Google Acquires Zenter, Onlide SlideShow Builder

Google today made the acquisition announcement of Zenter, a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations. This acquisition is to help complete their upcoming Powerpoint/presentation application. The price wasn’t disclosed.

Google has been rumored to be creating an online Powerpoint clone since February. In April the rumors were confirmed by Eric Schmidt and then on the Google blog. As with the other applications in Google Docs & Spreadsheets, most of the technology seems to be imported. Google previously acquired Tonic Systems for their presentation technology.

Zenter was focusing on the front end of the application, as well as community/sharing features. It complements Tonic, which focused on the back end technology for converting powerpoint presentations into Java objects. Zenter takes a more social look at slide shows, letting users share their projects and incorporate content directly from the web, including Google Images.