Microsoft purchased Swiftky for $ 250 million

The Microsoft Corporation acquired the British company Swiftkey, which developed the same virtual keyboard for Android and iOS. According to the Financial Times , the transaction amount amounted to $ 250 million.

According to CNews , the Swiftkey keyboard uses the semblance of artificial intelligence, predicting what word and phrase the user wants to introduce. The more the owner of the mobile device uses SWIFTKEY, the more accurate the forecasts of the algorithm become. As of October last year, SwiftKey supported more than 100 languages, including Arabic, Welsh and Icelandic, as well as a number of Indian and Chinese dialects.

According to the Microsoft blog , Swiftkyy employees went to work in the corporation. Microsoft intends to continue to develop the Swiftkey application on Android and iOS, as well as engage in the integration of technologies of the British company with its products.

CNews notes that in addition to hundreds of millions of owners of mobile devices (according to developers, the application was installed on 300 million smartphones and tablets) by SWIFTKEY also uses the world famous physicist Steven Hawking - the Swiftky program is installed on a computer built into the scientist’s wheelchair.