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Microsoft has been working with OpenAI since 2019, before OpenAI became a massive hit with its AI services such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, but now Microsoft has said it will be extending that partnership with a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment.
The investment will continue to fund the AI research company's research and specifically develop AI that is "increasingly safe, useful and powerful," according to OpenAI.
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Google has silently acquired a widely-used K-12 data and analytics company.
The tech giant confirmed, in an email to EdSurge, that it's picked up BrightBytes for an undisclosed amount.
The acquisition does not appear to have been publicly announced. And Google declined to provide any details, including when the sale had taken place.
But an email about the deal sent by Google to a school district in early May, obtained by EdSurge, cites May 17th as the expected date of the transaction.
The acquisition will help Google to transform school district data “into actionable intelligence to improve the academic and overall well-being of all students,” the email says.
It also states that Google might have updated the policy and privacy terms of use after the acquisition. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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Microsoft agreed on Tuesday to buy Activision Blizzard, the video game maker behind hits like Call of Duty and Candy Crush, for $68.7 billion in cash. It is the largest takeover in Microsoft’s 46-year history and a big bet on its future direction.
The deal plants Microsoft’s flag in the emerging battle for dominance in the so-called metaverse, the next-generation internet that melds the traditional online world with virtual and augmented reality.
It is also a challenge to regulators in Washington, as Democrats and Republicans alike have pushed to limit the power of technology giants. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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Microsoft is acquiring CloudKnox Security to help build out its cloud security and Zero Trust strategy for an undisclosed amount, officials announced on July 21. Officials said they will provide more information on what they'll be doing with CloudKnox's technology as they integrate it with Microsoft's existing identity, security, and compliance services, including Microsoft 365 Defender, Azure Defender, and Azure Sentinel.
CloudKnox Security is based in Sunnyvale, CA. Its security platform supports the monitoring and management of identities, actions, and resources in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, according to its web site. CloudKnow has been a big AWS partner. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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Microsoft is buying AI speech tech firm Nuance for $19.7 billion, bolstering the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant’s prowess in voice recognition and giving it further leverage in the health care market, where Nuance sells many products. Microsoft will pay $56 per share for Nuance, a 23 percent premium over the company’s closing price last Friday.
Nuance is best known for its Dragon software, which uses deep learning to transcribe speech and improves its accuracy over time by adapting to a user’s voice. Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple’s digital assistant Siri. (Though to what degree Siri currently relies on Dragon to answer users’ queries is unclear.) Dragon is an industry leader in terms of transcription accuracy.
The $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance is Microsoft’s second-largest behind its purchase of LinkedIn in 2016 for $26 billion. It comes at a time when speech tech is improving rapidly, thanks to the deep learning boom in AI, and there are simultaneously more opportunities for its use. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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Fakespot, a useful service that explains how products you've never heard of could have 12,000 reviews with a 4.6-star average, has been acquired by Firefox maker Mozilla, and Mozilla plans to integrate it into Firefox.
"We are joining a company that develops one of the most popular browsers in the world in Firefox with a lineage that dates back to the origins of the Internet," writes Saoud Khalifah, founder of Fakespot, on the company's site. "In Mozilla, we have found a partner that shares a similar mission as to what the future of the internet should look like, where the convergence of trust, privacy, and security play an imperative part of our digital experiences." Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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Google is buying cybersecurity company Mandiant in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion.
Mandiant’s operations, which draw on the work of more than 600 security consultants and more than 300 intelligence analysts, will be folded into Google Cloud to create an “end-to-end security operations suite.” A range of services will be offered, from consulting on cybersecurity to detecting upcoming threats and testing company’s digital defenses. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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Meta Closes $1 Billion Kustomer Deal After Regulatory Review
Deal was announced in Nov. 2020, but faced regulatory scrutiny
Kustomer is part of Meta’s plan to profit from private chats
Meta Platforms Inc. was finally allowed to complete its acquisition of Kustomer, a customer service software company, after more than a year of antitrust scrutiny.
Meta, which owns Facebook, announced that the deal “complied with all regulatory requirements” in a blog update Tuesday. Meta first announced the acquisition, valued at more than $1 billion... Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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The New York Times has purchased popular word-guessing game Wordle from its creator for a sum in "the low seven figures," promising that it'll temporarily stay free to play.
Wordle, created by software engineer Josh Wardle, is a simple browser-based game that gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word. Only one word can be guessed at a time, and players won't give any additional chances after six guesses. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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L'entreprise de sécurité dans le cloud RiskIQ vient d'être rachetée par Microsoft pour 500 millions de dollars. L'acquisition est de taille : l'année dernière, la direction de RiskIQ indiquait que ses programmes de cybersécurité étaient utilisés par 30 % des 500 premières entreprises du classement Fortune et par plus de 6 000 organisations dans le monde, dont le service postal américain, BMW, Facebook et American Express.
Dans un billet de blog, le vice-président de Microsoft chargé de la sécurité dans le cloud, Eric Doerr, a fait savoir que le géant américain est en train d'acquérir la société afin d'aider ses clients « à avoir une vue plus complète des menaces mondiales qui pèsent sur leurs activités, à mieux comprendre les actifs vulnérables tournés vers l'internet et à créer des renseignements de classe mondiale sur les menaces ». Ce n'est pas la première acquisition de Microsoft cette année : au cours des derniers, elle a déjà racheté les entreprises IoT CyberX et ReFirm Labs pour renforcer ses offres de cybersécurité. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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Nuance Communications ist vor allem mit zwei Produkten bekannt geworden, von denen eines nie den Namen des Unternehmens trug: mit der Transkriptionssoftware Dragon und mit Siri. Vor fast genau zehn Jahren hieß es, Apple verhandle mit Nuance über eine Übernahme, doch letztlich wurde nur die Spracherkennung von Nuance ein Teil der virtuellen Apple-Assistenzsoftware. Dafür übernimmt nun Microsoft das US-Unternehmen mit Sitz in Burlington, Massachusetts.
19,7 Milliarden Dollar zahlt Microsoft nach eigenen Angaben, oder 56 Dollar pro Aktie, was knapp 23 Prozent über dem Kurs vom Freitag liegt.
Software von Nuance Communications kommt in der Gesundheitsbranche, im Finanz- und Telekommunikationsbereich und im Einzelhandel zum Einsatz. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft has completed its acquisition of video game-maker Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, closing one of the most expensive tech acquisitions in history that could have repercussions across the video game industry.
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