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- Shares of software maker Nuance (NUAN) are on a tear. Investors have driven the price of stock in the Burlington [Mass.]-based company up 68% in the past year, partly on speculation that it might be taken over. Nuance's voice-recognition technology, which translates spoken words into digital information, would be attractive to several companies. Nuance wouldn't come cheap, and integrating its various divisions might prove too tall an order for would-be acquirers, says Richard Davis, an analyst at Needham & Co. in Boston. "What investors need to understand is that Nuance doesn't have some 12:00 AM ET
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