“買(mǎi)賣(mài)”天氣英語(yǔ)美文
San Francisco based WeatherBill, the service which lets you bet on the weather (it can also be used for insurance), took down their landing page and launched today.
總部位于舊金山的WeatherBill公司今天正式上線，你可以利用他們的服務(wù)對(duì)未來(lái)天氣下注(它也能用做保險(xiǎn))。
We wrote about the company two weeks ago while it was in private beta. WeatherBill is combining an ecommerce site with a complicated weather forecasting algorithm to sell weather insurance policies to individuals and businesses.
我們?cè)趦芍苤皥?bào)道了這家網(wǎng)絡(luò)公司，當(dāng)時(shí)它還只提供內(nèi)測(cè)的beta版。WeatherBill公司正在把一個(gè)電子商務(wù)網(wǎng)站和一中復(fù)雜的天下預(yù)報(bào)分析系統(tǒng)整合起來(lái)，然后向公司和個(gè)人出售天氣保險(xiǎn)單。
The company is not disclosing the size of their round of funding. However, it includes venture firms NEA and Index Ventures, as well as a number of well known individuals: del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom (through his Atomico fund) and Howard Morgan (idealab and First Round Capital), as well as others who declined to be named.
該公司并沒(méi)有透露他們得到了多少風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資，但是它的投資商包括了NEA和INDEX，以幾一批著名的獨(dú)立投資人，其中包括del.icio.us的創(chuàng)始人Joshua Schachter、Skype的創(chuàng)始人Niklas Zennstrom(通過(guò)他的原子基金)，和Howard Morgan，以及其他一些不愿意透露姓名的投資人。
WeatherBill is perfect for small and medium sized businesses who’s businesses are affected by the weather. If a golf course wants to be paid $1,000 per rainy day, WeatherBill will create a policy on the fly for them.
WeatherBill公司對(duì)于那些業(yè)務(wù)受天氣影響的中小型公司來(lái)說(shuō)是上佳之選，如果某高爾夫課程想要為每個(gè)雨天獲得1，000美金的賠償，那么WeatherBill公司會(huì)為此而專門(mén)設(shè)計(jì)一份保單給他們。
The company was founded by former Googler David Friedberg.
WeatherBill公司的創(chuàng)建者為前GOOGLE創(chuàng)始人David Friedberg。
On a side note, WeatherBill is doing some really nice things with Flash (see the tools section). Even if weather and insurance isn’t your cup of tea, you should check it out. Particularly if you are creating Flash applications yourself (I said the same thing about Jobby with their use of Ajax back in March).
除了對(duì)天氣進(jìn)行保險(xiǎn)，WeatherBill公司還用FLASH做了些非常有意思的'小玩藝(參看網(wǎng)站的工具欄)。即便你對(duì)天氣和保險(xiǎn)全無(wú)興趣，你也應(yīng)該用它查一下天氣對(duì)你收入的影響。特別的是，你還可以為自己定制一個(gè)FLASH的小程序。
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