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| Dec 9, 2022 | Microsoft Teams is a small business tool, thanks to the new Communities feature | Image: ink drop/Adobe Stock
Microsoft is hoping Teams will not just be how business users collaborate on day-to-day work but also a simple way for smaller businesses to build communities for employees or customers.
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| Oct 14, 2022 | Signal to remove SMS support from Android | Image: THAWEERAT/Adobe Stock Mobility must-reads
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| Jun 5, 2019 | Which type of funding is actually best for your business? | Jared Hecht Contributor
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Jared Hecht is the co-founder and CEO of Fundera, an online marketplace for small business financial solutions including small business loans. Prior to Fundera, Hecht co-founded group messaging app, ... |
| Sep 13, 2017 | Microsoft’s Zo bot wants to play Exploding Kittens with you | Chat app users can now play Exploding Kittens with Microsoft’s conversational bot Zo, the company announced tody. Exploding Kittens is the first partner game launched through chat with Zo, a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat.
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| Sep 13, 2017 | Microsoft’s Zo bot wants to play Exploding Kittens with you | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Chat app users can now play Exploding Kittens with Microsoft’s conversational bot Zo, the company announced tody. Exploding Kittens is ... |
| Mar 18, 2015 | At SXSW, Meerkat Beats McDonald’s At Cutting Through The Noise | If there’s any one thing that stands out at SXSW this year, it’s that it’s getting harder for even mainstream corporations to rise above the marketing din. What was once called “spring break for geeks” has slowly been taken over in the last... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | Microsoft’s GroupMe gets calendar feature, Material Design on Android and @-mentions on iOS | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Microsoft today updated mobile group messaging app GroupMe for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone with calendar functionality. You can dow... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | Microsoft’s GroupMe gets calendar feature, Material Design on Android and @-mentions on iOS | Microsoft today updated mobile group messaging app GroupMe for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone with calendar functionality. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play, Apple’s App Store, and the Windows Phone Store.
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| Dec 16, 2014 | A Wave Crests: Silicon Valley, Postsecondary Education And A Half-Trillion Dollars | Shawn Drost Contributor
Editor’s note: Shawn Drost is co-founder of Hack Reactor.
It’s easy to forget that these are early days for the Internet. We still have different ideas on what it is or how it should work. The web is governed by an i... |
| Jun 28, 2014 | The Most San Francisco Wedding Happened, Thanks To Uber | Friends and family gathered to witness Sosh’s CTO Rod Begbie marry his sweetheart of three years this afternoon. Only this was no ordinary wedding. Begbie and his bride-to-be, Lacey Shaw, sent a GroupMe message and a tweet earlier today, as... |
| Mar 5, 2014 | How To Survive SXSW | Nothing can inspire such a volatile cocktail of dread and excitement in an otherwise technology-loving human quite like South By Southwest.
South By Southwest Interactive—“SXSWi” to acronym-loving geeks—is tech’s premier celebration of itse... |
| Feb 27, 2014 | WhatsApp isn't the only messaging game in town | 15.00
Facebook sure made headlines last week when it agreed to purchase WhatsApp for $19 billion (in cash and stock). An extremely popular cross-platform messaging app, WhatsApp is available for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and even Windows Ph... |
| Oct 24, 2013 | SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech
Check out the 2012 Silicon Alley 100 list | Business Insider / Mike Nudelman
Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr really put New York tech on the map this year.
But over the past few years, New York City has become a tech hotspot. Scroll through this year's Silicon Alley 100 &g... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | Startup News: WillCall Lets You Share Tickets to Hipster Shows and Cornell Tech Assembles a Techie Dream Team | Vintage. [photo: flickr user spine]A night out with WillCall If you want to see a show but hate Ticketmaster, you don’t have too many options. Most of the time, you can either try buying secondhand from Craigslist or StubHub, or you can sta... |
| Oct 3, 2013 | Cotap Launches Mobile Messaging Service For The Business World | Cotap, a startup that strives to be the GroupMe of the business world, has launched its mobile messaging service designed for corporate customers.
