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Skype Buys GroupMe, a New York-based Mobile Messaging Start-Up

JENNA WORTHAM The New York Times 08/21/2011 07:15
Skype Buys GroupMe, a New York-based Mobile Messaging Start-Up - Skype - New York - Business - Technology


Skype, the Internet calling service, said on Sunday that it was buying GroupMe, a year-old start-up in New York that offers a group-messaging service for cellphones.



GroupMe, which has raised about $12 million from investors, is among a new wave of mobile services and start-ups that let multiple people participate in discussions, similar to a group chat room or e-mail.

Tony Bates, the chief executive of Skype, said discussions around an acquisition began back in May, when Microsoft announced it would buy Skype.

“We’ve had a very strong focus on the audio and video side, but we haven’t really focused on text,” he said in an interview on Sunday. “We think the group-mobile-messaging market is changing the way people interact with mobile.”


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