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IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business (www.cnbc.com)
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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.

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[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 181 points 1 year ago

In before a fascist wannabe billionaire buys the weather channel just to destroy any credibility it has and hijack the climate change debate. Even change the name of weather channel to something like “Y”.

Let the enshittification begin.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

He'll probably rename it to 🌦️

[-] ech0@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

*Databases crash noises

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