{"id":519,"date":"2007-07-05T08:54:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T06:54:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-05T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T06:54:22","slug":"google-gobbles-up-grandcentral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/519-google-gobbles-up-grandcentral.html","title":{"rendered":"Google gobbles up GrandCentral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">According to the Google Blog, GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can then be accessed from the web. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;We think GrandCentral&#39;s technology fits well into Google&#39;s efforts to provide services that enhance the collaborative exchange of information between our users,&rdquo; Google said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;We&#39;re really excited to welcome the GrandCentral team to Google. While we&#39;re moving their technology over to Google&#39;s network, a limited number of invitations will be available to register for a GrandCentral beta account.&rdquo;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;GrandCentral is joining Google. We&#39;re excited about this. Being part of Google will helps us make our vision of improved voice communications one step closer to reality and bring innovative communications services to millions of users around the world,&rdquo; said GrandCentral Founders Craig Walker &amp; Vincent Paquet.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to GrandCentral, Google acquired the company because its communications services fit into Google&#39;s mission to organize the world&#39;s information and to provide services and features that enhance the collaborative exchange of information between users.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The terms of the acquisition are confidential and the deal is officially closed according to the Q&amp;A with the founders on the GrandCentral website.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has made another acquisition, this time the Californian based GrandCentral &#8211; a company that provides services for managing your voice communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}