Microsoft buys Nuance Communications in a $16 billion deal

cnbc2021-04-12

KEY POINTSMicrosoft announced Monday it will buy Nuance Communications in a $16 billion deal.Microsoft will buy Nuance for $56 per share, about a 23% premium over Nuance's closing price Friday....

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VikiSoh
2021-04-16
VikiSoh
Good
RonnieSG
2021-04-14
RonnieSG
Nuance is much better with their software than other speech recognition system. Mnay applications for FSD systems and future applications for games, business and recreationin. MSFT is smart to jump on this. Positive for the stock.
ParableTalen
2021-04-12
ParableTalen
How does nuance strengthen Microsoft business?
- tungngie:
  they are ending cortana in windows (remaining in ms office). nuance is working on better speech recognition. maybe a more powerful cortana is coming for govt and biz sectors? just off my thoughts. heh
- ParableTalen:
  yea cortana didn't really take off compared to Google assistant and Siri
Olympous
2021-04-12
Olympous
Great!
HunterX
2021-04-12
HunterX
Good company 👍
Blackk
2021-04-12
Blackk
Like and comment thanks

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just off my thoughts. heh","text":"they are ending cortana in windows (remaining in ms office). nuance is working on better speech recognition. maybe a more powerful cortana is coming for govt and biz sectors? just off my thoughts. heh","html":"they are ending cortana in windows (remaining in ms office). nuance is working on better speech recognition. maybe a more powerful cortana is coming for govt and biz sectors? just off my thoughts. heh"},{"id":4028833,"gmtCreate":1618358001590,"gmtModify":1635739387388,"authorId":3580300192386766,"author":{"id":3580300192386766,"idStr":"3580300192386766","authorId":3580300192386766,"name":"ParableTalen","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/94daa928259bc550d0ee26f23a953bb8","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":342474168,"type":1,"supId":4019432,"prevId":0,"content":"yea cortana didn't really take off compared to <u>Google</u> assistant and Siri","text":"yea cortana didn't really take off compared to <u>Google</u> assistant and Siri","html":"yea cortana didn't really take off compared to <u>Google</u> assistant and Siri"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":342450716,"gmtCreate":1618238345335,"gmtModify":1634294228103,"author":{"id":"3580732020483404","authorId":"3580732020483404","name":"Olympous","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3a8af001d967b1e9c67ad207e8390558","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3580732020483404","authorIdStr":"3580732020483404"},"htmlText":"Great!","listText":"Great!","text":"Great!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/342450716","repostId":1139994764,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":342437498,"gmtCreate":1618236414814,"gmtModify":1634294249721,"author":{"id":"3580036692422855","authorId":"3580036692422855","name":"HunterX","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4dcdf2c3699fb8fa1eee115468efcfb","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3580036692422855","authorIdStr":"3580036692422855"},"htmlText":"Good company 👍&nbsp;","listText":"Good company 👍&nbsp;","text":"Good company 👍","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/342437498","repostId":1139994764,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":342495006,"gmtCreate":1618235946205,"gmtModify":1634294256919,"author":{"id":"3572770726668540","authorId":"3572770726668540","name":"Blackk","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/93d9bfa23cdea8af3308e34dedf35d9e","vip":1,"crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3572770726668540","authorIdStr":"3572770726668540"},"htmlText":"Like and comment thanks","listText":"Like and comment thanks","text":"Like and comment thanks","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/342495006","repostId":1139994764,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":87,"commentSize":23,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":false,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.29.0","shortVersion":"4.29.0","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"laohu8","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1139994764"}