Maxi operation for Microsoft, which on Monday announced the purchase of Nuance Communications, a group specializing in artificial intelligence and speech recognition programs. The transaction is worth approx 19,7 billion dollars, including debt, or $56 per share, a 23% premium over Friday's close on Wall Street.
Nuance's technology, which had been in Apple's sights for many years, is used in many industries. Since 2019, Microsoft and Nuance have been carrying out a project in the healthcare sector that allows voice conversations between doctors and patients to be inserted into an electronic medical record.
The acquisition is Microsoft's largest since LinkedIn, which it bought for more than $26 billion in 2016.
But that's not all: Microsoft is pushing the acquisition pedal and makes it known that it is also in talks to buy the Discord chat app, an instant messaging platform famous in the world of video games, worth about 10 billion dollars.
In addition, Microsoft completed its acquisition last month game company Zenimax for 7,6 billions of dollars.
