The reaction to Skype’s proposed acquisition of the New York City-based group messaging service GroupMe for a rumored $85 million has been nearly universal: Good for Skype. It’s the latest in a string ...

The natural circle of life is very much a part of the new tech boom. Smaller fish get eaten by bigger fish, and even bigger fish eat those fish. TechCrunch broke the news today that Skype has ...

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 ...

Skype -- a company which is in the midst of being acquired by Microsoft -- announced on August 21 that it is acquiring GroupMe. I met some of the principals with GroupMe just a couple of months ago.

TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Groupme has launched a cool new feature today, in advance of tomorrow’s Foursquare hackday. People who link their Foursquare accounts to Groupme here can now pull up an ...

The team at GroupMe has certainly had an impressive ride so far — after winning the Disrupt NY Hackathon in 2010, they quickly locked up some funding, and were eventually acquired by Skype. So what’s ...

Here's why you should pay very close attention to GroupMe, a startup that helps you easily communicate with groups of your friends from your mobile phones: normal people love it. Appealing to people ...

GroupMe, the mobile group messaging service acquired by Skype last year, has dropped conference calling from its app. Users who have made a call in the past month will be able to use the service ...

Aside from the calendar feature, GroupMe has gained a Material Design look on Android and now supports @ mentions in the iOS app. Better late than never? Microsoft came to own GroupMe, which launched ...