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easytiger on Sept 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windy.com

> IBM also has its own proprietary weather forecasting service, notably used by The Weather Channel.

Is it not the case that IBM bought the weather channel to acquire the technology with no interest in the WC business?

yccs27 on Sept 11, 2021 [–]

IBM bought The Weather Company, which was the holding company of The Weather Channel. The forecasting technology is now owned by IBM, which licenses the weather data to The Weather Channel.

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