Drizzle 102.5 Million, Nuance Acquisition Swype

Swype recorded keyboard technology is very popular among mobile phone users touch the screen. Swype Inc.. the one who stands behind the success of a predictive QWERTY keypad technology for touch screens. Although only 3 years old, the company recorded yielded very good results.

Latest news via Reuters quoted, Nuance Communications, a manufacturer of software 'speech recognition' and 'digital imaging', will be poured funds amounting to 102.5 million dollars to acquire ownership of Swype.

In the early stages Nuance already known to deposit funds at least 77.5 million dollars for shareholders Swype, the remainder will be paid 18 months later after negotiating an agreement is reached.

Decision Swype Inc. Nuance acquired. believed to be part of its attempt to minimize his competitors FlexT9 keyboard, which incidentally is a direct competitor of Swype on the Android platform (possibly other platforms), both for smartphones and tablets.

For information, Nuance Communications in recent years has taken several steps such acquisitions in 2007, where Nuance bought Tegic Communications (makers of T9 text input predictive software).

In August last, was purchased Loquendo Nuance, developers of the technology unit of Telecom Italia's voice. In addition, last year acquired Nuance ShapeWriter unknown, similar applications Swype IBM Research.

Currently, voice recognition technology (voice recogintion) Nuance's even been used by Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 4S, with the name "Siri".

Posted in: News,Swype