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Kool Tools: ObiTalk for Google Voice

Kool Tools: ObiTalk for Google Voice

Posted by | Sep 11, 2015 | , |

If you’re a Google Voice user, you’ll want to check out OBiTALK. But let’s back up.

Google Voice is a calling service provided free of charge to anyone in the U.S.  You get a free phone number and can make and receive calls for free to anyone in the U.S. or Canada.  International calls are even lower than using Skype even. Google Voice provides a U.S. phone number, chosen by the user from available numbers in selected area codes, free of charge to each user account.
 

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Google morphs into Alphabet, a company that will own Google

Google morphs into Alphabet, a company that will own Google

Posted by | Aug 11, 2015 | , |

On Aug. 10, Google announced plans to create a new public holding company, Alphabet Inc. and a new operating structure to increase management scale and focus on its consolidated businesses.

Under the new operating structure, its main Google business will include search, ads, maps, apps, YouTube and Android and the related technical infrastructure (the “Google business”). Businesses such as Calico, Nest, and Fiber, as well as its investing arms, such as Google Ventures and Google Capital, and incubator projects, such as Google X, will be managed separately from the Google business.

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Google: The biggest threat in mobile to hotels and airlines?

Posted by | Feb 12, 2015 | , |

According to the App Overlap Report Series published by the Strategy Analytics (www.strategyanalytics.com) research group, only 20% of those that use airline applications also use hotel applications leading to bifurcated trip planning.

According to the data gathered from the 1,500-plus user US AppOptix Android panel just 17% of travelers that used an airline app have also used a hotel app. The overlap between these services is considerably higher and the dynamic demonstrates a break in the experience.

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Crackdown on corporate tax avoidance in Australia could target Apple, Google, others

Posted by | Oct 3, 2014 | , |

Companies such as Apple and Google could soon have their accounts put under the microscope in Australia as part of a crackdown on corporate tax avoidance, according to CNET (http://tinyurl.com/pe65u9y).

The upper house of the Australian parliament voted to refer the matter to the Parliament’s Economics References Committee for inquiry, in order to address “tax avoidance and aggressive minimisation by corporations registered in Australia and multinational corporations operating in Australia.” The Committee is due to report back in June 2015.

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