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| Jul 9, 2014 | After going free, SwiftKey sees monthly users jump 54% & gets nearly 12M theme downloads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO — Keyboard app SwiftKey’s decision to go free last month, after establishing itself as one of the few successful paid And... |
| Jun 2, 2014 | Apple To Support Third-Party Widgets, Keyboards For The First Time | Apple is opening the floodgates to third party widgets and keyboards on iOS, Apple’s software for mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad.
Users will be able to access widgets directly in the notification center on iPhone. What’s more, thes... |
| Feb 16, 2014 | An iPhone Loyalist’s First Few Weeks With Android | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil
A year ago, I wrote a post titled “Silicon Valley Slowly Awakens To Android.”... |
| Jan 30, 2014 | Android doesn’t get all the fun: SwiftKey brings predictive keyboard ‘on steroids’ to iOS | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SwiftKey has saved people hundreds of billions of keystrokes.
Today the wildly popular Android app released an iOS app called SwiftKey ... |
| Nov 21, 2013 | Android Keyboard-Maker SwiftKey Confirms Accel As Another Investor In Its $17.5M Series B | Alternative Android keyboard maker, SwiftKey, whose software is set to be running on some 100 million devices by the year’s end, has added another investor to its $17.5 million Series B round — revealing, in a blog post today, that Accel Pa... |
| Nov 21, 2013 | Popular Android keyboard SwiftKey adds Accel Partners to its latest funding round | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
There’s big money in virtual keyboards these days.
After announcing its second funding round of $17.5 million in September, hot Android... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | SwiftKey 4.3 Unifies Tablet & Phone Apps, Adds More Keyboard Layouts | Word-prediction Android keyboard maker SwiftKey, which closed a $17.5 million Series B led by Index Ventures last month and whose keyboard software runs on millions of mobile devices, has launched a new version, SwiftKey 4.3, that let’s use... |
| Sep 12, 2013 | Zynstra completes $3.8 Million Series A funding | Aims to reinvent how SMEs buy and manage IT
BATH, United Kingdom – 12th September 2013 – Zynstra, a provider of hybrid cloud solutions for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), has today announced the completion of a $3.8 million Serie... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | Funding roundup - Week ending 9/6/13 | AppMesh, aisle411, Front Desk, BoostCTR, ZappRx, AlienVault, CommonBond, RiverMeadow, ComparaOnline
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Timeshare marketplace Vacatia raised $5 million in seed funding from including Spencer Rascoff, Erik Blachford, Greg Waldorf, Tho... |
| Sep 4, 2013 | SwiftKey Raises $17.5M Series B Round Led by Index To Expand In The US | Highly downloaded keyboard app for Android SwiftKey has raised a Series B round of $17.5M (£11.3m) led by Index Ventures to expand its product portfolio and do a major US push. Co-founder and CEO Jon Reynolds is relocating to San Francisco ... |
| Sep 4, 2013 | SwiftKey Raises $17.5M in Series B Funding | SwiftKey, a London, UK-based language technology company, raised $17.5m (approximately £11.3m) in Series B funding.
The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Octopus Investments and some angel investors... |
| Aug 19, 2013 | Toronto’s Minuum Makes Its Beta Public, Android Users Can Try A New Kind Of Keyboard For $3.99 Now | University of Toronto-founded interaction design startup Whirlscape has made its beta available to the general public today, after a closed trial period following its successful Indiegogo funding campaign. Whirlscape’s first product is the ... |
| Jul 24, 2013 | SwiftKey Cloud brings trending phrases, sync and backup to your swipe-friendly keyboard | Typing is just so passé; swiping is very much where it's at these days. SwiftKey's latest Android beta adds interesting new cloud features that can be tested for free during the beta phase. What’s new? Backup and sync options mean that dict... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | Android keyboard SwiftKey now syncs your typing habits to the cloud | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you’ve spent dozens of hours training the popular Android keyboard SwiftKey to learn the nuances of your touchscreen thumb pecking, ... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | Poshmark, HotelTonight, Swiftkey share how to win hearts of mobile users | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO — So you’ve spent months (or years) building an amazing, one-of-its kind app that will make peoples’ lives better. But li... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | Poshmark, HotelTonight, Swiftkey share how to win hearts of mobile users | SAN FRANCISCO — So you’ve spent months (or years) building an amazing, one-of-its kind app that will make peoples’ lives better. But like the proverbial tree in the forest, it only matters if there are people around to experience it.
