Microsoft confirms it has acquired SwiftKey, creators of the predictive mobile keyboard app
- 8 years ago
After a day of rumors, Microsoft has now confirmed that it has acquired SwiftKey, the London-based company behind the popular predictive keyboard app of the same name.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but according to a Financial Times report yesterday, Microsoft was looking to pay in the region of $250 million for the startup.
Founded in 2008, SwiftKey developed a solid reputation on Android as a replacement keyboard app for phones and tablets.
To speed up typing, it learns your writing style over time and even predicts the next word before you’ve started typing it — this is partly based on historical patterns, but it also scans texts from other sources to “learn” popular sequences in which words are normally placed.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but according to a Financial Times report yesterday, Microsoft was looking to pay in the region of $250 million for the startup.
Founded in 2008, SwiftKey developed a solid reputation on Android as a replacement keyboard app for phones and tablets.
To speed up typing, it learns your writing style over time and even predicts the next word before you’ve started typing it — this is partly based on historical patterns, but it also scans texts from other sources to “learn” popular sequences in which words are normally placed.