Skype announced it will acquire GroupMe, a group messaging smartphone app for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7 that lets you create group texts, make conference calls, and share photos and your location. This is the second acquisition for Skype this year after buying video streaming service Qik in January.
Terms for Skype’s GroupMe acquisition were not disclosed, but some estimates peg the acquisition around $85 million, according to AllThingsD. Skype is itself being acquired by Microsoft, which purchased the Internet telephony company in May for $8.5 billion.
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