When Gogii, a startup backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ iFund for iPhone apps, launched its textPlus app for the iPhone in June, I was sure it was a no-brainer hit. I said so in a post.

Americans fired off 110 billion text messages in December 2008, almost doubled from the 48 billion the same month in 2007, according to a recent report from the Census Bureau. Taking advantage of the ...

Marina Del Rey-based text messaging app develotextPlus, which is led by Scott Lahman, is going global, saying Thursday that it has launched a new free test messaging and calling app called Nextplus ...

Two L.A. telecom startups have joined forces to take on Internet and cell phone service providers. FreedomPop, a Tarzana company that offers free wireless Internet service, announced Tuesday that it ...