Sarah Mitroff has worn many hats at CNET, including Senior Mobile Editor and Managing Editor of Health and Wellness. Currently, she is a freelance editor. Throughout her career, she's written about ...

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 ...

Tech experts say cyber thieves are always looking for ways to come after your money and personal information, and group messaging apps have become a popular way to do it. Ally Edmonson has a lot of ...

The natural circle of life is very much a part of the new tech boom. Smaller fish get eaten by bigger fish, and even bigger fish eat those fish. TechCrunch broke the news today that Skype has ...

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.

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 ...

Skype, which Microsoft bought in May, said Monday it will buy the group messaging service GroupMe. GroupMe, created last year at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon, went for a rumored $85 million, ...

Group texting application GroupMe’s high-profile acquisition today by Skype could be the first indication that the zero-revenue company is back in style. Of course, there’s a long history of companies ...

Skype -- a company which is in the midst of being acquired by Microsoft -- announced on August 21 that it is acquiring GroupMe. I met some of the principals with GroupMe just a couple of months ago.

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 ...

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 ...

Ah, the majestic serial entrepreneur in its natural habitat. GroupMe may have cashed out with a $50+ million acquisition by Skype (after the initial product was built overnight at a TechCrunch ...