Every tech nerd at SXSWi was on their iPhone 4, always mass messaging. For those of us in the tech world, the abundance of group texting apps has become an overwhelming phenomenon. In the days leading ...

GroupMe, a free mobile chat service that has operated through text messaging until now, is releasing new iPhone and Android apps today that bring it into the smartphone era. The new version will let ...

Call it the anti-Facebook effect, but this private group text messaging thing is starting to get some serious traction. The chart above shows the growth in text messages per day going through GroupMe, ...

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 ...

Microsoft-owned messaging app GroupMe today launched a new Calendar feature, allowing groups to organize events directly within the app. Users can simply find the Calendar button on the menu bar to ...

Group messaging service GroupMe launched a big upgrade last week, timed to occur right before the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, the biggest event of the year for digital ...

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Groupme, the little group messaging service that made a bit of a splash at Google I/O, turns 3.0 today. There are some shiny new features on board, including a simpler way to exchange private messages ...

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 ...

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 ...