Facebook is being very tight-lipped about the acquisition, and Jibbigo is remaining on both app stores for the time being. It's possible that Facebook could use Jibbigo in all sorts of ways, from better translations to something similar to Siri voice recognition and transcription.
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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. With this deal we will welcome some of the industry’s most talented people to our engineering teams in Menlo Park, California.
It has always been our mission to make the world more open and connected. Although more than a billion people around the world already use Facebook every month, we are always looking for ways to help connect the rest of the world as well. Voice technology has become an increasingly important way for people to navigate mobile devices and the web, and this technology will help us evolve our products to match that evolution. We believe this acquisition is an investment in our long-term product roadmap as we continue towards our company’s mission. Read more at http://www.cultofandroid.com/39325/facebook-buys-jibbigo-possibly-signaling-siri-like-plans/#KETDCeS1qOXQSxQL.99
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