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Google buys mobile office productivity company QuickOffice

Categories: Android
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
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Google announced on Tuesday that it is acquiring mobile office productivity company QuickOffice. Alan Warren, Engineering Director for Google, writes,

“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.”

It will be interesting to see how Google integrates this popular mobile office solution into its Google Apps platform.  As a Google Docs user, I would welcome a new set of tools for editing documents from my mobile device.

[Via Google]

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Kelly Hodgkins

Kelly spent the last four years covering mobile technology at places like BGR, Gizmodo and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Before writing, she spent a few years working with and teaching others how to use Adobe Flash and Macromedia Director. Even earlier than that, she spent several years as a Ph.D student in Microbiology. When she's not writing, she can be found fishing the lakes and hiking the mountains of Western Maine with her husband and tribe of children. You can follow her on Twitter @kellyhodgkins.

  • http://jordanhotmann.com/ Jordan Hotmann

    Maybe now editing spreadsheets on a mobile device won’t be such an abysmal experience.

  • http://www.informedpro.com/ Ken Richardson

    I use quick office all the time! Good to know Google likes it too!