{"id":70149,"date":"2014-10-03T08:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=70149"},"modified":"2014-10-03T08:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:17:06","slug":"google-to-launch-new-mobile-messaging-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/70149\/google-to-launch-new-mobile-messaging-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to launch new mobile messaging app?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software giant Google Inc plans to launch a mobile messaging app it is likely to test in India and other emerging markets, the Economic Times newspaper reported on Friday, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>The daily said Google was in the early stages of development of the app, which will not make it mandatory to use a Google login.<\/p>\n<p>If launched, the mobile app will compete in the mobile chat space with the likes of WhatsApp, Line and Hike.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain View, California-based company is also looking at localization, by adding Indian language support and voice-to-text messaging, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>A Google spokeswoman said the company did not comment on speculation.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Google data requests increase\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/68524\/google-data-requests-increase\/\"><strong>Google data requests increase<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Takealot makes a loss on R27,000 Google Glass\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/67598\/takealot-makes-a-loss-on-r27000-google-glass\/\"><strong>Takealot makes a loss on R27,000 Google Glass<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software giant Google Inc plans to launch a mobile messaging app it is likely to test in India and other emerging markets, the Economic Times newspaper reported on Friday, citing sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,53,189],"class_list":["post-70149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-google","tag-mobile-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70161,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70149\/revisions\/70161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}