Skype has agreed to purchase service GroupMe

Skype has 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, gets the technology of this company, which will help VoIP service to become even more functional.

According to rumors, the deal cost Skype about $ 80 million, which is not so much for this giant of the VoIP industry. Probably, the company had to go for a purchase, since Facebook, Google and Apple had recently introduced their own group communication services, so that Skype unexpectedly received several powerful competitors at once.
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Most likely, some of the GroupMe features will become part of Windows Phone. According to Skype management, GroupMe will continue to work as an independent project, despite the fact that some service technologies will be used in various projects of Skype and Microsoft.

GroupMe is a fairly popular service, and with its help, over 100 million messages are sent per month. A little 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 face of Skype decided to buy a whole company instead of fragments of its technologies.

Via mashable