{"id":445,"date":"2006-11-01T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T04:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/11\/01\/google-acquires-web-applications-pioneer-jotspot\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T04:24:20","slug":"google-acquires-web-applications-pioneer-jotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/11\/01\/google-acquires-web-applications-pioneer-jotspot\/","title":{"rendered":"Google acquires Web applications pioneer JotSpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google Inc. <\/strong>bought <strong>JotSpot<\/strong>, a Silicon Valley start-up that helped pioneer the market for collaborative business software like <strong>online spreadsheets<\/strong>, in the latest move by the Web search leader <em>into territory dominated by Microsoft Corp.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Google&#8217;s Web site, JotSpot&#8217;s co-founder and chief executive, Joe Kraus, said his company agreed to the takeover following a growing push by <strong>Google to offer competing software<\/strong>. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. <\/p>\n<p>Three-year-old JotSpot had developed a series of online productivity software programs that offer many of the functions of Microsoft <strong>Office programs like Microsoft Word or Excel spreadsheets<\/strong>. But instead of running on individual computers, JotSpot applications are delivered as <strong>Web-based services<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Following the lead of companies like JotSpot, Mountain View, California-based Google entered the market this year by acquiring the <em>Writely word processor and introducing other Web-based applications such as Google Spreadsheets and Google Calendar.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.tech.yahoo.com\/061101\/137\/68yak.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc. bought JotSpot, a Silicon Valley start-up that helped pioneer the market for collaborative business software like online spreadsheets, in the latest move by the Web search leader into territory dominated by Microsoft Corp. In a statement on Google&#8217;s Web site, JotSpot&#8217;s co-founder and chief executive, Joe Kraus, said his company agreed to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-google","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}