather Channel" name and branding

wikipedia page for The Weather Channel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A good way to get GPS data. You "need" gps if you want your phone to show "weather near you"