100 million apps later, The Weather Company adds social

January 15, 2013 8:23 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

"The question was: How do we become like your wristwatch … so essential that even if you know the answer you still check it?"

How The Weather Company survived a 1,000% traffic spike during Hurricane Sandy

November 2, 2012 2:08 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

On Monday, the company was serving 110 gigabytes of data per second, almost without a hiccup, not counting the livestreams -- 170 thousand simultaneous streams of live video, pushed out over the Internet.