Wednesday, 4 July 2007

Google Gets Into IP Telephony, Buys GrandCentral Communications

Google Inc. doesn’t seem to stop its acquisition spree. It has now acquired Web-based phone service GrandCentral Communications.

California based GrandCentral's services allows users to personalise phone usage with Web-based features like the ability to assign a single phone number that rings various phones at once, records calls and accesses visual voicemail.

The company began beta testing in September 2006. Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet, formerly the chief executive, founded it and vice president of business development and marketing, respectively, for VoIP company Dialpad Communications Inc. Google competitor Yahoo Inc. bought Dialpad in June 2005 for an undisclosed amount.