Nuance Communications Inc. isn't letting a tiff with Zi Corp. stand in the way of a good spending spree. The Burlington, Mass.-based speech recognition firm will fork over roughly $180 million in stock to pick up SNAPin Software, a Seattle-area developer of customer-care applications. The company hopes to integrate SNAPin's technology – which allows mobile users to manage basic customer-service functions themselves via embedded software – with its own speech recognition-based CRM technology. Nuance expects the acquisition to add 1 cent to 2 cents per share in non-GAAP earnings and a GAAP loss between 5 and 6 cents in its 2009 earnings.