Foreca Ltd is a private Finnish weather forecasting company, the largest of its kind in the Nordic countries, headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Foreca was first established in 1996 under the name Weather Service Finland. In January 2001 it changed its name to Foreca as part of its effort to expand the company internationally.
Since 2004, the company has had a contract with Microsoft to produce content for their international MSN websites. Via these websites Foreca produces weather forecasts in 25 languages for 194 countries and 8500 cities. Foreca hosted the Windows 7 weather gadget engine, and more recently provides weather information for the MSN Weather app and Cortana.
The company offers a free weather forecast smartphone application called ForecaWeather Free. It provides current conditions, 10-day weather forecasts and weather animations for any location world-wide. The application is available for Android and iOS devices.
Video Foreca
References
Maps Foreca
External links
- Foreca.fi Official website in Finnish
- Foreca.com Official website in English
- Foreca.mobi Mobile website
- MSN Weather - Weather site that uses Foreca data for weather forecast information.
Source of article : Wikipedia
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