Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) gets rebalanced on the stock exchange; Nuance closes down voice to text service Jott; HP (NYSE: HPQ) loses a senior mobile exec, reaches out to startups; and HTC buys up some wireless patents.

When I spoke with SpinVox buyer Nuance, as it began planning the future for the voicemail-to-text firm last month, it said it would pitch the service harder to network operators, stop offering new direct consumer accounts, but continue to maintain the service for existing subscribers. That latter part now appears…

Nuance Communication’s depth of speech-recognition technology is already vast, but after getting a peak at what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was working on last night at Mobile World Congress, it’s not surprising that it feels it needs more. The Burlington, Mass.-based company has acquired MacSpeech, a provider of speech recognition solutions…

Speech recognition outfit Nuance will unveil its plans for Spinvox, the troubled voice-to-text firm it bought for $102.5 million in December, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. For now, Nuance has placed the firm in a new voice-to-text division run as general manager by Seattle-based John Pollard, EMEA…

Speech recognition software provider Nuance will acquire Canadian text input technology specialist Zi for $35 million, ending a 7-month bid that grew increasingly bitter between the two companies. Burlington, Mass-based Nuance said it will pay Zi shareholders $17 million in cash and $18 million in Nuance common stock, which equates…

Bulington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications, which develops speech-recognition software, said today it was giving Zi Corp. shareholders two more weeks to consider its $20 million buy-out offer, which pencils out to about 40 cents a share in cash. Previously, the decision had to be made by Jan. 2, but now it’s…

It’s been a little fun watching Nuance Communications’ awkward courtship with Zi Corp. This summer, Nuance offered $40.5 million to acquire Zi, a mobile ad and search firm. And, when Zi declined the offer, Burlington, Mass-based Nuance reacted by filing a patent infringement lawsuit over SMS technology. Then, in November,…

What a difference three months makes. Nuance Communications has halved its all-cash takeover bid for mobile ad and search firm Zi Corp. from $40.5 million to $20 million. Nuance, which makes speech-based technology for customer service, directory assistance and voice-activated commands on wireless devices, has been dogged in its pursuit…

Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications, which creates speech-recognition software for multiple platforms, including mobile phones, reported a fourth-quarter profit based on improved operating margins. The company’s stock jumped $1.28, or about 17 percent, today to close at $8.78 a share. Q4 profits totaled $22 million, or 9 cents a share, compared…

Nokia is signing a multi-year deal worth “tens of millions of dollars” with Nuance Communications in an unusual arrangement, where Nokia will not only license Nuance’s speech-recognition and predictive text technologies to use internally, but also to make them available to developers working with Nokia (NYSE: NOK). Michael Thompson, GM…

Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications, which is focused on speech recognition, has acquired Philips Speech Recognition Systems, a business unit of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG) specialized in the European healthcare market. The acquisition defers from other recent acquisitions in the mobile space, including SNAPin, which develops customer service software for…

Zi Corp.’s license agreement with Nokia (NYSE: NOK) for predictive text services has been renewed and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Nuance Communications, which makes speech-based technology for customer service, directory assistance and voice-activated commands on wireless devices, has been dogged in its pursuit of the company…

Here’s a lesson right out of the keep-your-enemies-close playbook. Nuance Communications filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Zi Corp. over SMS technology just days after it rejected the Burlington, MA-based company’s all-cash $40.5 million takeover bid. Nuance and its Tegic subsidiary said it filed suit against Zi in a federal…

Nuance Communications, which develops voice-recognition software, said today it is acquiring privately-held SNAPin, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company, which builds instructional software for smartphones that helps carriers avoid service phone calls into customer care. Nuance said it will pay about $180 million in Nuance stock and that SNAPin shareholders will be…

Update: Zi Corp.’s board of directors has declined Nuance’s offer. After consulting with Ridgecrest Capital Partners, the company concluded that “the Nuance proposal does not recognize the full value of Zi.” (Release). Nuance Chairman and CEO Paul Ricci fired back in a statement: “Zi’s refusal to negotiate is perplexing and…