Google Buys Internet Phone Provider

Google buys GrandCentral, a company that is internet phone service provider.

GrandCentral is based in 2005 by Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet. And now the company is bought by Google.

"We think GrandCentral's technology fits well into Google's efforts to provide services that enhance the collaborative exchange of information between our users," said Wesley Chan, Google’s product manager.

GrandCentral provides with services connecting all your phones. Home, office, mobile phones are all collected in one single cellular number. While receiving a call it is being transferred onto your mobile number, and you don’t have to track all your phones.

GrandCentral’s services are available both from mobile phone and web browser. It provides with all messaging features, such as call forwarding, call listening or reading.

The service can work for you as a secretary, routing calls according to your instructions. You can even mark phone numbers as spam and calls from that numbers will be banned.

Now analysts are predicting what new services Google will provide with newly purchased GrandCentral. It will certainly work with Gmail, no doubt.

Google did not talk neither about the price of the deal, nor about its intentions to provide with internet phone services. by Ruzan Harutyunyan for HULIQ

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