Google Acquires EtherPad Developer AppJet for Wave Team

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 4, 2009 - 10:47am.

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has acquired AppJet, the developer of an online collaborative word processor application called EtherPad, according to a posting on EtherPad's blog.

The team behind San Francisco-based AppJet will join the development team working on Wave, Google's real-time communication application.

AppJet said that current EtherPad users will be supported through March 31, 2010, at which time their creations will be deleted.

AppJet had to date raised around $700,000 in funding.

http://www.appjet.com

https://wave.google.com/wave