$2.4 million Funding for SwiftKey with Android focused Language Technology
TouchType Ltd., which makes a clever keyboard app for Android phones, is on the verge of expansion. The London-based company raised a $2.4 million round of funding led by Octopus Investments. TouchType’s app, SwiftKey X, replaces the default on-screen keyboard with a customized one that has better predictive capabilities about what you’re going to type next. The underlying technology, which the company calls Fluency, is based on linguistic analysis of millions of web pages to provide more accurate and longer-range predictions than most software keyboards, and it’s this technology that the company is staking its future growth on.
Dec 07, 2011 12:00 AM
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