“Phone service” once meant owning a landline wired to the nearest telephone pole. Now it means being connected to the entire world through a handheld computer with more processing power than the one ...

TextNow, purveyor of free mobile service supported by ads, is expanding from voice and texting to free data. The new TextNow Free Essential Data offering lets customers access email (Gmail, Outlook, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TextNow has a new plan called Free Essential ...

When Derek Ting, founder and CEO of TextNow, was in the final year of his computer engineering degree at the University of Waterloo in 2008, starting a $130-million company wasn’t at the top of his ...