Google has acquired Quickoffice for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is being seen as a move to to bridge Google Apps & its mobile services aimed at business productivity. Quickoffice is known for its office productivity applications across the mobile platforms. Its office suite is available across platforms – Symbian, Android, iOS etc. , and allows users to create, edit – Ms Word, Power Point and Excel documents.
The news of this acquisitions comes immediately post Google’s acquisition of Meebo announced yesterday. Read: Google is acquiring silicon valley startup Meebo !
A statement by Alan Masarek (Co Founder & CEO – Quickoffice)
“We are delighted to announce that Quickoffice has been acquired by Google!
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.
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.
The journey has been nothing short of incredible. Our vision has only become bigger, and our commitment stronger. We wish to sincerely thank our users and supporters over the years; you have our eternal gratitude and we invite you all to join us in embracing this next chapter.”
Statement from Google Office Blog on the announcement:
“We’re happy to announce that we have acquired Quickoffice, a leader in office productivity solutions.
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.
Quickoffice has a strong base of users, and we look forward to supporting them while we work on an even more seamless, intuitive and integrated experience.
We’re excited to welcome the Quickoffice team and their users to Google.
Posted by Alan Warren, Engineering Director, Google”
