{"id":32148,"date":"2011-08-22T09:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T07:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=32148"},"modified":"2011-08-22T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T08:01:29","slug":"skype-buys-mobile-messaging-startup-groupme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/32148-skype-buys-mobile-messaging-startup-groupme.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype buys mobile messaging startup GroupMe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GroupMe offers services that allow multiple mobile phone users to participate in discussions, similar to a chat room or e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a title=\"Tony Bates\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/352080-Tony-Bates\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Bates<\/a>, Chief Executive Officer of <a title=\"Skype\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/352082-Skype\">Skype<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019ve had a very strong focus on the audio and video side, but we haven\u2019t really focused on text. We think the group-mobile-messaging market is changing the way people interact with mobile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both companies remain tight lipped on the deal, though Bates did indicate that GroupMe would continue to operate as an independent company based in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSkype is very excited about New York and what\u2019s happening on the scene there, there is a lot of focus around social and the social gathering, which also fits into our vision for Skype,\u201d Bates concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"The New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/21\/skype-plans-to-buy-messaging-start-up-groupme\/\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype has bought year old startup GroupMe, a mobile group messaging company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":24655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3942,3944,1089,2864],"class_list":["post-32148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-groupme","tag-new-york","tag-skype","tag-tony-bates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32150,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32148\/revisions\/32150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}