Microsoft to Acquire Nuance from EU
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Nuance by Microsoft without attaching any additional conditions. The tech giant wants to take over speech company Nuance for a sloppy 17 billion euros.
Microsoft already announced in April of this year that it wanted to acquire Nuance. The deal was previously approved by, for example, the cartel watchdogs of Australia and the United States. The United Kingdom has just started its investigation. According to the European Commission, the deal would certainly not cause competition problems in the European market.
The two companies have been working together for some time. Nuance specializes in speech technology but is also working on developments for e-health, an application it already collaborated with Microsoft.
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