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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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[-] adenoid@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same firm that acquired LogMeIn (LastPass) and MyFitnessPal--and after those acquisitions both MyFitnessPal and LastPass quickly moved to worsen the free tiers of services in favor of their paid subscription models.

[-] kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

That's incredible. Both of those apps INSTANTLY became so much worse after they were bought out.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

plus ça change with software disaster capitalism as always

there'll always be another app to ruin to make a quick buck

[-] kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There's always blood to squeese.

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