Google buys Global IP Solutions, adds to VoIP holdings

By on May 18, 2010 at 9:13 AM
General May 18, 2010

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Google, Inc. has purchased internet VoIP company Global IP Solutions for a cool $68.2 million; a 27.5% premium over the company’s current stock price. While Global IP may not be a household name, you might be familiar with what they provide and to whom they provide it: the back-end VoIP engine used by the Yahoo!, AIM, WebEx, Baidu, and Lotus chat systems. Google continues to bolster its portfolio of acquired companies that supplement its Google Voice and Google Talk services — you may recall Google purchasing internet chat/VoIP company Gizmo5 several months ago — but we have yet to see any drastic feature changes/additions in said services. The future looks bright for Google Voice and Talk…although we do wonder about the VoIP fate of Yahoo! et. al now that Google owns their voice over IP engine.

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  • Mrwirez

    China’s Baidu.. lol.

  • http://theandroidguru.blogspot.com The Android Guru

    Maybe its some Google Talk changes coming in Android 2.2…Ive been waiting for them to bolster the Google Talk features on the Android platform

  • Chut Pata

    The way I see, the system of phone numbers MUST go. Smart phones should have two way camera and something like Skype. We should be dialing email-IDs instead of phone numbers, and should be teleconferencing insead of having blind voice chat. The technology is there, why doesn’t anyone go ahead and do it?

    • T

      $$$$$$$

    • Scorpeo

      Ever hear of the HTC EVO??

    • StevenHamburg

      the same reason that dreamworks released shrek 3 and 4. they will milk every dime out of that dead cow.
      why would you think of a new movie idea if the masses still flock to the same plot every year?

      same question goes for technology:
      why release new technologies if the masses are still content and still buying the old stuff?

  • user

    Their tech is used in Skype too.

    • http://voiceontheweb.biz Jim Courtney

      While GIPS audio codec technology was in Skype originally, in 2007 Skype acquired Camino Networks and replaced the GIPS codecs with the Camino ones. This has since evolved internally at Skype into their current SILK codec which provides up to 12 KHz audio bandwidth.

      The one Google technology used by Skype is the On2 VP7 video codec for their video calling service but that came to Google as an independent acquisition a year or so ago.

  • noir

    ah google, buying up our lives one company at a time. next they’ll tell us when we can and can’t be online. taste the openeas and freedom they offer. ( sarcasm in case anyone missed it)

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Joe

    Big brother is watching…and listening. Microsoft is looking like the underdog right now. Who would have thought!?

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/Strodtbeck.C Strodtbeck

    Great. . . but where is Gizmo5 already? Google keeps acquiring these companies. . . how long till we get to use them as users lol

    • Tim

      Google took along time when they acquired GrandCentral. As a former GC user who transitioned to Google Talk I have a feeling that Google is working on Gizmo5 and will integrate into Google Talk and Google Voice. They were also this quiet with GrandCentral, so I expect good things.

  • MW

    Make it work on Android Phones with Google Voice and I’m sold, Until then its all vaporware.

    • Scorpeo

      How is it vaporware?? The video-engine designed by GIPS is in the Qik app on the HTC EVO. It is only common sense that Android phones with front facing cameras and the ability to two-way video chat, will be getting a Google variant, as well as Skype and AIM.

  • Tig Voo

    Im tellin ya dude, one day Google will rule the world. Just wait and see.

    Tig
    http://www.web-anonymity.cz.tc

  • http://carsandinsurance.com Carly

    Google is expanding so fast. The progress is amazing!

    • Arshad

      Progress is when you acquire a company and move forward with it by developing and integrating its expertise and property. Google on the other hand acquires a company and sits on it. How long has it been since Google bought GrandCentral and the rest of the world has not been able to get access to it other than the US.

      Mind you US is NOT the rest of the world…

      But on the other hand, I can only imagine the possibilities with all the companies Google has acquired.

  • http://www.techwatch.co.uk/ Techwatch

    its a bit of a concern just how many company’s in different niches Goggle is swallowing up

  • StevenHamburg
  • StevenHamburg
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