IBM buys The Weather Company
IBM announced on Wednesday its acquisition of Weather Data Inc. The Weather Company in a deal that will enhance IBM's efforts in the Internet area of the things IoT, were not disclosed terms of the deal, but the Wall Street Journal reported that the deal is worth more than two billion dollars.
The IBM company has signed a cooperation contract with the company and formerly the weather that since the establishment of IBM Internet unit IoT have things in March.
The IBM's weather using sensors and data company has assembled with IBM analytics platform Watson Watson, and to be able to later units cloud services subsidiary of IBM termination of cooperation between weather company with AWS Amazon Web Services.
IBM's in a statement confirmed that the acquisition agreement includes the company's application on mobile phones and on the web site-based cloud services and site weather.com and WSI brand for the company weather.
The company's own mobile phone application is the fourth most application is used daily in the United States and it processes more than 26 billion request a day from the menu on the cloud computing services of the company.
However, the deal did not include any private sector television station TV company but the company will get the license of the data and weather forecast and analysis in accordance with the long-term contract.
IBM's clearly believes that revenues will be significantly better in the case of acquisition of digital data and special operations company weather.
IBM said in a statement "that. We have to platform-based data on cloud services subsidiary of the weather will allow us to gather a wide variety of global data more quickly, and will allow us to store that data, analysis and the possibility of seeing their results in a richer and more depth across Watson Watson platform."
IBM and look at the weather data as a major and important key in Antert private company things, as IBM will be the annexation of personnel data experts in weather company along with its acquisition of the tools and platform cloud, as the weather company will give IBM's additional concrete points by applications and data trips and information products .
In other words, IBM purchased the platform of the weather across the company can use its business, as IBM indicated that digital advertising platform company for the weather and how it could build its way for additional tools.
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