We kick off this episode of Tech Informist with a story that likely no one outside of the negotiations knew was in the works, popular third party smartphone keyboard SwiftKey, being purchased by Microsoft.

Keyboards are the most used apps on smartphones and SwiftKey is one of the best.

Hear our thoughts on this and much more plus make sure to vote in this weeks poll which you can do so here.

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