The service, available as an iPhone app and later on Android, allows users to invite people i... |
| Jul 10, 2013 | Startup Rundown: Betterific Improves the Future of Bed Sheets, and GroupMe Lets you Communicate Via Images of Squirrels | GroupMe’s collection of summer-themed emoji
GroupMe ups the Emoji factor It’s hard to text your friends about brunch plans when you don’t have a bacon emoji, you know? So maybe it’s time to download GroupMe, the group messaging app that now... |
| Mar 31, 2013 | All Things SXSW (Re)Considered | Editor’s note: Marc Ruxin is CEO and co-founder of TastemakerX. Follow him on Twitter @ruxputin.
If you went to SXSW 20 years ago, you would have been there to see and discover new music. You worked at a label or publishing company, or perh... |
| Mar 7, 2013 | Chatting Is Great, But GroupMe’s Mobile Apps Now Let Users Split Payments, Too | While the folks at GroupMe have spent some time exploring the world outside group messaging, they certainly haven’t given up on refining the formula that made them so appealing in the first place. Earlier today, GroupMe pushed out a pair of... |
| Mar 1, 2013 | How to Get Press at SXSW | Getting exposure at SXSW is a bit like trying to flag down a bartender at a crowded bar. You may very well spend the whole night waiting, but too much persistence can be annoying. Still, there are better and worse ways to do it. Here are fi... |
| Mar 1, 2013 | How to Get Press at SXSW | Getting exposure at SXSW is a bit like trying to flag down a bartender at a crowded bar. You may very well spend the whole night waiting, but too much persistence can be annoying. Still, there are better and worse ways to do it. Here are fi... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Calling All Startups, Get Ready For TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco | For the fourth year in a row, TechCrunch Disrupt will take over the San Francisco Design Center Concourse, and we’re bringing the hottest startups and best minds in the industry with us. Block off September 7-11 on your calendar, because yo... |
| Dec 24, 2012 | Connect2Parents Lets Teachers Send Text Messages to Parents | Instead of relying on kids to transmit messages from their teachers – a spotty communication medium at best – Connect2Parents is helping teachers reach them directly.
Similar to GroupMe, the service allows teachers at daycare facilities, pr... |
| Oct 25, 2012 | An Evening of Diversions at the Launch Party for Experiences by GroupMe | There’s a stylish skeleton just outside the frame, btw.
When Betabeat arrived downtown at a hulking brownstone bathed in red light with a double-digit Fifth Avenue address, there was already a line out the door. We were promptly assigned a ... |
| Jun 19, 2012 | 250K beta testers later, MightyText launches possibly the best texting app for Android, ever | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
iMessage is coming for Mac users in July. But Android smartphone owners can get something better, for free, right now. It’s called Migh... |
| May 21, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s Internet Week 2012 Highlights (Nerd Proms, Rooftop Parties, Will Arnett DJ’ing, Michael Stipe Sightings ‘n more!) | Aol’s Andrea Hong, GroupMe/Skype’s Steve Cheney, TechStars’ Justin Overdorff, Shelby.tv’s Chris Kurdziel and Lauren Appelwick, American Express’ Meghan Paul, Acquaintable’s Joel Rodriguez and Greycroft Partners’ Alisa Richter posing at the ... |
| May 11, 2012 | From Disrupt NY To A Multi-Million Skype Acquisition, GroupMe Tells All | They raised $11.45 million, acquired a company called Sensobi, and were themselves acquired by Skype for a price that was likely well north of $43 million.
