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 # *EMQ* - Erlang MQTT Broker [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/emqtt/emqttd.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/emqtt/emqttd)
 
-*EMQ (Erlang MQTT Broker)* is a distributed, massively scalable, highly extensible MQTT message broker written in Erlang/OTP.
+*EMQ* (Erlang MQTT Broker) is a distributed, massively scalable, highly extensible MQTT message broker written in Erlang/OTP.
 
 *EMQ* is fully open source and licensed under the Apache Version 2.0. *EMQ* implements both MQTT V3.1 and V3.1.1 protocol specifications, and supports MQTT-SN, CoAP, WebSocket, STOMP and SockJS at the same time.