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Nuance Communications

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Nuance Communications, Inc. provides speech, imaging and keypad solutions for businesses, organizations and consumers worldwide. The company’s solutions are used every day by people and businesses for tasks and services, such as requesting account information from a phone-based self-service solution, dictating records, searching the mobile Web by voice, entering a destination into a navigation system, or working with PDF documents.

The company, through the acquisition of Philips Speech Recognition Systems GMBH (PSRS), provides speech recognition solutions for the European healthcare market. Desktop Dictation The company’s Dragon products help people and businesses improve productivity by using speech to create documents.

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  Nuance Communications added Gary Clayton as Chief Creative Officer. (5/27/08)
  Posted 12/5/10 at 9:03pm
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  Nuance Communications added Shreedhar Madhavapeddi as Director, R&D. (1/1/09)
  Posted 3/8/10 at 10:06am
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  Nuance Communications added Paul Ricci as Chairman, CEO.
  Posted 3/8/10 at 10:06am
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  Went public with stock symbol NASDAQ:NUAN.
  Posted 7/14/11 at 6:35pm
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  Nuance Communications acquired Vlingo. (12/20/11)
  Posted 12/20/11 at 6:19pm via techcrunch.com
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  Nuance Communications acquired Swype. (10/6/11)
  Posted 10/9/11 at 7:46pm via techcrunch.com
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  Nuance Communications acquired Loquendo. (8/15/11)
  Posted 8/15/11 at 5:58am via businesswire.com
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  Nuance Communications acquired Webmedx. (7/14/11)
  Posted 7/14/11 at 6:38pm via masshightech.com
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  Nuance Communications acquired SVOX. (6/16/11)
  Posted 6/16/11 at 5:49pm via techcrunch.com
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  Nuance Communications acquired Equitrac for $157M. (5/10/11)
  Posted 5/10/11 at 6:55pm via techcrunch.com
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  Nuance Communications acquired MacSpeech. (2/10/10)
  Posted 7/24/10 at 1:14am via nuance.com
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  Nuance Communications acquired ShapeWriter. (6/22/10)
  Posted 7/8/10 at 9:50pm via xconomy.com
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  Nuance Communications acquired Language & Computing. (3/1/10)
  Posted 3/8/10 at 10:25am via nuance.com
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  Nuance Communications acquired SpinVox for $102M. (12/30/09)
  Posted 12/30/09 at 8:23am via co.uk
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  Nuance Communications acquired SNAPin Software for $204M. (8/13/08)
  Posted 8/28/09 at 8:43am
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  Nuance Communications acquired Jott. (7/15/09)
  Posted 7/14/09 at 10:13am via informationweek.com

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1. After Years Of Patent Litigation, Nuance Acquires Vlingo (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Swype, The Maker Of Speedy Virtual Keyboards, To Be Acquired By Nuance For $100 Million+ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Nuance to Acquire Loquendo (eon.businesswire.com) [edit]
4. Nuance buys Atlanta's Webmedx (masshightech.com) [edit]
5. Nuance Acquires Speech Recognition Software Company SVOX (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Nuance Buys Enterprise Print Management Software Developer Equitrac For $157M In Cash (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Nuance Acquires ShapeWriter, Ramps Up Pressure on Seattle Startup Swype (xconomy.com) [edit]
8. Nuance Enhances Natural Language Processing Portfolio, Acquires L&C (nuance.com) [edit]
9. Nuance Acquires MacSpeech, Extending Dragon NaturallySpeaking Family to the Mac (nuance.com) [edit]
10. BBC (news.bbc.co.uk) [edit]
11. Nuance Acquires Jott, Expands Mobile Division (informationweek.com) [edit]
12. Citation Needed [add]
13. Nuance to Acquire Tegic Communications (timewarner.com) [edit]
14. HIS Talk (histalk2.com) [edit]
15. Nuance rumored to be on Apple's iOS 5, stock jumps (masshightech.com) [edit]
16. Nuance CEO sells $1.3M in stock (masshightech.com) [edit]
17. Nuance in talks to acquire Swype for over $100M (venturebeat.com) [edit]

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