
The video communications giant said the buy will shore up its translation capabilities
Zoom has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions - Kites GmbH for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2015, Kites bills itself as a start-up dedicated to developing real-time machine translation (MT) solutions. It has academic roots with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where co-founders Dr Alex Waibel and Dr Sebastian Stüker are faculty members. Kites' team of 12 research scientists will join Zoom's engineering team in the f...
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