It has been reported that Skype has agreed to purchase GroupMe, which is a company that developed ways for groups of people to send messages to others via multiple smart phone platforms. This is an interesting buy seeing as though Microsoft is currently in the process of buying Skype. The price tag is a modest 85 million dollars, at least that is what is being reported, a solid figure has not been released but I am certain this number is going to be fairly close. It is thought that this purchase is part of the grand scheme of the Microsoft purchase, that the purchase of group me will further help the development of the Windows phone. It is obvious Microsoft is going to work as hard as it can to get their phones straight and trying to one up Apple and Android. The thought is with the Skype purchase they will have a better face to face phone service than Apple with their facetime, which is a video chat via apple PC’s and/or iPhones. All I can say is Microsoft has a long uphill battle to win this phone war.
