| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.12.2012 | No Facebook Account Required: Facebook Messenger For Android Lets You Sign Up With Just A Phone Number | Today Facebook announced its first-ever product open to people without a Facebook account. Starting now, the Messenger for Android app, and later its iOS counterpart, will allow signups from non-Facebook users with just a name and phone num... |
| 10.09.2012 | Pinger comes to Canada: Free calling and texting anywhere in Canada and US | Article content
Canadians have a new way to cut their wireless phone bills with the release of a Canadian version of Pinger, an app that gives you free calling and texting to any phone throughout the United States and Canada.
The free app, ... |
| 02.03.2012 | Mobile Carriers Don't Want To Give Up SMS Without A Fight | Apparently there was some tension at the Mobile World Congress—the world’s largest mobile phone trade show—as the growing battle over text messaging took center stage. As you may know, SMS text-messaging is a rip-off, and a huge cash-cow fo... |
| 28.02.2012 | ClassPager Lets Teachers Quiz and Remind Students Via SMS | Why ban phones from the classroom when you can harness them? Bootstrapped startup ClassPager today launches its Twilio-powered SMS system that lets teachers and professors efficiently send their students quizzes and reminders, and receive a... |
| 24.02.2012 | Pinger Picks Up $7.5M |
SAN JOSE, CA, Pinger's mission is to build the first free global communications network. The firm closed the new round of venture capital financing from T-Venture.
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| 24.02.2012 | Pinger Raises $7.5M in Funding from T-Venture | Pinger, a San Jose, CA-based company that provides free texting and talking apps, has raised $7.5m in funding from T-Venture.
The company, which was previously backed by Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers and DAG Ventures, intends to use... |
| 23.02.2012 | Deutsche Telekom’s VC Firm Makes Strategic Investment In Pinger | For the last few years we’ve been tracking the growth of a service called Textfree, offered by San Jose-based startup Pinger. As the name implies, Textfree has a very attractive value proposition: you sign up, it gives you a free, real, tel... |
| 21.11.2011 | Textfree Users Have Sent And Received 20 Billion Text Messages, Free Of Charge | Turns out you don’t have to charge an arm and a leg for SMS messages to make money off of texting.
One startup that’s proven this is Pinger, the company behind the massively popular free texting app Textfree. Today, the company is announcin... |
| 04.08.2011 | New Apps for iPhone & Android, July 2011 | In our continuing tradition of rounding up new mobile application releases we found interesting and/or exciting over the past month, we present you with this new list of apps for July 2011. This month, we found a lot of great new iPhone app... |
| 13.07.2011 | Pinger lowers European texting fees by making SMS a game | This article is part of a series of posts about DEMO alumni and news of their progress. Pinger launched at DEMO in Fall 2006. Check out more at DEMO.
Europe telecommunications is, in one word, super-pricey-holy-crap-don’t-text-me. Today, ho... |
| 13.07.2011 | Pinger lowers European texting fees by making SMS a game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This article is part of a series of posts about DEMO alumni and news of their progress. Pinger launched at DEMO in Fall 2006. Check out... |
| 05.07.2011 | New Apps for iPhone & Android, June 2011 | In our continuing tradition of rounding up new mobile application releases we found interesting and/or exciting over the past month, we present you with this new list of apps for June 2011. Previously in June, we shared a list of apps that ... |
| 22.06.2011 | Pinger takes on Apple's iMessage with launch of Textfree Web | Pinger, a startup offering free text and voice messaging, has launched Textfree Web, a service that aims to blur the lines between SMS and mobile IM. Anyone with access to a web browser can text any mobile number from the U.S. and more than... |
| 15.06.2011 | Pinger's Textfree Surges On Android: User Growth Now Matches iPhone | Pinger’s Textfree, the app that lets users send and receive free text messages and phone calls using real phone numbers, has a new best friend: the big green Android robot.
We’ve been tracking Textfree’s staggering growth for some time now ... |
| 10.05.2011 | Bababoo Raises $1.5M To Let You Make Calls Over Mobile, WiFi, 3G, AND Keep Your Number | Cell phone bills are expensive, and carrier contracts are binding. We need our cellphones, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not always looking for cheaper ways to make calls. Voice-over-IP services have come a long way in the last few years... |
| 04.05.2011 | Talkatone Lets You Make Calls And SMS Over Wifi For Free, No Strings Attached | Like Pinger, Talkatone allows you to make phone calls using Wifi. Unlike Pinger, Talkatone uses Google Voice as a channel to let you make and receive phone calls to and from your phone contacts, for free. While Pinger, using Textfree with v... |
| 03.04.2011 | AT&T Buying T-Mobile Won't Matter. In Mobile Communications, Innovation Is Elsewhere. | Editor’s note: The following guest post is written by Joe Sipher, co-founder of Pinger, which makes the popular Textfree app.
