According to reports, in 2018, Google Cloud teams explored to acquire video meet app Zoom which has seen a definite surge in its popularity in social distancing times across the globe including in India.
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The reports state that the internal discussions didn't get very far but a group of Google Cloud engineers "evaluated what would be a reasonable price to pay and calculated the unit economics for the service if it ran on Google's servers".
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Zoom was one of several companies the Google engineers evaluated. A Google spokesperson was quoted as saying that the tech giant never "seriously evaluated" acquiring Zoom and has never had a large-scale agreement for employees to use Zoom.
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Citing privacy and security concerns, Google has banned Zoom for its employees across offices, and promotes its own app unified enterprise communication app Meets.
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Google is adding roughly 3 million new users on Meets daily and have seen a 30-fold increase in usage since January. According to Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, there are now over 100 million daily Meet meeting participants.
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