Google Acquires PowerPoint Competitor


Google Acquires PowerPoint Competitor

Created: Saturday, April 21, 2007 posted by at 3:17 am

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Filling in a hole in its Google Apps suite, Google has acquired Tonic Systems, which provides a set of tools for the online editing, viewing, and sharing of presentations created with Microsoft PowerPoint. Tonic Systems describes itself as “Java PowerPoint Specialists.” Google says it will incorporate Tonic’s technology into a new presentation service that will be added this summer to Apps.

Google Acquires PowerPoint Competitor

Google Acquires PowerPoint Competitor

Read more on the Rough Type blog.

Several months ago, Indezine interviewed Chris Nokleberg of Tonic Systems for this blog. Read the interview here.




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