Gates opened for Indian startup talking Microsoft language

Microsoft acquired the California-based Wand Labs, a start-up which builds messaging technology for apps. “This acquisition accelerates our vision and strategy for ‘Conversation as a Platform’ which Nadella introduced at our Build 2016 conference,” Corporate Vice President, Information Platform Group at Microsoft David Ku said in a statement. 

Wand Labs was founded in 2013 by Vishal Sharma who was previously the vice president, products at Google. The acquisition builds on and extends the power of the Microsoft’s search engine Bing, its cloud computing platform Azure, Office 365 and Windows platforms to empower developers everywhere. Ku said Wand’s expertise around services mapping, third-party developer integration and conversational interfaces makes it a “great fit” to join the Bing engineering and platform team.