Google once explored acquiring video meet app Zoom: Report

San Francisco: Google Cloud teams in 2018 explored to acquire California-based video meet app Zoom which has seen a definite surge in its popularity in social distancing times across the globe including in India.

According to a report in The Information citing people with direct knowledge of the situation, 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”.

Zoom was one of several companies the Google engineers evaluated, the report said on Monday.

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.