Pinger

Pinger, Inc.
Industry Texting and VoIP
Headquarters San Jose, California
Key people
  • Greg Woock (CEO)
  • Joe Sipher
Products Textfree, Sideline
Brands Textfree
Website www.pinger.com

Pinger, Inc. is a US Telecom provider for free texts, pics, calls, voicemails.[1] Pinger was founded in 2005 by former Palm, Inc. managers Greg Woock (CEO of Pinger, Inc) and Joe Sipher. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Pinger is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, Deutsche Telekom, and T-ventures and has raised US$18.5M.[2]

Products

The company has released serveral apps, mostly being avalible on iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.

Textfree

Textfree is a app that allows user to call and text using a real phone number for free. The app has a free ad-supported version and a paid version. The app allows you to text anyone in the world.[3]

Sideline

Sideline is an app that adds a second phone number to your phone using technology similar to Textfree. It's available for iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. [4] Their official website is sideline.com.

References

  1. ↑ Pinger's Polite Plans For World Domination, Forbes, 13 July 2011
  2. ↑ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/pinger
  3. ↑ "Textfree Web for Free Unlimited Texting From Your Computer". 29 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Developer of Sideline and Textfree | Pinger". Pinger. Retrieved 2018-09-13.

Company products

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