Google has set up an Irish-based software company that will allow users to place calls from their PCs in Europe.
The company will allow calling from within Gmail with Google Talk and will offer a voicemail replacement service. It will also have an international calls product that will allocate subscribers a phone number allowing them to route calls and receive text messages. The company, called Google Voice, made a pre-tax profits of more than €425,000 in the 18 months to the end of December last year.
Google announced last week it was setting up a new voice service through Gmail allowing US users of the email service to call numbers in the US and Canada for free from within their browsers. That service recorded a million calls in its first 24 hours.
Google recently announced it was hiring an extra 200 people in Dublin.