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`Google acquires Web-calling service GrandCentral - Reuters
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`TECHNOLOGY NEWS
`JULY 3, 2007 / 2:09 AM / 13 YEARS AGO
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`Google acquires Web-calling service GrandCentral
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`Eric Auchard
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`SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. has acquired GrandCentral Communications, a
`start-up that lets users manage their existing phones and voice mailboxes over the Web as if
`they were a single account, the company said on Monday.
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`Google acquires Web-calling service GrandCentral - Reuters
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`A file photo of the Google booth at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 5, 2006. Google Inc. has
`acquired GrandCentral Communications, a start-up that lets users manage their existing phones and voice mailboxes over
`the Web as if they were a single account, the company said on Monday. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
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`Financial terms were not disclosed.
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`Grand Central of Fremont, California is one of dozens of innovative companies that are taking
`advantage of Web-based software to allow consumers and businesses to make voice calls over
`the Internet while also working with regular phones.
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`GrandCentral was founded in late 2005 by Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet, who worked
`together while running Web-calling pioneer Dialpad Communications. Google’s biggest rival,
`Yahoo Inc., acquired Dialpad in June 2005.
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`“You get a single phone number that forwards to all of your phones, giving you one number for
`life,” Walker and Paquet said in a statement on GrandCentral’s Web site confirming the deal.
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`EBay Inc. unit Skype, a pioneer in the Internet phone market, has signed up more than 200
`million users for its free or low-cost phone services globally. Newer names in the field include
`venture-backed firms Jajah, Jangl, Jaxtr and Rebtel, which together have signed up millions of
`users in just the past year.
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`The idea for GrandCentral was borne out of Walker’s frustration upon landing at a local airport
`and realizing he needed to check three voicemail mail boxes — one for his cell phone, another
`for work and one for his Blackberry phone.
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`“If you have multiple phone numbers (e.g., home, work, cell), you get one phone number that
`you can set to ring all, some, or none of your phones,” Wesley Chan, a Google product
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`manager, said in a blog post on his company’s Web site.
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`A D V E R T I S E M E N T
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`“This way, your phone number is tied to you, and not your location or job,” he said.
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`Rather than competing directly with the likes of Vodafone Plc or China Telecom Corp. Ltd.,
`many of these newer Web-based calling services are focused on incorporating phone-like talk
`features into Internet services on blogs or social network sites like MySpace or Facebook.
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`Konstantin Guericke, the co-founder of Silicon Valley-based business networking site
`LinkedIn, took over as the chief executive of Web-calling service Jaxtr late last year.
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`“The way I see it, social networks and blogs are about communication and the phone hasn’t
`been really in the mix,” Guericke told Reuters following news of Google’s acquisition.
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`GrandCentral has been holding public tests of its service for several months. Current
`GrandCentral customers will continue to have uninterrupted service, Google said.
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`However, one feature that allowed users to upload their own audio tracks to create ringtones
`now will be limited to licensed music, GrandCentral said on its own site.
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`A limited number of invitations to receive GrandCentral unified numbers will be available for
`users who sign up at http://www.grandcentral.com, it said.
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`“We think GrandCentral’s technology fits well into Google’s efforts to provide services that
`enhance the collaborative exchange of information between our users,” Chan said. Google did
`not disclose future products plans it has in the area.
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`But voice-calling features will quickly be built into many popular Web sites over the next three
`months to a year, Guericke said. “We think there is a billion-dollar business to be built, so we
`have no plans to get acquired any time soon.”
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`In the last five weeks, Jaxtr has seen the number of registered users of its service on sites like
`Facebook grow to 300,000 users from 100,000 on May 25, he said.
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