The acquisition has several similarities to Yahoo’s recent purchase of Summly, which Yahoo integrated into its iOS app just yesterday, as both start-ups focused on parsing text from content and delivering summarized snippets of information.
Even the price, at $30 million, rings similar to Yahoo’s acquisition of Summly.
Wavii could be useful in improving Google Now, Google’s voice search service, and was reportedly in high demand as a bidding war broke out between Apple and Google.
You can try out Wavii for yourself both on the web and on iOS by following the links below.
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