Google Inc has acquired natural language processing startup Wavii for around $30 million in cash. Google outbid Apple who wanted the company for its voice-activated personal assistant Siri division.
It is only one month ago that Fusion DigiNet reported Yahoo had acquired mobile news aggregator Summly, Wavii’s main competitor, for a similar amount.
The Wavii team, including founder Adrian Aoun, will relocate to Google’s Knowledge Graph division Mountain View, California.
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