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Funny tweet on this by @Cryo (https://twitter.com/Cryo/status/659369885991088129):

IBM Board meetings notes: "We should buy the Cloud" "What?" "You know, the Cloud" "Why?" "We want to be the biggest"

buys weather channel

Except that according to the article, the bought the Weather Company and not the Weather Channel...

The Weather Company owns the Weather Channel.

They bought the Weather Company minus the TV channel side of the business. So I would assume The Weather Channel will remain an independent company just without the digital assets.

The article explicitly says the weather channel was not part of the deal.

This reminds me a "joke" told to me by a friend who works at what used to be Softlayer (and has now been integrated into IBM) to explain why IBM bought Softlayer: "IBM wanted to have a good cloud business, so they bought one".

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