Microsoft just bought Wand Labs, a seven-person Silicon Valley startup whose mission is “to tear down app walls, integrate your services in chat, and make them work together so you can do more with less taps.” The company was acquired for an undisclosed amount. Here’s hoping Microsoft will use them to enhance Skype or create a new platform for messaging like Slack.
Microsoft’s David Ku said, “The Wand team’s expertise around semantic ontologies, services mapping, third-party developer integration, and conversational interfaces make them a great fit to join the Bing engineering and platform team, especially with the work we’re doing in the area of intelligent agents and chat bots. We are confident that Sharma and his team can make significant contributions to our innovation of Bing intelligence in this new era of Conversation as a Platform.”
Source: Digital Trends
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