Wavii acquired by Google and put to rest immediately
Wavii is a less known startup that specialized in natural language processing and new personalisation. Both are the domains that Google is heavily investing in recently (Google Currents and Google Now) and it is said that Apple had plans to acquire Wavii to strengthen Siri. Google reportedly paid $30 million for Wavii and the services were immediately shutdown which proves that its the technology and the man power that Google is interested in and not the product. This will also help Google provide a solid alternative to Google Reader which will be shutdown at the end of May.
You probably know us best for our app that takes the deluge of information streaming across the web and condenses it into fast, fun updates. While we won’t continue to offer this particular service, we’ll be using our natural language research at Google in ways that may be useful to millions of people around the world.
To all of our loyal Wavii users, we owe you a big thanks for all of your feedback and involvement throughout this journey. We look forward to taking our technology to the next level and delighting you with what we come up with next!
