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Voice - Monday, June 25, 2007

We Almost Subscribed To Grand Central. Will Wait To See If Google Indeed Buys It.

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Just last week, we thought of subscribing to Grand Central - the one telephone number/one voice mail service startup that has been funded by CNET founder Halsey Minor. But today, Techcrunch is reporting that Google may have bought Grand Central. Time and again when the oligopoly buys such services, prices fall or go to free. So we are going to sit on the sidelines and see what happens.

Grand Central raised Series A at $4M in 2006 from Halsey Minor. So if Minor sells the company now at $20M its a sweet deal. And for Google, they would get another innovative product that makes people happy for not much money. Grand Central competes with 1Num and RingCentral but Grand Central gets better reviews.

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Read - Google To Acquire Grand Central (TechCrunch)

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