Google once evaluated options to acquire video meeting app Zoom: Report

Citing privacy and security concerns, Google has banned Zoom for its employees across offices, and promotes its own unified enterprise communication app Meets

In 2018, Google Cloud team explored options to acquire California-based video meet app Zoom, which has climbed in popularity during social distancing times across the globe, including 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