Microsoft Corporation Acquires Wand Labs to Be a Nanny for AI Bot Tay

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced via a blog post today to acquire Wand Labs, a messaging app developer. It added that this deal will enhance its strategy and vision for Conversation as a Platform, which was introduced by CEO Satya Nadella at the Build 2016 conference, held in March, this year. The takeover will help the company strengthen its position in the emerging wave of conversational intelligence via Wand Labs' talent and technology. The Windows maker plans to bring the power of human language to advanced machine intelligence, which will connect people to information, knowledge, services, and others in more relevant, natural way. The blog post also mentioned that the advancement will build on and extend the power of Bing, Office 365, Microsoft Azure, and Windows Platform to empower developers globally. Wand Labs' team possesses expertise in various areas, which include semantic ontologies, services mapping, third-party developer integration, and conversational interfaces, which makes it perfect to join Bing's team.