Microsoft: Buys company behind Siri tech

Microsoft is on a multibillion-dollar shopping spree, said Steve Kovach in CNBC.com. The tech giant announced this week it will buy speechrecognition firm Nuance for $16 billion, “its largest acquisition since it bought LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016.” Nuance “sells tools for recognizing and transcribing speech” that are used by digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri. But its biggest business lately has been its services for health care. And Microsoft might not be done. After failing to land TikTok last fall, it is “reportedly in talks to buy the chat app Discord for about $10 billion.”