{"id":111160,"date":"2014-10-03T07:13:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T05:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=111160"},"modified":"2014-10-03T07:15:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T05:15:25","slug":"google-to-launch-whatsapp-competitor-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/111160-google-to-launch-whatsapp-competitor-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Google to launch WhatsApp competitor: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software giant Google Inc plans to launch a mobile messaging app it is likely to test in India and other emerging markets, the Economic Times newspaper reported on Friday, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>The daily said Google was in the early stages of development of the app, which will not make it mandatory to use a Google login.<\/p>\n<p>If launched, the mobile app will compete in the mobile chat space with the likes of WhatsApp, Line and Hike.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain View, California-based company is also looking at localization, by adding Indian language support and voice-to-text messaging, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>A Google spokeswoman said the company did not comment on speculation.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Google news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/111078-publishers-take-on-google.html\">Publishers take on Google<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/110874-google-must-get-permission-to-create-user-profiles-watchdog.html\">Google must get permission to create user profiles: watchdog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/110784-google-planning-new-music-streaming-service.html\">Google planning new music streaming service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software giant Google Inc plans to launch a mobile messaging app it is likely to test in India and other emerging markets, the Economic Times newspaper reported on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":86493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,167,2594],"class_list":["post-111160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-google","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}