Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, April 12th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Microsoft has acquired speech tech company nuance for

19.7 billion dollars in cash a 23% premium on its Friday closing price on the stock market, quoting

CMBC. The Nuance acquisition represents Microsoft's largest

acquisition since it bought LinkedIn for more than 26 billion dollars

in 2016. It's the latest sign Microsoft is hunting for more growth through acquisitions.

The company is also reportedly in talks to buy the chat app discord for about $10 billion.

On top of that, Microsoft made an effort

to buy Tik-Tox US business last year

for about $30 billion before the deal was derailed.

Last month, Microsoft completed its 7.6 billion dollar acquisition of

gaming company Xenomax. Nuance would be aligned with the part of Microsoft's

business that serves businesses and governments.

Nuance derives revenue by selling tools for recognizing and

transcribing speech in doctor office visits, customer service calls, and

voicemails. In its announcement Microsoft said nuances technology will be customer service calls and voicemail.

In its announcement, Microsoft said nuances technology will be used to augment Microsoft's

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