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.

Skype has agreed to acquire New York-based start-up GroupMe, a move that gets the Internet-calling giant into the increasingly crowded business of providing group messaging services on smartphones.

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) ...

Skype announced today it has agreed to acquire group messaging service GroupMe. Financial details of the deal were not revealed. “Skype and GroupMe have a shared vision of creating applications and ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Skype has agreed to acquire New York-based start-up GroupMe, The Wall Street Journal reported. GroupMe's application lets users text and make conference calls with circles of friends ...

Just months after being acquired by Microsoft, Skype has gone and bought the popular US group messaging app company GroupMe for between US$50m and US$85m. GroupMe enables group SMS conferencing so ...

GroupMe, a service that lets users start a group chat using text messages, announced today that it has raised $10.6 million in its second round of funding — but it won’t be generating any kind of ...

On May 22 this year 300 hackers converged in New York at TechCrunch Disrupt for a day and half long hack day before the conference itself started. At least one of the projects created at the hack day ...

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 ...