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June 17, 2011
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TigerText Disposes Of ‘Sender’s Remorse’ With New Privacy And Control Features For SMS
TigerText, a company that adds a bevy of privacy settings and controls to SMS, is today launching a new app for iOS that aims to preserve the social nature of group messaging while giving the sender complete control over their messages both in group and one-to-one conversations. A prized feature of TigerText’s service has been the fact that it allows a sender to recall a message...
June 17, 2011
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App eliminates text messaging ‘remorse’
By Suzanne Choney Ever send a text message and instantly regret it? A new app for the iPhone lets users not only immediately pull back those text messages, but set a lifespan — even down to seconds — for how long a message is viewable. It's called TigerText — and yes, even though the company has said it's not named for Tiger Woods, the poster child for regrettable text...
June 15, 2011
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TigerText, Others Develop Mobile Security around SMS
A recent survey shows that 93 percent of mobile users have sent a text message to the wrong person, and some of these messages are too private to be sent to others. It is for this reason that startup TigerText is launching a new iOS application that assimilates social nature in group messaging. TigerText allows users to gain full control over their messages, be it in group or one-on-one...
June 15, 2011
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TigerText iOS App Allows You To Recall And Destroy Text Messages After Sending (video)
If you would like a little more control over your text messages on your iOS device you might be pleased to hear that Tigertext has this week launched a new iOS texting application, which provides more privacy controls than standard methods. The new TigerText application allows you to share your personal messages, ideas, and photos freely in one-to-one or group conversations without...
June 15, 2011
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TigerText Secures (And Erases) Your Text Messages
TigerText got a flood of publicity when it launched last year because it was described as a mobile app that you can use to cheat on your spouse. Media outlets connected the app to Tiger Woods, who had reportedly sent text messages to a mistress. But TigerText was not named after Tiger Woods–it was conceived before Woods’ revelations were reported. The mobile and group messaging service...
February 17, 2011
by Daily Nebraskan
Tiger Text app allows texters to delete messages on sender’s, receiver’s phones
This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1. Gone. Tiger Text gives users the opportunity to experience texting in a whole new way. According to its website, Tiger Text was created in February of 2010, and it allows users to control their texting. The application is available for free on Android, Blackberry and iPhone devices. Click here to read the full article.[gallery...
February 13, 2011
by KPHO.com
Tiger Text Helps Keep Text Messages Private
Keeping your secrets safe is the idea behind a new cell phone service that lets you send text messages that will self destruct as soon as they're read. "If I'm texting my wife, that's a text for my wife," said Andrew Miller of Tempe. "It's not a text for somebody else. If I text my buddy, it's for my buddy not for other people." Click here to read the full...
February 10, 2011
by TechCrunch
TigerText Unveils Enterprise Version Of Private Texting Service
TigerText, a company that develops a private SMS app, is launching an enterprise version of its product today. Called TigerTextPRO, the service allows companies to deploy their own private and secure mobile network in hours. Click here to read the full article.
February 10, 2011
by Business Insider
How To Send Text Messages That Automatically Delete After Just A Hour
Tiger Text, the startup that lets you delete your text messages after a set period of time, is releasing an enterprise version of their product today, TechCrunch reports.Click here to read the full article.
February 04, 2011
by Wall Street Journal
Secret Texting… Pass It On
A new messaging service aims to keep your secrets safe. TigerText Inc., which can send texts that vanish from both the sender and receiver's phone after a select period of time so they can't be copied or forwarded, has developed a niche following among celebrities trying to keep their lives private. About half a million people have downloaded the service, which was started in February 2010 by four Los...
February 04, 2011
by Newser
This Text Message Will Self-Destruct in 60 Seconds
It's too late to help Tiger Woods cover his tracks, but the creators of a text message auto-delete service say other celebrities trying to keep their lives private are among its half-million users. TigerText—no connection to the golfer—sends texts that disappear from both a user and sender's phone after a set period—anywhere between a minute and a month—reports the Wall Street Journal. Click...
