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Microsoft acquires Nuance—makers of Dragon speech rec—for $16 billion:
Earlier today, Microsoft announced its plans to purchase Nuance for $56 per share—23 percent above Nuance's closing price last Friday. The deal adds up to a $16 billion cash outlay and a total valuation for Nuance of about $19.7 billion, including that company's assumed debt.
Nuance is a well-known player in the field of natural language recognition. The company's technology is the core of Apple's Siri personal assistant. Nuance also sells well-known personal speech-recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which is invaluable to many people with a wide range of physical disabilities.
[...] Acquiring Nuance gives Microsoft direct access to the company's entire health care customer list. It also gives Microsoft the opportunity to push Nuance technology—currently, mostly used in the US—to Microsoft's own large international market. Nuance chief executive Mark Benjamin—who will continue to run Nuance as a Microsoft division after the acquisition—describes it as an opportunity to "superscale how we change an industry."
[...] The acquisition has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both Nuance and Microsoft, and it is expected to close by the end of 2021.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @06:23AM (1 child)
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @06:45AM
You know, back in the days when I had to work with MS stuff, you had to search MSDN for tech/API info. You couldn't find shit with the built-in search engine or Bing. You had to google it to get some half-way decent relevant info from, get this, MSDN Lib.
All that money MS made from Windows/Office, they hired garbage talents/management and couldn't compete with Google.
NB: Fuck google.