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 It’s the last day of school and all of the youngster's eyes are glued to clock above the blackboard; waiting for that final cue to be released from their teachers grasp. As they wriggle in their chairs, biting on pencils, and twirl their hair with their fingers an old nursery rhyme slips in their precocious minds: No more school, no more books . No more teachers dirty looks. . . . → Read More: webOS Travel Apps  They have raised $11.45 million in both Angel and Series B funding since launch, acquired a company called Sensobi, and have been themselves acquired by none other than Skype (which was acquired by Microsoft). There may not be a wilder tale of a Disrupt success (though plenty of startups would beg to differ), which is why we’ve chosen GroupMe to kick off a series I’m doing on “Disrupt Startups: Where They Are Now.” We sat down earlier today to chat with co-founders Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci to find out their perspective on Disrupt as a launchpad. . . . → Read More: From Disrupt NY To A $43 Million Skype Acquisition, GroupMe Tells All They raised $11.45 million , acquired a company called Sensobi, and were themselves acquired by Skype for a price that was likely well north of $43 million . There may not be a wilder tale of a Disrupt success (though plenty of startups would beg to differ), which is why we’ve chosen GroupMe to kick off a series I’m doing on “Disrupt Startups: Where They Are Now.” We sat down earlier today to chat with co-founders Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci to find out their perspective on Disrupt as a launchpad. Try as I might to snip down the interview, the whole thing is basically gold. . . . → Read More: From Disrupt NY To A Multi-Million Skype Acquisition, GroupMe Tells All  You know how many Android developers complain about fragmentation? Yeah, this is what fragmentation looks like. Animoca , a Hong Kong mobile app developer that has seen more than 70 million downloads, says it does quality assurance testing with about 400 Android devices . . . → Read More: This Is What Developing For Android Looks Like A new app has just taken the App Store by storm — a colorful, rainbowful storm. It’s called Color Text Messages+ and the idea is relatively simple, but clearly appealing judging by the app’s popularity . . . → Read More: Text The Rainbow: Color Text Messages+ Nabs Top Social App Spot From Facebook, Twitter  Despite deep Synergy integration between webOS and Facebook in the Contacts, Calendar, Photos and Videos apps, we have yet to see Facebook Chat make its way to the Messaging app without the benefit of any homebrew assistance . Although there are a few instant messaging apps in the App Catalog that includes Facebook Chat, none have the ease and simplicity of QuickChat for Facebook , by pcworldSoftware, nor are any of them built using Enyo to support both the small screens of webOS phones and the larger real estate of the TouchPad. For $2.99 (on sale, normally $3.99), QuickChat for Facebook is available for any webOS device running webOS 2.1 or higher and brings you a dedicated Facebook Chat app that does its best to mimic the stock Messaging app of the TouchPad . . . → Read More: App Review: QuickChat for Facebook  There are still some big question marks over what Nokia plans to do in tablets — a market where it is now possibly the only major smartphone maker yet to make a device — but at least Nokia is moving ahead with the launch of tablet-friendly services. Today, it said it would begin the global roll-out of Nokia Reading , a Windows Phone app originally announced back in February for reading e-books on a Lumia device. . . . → Read More: No Tablet News From Nokia, But It’s Launching A Reading App Powered By OverDrive  Three guys from Provo, Utah set out on a mission to make QR codes, those boring pixellated, black-and-white squares come alive — in other words, to extend their functionality by turning them into realworld “like,” “follow,” and “buy” buttons. And it’s been working. . . . → Read More: With 12M+ Downloads, Scan Launches Scan-to-gram, A New Way To Follow People On Instagram  If there's one thing webOS doesn’t have a lack of is unit . . . → Read More: webOS Apps for Unit Converting  Back in September, Jon Tirsen and Douwe Osinga, two ex-Googlers, unveiled their new mobile travel guide, Triposo , setting out to do for travel content what Google and PageRank did for search. The startup developed a set of algorithms to crawl and parse the Web’s biggest travel information databases (like Wikitravel and Open Street Maps), before ranking the data to determine which pieces have the most relevance to its users and serving them up as rich travel guides. . . . → Read More: Triposo’s Mobile Travel Guide Now Actively Recommends Your Next Destination; CrunchFund Invests |
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