Google has bought video conferencing software from Marratech AB, a Stockholm-based vendor, and hired the engineers involved with the software.

For now, Google plans to use the software internally, as a tool for its employees, the spokesman said, declining to speculate whether Google might later try to market the technology or integrate it into one of its commercial products.

Should Google decide to market or integrate the technology into its products, the move would be seen as another in a string of recent steps taking Google into the sphere of collaborative work tools.

Google Buys European Video Software Company [pcadvisor.co.uk]

Is Google planning videoconferencing? It seem crazy to buy a videoconferencing company just for internal purposes.