Summary List PlacementMicrosoft is on a multibillion-dollar shopping spree. The company recently agreed to pay as much $19.7 billion for Nuance Communications, which provides artificial intelligence-powered assistance for health practitioners, in a deal that came not terribly long after its purchase of video game publisher Zenimax Media last year. Meanwhile, Microsoft is said to be in exclusive talks to acquire online group chat platform Discord for as much as $10 billion, previously bid on the US operations of viral video app TikTok, and was reportedly in ill-fated talks with Pinterest for what would have been multibillion-dollar deal.