There may not be a wilder tale of a Disrupt success (though plenty of startups would... |
| Apr 9, 2012 | Jack Leidlein, First Round’s New Head of Talent, Wants To Hire You | Mr. Leidlein (redeye.firstround.com)
Jack Leidlein, who was hired last week by First Round Capital to be their head of talent, really loves to use the word “exceptional.” It makes sense, though; the very core of Mr. Leidlein’s new job–recru... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | Startup News: Have Fun in ATX—Love, NYC | Hook 'em! | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Wikipedia)
HILL COUNTRY. Made in NY: Austin will celebrate New York based tech startups at South by Southwest on March 11 from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. at the Fast Company Grill at Cedar Door in the Texa... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | I’m Already Sick Of SXSW | We’re republishing this timeless classic, because it still stands pretty much as is a year later.
Believe it or not, I had this very same conversation about GroupMe versus Beluga as a preferred messaging app WITH THE SAME EXACT COLLEAGUE to... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | TechStars founder David Cohen turns “power angel” — raises $28M fund | So-called “power angels” have emerged as a force in the U.S. technology start-up scene. They bring money and relationships to help promising start-ups get to the next stage.
David Cohen, founder of TechStars, a well-known incubator of start... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Startup News: LetsLunch Wants to Send You on a Platonic Date | Umami's new "Dishboard"
TV IS SOCIAL. At New York Tech Meetup earlier this month, Umami showed us how their audio fingerprinting technology can help users find anything and everything about the show we’re watching. Now, they’re ro... |
| Feb 24, 2012 | Popset (YC W12) Makes Group Photo-Sharing Easy, Export To Facebook Even Easier | Popset, a new mobile app from the current Winter 2012 batch of Y Combinator startups, is a way for groups of friends to privately share photos. Oh what, you’ve heard that one before? Yes, it’s true – mobile photo-sharing is a crowded space.... |
| Feb 24, 2012 | Popset Makes Group Photo-Sharing Easy, Export To Facebook Even Easier | Popset, a new mobile app from the current Winter 2012 batch of Y Combinator startups, is a way for groups of friends to privately share photos. Oh what, you’ve heard that one before? Yes, it’s true – mobile photo-sharing is a crowded space.... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | ChatON, Samsung’s iMessage Competitor, Arrives In App Store | Remember ChatON? The Samsung-built, cross-platform, mobile messaging app which arrived in Google’s Android Market this fall? The app, somewhat similar to BlackBerry’s BBM or Apple’s iMessage, provides users with an alternative to SMS or MMS... |
| Dec 21, 2011 | Startup News: Holiday Countdown | (maketecheasier.com)
BIG BITES. Big Apps winner MyCityWay partners with NYC app Bitehunter. “No other app helps you navigate a city like a true local than MyCityWay and now… the apps make it possible to roam and find a great meal for cheap.... |
| Oct 14, 2011 | Wanna Drink and Play Pinball With GroupMe? That’ll Be $20 | GroupMe, the humble startup that went from hackathon to $85 million exit in less than two years, is now officially owned by Microsoft. But they’re still GroupMe from the block! The startup is offering a meet-and-greet through Sidetour, a Te... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Updated Skype iOS apps add Bluetooth support and (unfortunately) ads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Skype on Tuesday updated its apps for the iPhone and iPad, which now include Bluetooth functionality and image stabilization. Unfortuna... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | Develop on Twilio, get cash from super angels Dave McClure and Ron Conway | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twilio announced today 500 Startup‘s Dave McClure... |
| Sep 11, 2011 | Watch The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Live | Hundreds of hackers participated from late last night to early today morning at the fourth annual TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in San Francisco, building in teams and waking up or popping enough coffee and Redbull this am in order to show o... |
| Aug 26, 2011 | URGENT: The Top 10 Hurricane Apps You Must Download Now – NYC Edition | iOS for iRene
As Missy Elliot would say, time to get your freak (out) on. Betabeat’s cabbie earlier today explained that he was from the Dominican Republic and would be battenting down the hatches at his house in Queens with techniques pass... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Skype Buys Microsoft BizSpark Partner, Mobile Messaging Company GroupMe | News Skype Buys Microsoft BizSpark Partner, Mobile Messaging Company GroupMe By Gladys RamaAugust 23, 2011
Microsoft BizSpark partner GroupMe is being acquired by Skype, a major provider of global videoconferencing and voice communication s... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Skype Buys Microsoft BizSpark Partner, Mobile Messaging Company GroupMe | News Skype Buys Microsoft BizSpark Partner, Mobile Messaging Company GroupMe By Gladys RamaAugust 23, 2011
Microsoft BizSpark partner GroupMe is being acquired by Skype, a major provider of global videoconferencing and voice communication s... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Skype Snaps Up GroupMe | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Communications service Skype in Luxembourg said in press release Sunday it entered into an agreement to acquire New York’s GroupMe. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by the... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | GroupMe Founders: Business As Usual After Skype Acquisition, Just With Hella More Traffic | GroupMe co-founders Jared Hecht (left) and Steve Martocci (right), with GroupMe app model (and Mr. Hecht's fiance) Carrie Weprin.
