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June 18, 2013 10:09 pm GMT
Waze's big exit to Google proved one thing: if companies can harness the power of the crowd to deliver real-time, granular data, big tech corporations will be watching them closely as potential acquisition targets. There's another category ripe for the picking, even if the problem being solved isn't as apparent or immediately useful as traffic and navigation data: weather. A few apps are trying to harness the crowd to provide accurate, ground-level forecasts and conditions, and they're catching on with consumers, too.
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Weather Could Be Next On The Auction Block For Crowdsourced Data
Waze's big exit to Google proved one thing: if companies can harness the power of the crowd to deliver real-time, granular data, big tech corporations will be watching them closely as potential acquisition targets. There's another category ripe for the picking, even if the problem being solved isn't as apparent or immediately useful as traffic and navigation data: weather. A few apps are trying to harness the crowd to provide accurate, ground-level forecasts and conditions, and they're catching on with consumers, too.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/fYQ6kN3zt-U/
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