Google announced the acquisition of mobile software vendor Quickoffice,
Inc. The firm’s software apps enable smartphone users to view, edit and create
documents compatible with the Microsoft Office suite. The Internet giant announced
the deal on its official blog but details of the transaction are not known yet.
The blog can be accessed here.
Quickoffice, launched in 1997 provides office document solutions
for devices running on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android OS, allowing users to
view and edit Microsoft Office files with complete document data integrity. The
company’s popular app has been downloaded on 300 million devices so far in 180
countries.
The acquisition adds to the growing rivalry between Google and
Microsoft. It will also take it to the next level. Google will surely make the
solution available on its Apps product suite, which acording to Google’s
engineering director Alan Warren is a leader in office productivity solutions.
Alan Warren commented “Today, consumers, businesses and
schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anywhere, with anyone and on any
device. Quickoffice has an established track record of enabling seamless
interoperability with popular file formats, and we’ll be working on bringing
their powerful technology to our Apps product suite,”
The Quickoffice site has the following posting on the acquisition,
Quickoffice co-founder and CEO Alan Masarek commented “When we embarked on our
mission to become the world leader in office productivity, we knew we were
taking on a huge challenge. We worked very hard to build Quickoffice as a user
friendly, seamless and yet powerful way to view, edit, sync and share documents
anywhere, anytime. It’s been a very humbling experience to see this vision
embraced by our users.”
He further added: “Now, we are ushering in a new chapter
with Google. By combining the magic of Google’s intuitive solutions with
Quickoffice’s powerful products, our shared vision for anytime, anywhere
productivity can only grow.”
Similar to the acquisition Meebo announced that it is going
to be acquired by Google very soon. Meebo is a startup which helps online
publishers connects their websites with social network sites.
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