Sarah Mitroff has worn many hats at CNET, including Senior Mobile Editor and Managing Editor of Health and Wellness. Currently, she is a freelance editor. Throughout her career, she's written about ...

Last week, GroupMe celebrated its first birthday. Yesterday, the group text messaging app announced that Skype was acquiring it for $85 million. GroupMe has had quite the year. From a lawsuit, to ...

Skype, which Microsoft bought in May, said Monday it will buy the group messaging service GroupMe. GroupMe, created last year at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon, went for a rumored $85 million, ...

As co-founder and Chief Executive of Twilio, a cloud communications startup that makes tools for building voice and text messaging applications, Jeff Lawson had a unique vantage point on Skype’s ...

“We feel fantastic! It’s great. We feel very good about it, it’s a really great thing for us,” GroupMe co-founder GroupMe co-founders Jared Hecht (left) and Steve Martocci (right), with GroupMe app ...

Skype this week launched the GroupMe app for Windows Phone, following its August acquisition of the tool that enables free, real-time group texting. GroupMe lets you communicate instantly with up to ...

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In the lead up to SXSW, we've seen a deluge of updates to all those group messaging apps people have started using. There are pros and cons to each, but if you really want to take advantage of group ...

In May 2010, I launched GroupMe, a group messaging application, with my good friend Steve Martocci. In August 2011, GroupMe was acquired by Skype (which was then acquired by Microsoft in October 2011) ...

If you're looking for a way to easily communicate in a group using text messages, especially a group where not everyone has the latest and greatest smartphone, GroupMe offers simple communication via ...

Skype has agreed to acquire group messaging app start-up GroupMe, the companies announced Sunday. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the price has been reported at $80 million to $85 million.

CES is like Ninja Warrior for bloggers, a vast, obstacle-strewn arena where cell service is rare and usable internet is as uncommon as good hygiene. To stay in touch, Gizmodo relied on GroupMe. It ...