“We feel fantastic! It’s great. We feel very good about it, it’s a really great thing for us,” GroupMe co-foun... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | The Agony, the Ecstasy, and the Karaoke: Twitter Reactions to the GroupMe/Skype Acquisition | The wizard Martocci casts a spell over Twitter (via Steve Spillman)
When the news broke yesterday evening that Skype acquired hometown start-up GroupMe, New York’s digerati took the party to Twitter. Indeed the acquisition and its hefty pri... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Skype Acquires Group Messaging App GroupMe For $85 Million | Skype, the Internet telephony company that is itself currently being acquired by Microsoft, has announced that it will itself acquire GroupMe, a group messaging startup.
Created at a hackathon last year, GroupMe is one of a handful of apps ... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Skype Acquires GroupMe: Looks To Tap Into Skype’s 175 Million Users | Group messaging was a hot topic this past March at the South by Southwest Interactive festival. Over the years the festival has become a place to find up-and-coming technology startups. And apparently, the buzz they got worked; late yesterd... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Skype Agrees to Acquire GroupMe | Skype has agreed to acquire GroupMe, a New York-based provider of mobile group messaging services for an undisclosed consideration.
Founded in 2010 by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci, GroupMe allows users to start conversations and keep in t... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Microsoft-acquired Skype snaps up GroupMe | Messaging on mobile isn't just about video and voice: Skype acquires GroupMe for its group text
The big fish eats the medium fish and the medium fish swallows the small fish. Three months after being acquired by Microsoft, Skype is making i... |
| Aug 21, 2011 | Skype To Acquire Year-old Group Messaging Service GroupMe | Skype will acquire group messaging service GroupMe, a service that was born at a hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York in 2010. GroupMe was founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci.
The terms of the deal, including price, aren’t bein... |
| Aug 21, 2011 | Skype purchasing GroupMe to ramp up group communications | Skype on Sunday said it will acquire group messaging startup GroupMe, a move that will help the company expand its offerings in group-based communications. Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“[GroupMe] complements our existing lead... |
| Aug 21, 2011 | GroupMe Bought by Skype for More than $50 Million | Jared and Steve, two awesome, SMS, totally same-size bros.
GroupMe just celebrated its one year anniversary, and founders Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht certainly had something to smile about. A deal in the works for months was just complet... |
| Aug 21, 2011 | Future Microsoft division Skype makes buy of its own, striking a deal for GroupMe | GroupMe founders Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci. Photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid
Skype, in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, this afternoon got more company on the road to Redmond — announcing a deal to acquir... |
| Aug 21, 2011 | Skype purchasing GroupMe to ramp up group communications | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Skype on Sunday said it will acquire group messaging startup GroupMe, a move that will help the company expand its offerings in group-b... |
| Aug 18, 2011 | Happy Anniversary GroupMe! Ron Conway in the VIP, Aviary Saves Lives | Bachelorette 25 + Bachelor 18 = Magic
Betabeat pulled an all-nighter in midtown last night. First a quick roll at the Renzo Gracie’s academy, then back to the office for a dinner of street meat, change into our game face, and off to the Hud... |
| Aug 9, 2011 | GROU.PS Lets You Create Your Own Private Facebook | Social groupware platform GROU.PS has just introduced several new features, the most notable of which is a Facebook template called “theBook” that lets you create your own private network with the same look and feel as Facebook .
According ... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | Start-Up News: Foursquare, Twitter, GroupMe 3.0; Ventures, Jobs, Reprisings | CHECKING UP. GroupMe 3.0 is out, and–what is this thing? We hardly recognize it anymore! GroupMe has taken group messaging to the next level with direct messaging, web chat and questions (ask a question, spark a conversation–in beta).
Fours... |
| Aug 3, 2011 | Challenge from New York-Based Groupie Latest In Saga of GroupMe’s Trademark Woe | (groupie.co)
New York-based Groupie LLC, “makers of the popular Groupie group messaging app” which we’ve never heard of but says it serves a million in-app messages a day to 60,000 users and growing, has formally challenged the trademark ap... |
| Aug 3, 2011 | GroupMe’s latest mobile app sports more messaging options, still rocks SMS | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I have a bit of a crush on group-texting application GroupMe, which lets a bunch of phone owners jump into an ad-hoc chat room that’s p... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | Start-Up News: It Wasn’t Too Hot to Push Features | The biggest start-up news of the last week was probably Google+ sucking up The Fridge, but New York start-ups are pushing features and hiring and having parties and moving to New York City:
WE’RE GOING TO NEW YORK CITY! Philly-and-New York-... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | Huddles and Hangouts: Google+ conferencing tools aren’t just gimmicks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google’s newest social network, Google+, features group chats for its mobile app (on Android and iOS) and in-browser video conferencing... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | A startup called Huddle legally ponders the Google+ Huddle feature | As part of the new Google+ service came Huddle, a group texting app available to Android users. This makes mobile group collaboration easier, says Google. So far so good. Except…
There’s already a five-year-old group collaboration startup c... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | New Wave of Social Networks Have You “Friending” Your Location | This morning, another new startup launched a mobile social networking application where location is the primary feature and friends comes second. Banjo, which shows you all the people nearby upon first launch, is one of many similar service... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Unseat.me Adds A Social Layer To StubHub; Takes The Anonymity Out Of Selling Tix Online | As much as a season ticket holder would like to make it to every single game of their team’s season, most of the time that’s just not in the cards — at least not while keeping a job and a family. So, when one has to pass on a game and wants... |
| Jun 7, 2011 | TC Cribs: Unlock The Secrets Of GroupMe HQ (Beware The Time-Out Chair) | Yes, it’s been a long time since we braved the curious smells of LikeALittle’s hacker hose. And while TechCrunch Disrupt may have kept you occupied for a week, that emptiness you’re feeling inside can only really be cured by one thing: a ne... |
| Jun 6, 2011 | iOS 5 Explained: The New Features & The Implications of Apple’s Latest Mobile OS | Today’s keynote at WWDC, Apple’s developer conference included a number of major announcements, including an update to the Mac OS, its new cloud service and MobileMe replacement iCloud, and – the “one more thing” – its new music matching se... |
| May 23, 2011 | Disco, Google's Secret Group Messaging App, Gets Pushy With Version 2.0 | Google seems to be going out of their way not to promote Disco, the group messaging app built by Google’s Slide team. When we first revealed the existence of the iPhone app and website (at disco.com) in March, Google wouldn’t comment on it.... |
| May 22, 2011 | Watch The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Live! | Around 500 hackers participated from late last night to early today morning at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York, building in teams and waking up or popping enough Redbull this am in order to show off their hacks to notables incl... |
| May 21, 2011 | Hax0rz Advice: "Don't Listen To Me. Go Build Something." (TCTV) | Talent scouting at the 2011 Hackathon in New York today, TCTV caught up with three alumni hax0rz and one n00b, who gave us a sneak peek of their apps and ideas.
