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Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion

The Verge

The deal includes Nuance’s net debt. Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple’s digital assistant Siri. With so many meetings taking place via video, it is easier to offer customers transcriptions via software integrated directly into these calls.

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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

While overall revenue including services and license support rose 4% year over year to reach $10.5 billion, net income plunged 54% to $2.3 Big reasons for the decline were operating expenses for cloud services and license support, which increased 23% to $1.3 R&D, service expenses increase. billion.

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Maximize Reach with Top eReader Platforms for Publishers

Kitaboo

Features such as “read aloud,” adjustment of font size and styles, videos with captions, use of alternative text (alt-text) with images, and ease of navigation, intuitive navigation are helping publishers expand their reach. These include net banking, debit cards, credit cards, UPI apps, and wallets.

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Futurist conversations: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on Open vs Closed Systems

Trends in the Living Networks

Here are a few of the points we make in the video: * Many executives want to know whether and why they need to open up their business models and customer interactions. Google’s early move to expose APIs to many of its products provided the impetus for this to become standard practice across the net. *

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Netflix thinks games matter more than buying movie studios

The Verge

As Netflix’s streaming rivals like Prime Video and HBO Max’s WarnerMedia focus on consolidation and studio acquisitions, Netflix is instead prioritizing its own service and investment in games over snapping up any available studio IP. Put another way, Netflix wants to be more like social apps than other streaming services.

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Seattle startup founders, investors react to new state capital gains tax that targets stocks

GeekWire

.” RELATED: Capital gains tax ruled constitutional by Washington state Supreme Court “As part of Tempo, we will maintain this flexible approach for our talent and may at some point opt to establish our business license in more business-friendly locale than Seattle,” he said. Others applauded the court’s ruling.

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Play-to-earn gaming sounds too good to be true. It probably is.

Vox

The video game industry’s clumsy flirtation with Web3 doesn’t feel like it has actual players in mind. In total, his horse, named Diamondz, has netted him a profit of 6.4 In the future, maybe the spoils to be found in a video game will hold appreciable, uncapped real-world value. You just have a license to use it in the game.

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