Skype agreed to purchase GroupMe service



    Skype executives recently announced a deal with GroupMe, a collective messaging service whose assets have now become part of Skype. Unfortunately, the financial details of this transaction remain unknown, but the transaction itself is quite significant. The GroupMe service itself allows its users to send messages to groups, plus communicate in conference mode. Skype, acquiring GroupMe, also receives technologies from this company that will help the VoIP service become even more functional.

    According to rumors, the deal cost Skype about $ 80 million, which is not so much for this giant VoIP industry. The company probably had to go for a purchase, since Facebook, Google and Apple introduced their own group communication services not so long ago, so Skype unexpectedly received several powerful competitors at once.

    Most likely, some of the features of GroupMe will become part of Windows Phone. According to the leadership of Skype, GroupMe will continue to work as an independent project, despite the fact that some technologies of the service will be used in various projects of Skype and Microsoft.

    GroupMe is a fairly popular service, and with its help more than 100 million messages are sent per month. Somewhat earlier, GroupMe management announced its intention to cooperate with large companies, providing its own functionality to third-party projects. As you can see, the situation has changed somewhat, and Microsoft in the person of Skype decided to buy an entire company instead of fragments of its technologies.

    Via Mashable

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