The hax0rz in question hail from: the mobile startup GroupMe; QLabs NYC, a coll... |
| May 6, 2011 | GroupMe buys Sensobi to expand on BlackBerry | Group messaging and texting to expand rapidly across multiple platforms as GroupMe bulks up its team
Group messaging application GroupMe announced Thursday that it has acquired “personal relationship management” company Sensobi. Terms of th... |
| May 6, 2011 | GroupMe Makes Its First Acquisition, Social Address Book Sensobi | After raising $10.6 million in January, GroupMe went on a little hiring spree, but apparently that didn’t satisfy them, because yesterday they announced their first acquisition, TechStars Boston grad Sensobi.
It’s an interesting play on sev... |
| May 5, 2011 | GroupMe Buys Sensobi: Elastic Groups on the Horizon? | You know a company is all grown up and ready to take on the world when it makes its first acquisition. Well, fine, maybe raising $10.6 million last January counts too, but today leading group messaging app GroupMe announced that it had acqu... |
| Apr 22, 2011 | (Founder Stories) How GroupMe Won SXSW: Grilled Cheese | At this year’s overcrowded and overhyped SXSW conference in Austin, one of the few startups to break through the noise was group text messaging app GroupMe. How did GroupMe win SXSW? Grilled cheese. The company rented an outdoor food shack ... |
| Apr 21, 2011 | (Founder Stories) GroupMe: Is Group Messaging The Thin Edge Of The Wedge? | What exactly is the deal with all of these group text messaging apps? In the Founder Stories video above, GroupMe founders Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci tell host Chris Dixon why they think group texting coud be the thin edge of the wedge ... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | How GroupMe and SMS saved 14 lost souls at Coachella | There’s simple elegance in a text message: Maybe you send an emoticon or an “I love you,” but more often than not it’s just a quick update. It’s like a Tweet, except more ubiquitous. You can’t count on people reading Twitter. With text, you... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Who Are These GroupMe Guys? | How do you become a startup founder? There are many paths, but often founders grow up at other startups. GroupMe co-founders Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci are still pretty young. Both graduated from college only a few years ago, but both a... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Using Windows Phone 7: One Week with an HD7 | I have now been using Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, for exactly a week, having temporarily set aside my beloved Android-based Nexus S in the process. To really test a smartphone, and determine what the end user e... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2011: Get Your Applications In Soon | TechCrunch Disrupt is back and in a big way. The conference we launched last year in New York and San Francisco is coming back this year and this time we are going global by adding another destination – Beijing. All three conferences will b... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | GroupMe to make money from brand-sponsored group messaging | One of the leaders in a brat-pack of group messaging startups, New York-based GroupMe, has just launched its first attempt to monetize its service. It is adding “Featured Groups” to the service to draw in advertising dollars.
Somewhat remin... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | What you need to know - 03/28/11 | Google goes group messaging with Disco; Apple iOS 5 delayed to the fall for iPod's 10th birthday?
Aerohive Networks, provider of controller-less Wi-Fi and cloud-enabled networking, raised an additional Series D round of $25 million in finan... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | GroupMe Brings Brands Into The Conversation | As group texting apps like GroupMe gain popularity, people are using them to create ad hoc, private social networks among a handful of friends. But wherever people congregate online or through their mobile phones, brands will want to talk t... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | Mobile Messaging March Madness | Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah.
