Posted By: JustMe on 2008-06-14
In Reply to: So, they still had controlling interest, so what was their agenda?? - Duh yourself

They wanted to develop the Speech Machines side of the market, mostly to market to radiologists and emergency departments. They have done this very effectively. Philips is quite likely glad to be rid of MQ; it was a loss on the profit/loss ratio for a long time.

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