Everything's sweet!
Microsoft just wants to gobble up another large company, nothing to see.
Never mind multinational companies getting bigger till they grow so large that one day taxpayer may need to pick up the tab while they socialize the losses whilst the greedy fuckers capitilize the profits.
Never mind the monopoly.
Never mind the size.
Everything normal. Bill Gates will be happy, more money, "aaahhhhh, love the smell of money, gimme those dividends."
Microsoft in talks to buy AI firm Nuance Communications
Apr 12, 2021
Microsoft is in advanced talks to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications for about US$16 billion according to a source familiar with the matter.
The price being discussed could value Nuance at about US$56 a share, the source said, adding that an agreement could be announced as soon as Monday US time.
Bloomberg News, which first reported the deal between Nuance and Microsoft, said talks are ongoing and the discussions could still fall apart.
Burlington, Massachusetts-based Nuance whose voice recognition technology helped launch Apple’s assistant Siri, makes software for sectors ranging from healthcare to the automotive industries.
The deal with Nuance would be Microsoft’s second-biggest deal, after its US$26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016.