The days of passing notes behind the teacher’s back might seem bygone. But these days, college students use messaging platforms like GroupMe to talk about their classes. And now some universities are ...

I have worked a lot recently with building my own Python-based GroupMe bots. I think it would be great for this GroupMe GitHub organization to have another repository showing a Python implementation.

GroupMe users can now customize the chat app just a bit more with new settings for notification sounds. With the settings, you can now tweak the sounds that you'll hear for different types of message ...

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Last week, Microsoft's financials for the quarter were released and amidst all the positive numbers were another round of company-wide layoffs. The number of employees let go hovered around 1,000 and ...

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 ...

While the folks at GroupMe have spent some time exploring the world outside group messaging, they certainly haven’t given up on refining the formula that made them so appealing in the first place.

People have many complaints about iMessage, Apple's built-in text-messaging service for iPhones, iPads, and Macs. There's a great solution, and it's from Microsoft, of all companies: GroupMe.

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, ...

Skype this week launched the GroupMe app for Windows Phone, following its August acquisition of the tool that enables free, real-time group texting. GroupMe lets you communicate instantly with up to ...

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 ...

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 ...