Samsung agrees to acquire Viv Labs, a startup launched by Siri creators

06 October 2016
In an important development, Samsung has agreed to acquire Viv Labs, a startup launched by a group of three people who had helped create voice-controlled personal assistant Siri that was later acquired by Apple.

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  • AnonD-450899
  • D09
  • 28 Oct 2016

Apart from hard department concentrate on software department sammy it will bring luck to you please reduce the bloatware it is the main problem that everyone is complaining about please fix a eye on it

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    • AnonD-92238
    • YQ{
    • 11 Oct 2016

    AnonD-463084, 06 Oct 2016LOL. That's hilarious. I own Samsung Z3. It's so efficient.... moreso you don't use it?!

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      • Anonymous
      • YPb
      • 07 Oct 2016

      i hope this team can deliver. i have doubts...

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        • AnonD-463084
        • sn7
        • 06 Oct 2016

        AnonD-92238, 06 Oct 2016still holding your breath!!? Disney should cast you in live... moreLOL. That's hilarious. I own Samsung Z3. It's so efficient. I have to charge once a week when it's on standby.

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          • AnonD-507785
          • 9Fg
          • 06 Oct 2016

          Anonymous, 06 Oct 2016Agree... Lenovo is pulling Motorola down... Have you seen those new Moto Z series? I see a flaw in your theory. Those are some cool devices, unlike recent flagships from many companies.

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            • AnonD-507785
            • 9Fg
            • 06 Oct 2016

            Anonymous, 06 Oct 2016Samsung must aquire Varta or Duracell :)))I see what you did there XD

            On the other hand, next thing we will hear - Samsung will sue Apple for Siri patents. Never ending battle will continue.

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              • Anonymous
              • bCk
              • 06 Oct 2016

              AnonD-592280, 06 Oct 2016unlike lenovo who has full control over motorola,samsung is... moreAgree... Lenovo is pulling Motorola down...

                Well, so let's hope for a more realistic, fast and efficient voice assistance !? And hopefully will compete at a parallel level with Siri and Google now, & let's hope that it will be even better. To improve general technology and so better service for us, all technology/ smartphones users. Well done & keep it up to Viv Labs & Samsung

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                  • AnonD-92238
                  • YQ{
                  • 06 Oct 2016

                  AnonD-571916, 06 Oct 2016I can see where Samsung is going. They could incorporate Vi... morestill holding your breath!!? Disney should cast you in live action version of finding nemo

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                    • sXh
                    • 06 Oct 2016

                    I used to know one of the founders of Viv when living in California. What they are doing is the future and Samsung have just made a very smart move, although they are of course up against what Google announced with it's personal assistant the other day. (Viv guys were working on the forerunner to Siri when I lived in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, yes, they started a decade or so before the iPhone even existed at Stanford Research Institute, or SRI - hence the name!)

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                      • AnonD-592280
                      • XP{
                      • 06 Oct 2016

                      unlike lenovo who has full control over motorola,samsung is letting viv labs operate independently.thanks sammy!

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 0Cb
                        • 06 Oct 2016

                        Samsung must aquire Varta or Duracell :)))

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                          • AnonD-571916
                          • vxL
                          • 06 Oct 2016

                          I can see where Samsung is going. They could incorporate Viv into their touchwiz/grace UX. And/or put it into tizen OS. This would make tizen much more powerful and even able to compete with android.