IBM has officially closed a deal to acquire the Weather Company. This marks yet another step by IBM in the Intenet of Things (IoT) market.
According to analysts, the combination of technology from the two companies will serve as the foundation for the new Watson IoT Unit and Watson IoT Cloud platform.
The acquisition will bring together IBM’s cognitive and analytics platform and The Weather Company’s dynamic Cloud data platform, which powers the fourth most-used mobile app daily in the US and handles 26 billion inquiries to its Cloud-based services each day.
But first, IBM is making some changes: The Weather Company’s Cloud platform will now run on IBM’s Cloud data centers. IBM will also use its weight to scale the Weather Company’s business: the company plans to expand weather.com into five more markets including China, India and Brazil.
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