Google has announced that they are purchasing Zenter. What does it mean to you? You are that much closer to using an equivalent to the Microsoft Office suite as an online service. Zenter offers an online service that allows its users to create PowerPoint like presentations.
This acquisition now gives Google the following in their office-like suite:
- Email client
- Calendar
- Word Processor
- Spreadsheet
- Notebook for reference notes
- Blogger to publish on the web
- Presentation development (Coming Soon)
This comes on the heels of the purchase of another PowerPoint type of presentation software company – Tonic.
You can read the official release on the official Google blog.
Here is Garett Roger’s take on it:
Google acquires Zenter for presentations by ZDNet‘s Garett Rogers — Obviously, online presentation tools are important for Google — they have been on a shopping spree for these types of services lately. Today they are announcing the acquisition of Zenter and about a month ago, the company du jour was Tonic. Tonic has spent much time figuring out how to be 100% binary […]