Continuing its acquisition spree, microblogging platform Twitter has bought machine learning startup Whetlab for an undisclosed amount. Twitter will be integrating Whetlab's technology into its own platform and the team members will be joining the company following the acquisition. Whetlab on its website said that it will be discontinuing its product after July 15. We’ve acquired @whetlab to accelerate Twitter’s machine learning efforts. https://t.co/wGXuHUc36a — Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) June 17, 2015 Whetlab says that its patent-pending technology allows companies to speed up implementing machine learning systems for in-house systems off the ground rather than hiring experts to tune artificial intelligence systems. The company also claims that it can reduce training period of machine systems from months or years to just days. A report by VentureBeat notes that with Whetlab's technology, Twitter is looking to better organize tweets and is could use it to learn more about its users through how, when, and what they tweet. "From there, Twitter could improve how it fights abuse and spam, re-prioritize new features for users and businesses, tweak how it serves ads, and in general decide how best to use engineering resources," the report added. Other Twitter acquisitions - It is reported that Twitter is in talks to buy news aggregator Flipboard in an all stock deal which values the company at $1 billion. Sources also said the negotiations are headed by Twitter chief financial officer Anthony Noto and that they have been taking place since the beginning of the year. - In May, Twitter announced that it acquired TellApart,…
