Nuance to Buy Vocada

Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), a Burlington, MA, speech and imaging firm, announced it had reached an agreement to acquire Dallas, TX’s Vocada, which produces technology for the automated distribution of medical test results. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.