February 03, 2011
by Market Watch
News Hub: A New Way to Keep Texts Private
From hospital executives to screenwriters to bankers, a slew of new businesspeople are turning to a new text messaging service to communicate privately. Lauren Shuker introduces us to TigerText. Click here to read the full...
January 03, 2011
by NPR
New Service Aims To Make Texting Secure
Text messaging is exploding, and that's an understatement. In 2005, cell phone users in the U.S. sent a total of about seven billion texts per month. Last year, they sent 173 billion text messages per month. That's a monthly average of more than 600 messages per person. The main advantage of text messages is that they can be received on just about every mobile phone anywhere in the world. The main...
December 30, 2010
by Huffington Post
Top 5 Privacy Violations of 2010
By any standard, 2010 was not a good year for privacy rights. While a growing number of people and companies seem to be concerned about the issue of protecting the most intimate details of our lives, technology is making it harder and harder to do so. Click here to read the full article.
December 11, 2010
by Creators
When Cyberspace Comes Back to Haunt
How many times do we have to be told!? When you write an e-mail or send a text message (or photo), it lives on in cyberspace and could easily come back to haunt you in a big, bad way. I know that texting on your own cell phone or sitting at your personal computer, writing down your thoughts, then hitting the "send" button may feel like a private activity, but it's actually one of the most public...
December 06, 2010
by Mobile Apps Showdown
TigerText Lets You Get Rid of SMS Messages at Will
The average teen may send hundreds of texts a day but they’d be getting much more out of their efforts with TigerText. This app provides many features that standard SMS does not, including allowing a user to send text messages or photos that automatically delete off both the sender’s and receivers phone after a selected period of time. Click here to read the full...
November 05, 2010
by Business Wire
TigerText Becomes First Mobile Messaging Service to Offer Delivery and Read Notifications across Four Platforms
TigerText, the worldwide leader in private mobile messaging, today announced the release of delivery and read notifications across its network. TigerText also announced the availability of the app on the new Windows 7 mobile operating system. TigerText is the only messaging network to offer these features to all iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and Windows 7, iPad and iPod Touch devices. Click here to read...
September 07, 2010
by Huffington Post
If Only Irony Had a Privacy Setting
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is worried about his privacy. You may want to re-read that sentence to be sure it didn't say "isn't worried." It would certainly make a lot more sense if the face of Facebook said he wasn't concerned about privacy, but just the opposite is happening. Click here to read the full...
July 21, 2010
by New York Times
The Web Means the End of Forgetting
Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption “Drunken Pirate.” Click here to read the full article.
April 19, 2010
by Time
Without a Trace
There comes a time in the life cycle of every celebrity scandal when outrage and finger-pointing metamorphose into pity and averting of the eyes. In the Tiger Woods debacle, that point was reached around the end of February, when the world first learned about TigerText. Click here to read the full article.
March 02, 2010
by The Wall Street Journal
The Daily Start-Up: Force10 Finally Lives Up To IPO Promise
Force10 Networks has finally filed to go public after blabbing about it for years. Well, this is a juiced-up Force10. Last year, two competing 10-year-old network equipment makers, Force10 and Turin Networks, decided they needed to combine in order to persuade fussier public-market investors to buy into an eventual offering. Click here to read the full...
Press Releases
TigerText secures more than $8 million in new funding, adds veteran life-sciences and technology investors to its board
February 02, 2012
Feb. 2, 2012 (Santa Monica, CA) -- TigerText Inc., the leading provider of secure mobile messaging for healthcare enterprises, has completed a second round of funding of $8.2 million, bringing the company’s total backing to more than $10 million. The Series A investment is led by Easton Capital and New Science Ventures to accelerate development of TigerText Pro for Business, its HIPAA-compliant,...
In Face of JCAHO ban of Physician Texting TigerText Says, “Yes You Can”
November 17, 2011
TigerText will Protect PHI While Enhancing Patient Care November 17, 2011 (Los Angeles) – The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), which provides accreditation for more than 19,000 hospitals, this week said it was “not acceptable” for medical professionals to communicate patient information via text message. TigerText, the global leader in private and...
