Skype has agreed to acquire New York-based start-up GroupMe, a move that gets the Internet-calling giant into the increasingly crowded business of providing group messaging services on smartphones.

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.

Just months after being acquired by Microsoft, Skype has gone and bought the popular US group messaging app company GroupMe for between US$50m and US$85m. GroupMe enables group SMS conferencing so ...

Skype agreed to acquire the New York-based start-up GroupMe, a move that gets the internet calling giant into the increasingly crowded business of providing group messaging services on smartphones, ...

Microsoft-owned GroupMe, which enables groups of people to exchange messages on their mobile phones, has amassed 4.6 million users since it was started in May 2010, as of 27 June 2012. Furthermore, ...

In May 2010, I launched GroupMe, a group messaging application, with my good friend Steve Martocci. In August 2011, GroupMe was acquired by Skype (which was then acquired by Microsoft in October 2011) ...

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 ...