GroupMe acquires Sensobi
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Bangalore: GroupMe, a New York based company has acquired Sensobi, a small application developer. GroupMe's wireless applications help people create private text-messaging groups. Sensobi was started in 2009 and after the acquisition Sensobi's co-founders will go into the GroupMe team. Till now they have not disclosed the terms of the deals. Sensobi makes an address book application for the BlackBerry that knows more about user's contacts than they do. Ajay Kulkarni and Andrew Cheung, co founder of Sensobi have joined GroupMe and the company plans to combine the parts of Sensobi's technology into GroupMe's application. They will start from Blackberry and later will continue with Google's Android system and Apple's iphone. Ajay Kulkarni, graduated from Research Assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a MBA Student at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the Research Analyst at Citigroup and also the Co-founder and General Partner at Wit Doctor Products, LLC. He is now running GroupMe's customer development and analytics group. Sensobi had offered a $9.99 BlackBerry app until now, which will soon be made free. The app helps users keep in touch with specific people by setting up alerts to remind you to contact them on certain occasions. GroupMe has not disclosed the number of times its apps have been downloaded, but the company says it is close to sending 100 million messages a month, up from about 60 million messages a month in March.

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