Google just turned Hangouts into a business app that might not totally suck

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Google has built, launched, and forgotten about so many chat platforms over the years that it's getting hard to keep track of them all. When the company has a new idea on the communications front, rather than build it into an existing app as an additional feature it usually just launches a whole new app. Last year Google launched two new communications apps called Allo and Duo, while it left its long-running Hangouts app drifting in the breeze. Today the company is announcing that it's finally paying Hangouts some attention, and it's doing so by splitting it in half and changing the way it works.

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