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| Acquiring Party | Nuance Communications, Inc. (NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions. |
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| Transferring Party | Dictaphone Corporation, a leading provider of dictation and speech recognition solutions for the health care industry. |
| Sector | Medical Services |
| Date | March 31, 2006 |
| Analysis Accelerates Nuance's strategy to automate medical transcription. Expands Nuance's product portfolio and market reach (installed base of over 4,000 hospital and outpatient facilities and over 400,000 physicians). Deal value $359m in cash, subject to adjustments. Dictaphone fiscal '06 revenue about $80m (4.5x) and expected fiscal year '07 to exceed $180m. | |
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