Siri gets smarter! Apple building AI search tool to rival OpenAI, Perplexity, may launch in Spring 2026Apple is working on a new AI search tool called World Knowledge Answers. It will first come inside Siri and may arrive in spring 2026. The ...
04 Sep, 2025, 08.20 PM IST
Apple’s AI Crossroads: Will Mistral or Perplexity Propel Siri and Apple Back to the Innovation Forefront?As the AI arms race heats up, Apple stands at a major inflection point: acquire disruptive AI startups Mistral or Perplexity to revamp Siri...
02 Sep, 2025, 10.58 AM IST
Apple eyes Mistral and Perplexity: is Siri set to crush Google and Samsung in AI?Apple is exploring acquisitions of AI startups Mistral and Perplexity to supercharge Siri, aiming to compete directly with Google and Samsu...
27 Aug, 2025, 05.57 PM IST
Cognizant raises staff pay; Wipro, Warburg eye Harman's bizIT major Cognizant announced pay hikes for 80% of its staff. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
14 Aug, 2025, 07.58 PM IST
Sam Altman's partnership with Jony Ive furthers OpenAI's hardware ambitionsIve and the his creative collective Loveform started collaborating with OpenAI and Sam Altman two years ago, the ChatGPT maker said in a st...
22 May, 2025, 11.41 AM IST
Apple taps insider Kevan Parekh as CFO, replacing Luca Maestri"It appears that the transition to the new CFO is planned and orderly, which is the most important question. Maestri staying on with Apple ...
27 Aug, 2024, 08.25 AM IST
Zomato’s Rs 300-crore Blinkit boost; Ola Electric gets IPO nodFood delivery company Zomato will infuse Rs 300 crore into its quick commerce unit Blinkit. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
11 Jun, 2024, 08.35 PM IST
Microsoft closes on $16 billion acquisition of NuanceNuance Communications Inc. has been a pioneer in voice-based artificial intelligence technology and was instrumental in helping to power Ap...
04 Mar, 2022, 10.37 PM IST
Microsoft's $16 billion Nuance bid set for EU antitrust approvalThe latest tech deal, Microsoft's second-biggest after its $26.2 billion LinkedIn purchase in 2016, follows heightened regulatory scrutiny ...
11 Dec, 2021, 10.41 AM IST
Microsoft set to win EU antitrust nod for $16 billion Nuance deal: ReportMicrosoft announced in April the deal that will boost its presence in cloud solutions for healthcare customers in a sector where demand has...
10 Dec, 2021, 07.17 PM IST
Rel Jio digital buys majority stake in Haptik for Rs 700 croreThe move is in line with Jio’s interest to build its own product portfolio of voice-based and AI-enabled conversational products .
04 Apr, 2019, 09.11 AM IST
How Google struck gold in India’s Halli Labs acquisitionGoogle’s acquisition is the latest in a series of such buyouts by top global tech companies in the field of deep learning.
13 Jul, 2017, 02.00 PM IST
Nuance Communications acquires Noida-based mCarbon Tech for $36 millionThe deal is the latest example of consolidation taking place in the Indian startup ecosystem, which is expected to see an increasing number...
09 Feb, 2017, 12.22 PM IST
Apple quietly acquires Hyderabad based AI startup TuplejumpDuring his visit to India, Cook announced plans to set up a design and development startup accelerator in Bengaluru and open retail outlets...
24 Sep, 2016, 01.49 PM IST
Apple is likely to announce iOS 9 at its Developers Conference today. What else can we expect?Apple is likely to make some small but significant changes to the way app icons look and might also end up announcing a new keyboard for iP...
08 Jun, 2015, 03.33 PM IST
Sperm or spoon? Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal's cheeky take on new logoA month back Zomato ditched its heart logo in favour of the spoon, in acknowledgement of its acquisition of Urbanspoon. But some users can ...
19 Mar, 2015, 01.20 PM IST
Apple hires Amazon’s William Stasior for Siri teamApple hired Amazon.com executive William Stasior, who had run a unit of Amazon handling search to lead its Siri voice-recognition software ...
17 Oct, 2012, 10.45 AM IST