Richard, Selwyn Rabins, Kurzweil and the new SoftQuad management team.
"...For users, this is the right move at the right time in this very hot category," said Howard March, vice president of sales [Alpha Software], "We've been able to lead the market with a full line of discrete speech products that meet the needs of a variety of people, from computer users who prefer not to type, to those who need a hands-free environment to be more productive. These pricing changes will enable us to bring the most powerful voice recognition solutions on the market to an even wider audience..."
August 20, 1997 Alpha Software Reduces Prices on Kurzweil VoicePad, VoicePlus and VoicePro Discrete Speech Products, to Advance Market Leadership prnewswire.com
September 02, 1997 SoftQuad Announces New Management Team and 2nd Quarter Results prnewswire.com
Richard and Selwyn Rabins negotiated the pre SoftQuad/Alpha acquisition Kurzweil agreement. SoftQuad's new management is now the very same management team behind the Kurzweil product line and Fiscal 1996 SEC Form 20-F material adverse effect disclosures in re: Kurzweil agreement termination 12-31-97 in the event negotiations are unsuccessful.
The timing and content/context of the August 20, Sep 2 press releases, in addition to the Annual Meeting Shareholder presentation of the Alpha-Kurzweil product line as well as the Alpha-Kurzweil product line promotions extending through April 28, 1998 are very significant. We will leave it at that, for now. |
