Siri co-founder leaves Apple

Adam Cheyer, an engineer who helped build the Siri voice-recognition software that was acquired by Apple, has left the company, reports “Bloomberg” (http://macte.ch/iVU9Z), quoting three, unnamed “people familiar with the situation”

Cheyer, a Siri co-founder and its former vice president of engineering, left recently after working in Apple’s mobile software group, the article adds. The departure is at least the second among Siri’s founding team since Apple bought the company in April 2010 and follows the 2011 departure of Dag Kittlaus, the CEO of the company that invented Siri.

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