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IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business
CNBC ^ | 8-22-23 | Hayden Field

Posted on 08/22/2023 7:42:20 AM PDT by Brookhaven

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To: Wonder Warthog

I load the “10-day Forecast” and Windy.com together.
A potent 1-2 punch for geeks.


21 posted on 08/22/2023 8:23:38 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: Sequoyah101

“Yes, and at a loss of 50% of what they paid for it 7 years ago. Great business model.”

Yup—promoting executives after they make stupid decisions leads to more stupid decisions.

If you fire them the other execs get the message.


22 posted on 08/22/2023 8:25:22 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

Instead they get a bigger bonus and a promotion.


23 posted on 08/22/2023 8:26:25 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Brookhaven

BTT


24 posted on 08/22/2023 8:30:13 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: SeekAndFind

DIVERSICATION!


25 posted on 08/22/2023 8:30:35 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
lol I had NO idea they owned those!

I had no idea IBM still existed. Didn't they go out with Pam Am?

26 posted on 08/22/2023 8:33:59 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Love Weather Underground.

I use their 10 day forecast for local temp, humidity, dew point, wind, etc. I have it zeroed in on a weather station a couple miles from me. Usually fairly accurate. You can customize it for a variety of information. It shows as a graphical output with an hourly spread. Just float your curser over it and it gives you numerical outputs.
Anyone that uses anything "better" I'd like to know.

27 posted on 08/22/2023 8:34:29 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Angelino97

I remember all of that. We had one of the first Thinkpad, as well as an IBM Selectric.


28 posted on 08/22/2023 8:34:50 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Brookhaven

https://www.franciscopartners.com/


29 posted on 08/22/2023 8:35:35 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Brookhaven

Weather Channel went downhill for weather after Al Roker destroyed their original format.

Will miss the other non-weather shows.


30 posted on 08/22/2023 8:43:58 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Brookhaven

“Made the space suits in “2001 A Space Odyssey”.”

My father was an engineer tech at IBM for thirty years (retired in 1984). He worked on the Apollo project as did many other “beamers’ in the area. They were very proud their role in NASA, and the community was so vested in IBM that schools closed so that we stay home to watch the launches on our grainy black and white TVs.


31 posted on 08/22/2023 8:45:21 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Bounced2X

Ditto everything you said...


32 posted on 08/22/2023 8:45:24 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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To: Bounced2X

Accuweather is waaay better. Also a cable channel with app.


33 posted on 08/22/2023 8:46:40 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Brookhaven
That system, which is also trained on NASA’s satellite data, is geared towards parsing ESG data

ESG data?

WTF???

34 posted on 08/22/2023 8:47:29 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Brookhaven

Yes, because that is the division that is worth something.

Having been through this a few times, being the profitable division sometimes means you are sold to support the “real” business.


35 posted on 08/22/2023 8:47:42 AM PDT by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: srmanuel

IBM’s market capitalization - stock value X share outstanding, has grown, not shrunk, as they have kept reinventing themselves. One former CEO said it best about IBM, that among its greatest assets is its people, its talent, and its internal knowledge base, and with those it can change and adapt as needed, and still return a good return to stockholders. I think they have done that.

https://people.umass.edu/~kazemi/Is%20US%20Stock%20Market%20Overvalued.pdf


36 posted on 08/22/2023 8:49:16 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Brookhaven

Well they stopped being “The Weather Channel” years ago so..,,


37 posted on 08/22/2023 8:50:36 AM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: Wuli

Were you around in 1980 when IBM had 80% or more of the worldwide computing market and were getting sued by the DOJ for anti-trust violations ??

They are like HP basically two once great companies who are shells of their former self , I’ll give them credit for actually surviving when the majority of their competitors from that era haven’t

It’s like owning the Weather Channel, which has nothing to do with the computer industry and indicates a company who makes investments in things that have no connection to the core business


38 posted on 08/22/2023 8:57:02 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Wonder Warthog

Wish they’d spin it off so it could be run like it used to be. Do not want any climate bullshite on the map or forecast, but with some smart AI guys it ought to be possible to do some really interesting microclimate things with the network of personal weather stations.


39 posted on 08/22/2023 9:00:00 AM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: Brookhaven

I wasted six years of my life at IBM.

Management was dominated by ex-salesmen who thought anyone who wasn’t a former member of the “One hundred percent club” (who made their sales quota) could not be management material.

IBM absolutely “owned” the computer business and then lost it (and much more) to startups like Dell, Microsoft, and others.


40 posted on 08/22/2023 9:00:24 AM PDT by aculeus
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