TigerText

TigerText is a multi-platform, secure, real-time messaging application for the enterprise that allows text messages to be deleted from both the sender's and the receiver's phones after expiration, which could be a set period of time or after reading. The messages cannot be saved, copied or forwarded by recipients. TigerText does this by storing the message on a company server, not the receiving and sending device, and deleting when the expiration conditions are met.[1][2][3]

TigerText can be used on any Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, tablet, Mac or PC.[4]

Company History

TigerText was founded in 2010 by Co-Founders Brad Brooks, who later went on to co-found the anonymous messaging app Whisper,[5] Andrew Brooks MD, and Jeffrey Evans. The company is based in Santa Monica, California. In February 2012, TigerText secured more than $8 Million in new funding by Easton Capital and New Science Ventures bringing the company’s total backing to more than $10 million. In addition John Friedman, Managing Partner of Easton Capital, and Somu Subramaniam, Managing Partner of NSV joined the companies board of directors. In October, 2013 the company announced its new freemium model and its 4th generation version. The 4th generation introduced several enhanced product features that support multi-directory usage to increase the flexibility of the application to work across organizations, expand its support for enterprise organizations, increase efficiency, security, and improve the user experience. The company is focused on enterprises, healthcare, and financial services organizations that must comply with industry regulations such as HIPAA, SOX, and FINRA. The solution offers major improvements in workflow efficiency for enterprises, financial services institutions, government, hospitals, physicians and ancillary staff.[6]

In July 2012, TigerText announced an API integration with Dropbox that allows users to send documents securely.[7]

Raj Vemulapalli, who was the Head of Engineering and one of the founding engineers at Yahoo! is on the TigerText board. Raj spent 11 years making Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Mobile Messaging the #1 messaging tools in the United States and #2 in the world with a reach of 280+ million active users and $150+ million in annual revenues.[8]

Name

Co-Founder Jeffrey Evans has stated that he and his partners picked the iPhone app's name before the scandal that was related to Tiger Woods' alleged text messages to a mistress.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Charlie Sorrel (2010-03-01). "TigerText Deletes Text Messages From Receiver's Phone". Wired. Archived from the original on 2010-10-17. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
  2. ↑ Glenn Chapman (2010-02-27). "TigerText app removes embarrassing text messages". Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on 2010-10-17. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
  3. ↑ Luscombe, Belinda (2010-02-26). "TigerText: An iPhone App for Cheating Spouses?". Time. Archived from the original on 2010-10-17. Retrieved 2010-04-11. Called, coincidentally enough, TigerText, it allows users to set a time limit for a sent text to hang around after it has been read. When that life span has been exceeded, the message will disappear, from the recipient's phone, the sender's phone and any servers. The message cannot be forwarded anywhere, stored anywhere or sold to any tabloid for an undisclosed sum.
  4. ↑ "TigerText Becomes First Mobile Messaging Service to Offer Delivery and Read Notifications across Four Platforms". Business Wire. 2010-11-05. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
  5. ↑ Dotan, Tom (April 22, 2013). "Privacy Apps' Popularity Spreads". Los Angeles Business Journal (Los Angeles, CA). Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  6. ↑ "TigerText Goes Freemium; Launches Next Generation of its Secure Enterprise Messaging App for BYOD". Business Wire. 2013-10-03.
  7. ↑ Gallagher, Billy. "TigerText Announces Dropbox API Integration: Users Can Send Files With Expiration Dates, Remotely Revoke Access". July 15th, 2012. Tech Crunch. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  8. ↑ "Messaging Pioneer joins TigerText Raj Vemulapalli brings his wealth of experience and knowledge to TigerText’s Board of Directors". July 21, 2011. TigerText. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  9. ↑ Rosen, Jeffrey (2010-07-25). "The Web Means the End of Forgetting". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2010-09-01. Retrieved 2010-09-01.

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