GroupMe

Skype has announced that it plans buy mobile messaging startup GroupMe, for an undisclosed sum of money.GroupMe is a mobile messaging platform which utilises a wireless connection for group instant chat on Blackberry, iPhone and Android platforms. One of the most prominent features of GroupMe's product is that it ...

There's an interesting analysis of the advertising industry and Silicon Valley's growing bubble in new media by Rick Webb.In his analysis, Webb argues that Silicon Valley is heading for a cliff in funding too many startups to provide new media channels for advertisers.He writes that there seems to be a ...

Dominating Twitter streams at the recent SXSW event in the group messaging class with 65% of the overall mentions (according to social media analytics group Simply Measured), GroupMe, the New York based mobile group chat startup, yesterday revealed its plan for bringing brands into its new business model: Featured Groups.The new ...

Every year sees one or two companies come away from the annual South By Southwest tech-fest in Austin, Texas knowing that they are on their way to immortality. In 2009, it was the turn of Twitter and in 2010 it was Foursquare and Gowalla. This year is a little different ...

Startup Beluga, founded by former Google employees - which allows users to send group messages to family or friends – has been bought, by Facebook.There are no financial details of the transaction, but the deal is interesting: unlike Facebook’s other deals, it looks like the company may actually use ...