On Thursday, I used Yobongo all day, which... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | Are We in a Bubble? | That was the question I got asked the most during my time in Austin and San Francisco this month. Perhaps it’s become the new ice-breaker at networking events. But also people are genuinely curious and unsure about whether the tech scene ha... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Poll Results: Hurricane Party Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011 | After a week of polling, Austin-based startup Hurricane Party came out on top of our 2011 Hottest Startup at SXSW poll. Though group texting/chat was a hot trend at SXSW 2011, it seems that the real battle was between geo-location services ... |
| Mar 17, 2011 | SMS On Steroids – eBuddy Debuts Realtime, Cross-Platform Messaging App | eBuddy, the Dutch company that enables millions of people worldwide to communicate with each other on the Web and a wide range of mobile phones, is today introducing a brand new application for iPhone and Android. With the app, dubbed eBudd... |
| Mar 17, 2011 | Poll: What’s The Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011? | In the past, South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) has been a place where startups launch and make a big splash. In 2007 and 2008, Twitter was the buzz. The last two years, both Gowalla and Foursquare grabbed people's real-time check-in att... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | GroupMe Won The SXSW Group Messaging Wars, Says Infographic | Group messaging was not as useful as we thought it would be this year at SXSW. Whether you were using Beluga, GroupMe, Kik, Yobongo or Fast Society or others, everyone had high hopes for a breakout group messaging app, simply because we spo... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | Group Messaging: Why Now? | If 2010 was the year of location-based services, then 2011 is certainly the year of group messaging. With a slew of new group messaging apps dominating this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the big questions have been why now and wh... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Another Group Messaging App At SXSW 2011 – Grouped{in} | Group Text/Messaging is all the rage at SXSW 2011. One app in the genre that’s making its debut this week is Appconomy’s Grouped{in}. Just getting its app store approval on Friday, Grouped{in} surfaces with many features of similar apps lik... |
| Mar 13, 2011 | Brewed on the Startup Bus En Route to SXSW: Lemonade Stand | It’s easy to be dismissive about something like Startup Bus, where teams of hackers build and launch their projects over the course of the bus ride to South by Southwest. There’s only so much you can do, of course, in such a short period of... |
| Mar 13, 2011 | Do We Really Want to Talk to Strangers Based on Our Location? | With SXSW well under way in Austin, Texas, the servers behind apps like Beluga, GroupMe, Kik and FastSociety must be working overtime. After all, people like talking to their friends, right?
In this same batch of apps, we’ve seen another ph... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | GroupMe Squeezes Out A "2.1 More Thing" Release Before SXSW | Startups gearing up for the SXSW are shining up their apps and hoping to Wow the crowds of iPhone-toting hipsters by releasing major upgrades in advance of the Austin conference. Among group texting apps alone, in the past week we’ve seen n... |
| Mar 7, 2011 | I’m Already Sick Of SXSW | I had a conversation today with a colleague to discuss our SXSW Interactive strategy. My coworker figured, rightfully, that SXSW would be a shitshow and that maybe we should use one of the much talked about group texting apps to stay in tou... |
| Mar 5, 2011 | The App Wall | A couple nights ago, a friend sent me a message. “So glad we finally have a way to talk without hanging out.”
He was, of course, kidding. He sent me the message through Yobongo, a new location-based realtime chatting app that launched this ... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | GroupMe Gives Push Notifications A Big Hug, Also Maps And Foursquare Check-ins | Well, well, looky here. GroupMe just got a lot app-friendlier. The group texting app is pushing out a massive new update today for both the iPhone and Android that supports push notifications as the default messaging option instead of costl... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | GroupMe: In-App Chat Is In; John Mayer Jokes Are Out | Employees at New York’s buzzmagnet start-up GroupMe are masters of discipline! The companypushed major updates this morning exactly when they said they would, along with a new website that’s straight from the computers on the spaceships of ... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | A Sneak Peek Into the Future of Beluga: Going Beyond Group Messaging | The SXSW conference in Austin, Texas is just around the corner and this year’s battle, it seems, is group messaging. The blogosphere is abuzz with talk of apps like GroupMe and Beluga, two forerunners in the field, and yesterday we got to s... |
