IBM to Acquire the Weather Company

Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by deeths on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @01:11PM (#10465809)

Funny tweet on this by @Cryo (https://twitter.com/Cryo/status/659369885991088129):

IBM Board meetings notes: "We should buy the Cloud" "What?" "You know, the Cloud" "Why?" "We want to be the biggest"

buys weather channel

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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by bostonpete on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:01PM (#10466526)

Except that according to the article, the bought the Weather Company and not the Weather Channel...

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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by Nicholas_C on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:53PM (#10466899)

The Weather Company owns the Weather Channel.

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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by sethd on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:38PM (#10467227)

They bought the Weather Company minus the TV channel side of the business. So I would assume The Weather Channel will remain an independent company just without the digital assets.

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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by bostonpete on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @10:00PM (#10468740)

The article explicitly says the weather channel was not part of the deal.

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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by amyjess on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @01:59PM (#10466139)

This reminds me a "joke" told to me by a friend who works at what used to be Softlayer (and has now been integrated into IBM) to explain why IBM bought Softlayer: "IBM wanted to have a good cloud business, so they bought one".

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