Filed under: Office, Web services, Google
Google inches closer to online slideshows with Zenter acquisition
Why develop a new web-based tool for your arsenal when you can afford to just buy a company already working on the problem? And why stop at one, when you could buy two?It's no secret that Google is developing and online PowerPoint clone/killer to add to its suite of online office tools. In April, the company acquired online presentation company Tonic Systems. And now the company has picked up Zenter as well.
Zenter was working on its own online slideshow application, which was in private beta before the website went dark and was replaced with a notice that "Google has acquired Zenter." Back in March, TechCrunch described Zenter as PowerPoint, with the added ability to add web images and other content to presentations.
Last week, Google added a new slideshow viewer to Gmail, allowing you to view PowerPoint email attachments online. But there's still no publicly available Google service for creating presentations.
[via CNet]
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