IBM will sell The Weather Company to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum, it announced Tuesday.

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.

Flying Squid
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Please don’t make Weather Underground shitty. It’s the only weather website that gives accurate information around here.

Doubletwist
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They’ve been shitty since TWC bought them. Maybe a little before when they killed their old web interface which was informative and fast and replaced it with a new design that was difficult to read information, and worst of all, slow as fuck. That’s about when I stopped subscribing.

@const_void@lemmy.ml
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worst of all, slow as fuck.

So true. Waiting 30 seconds to see the temperature is ridiculous.

@over_clox@lemmy.world
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It takes all of 2 seconds to open the door. Guess what? The temperature is hot.

@const_void@lemmy.ml
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Because it’s so easy to crack the door when you’re 20 stories up…

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