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 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, 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, ...

Today, GroupMe celebrated its first birthday. The group text messaging app has had quite the year. From a lawsuit, to major competitors, to raising $11 million, the founders have had serious highs and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ah, the majestic serial entrepreneur in its natural habitat. GroupMe may have cashed out with a $50+ million acquisition by Skype (after the initial product was built overnight at a TechCrunch ...

It's time to get your update tapping fingers out, ladies and gentlemen of the multi-platform chat, because your favorite in-browser and mobile group chat program GroupMe has been updated to version ...

GroupMe is a free app that allows you to message multiple people at once. I know what you’re thinking: Yes, you can already text-message multiple people at once–all you have to do is add multiple ...