If you thought stickers were the pinnacle of human digital communications then you obviously haven't seen enough animated GIFs. Messaging app network Pinger has launched a new standalone iOS app -- th
For the last few years we've been tracking the growth of a service called Textfree, offered by San Jose-based startup <a href="http://www.pinger.com">Pinger</a>. As the name implies, Textfree has a ve
Pinger’s disruptive Textfree service is heading to Europe, and it's doing it with the help of hottest buzzword around: gamification.
Pinger has managed to build a huge userbase in the United States
<img class="shot2" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/textfreeshot.png" alt="" /><a href="http://www.pinger.com">Pinger's</a> Textfree, the app that lets users send and receive fre
<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/textfrevoiceshot.png" alt="" /><a href="http://www.pinger.com">Pinger's</a> free texting and phone application <a href="http://w
<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/textfrevoiceshot.png" alt="" />Last fall at TechCrunch Disrupt, <a href="http://www.pinger.com">Pinger</a>, the company behind h
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/20100929_techcrunch_dg_067.jpg" />The votes have been tallied. The judges have weighed in. A battlefield of twenty-seven startups was whittle
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/judges.png" alt="" />The TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield is approaching its dramatic conclusion, and the <a href="https://techcrunch.co
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-225697" title="22" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/226.jpg" alt="" />Over the past two days, we've seen 25 startups (and 2 from the Start
<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/pingershot-1.png" alt="" />Earlier this month we <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/pingers-textfree-is-massive-now-over
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/techcrunch-disrupt-c2bb-2010-sf.png" class="shot2"/>We are only a few hours away from kicking off the second <a href="http://disrupt.beta.tech
<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/pingertextfreehshot.png" alt="" />It's a promise sounds too good to be true: free, unlimited texting to and from your iPhone. An
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/txtfre.jpg" class="shot2">
<a href="http://www.pinger.com/content/home.html">Pinger</a> has flown relatively under the radar for an app devel
Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it. When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people t
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
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 mob
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 m