Want to compete with Skype, Google Purchase Gizmo5

With the target will help Google Voice to Skype competitors, Google was buying a company, which is Gizmo5.

What is Gizmo5? Gizmo5 is a producer of software that allows users to make phone calls voice-over-IP (VoIP) from computers and mobile phones respectively. This service is very similar to Skype, which also offers VoIP phone service.

The acquisition was announced on the Google Voice Google his blog. There Wesley Chan and Craig Walker said that the existing Gizmo5 users will still be able to use their services, but Google will stop the registration of new services. The existing users will not be able to register a new call number.

"Currently we do not yet have specific features to be announced. Gizmo5 But the engineers will join the team of Google Voice to continue to improve Google Voice and Gizmo5," said Chan and Walker.

Gizmo5 acquisition, similar to Skype, is Google's second acquisition two years ago bought Grand Central. Grand Central now been transformed into a Google Voice. Gizmo5 addition, last week Google also bought admob mobile advertising company worth 450 million pounds. As in the Reuters interview, Google revealed its intention to buy one company each month.

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