I was texting my wife the other day when it struck me that Swiftkey's next-word predictions seemed to be a little better than they had been in the past. At first I thought I was imagining things, but ...

Next to Swype, SwiftKey is one of the most popular alternative keyboards for Android. We sung its praises in a review last year, noting how good its predictive text engine can be, right down to ...

Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock started SwiftKey in London in 2008 to build a better, smarter mobile keyboard. Five years on they’ve topped app download charts all over the world, raised $17.6 million in ...

Today we’re getting a first look at the next project to come from the Greenhouse, and it’s pretty awesome. SwiftKey’s new Neural keyboard is quite similar to the standard SwiftKey keyboard, but with a ...

Since the release of SwiftKey 4 in February, SwiftKey has been the king of virtual keyboards. Earlier this year I wrote that Google Now and Swiftkey were the two biggest advantages that Android has ...

The best third-party Android keyboard is now completely free. SwiftKey announced today that it is dropping the $3.99 cost of its keyboard app — one of the few truly successful paid Android apps — and ...

One thing that has been mentioned in almost every piece we’ve published about SwiftKey’s excellent smart keyboard for Android over the years is ‘But it’s not available for iOS’. Today that changes – ...

SwiftKey, the startup that makes the popular eponymous Android word-predicting keyboard software — which last year pulled in $17.5 million in funding from Index, Accel and Octopus — is switching its ...

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Another European startup exits to an American tech giant. Predictive keyboard app maker SwiftKey, based in London, confirmed today it has sold to Microsoft. Sources put a price-tag of $250 million on ...

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It’s supposed to be predicting the next word or now, emoji, that you want to use, but SwiftKey is in trouble after users discovered that bad suggestions were actually the result of a data leak. The ...