{"id":3997,"date":"2021-04-12T15:49:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2021-04-14T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:44:30","slug":"microsoft-in-talks-to-buy-ai-firm-nuance-communications-for-about-16-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-in-talks-to-buy-ai-firm-nuance-communications-for-about-16-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft in Talks to Buy AI Firm Nuance Communications for About $16 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire AI and speech technology company Nuance Communications Inc. for $ 16 billion. An agreement could be announced as early as today if everything goes well between the two companies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that price point, the value of Nuance could reach $56 per share.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nuance, a Massachusetts-based tech company whose voice recognition technology helped launch Apple\u2019s Siri, manufactures software for sectors ranging from automotive industries to healthcare.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should the acquisition push through, this would be Microsoft\u2019s second-biggest deal after it had acquired LinkedIn in 2016 to the tune of $ 26.2 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, you may view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-nuance-commns-m-a-microsoft\/microsoft-in-talks-to-buy-ai-firm-nuance-communications-for-about-16-billion-source-idUSKBN2BY0JE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire AI and speech technology company Nuance Communications Inc. for $ 16 billion. An agreement could be announced as early as today if everything goes well between the two companies.&nbsp; At that price point, the value of Nuance could reach $56 per share.&nbsp; Nuance, a Massachusetts-based tech company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[62,114],"class_list":["post-3997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-microsoft","tag-nuance-communications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}