Google has acquired Quickoffice, an office suite for phones and other mobile devices. This comes a day after the California-based Internet giant announced its acquisition of Meebo.
Google said in its official blog, “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, in an announcement on its Web site, said, “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… 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 Quickoffice app costs $15-$20 and approximately 400 million devices are currently equipped with the app. It works on several types of devices, including Apple’s iPhone and iPad and those running Google’s Android software.