Google Acquires Webfonts Presentation Developers: Zenter

[karamkshetra]

The official Google Blog announced today that Google had acquired Zenter, Inc., manufacturer of software which provides online presentation tools.

There appear to be at least two provisional patent applications applied for by the company, including one on WebFonts (a non-working demo page) which allows presentation authors to create, edit, and rotate text in an intuitive manner. A search through the US Patent and Trademark office doesn’t reveal these patents, which probably aren’t published yet.

They’ve bought this company Zenter ("a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations") to help complete their upcoming Powerpoint/presentation application. The price wasn’t disclosed still.

Zenter was focusing on the front end of the application, as well as community/sharing features. It complements Tonic, which focused on the back end technology for converting powerpoint presentations into Java objects. Zenter takes a more social look at slide shows, letting users share their projects and incorporate content directly from the web, including Google Images.


So that seems to complete Google Office.

Congratulations to Google!!!!

[jezza chan]

Another step towards controlling the internet.

[awiekupo]

Google Office? Any prediction when its going to be release?

[karamkshetra]

Originally Posted by awiekupo

Google Office? Any prediction when its going to be release?

Go and check http://docs.google.com/ and if you have login you can directly login there and you can find your Google Doc and Google Speadsheets (as of now)

[four27pm]

they always have ways to get what they want, if they can't buy it, they create their own... G really so far superior