Not Lost In Translation: Facebook Acquires Jibbigo Developer Mobile Technologies
Facebook announced via a post by Director of Product Management Tom Stocky that it agreed to acquire speech-recognition and machine-translation startup Mobile Technologies, developer of speech-to-speech translator application Jibbigo.
Facebook announced via a post by Director of Product Management Tom Stocky that it agreed to acquire speech-recognition and machine-translation startup Mobile Technologies, developer of speech-to-speech translator application Jibbigo.
Facebook did not reveal terms of the transaction, nor how many members of the Mobile Technologies team would be joining the social network’s ranks.
As for the Jibbigo app, Facebook told TechCrunch:
We’ll continue to support the app for the time being.
Stocky wrote:
I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire Mobile Technologies, a company with an amazing team that’s behind some of the world’s leading speech-recognition and machine-translation technology.
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