So in 2009, Ravindran and three classmates dropped out of college tofocuson bridging this information gap through the development of a text message-based search engine.
Some critics decry the quality of the standards, including their focuson adding more nonfiction or "informational" textto classrooms, which they argue crowds out literature.
The startup's servers provide simple access to web services like Twitter and even text messaging (via Twillo) -- letting developers focuson core appliance functionality rather than the intricacies of HTTP requests, WiFi APIs and network sockets.