Will Apple Lose Siri's Core Tech To Samsung?

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 2, 2014 @09:27PM from the mine-now-I-take-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes Apple bought Siri in 2010, but its core technology is owned by Nuance, maker of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Now Samsung is looking to buy Nuance. From the article: "This past June, Nuance and Samsung began merger talks, but nothing came of it. At the time, the two companies said talks had 'slowed' due to 'complexities.' But they didn't say it was dead. Guess what? The talks are back on. The first hint came in June, after the company missed the quarterly projections. The Wall Street Journal then brought up the talks with Samsung and also noted the company had taken financial steps that could indicate a buyout was imminent. The company’s earnings report for June stated that Nuance was redeeming $250 million in 2027 convertible notes. By calling back the debt, that would save the future acquirer around $50 million from a debt-to-share conversion."

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Re:Tech Companies have become warring fiefdoms by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-02 23:02 · Score: -1, Troll

Take this SIRI/Nuance -- Apple/Samsung saga for example ---
Instead of innovate - Innovate - INNOVATE what we have here are "strategizing - scheming - blocking"
Instead of innovation the tech companies are more interested in dog fights, and the one thing that I need to know is this ---
Why are they doing all these?
Why?
How about "Apple fucked us for a billion dollars in a crooked court with a corrupt jury for 'rounded corners', time for a little payback" - or thoughts to that effect.
And by "crooked court", I mean they did not even blink at the blatantly obvious juror misconduct - I guess it is: "We be 'muricans, our 'murican company Asshole, uh I mean Apple, has gotta be right - it's a 'murican company!".
We won't talk about the fact that it is a Chinese-made phone; (you know how those 'murican workers are...)