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 ...

With the rise of the internet came online messaging apps. People use them for everything, from work-related communication to staying connected with family and friends. But having the convenience of ...

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 ...

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, ...

Here's why you should pay very close attention to GroupMe, a startup that helps you easily communicate with groups of your friends from your mobile phones: normal people love it. Appealing to people ...

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 ...

In the lead up to SXSW, we've seen a deluge of updates to all those group messaging apps people have started using. There are pros and cons to each, but if you really want to take advantage of group ...

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 ...