User a... |
| Jun 9, 2013 | What Android Has That iOS Has Not (Yet) | Android is open and customizable. iOS is closed, designed for ease. But iPhone users are maturing, demanding more personalization, and Apple might give it to them at WWDC. At D11, Tim Cook said “I think you will see us open up more in the f... |
| Jun 8, 2013 | What the future of mobile keyboards will look like | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Parham Aarabi is a professor at the University of Toronto and CEO of ModiFace. We’ll be talking about mobile user experience and more a... |
| Jun 8, 2013 | What the future of mobile keyboards will look like | Parham Aarabi is a professor at the University of Toronto and CEO of ModiFace. We’ll be talking about mobile user experience and more at VentureBeat MobileBeat conference in San Francisco, Calif. July 9-10.
It’s the one thing that we do mos... |
| Apr 24, 2013 | Europe Crowns SoundCloud And SwiftKey Founders Its Startup Heroes | For the last few years Europe has been emerging as a powerful source of new global startups. Hell, why else would we be doing TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin this year? And we’ve seen efforts to recognise the heroes of the scene, with a prolif... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Mobile World Congress: A reminder that the U.S. leads mobile — but don’t count Europe out | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Yesterday was an interesting day for me at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As always the sheer size of this event is somewhat overw... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Mobile World Congress: A reminder that the U.S. leads mobile — but don’t count Europe out | Yesterday was an interesting day for me at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As always the sheer size of this event is somewhat overwhelming, however there is no better place to see what the future of the mobile industry holds.
One thing ... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | This week in Android apps: SwiftKey’s keyboard app goes one-handed | reader comments 36 with 29 posters participating, including story author
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| Feb 20, 2013 | SwiftKey 4 on Android is the best touchscreen keyboard yet | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If Android users want to make their iPhone-toting friends jealous, they need only point to SwiftKey, an alternative keyboard that uses ... |
| Feb 20, 2013 | SwiftKey 4 on Android is the best touchscreen keyboard yet | If Android users want to make their iPhone-toting friends jealous, they need only point to SwiftKey, an alternative keyboard that uses semantic analysis and text prediction.
With today’s introduction of SwiftKey 4 ($1.99 on Google Play for ... |
| Feb 20, 2013 | SwiftKey 4 Adds Swype-Style Gesture Inputting To Android App, Plus New Languages, Tailored Typing & Simpler Corrections | Keyboard software maker SwiftKey’s answer to Swype has now been added to the latest version of its software, SwiftKey 4, launching today on Google Play for Android smartphones and tablet users. The finger-gliding input method, which SwiftKe... |
| Oct 25, 2012 | Swiftkey adds Swype-like gestures to its Android keyboard. Swell! | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SwiftKey is one of many alternative keyboards available to Android phone and tablet users — and today it’s adding one of the features o... |
| Oct 11, 2012 | Swisscom offers massive discount on Mobicamp tickets for start-ups | Swisscom is sponsoring a promotion for Mobicamp: 10 x tickets to Mobicamp are available to start-ups for just CHF150 each - that's a saving of CHF210 per ticket. The promotion has gone live on in the afternoon and is be open to all start-up... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | 15% discount for Startupticker.ch readers at Swiss Mobicamp | Swiss Mobicamp is a one day event featuring a high-octane blend of keynotes from industry veterans from the US & Europe, 1-1 mobile clinics, a selection of workshops plus start-up and investor pitches. There is a full line up of 6 inves... |
| Sep 12, 2012 | Chrome For Android Gets A Stronger Sandbox | Google just launched an update to Chrome for Android that provides the browser with a strengthened sandbox. Google says this will help ensure that malicious mobile sites remain contained and can’t impact the entire browser. It’s worth notin... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | SwiftKey Counters Swype With A Smarter Version, Makes An In-Road Into Healthcare Market | Swype recently announced the newest version of its smart keyboard, and now competitor SwiftKey is launching its new Swiftkey 3 version. This artificially intelligent keyboard predicts what you are going to type based on what you start to ty... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | 65 billion keystrokes saved? That’s just the beginning for SwiftKey | Intelligent keyboards for Android smartphones are hot, hot, hot. Just a day after Swype announced the newest version of its smart keyboard, competitor SwiftKey is unveiling Swiftkey 3, the “artificially intelligent keyboard” that “reads you... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | 65 billion keystrokes saved? That’s just the beginning for SwiftKey | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Intelligent keyboards for Android smartphones are hot, hot, hot. Just a day after Swype announced the newest version of its smart keybo... |
| Jun 20, 2012 | Swype makes your keyboard smarter, again | Swype just announced the newest version of its type-faster-better keyboard for Android smartphones, currently in beta. The promise of the software? The more you use it, the smarter it gets.
