Microsoft says it has acquired speech tech company Nuance for $19.7B in cash, a 23% premium on its Friday closing price, as it boosts its healthcare offerings
Acquisition will combine solutions and expertise to deliver new cloud and AI capabilities across healthcare and other industries
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Discussion
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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Microsoft buying Nuance is going to lead to the same sort of inane takes like when Apple bought Beats. Ignore anyone who says it's about speech to text or voice recognition and just visit Nuance's website today. You'll get it then. https://t.co/LkMx0rSspx
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@sarafischer
Sara Fischer
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The deals $MSFT has been eyeing in the past year are significantly larger than its previous targets. — Nuance ($16B) — TikTok ($10-$30B) — Discord ($10B+) — Pinterest ($51B) 2000's/2010's — Skype ($8.5B) — Nokia ($7.2B) — aQuantive ($6B) — GitHub ($7.5B) https://www.axios.com/...
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@lanceulanoff
Lance Ulanoff
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Interesting as Microsoft sunsets Cortana on mobile. Nuance makes Dragon Naturally Speaking, the premiere voice-to-text application https://twitter.com/...
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@thedomino
Dominic Chu
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Microsoft makes biggest acquisition since LinkedIn...to buy Nuance Communications for $56 per share in cash...worth about $16 billion... Nuance is perhaps best known for its voice recognition technology that goes into things like Apple Siri. https://news.microsoft.com/... $MSFT $…
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@satyanadella
Satya Nadella
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AI is technology's most important priority, and healthcare is its most urgent application. Together with @NuanceInc, we will put advanced AI solutions into the hands of professionals to drive better decision-making and create more meaningful connections. https://news.microsoft.co…
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@markhachman
Mark Hachman
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I don't see this as Microsoft specifically buying Nuance's Dragon speech tech. Instead, Nuance's market-specific, purpose-built speech/AI solutions (healthcare, for example) seems very complementary to Microsoft's enterprise ambitions. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@lianabaker
Liana B. Baker
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Would be one of the biggest tech deals this year: Microsoft Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Nuance Communications - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@ericjackson
Eric Jackson
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With this acquisition (plus Tellme back in 06), MSFT has basically acquired all the big speech rec companies back in 2000 (except for my old company VoiceGenie which is now part of Genesys) — Nuance was huge roll up of all those old companies
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@daniel_rubino
Daniel Rubino
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Microsoft literally has a building here (Tech Center) in MA next to Nuance, so not too surprising that the companies have become so close that an acquistion would happen. https://twitter.com/...
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@counternotions
Kontra
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Nuance's speech tech patent portfolio is prohibitively expansive, not that DoJ/FTC would care, obviously. ↓ https://twitter.com/...
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@jordannovet
Jordan Novet
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we've confirmed Microsoft wants to pay about $56 per share for Nuance Communications, an acquisition could be announced as soon as tomorrow https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@harrymccracken
Harry McCracken
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@PofInt2112 Not sure if there's any Nuance tech left in Apple products, but if so, I think they're way less dependent on it than they once were.
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@x_gamer_kid
Thomas
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Microsoft in talks to buy AI firm Nuance Communications for about $16 billion. Nuance whose voice recognition technology helped launch Apple Inc's assistant Siri, makes software for sectors ranging from healthcare to the automotive industries. https://twitter.com/...
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@quicktake
Bloomberg Quicktake
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MORE: An agreement could be announced as soon as this week, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. The price being discussed could value Nuance at about $56 a share https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@harrymccracken
Harry McCracken
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Once upon a time, Nuance was called ScanSoft. I happened to be visiting on the day in 2001 when it bought failed voice technology giant Lernout & Hauspie at a bankruptcy auction, its first move into voice. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@sherman4949
Alex Sherman
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Some new details here: Microsoft approached Nuance in December, closing in on $16b equity deal for Nuance. Agreement could be signed as soon as today, deal announced tomorrow. https://www.cnbc.com/...