For productivity, Amazon now uses OfficeSuite instead of Quickoffice, since the latter company was recently acquired by Google.
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Both tablets are looking to appeal to business types, with QuickOffice, Evernote and Twonky (that means DLNA-compatible streaming) all pre-installed.
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The company announced 10 deals in 2012, buying Incentive Targeting, Viewdle, Nik Software, VirusTotal, Wildfire Interactive, Sparrow, Quickoffice, Meebo, TxVia and Milk Inc.
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In the meantime, QuickOffice has been growing handily because it gets the App Internet any device, anywhere, anytime using a native app.
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If you want to read or edit Microsoft Office formats on your iPad or Android phone or whatever, you can do it with QuickOffice.
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In three clicks you can have your doc ported over to QuickOffice, Dropbox, Box.net, Evernote or whatever other document viewing program you like to use.
Nook Color has several apps that already come with the device (Pandora Internet radio, QuickOffice, etc.) and hundreds of other apps are available for download.
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Past examples include Quickoffice Pro, SwiftKey X and Angry Birds Rio.
Much like Microsoft Word had a model for GUI-based word processing in MacWrite, touch-optimized office suites have been developed by or snapped up by Microsoft's competitors, including Apple ( iWork), Google ( QuickOffice) and RIM ( Docs To Go).
That has led consumers and information workers and sometimes entire enterprises (in the case of one life sciences company with 15, 000 iPads deployed, for example) to use QuickOffice to access and edit the critical documents they need on their tablets.
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Some exits in recent years include 3PAR Data, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard, Ankeena, which was acquired by Juniper Networks, Quickoffice, which was acquired by Google, Redbeacon, which was acquired by The Home Depot and Wichorus, which was acquired by Tellabs.
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