I was testing with Invisible Boyfriend, a new app that provides text messages from a nonexistent partner.
The service also provides text updates for Nascar races and will offer gamecasts for the National Basketball Association in the coming season.
Tokbox supports up to six people but only provides text chat when used with Meebo.
That company is Uptrust, which provides text message reminders to people regarding court dates.
The ontology builder provides text extraction (e.g., using Autotags) for semantic analysis.
HeyWire Business, a Cambridge, Mass., tech firm that provides text message services to businesses, learned of that relationship the hard way.
To that end, Arbitrum provides text, image and video moderation, and combines human resources, automation and machine learning so that it can scale.
Michael Jones sold Userplane, which provides text, voice and video chat software to websites to AOL almost exactly two years ago for around $40 million (the exact price was never disclosed).
Clarity, a division of Plantronics dedicated to making communication devices with amplified audio for those with impaired hearing, has teamed up with a company called ClearCaptions, which provides text transcription captioning services for phone calls to create the Ensemble.
After getting their seed funding in 2012, they have continued to develop the product, which provides text analytics in the cloud — and this money should give them a big lift to continue building the company and hire more personnel.
AALFI takes a different approach to assistance in that it provides text based messages that are designed to help encourage a person to carry out a task or corrective action in response to events that occur during the day and generate feedback during the day and night.
