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Google acquires PowerPoint software firm

Josh Lowensohn CNET News.com

Published: 20 Jun 2007 15:21 BST

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Google has acquired Zenter, a small company that makes software for creating online slideshows.

Zenter joins Tonic Systems, another presentation-creation service Google bought back in April. Zenter first unveiled its service in mid-March and has stayed fairly quiet since. The service lets users import Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, as well as grab bits of content from the web for making presentations that can be viewed and shared in a web browser.

Users can also create their own live broadcasts, similar to many of the web-based PowerPoint competitors that have popped up in the past few years.

While Google hasn't announced a timeline of when we can expect to see the official presentation application, as of last week users of Google's Gmail service have been able to open attached PowerPoint files inside their message windows without having the software installed.

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