Physician and Hospital Texting is on the Rise
October 11, 2011
Webinar: HIPPA Texting - How to Protect PHI and Guard Against Audits October 12, 2011 (Los Angeles) - Physicians and hospital staffs are using smart phones in ever increasing numbers. In a survey of customers, TigerText, the leader in HIPAA compliant mobile messaging, has found that 73% of physicians are sending work related text messages. Many don’t understand the inherent risk to patient...
HIPAA Texting: Safe, Easy, and Compliant
September 20, 2011
A webinar from The Institute for Health Technology Transformation, Cone Health Hospitalist Program, and TigerText September 21, 2011 (New York) - The Institute for Health Technology Transformation has announced it will be conducting a webinar to educate health care professionals and managers about the dangers of non-HIPAA compliant text messaging and the ways that both hospitals and physicians can...
TigerText and Manage Mobility Partner to Provide HIPAA Compliant Mobile Solution
August 30, 2011
Gives Health Care Providers the Speed and Convenience of Mobile Messaging While Protecting Patient Privacy September 1, 2011 (Los Angeles, CA) – TigerText, the global leader in private and controlled mobile messaging applications and platform solutions, today announced a partnership with Manage Mobility, the award winning, national telecommunications management and logistics firm based in Alpharetta,...
Messaging Pioneer joins TigerText Raj Vemulapalli brings his wealth of experience and knowledge to TigerText’s Board of Directors
July 21, 2011
July 21, 2011 (Santa Monica, CA) – TigerText, the global leader in private and controlled messaging, announces with pride that Raj Vemulapalli has joined the company’s Board of Directors and will be an active adviser to the TigerText product and engineering teams. Prior to joining TigerText, Vemulapalli was the Head of Engineering and one of the founding engineers of the Yahoo! Real Time...
TigerText and Amion Integration
June 15, 2011
TigerText Providing Secure and HIPAA compliant Text Messaging Through Industry Leading Physician Scheduling Software New integrated solution enables clinicians to text message each other directly from the Amion online scheduling through a secure, private mobile network provided by TigerText TigerText, Inc, the worldwide leader in private mobile messaging for consumers and healthcare organizations,...
TigerText Eliminates Sender’s Remorse with New Mobile Messaging App
June 15, 2011
New app brings unprecedented control and social features to mobile messaging; lets people recall misdirected texts SANTA MONICA, CA – June 15, 2011 –TigerText, the only mobile messaging platform that gives people complete control over their conversations, today has launched a new iOS application that combines the social nature of group messaging with TigerText’s signature control...
TigerText Wins MediaPost’s Appy Awards for 2011
February 28, 2011
TigerText has been selected as a finalist in the category Best Communication App presented by MediaPost for their Appy Awards ceremony taking place at the OMMA Global Conference and Expo in San Francisco on Feb. 28. The Appy Awards honor extraordinary applications in a diverse range of categories. TigerText was selected among hundreds of applicants for the honor. “We are thrilled that TigerText has...
TigerText Launches Enterprise Edition to Address Mobile Security, Privacy and Cost Issues Facing Organizations
February 23, 2011
Launch of TigerTextPRO for Enterprise gives businesses never-before-seen control over mobile messaging to ensure regulatory compliance and optimize communications. ***** Feb 8, 2011 (Santa Monica, CA) – TigerText, Inc, the worldwide leader in private mobile messaging for consumers and now enterprises, today announced the launch of its TigerTextPRO SaaS solution (www.tigertext.com/pro)....
TigerText Introduces New Mobile Privacy Network
November 28, 2010
Allows senders to determine how long their communication lives on the Network, along with the mobile devices of both sender and recipient TigerText has introduced new texting technology for smartphones, which allows senders anywhere in the world to determine how long their communication lives on the Network, along with the mobile devices of both sender and recipient. The new texting technology...