By:
Jeff Masters
, 3:45PM,GMT on October 28,2015
IBM announced today
that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Weather
Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including WSI,
weather.com, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand. The TV
segment – The Weather Channel – will not be acquired by IBM, but will
license weather forecast data and analytics from IBM under a long-term
contract.
There are no changes that have been announced for how Weather Underground will operate, and Bob Henson and I plan to ride the rapids to see where they lead. IBM brings some pretty remarkable technology resources to the table, so I expect that WU's creative development team will be able to take advantage of that and crank out some ground-breaking weather software.
For more information on the acquisition, see the IBM/Weather Company press release. The deal will likely become finalized in January.
Jeff Masters
There are no changes that have been announced for how Weather Underground will operate, and Bob Henson and I plan to ride the rapids to see where they lead. IBM brings some pretty remarkable technology resources to the table, so I expect that WU's creative development team will be able to take advantage of that and crank out some ground-breaking weather software.
For more information on the acquisition, see the IBM/Weather Company press release. The deal will likely become finalized in January.
Jeff Masters
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