So AT&T wants to buy T-Mobile and some are screaming it will reduce competition and hurt the consumer. Sprint ... |
| 16.03.2011 | Pinger's Textfree Exchanging 1 Billion SMS Messages A Month, 1 Million Voice Minutes A Day | Pinger’s free texting and phone application Textfree is continuing to see booming growth. The app, which has been downloaded over 14 million times for iOS and Android devices, uses an ad-supported model to provide free SMS and voice calls t... |
| 06.01.2011 | Textfree Users Made 2.5 Million Voice Calls In Ten Days (And They've Sent 6 Billion Messages Total) | Last fall at TechCrunch Disrupt, Pinger, the company behind hugely popular texting application Textfree, announced that it was adding voice support to its application — a big deal, given that it adds voice calling to the iPod Touch and it a... |
| 05.10.2010 | Line2 Adds Texting Support, Sends 1 Million SMS Messages In Four Days | We’ve been hearing quite a bit lately about the rise of unlimited texting applications on the iPhone. Pinger’s Textfree, which was a runner-up for the top prize at TechCrunch Disrupt, has posted some staggering stats lately, with over 4 bil... |
| 29.09.2010 | Startup Battlefield: The Final 7 Make Their Closing Arguments | The TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield is approaching its dramatic conclusion, and the 7 finalists remaining are making their closing arguments in front of a panel of all-star Silicon Valley judges. Here are their questions and the star... |
| 29.09.2010 | Qwiki Wins TechCrunch Disrupt: Information Consumption To Be Disrupted | The votes have been tallied. The judges have weighed in. A battlefield of twenty-seven startups was whittled down to a final, elite group of seven. And now the winner has been chosen: Qwiki has taken the top prize at TechCrunch Disrupt San ... |
| 28.09.2010 | Pinger Now Turns Your iPod Touch Into A Free Cell Phone | Earlier this month we took a look at Pinger, the company behind Textfree, a massively popular application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that gives users free, unlimited text messaging. Since launching in March 2009, users have sent over 4 b... |
| 28.09.2010 | Pinger brings free calling to your iPod Touch | A startup called Pinger says it has already built a big user base for Textfree — which is (you guessed it) a free text messaging service. Now it’s offering a similar service for making phone calls.
The calls can be made over a 3G cellular d... |
| 09.09.2010 | With 3.7 Billion Messages Under Its Belt, GOGII's textPlus Launches Picture Messaging & Face Texts | At first glance, the stats from free text messaging startup GOGII and its textPlus application sound like they’re too big by an order of magnitude: 3.7 billion messages sent since June 2009. 8.5 million downloads. 23 million phone numbers i... |
| 01.09.2010 | Pinger's Textfree Is Massive, Now Over 3.5 Billion Messages Sent | It’s a promise sounds too good to be true: free, unlimited texting to and from your iPhone. And even if a service did manage to offer it, it certainly couldn’t be sustainable, could it? Pinger, a startup that launched back in 2006 as a voic... |
| 05.04.2010 | John Doerr: The Next Big Thing | This guest post was written by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partners John Doerr, Bing Gordon, Chi-Hua Chien and Ellen Pao. We covered KP’s increase in the size of the iFund last week, and additional insights from KP’s Matt Murphy on... |
| 17.02.2010 | Textfree nears 2 billion text messages on iPod Touch, iPhone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Did you know you can use your iPod Touch as a free SMS text machine? Or that you can skip the texting charges on your iPhone plan?
If y... |
| 17.02.2010 | iPhone App Developer Pinger Reaches Profitability; Textfree Surpasses One Billion Messages | Pinger has flown relatively under the radar for an app developer that has launched 14 apps that have all reached the top 100 iPhone apps in the App store. The startup’s Textfree app has surpassed more than 1 Billion text messages sent in le... |
| 17.02.2010 | Textfree nears 2 billion text messages on iPod Touch, iPhone | Did you know you can use your iPod Touch as a free SMS text machine? Or that you can skip the texting charges on your iPhone plan?