Swype replaces the tap-tap-tap of smartphone text ... |
| Jun 20, 2012 | Swype makes your keyboard smarter, again | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Swype just announced the newest version of its type-faster-better keyboard for Android smartphones, currently in beta. The promise of t... |
| Feb 28, 2012 | Apps Round-up From The Streets Of Barcelona | We’ve been trawling Barcelona for apps and startups during Mobile World Congress, so here’s a little round-up of some of those that have been plying their wares – many of whom don’t have the cash to exhibit at the official Congress, but who... |
| Feb 22, 2012 | TechCrunch @ Barcelona – Panels, Startups, Lunch & Networking during MWC | At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year we’re teaming up with the creators of an awesome new event which runs alongside MWC, called Heroes of the Mobile Fringe Festival. Consider this the “Off Broadway” or Fringe Festival of MWC, wh... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | TechCrunch@Barcelona – Discussion and networking lunch at MWC | For the last few of years TechCrunch has headed to Barcelona for the annual conflab known as Mobile World Congress. But last year we neglected to set up a meetup. That changes this year with the start of, we hope, a regular annual meetup in... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Developer Of ‘Social Keyboard’ Android App SwiftKey Raises $2.4 Million | TouchType, the London-based company behind the popular SwiftKey Android applications, has raise $2.4 million (£1.5 million) in Series A funding in a round led by Octopus Investments.
SwiftKey is a keyboard app that leverages TouchType’s nat... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Developer of 'social keyboard' Android app SwiftKey raises $2.4 million | TouchType, the London-based company behind the popular SwiftKey Android applications, has raise $2.4 million (£1.5 million) in Series A funding in a round led by Octopus Investments.
SwiftKey is a keyboard app that leverages TouchType’s nat... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Makers of Android keyboard SwiftKey get $2.4M for language technology | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
TouchType Ltd., which makes a clever keyboard app for Android phones, is on the verge of expansion.
The London-based company raised a $... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | TouchType Raises £1.5M in Series A Funding | TouchType Ltd., the London, UK-based company behind the Android™ keyboard application SwiftKey, has raised $2.4m (approximately £1.5m) in Series A funding.
The round was led by Octopus Investments, with participation several European angel ... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Meet SwiftKey, the virtual keyboard Google would be crazy not to acquire | Google has been placing a lot of emphasis on its virtual keyboard for Android, and a lot of the recent changes have been inspired by startup SwiftKey.
“We’re doing very interesting things that have caught the attention of people all the way... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Meet SwiftKey, the virtual keyboard Google would be crazy not to acquire | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google has been placing a lot of emphasis on its virtual keyboard for Android, and a lot of the recent changes have been inspired by st... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | New Apps for iPhone & Android, July 2011 | In our continuing tradition of rounding up new mobile application releases we found interesting and/or exciting over the past month, we present you with this new list of apps for July 2011. This month, we found a lot of great new iPhone app... |
| Jul 14, 2011 | TouchType uses the entire internet to upgrade its Android keyboard | To upgrade its Android keyboard, TouchType Ltd. drew on the combined linguistic intelligence of the entire online universe.
“We made a copy of the internet,” chief marketing officer Joe Braidwood told VentureBeat.
SwiftKey X, the latest ver... |
| Jan 9, 2011 | Daniel Raffel's Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010 | Daniel Raffel is a former Yahoo product manager and a newbie entrepreneur. A year ago we asked him to write a guest post telling us about his favorite new products, projects and features of 2009. The post below is an updated list of his fav... |
| Oct 23, 2010 | TouchType Raises £275,000 from Octopus Investments | TouchType, a London, UK-based developer of text prediction technology designed to significantly boost the accuracy, fluency and speed of text entry on mobile and computing devices, received a £275,000 investment from Octopus Investments.
Th... |
| Oct 13, 2010 | New Apps for Your Smartphone, October Edition | There are some 225,000 mobile applications for the iPhone now and 70,000 for Android, so every so often we like to highlight a few that have caught our attention. This latest edition of our favorite smartphone apps includes a few in testing... |
| Sep 22, 2010 | SwiftKey comes out of public beta to rock your Android keyboard | If you haven’t heard of SwiftKey by TouchType and you have an Android phone, you’re either suffering with the native keyboard or trying out some of the other popular alternatives, such as Swype for instance. The release of the bigger and be... |
| Jul 14, 2010 | Battle of the 'boards: Swiftkey Keyboard enters the Android Market | Yet another high-speed keyboard enters the Android Market today, with Swiftkey releasing a free beta version of their Android keyboard.
Just like Swype and Shapewriter before it, Swiftkey promises a faster, more accurate, and generally happ... |