If you’ve got a WiFi network, you’re in. Textfree, an app launched nine months ago by startup Pinger, has alr... |
| 27.03.2009 | RebelVox Makes Your Voicemail More Like Email | RebelVox is a voice communications platform that aims to makes your voicemail function more like email. The technology is not yet available for consumers, but it will soon be shopped around to developers who may want to incorporate it in ot... |
| 03.04.2008 | Pinger Releases Pingercast Service to All | If you are an entertainer or just someone who wants to get your message out to the world, you may be interested in Pinger’s beta release of Pingercast. In the past, Pingercast messaging was only available to major media companies but now ev... |
| 27.01.2008 | Pinger launches 'voice messaging' in UK. Will we call? | Let me start out by saying that I absolutely loathe and despise voicemail. It is the bane of my life. Which is why I was rather bemused to learn I was to be pitched by Pinger, a US-based service which launches in the UK today with a method ... |
| 10.09.2007 | GotVoice Adds Talking Bears and Speech-To-Text Transcription | GotVoice is a great voicemail utility that has so far focused on delivering visual voicemail (phone/web), custom voicemail greetings, and broadcasting voice messages (like Pinger). Through some clever coding, GotVoice links directly into yo... |
| 07.08.2007 | Drunk Drivers Perceived As Dangerous As Text Drivers | Are you one of the millions of drivers who can’t wait to send a text message? A survey released today by Pinger, Inc. and conducted by Harris Interactive finds that 91% of American adults think sending text messages or mobile emails while d... |
| 05.06.2007 | Bubble Motion, trying to bring voice SMS to U.S. | Bubble Motion is a texting (SMS) service that eliminates the need to type out message on that tiny keypad, and lets you leave voice message instead.
Many of us are texting, but we aren’t leaving voice messages via SMS — because carriers are... |
| 28.03.2007 | Pinger Now Commitment Free | Voice messaging service Pinger no longer requires recipients to be pinger members in order to listen to messages on their mobile phones. Instead, upon receiving messages from Pinger users, recipients will be prompted by a text message to cl... |
| 26.03.2007 | Jott, a convenient voice-to-text service | Jott rocks.
Jott, a company based in Seattle, offers a convenient new service that lets you speak messages and send them to yourself or others — as a transcribed text message.
Or as a voice message, if you prefer.
Sign up at Jott.com takes ... |
| 21.03.2007 | Phone 2.0 at play | [Editor’s note: Thousands are crowding into the San Jose Convention Center here in Silicon Valley for the Spring VON conference, a four-day discussion about voice and video on the net. We asked Michael Cerda, chief executive of Jangl, to te... |
| 31.01.2007 | DEMO mentions: GetaBuz, Pairup | Here are two new Silicon Valley companies that launched at DEMO. We’re not certain whether they are features or have potential for more, but they are aiming for more:
Buz Interative lets you create voicemail greetings with music — We got a ... |
| 05.01.2007 | The next Killer App? | (Editor’s note: We asked Konstantin Othmer to provide his views on the voice messaging area, which has seen a growth in interest. His company, Core Mobility is a player, as are Comverse, Glenayre, Pinger, Voice Genesys and Fast Mobile. Some... |
| 07.12.2006 | Pinger raises $8M more for voice message to email service | Pinger, a San Jose start-up that lets you send mobile voice messages to email, has $8 million more in venture backing, according to Gigaom. The latest round of funding includes previous backer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and new i... |
| 27.09.2006 | A look at eight multi-person SMS services | The DEMO conference is wrapping up here in San Diego and unlike when it began 16 years ago the conference wasn’t dominated by mobile launches. None the less, there were some very interesting mobile services here like ScanR and Realeyes3D im... |
| 25.08.2006 | Pinger, the voice message service, is up | Two days ago, we wrote about a new mobile voice message service called Pinger, which we think is useful for busy people because it recognizes names in your address book, calls them up the numbers instantly, and lets you leave a voice messag... |
| 23.08.2006 | Pinger, a pretty cool vmail service | Have you ever been in a rush, and wanted to call someone, but just to leave them a message without actually talking with them?
The big problem: If you call them, they might pick up.
Joe Sipher and Greg Woock, former executives at the person... |
| 14.08.2006 | Trying Out Pinger | I met with Pinger founders Greg Woock and Joe Sipher last week to see a demo of their new mobile product launching later this year.
This is a serious company with a dead simple, viral product in the mobile voice messaging space. Pinger, whi... |
