{"id":1763,"date":"2011-01-16T01:50:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T20:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aasims.wordpress.com\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:31:32","slug":"google-acquires-ebook-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/google-acquires-ebook-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Acquires eBook Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Google has just acquired\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ebooktechnologies.com\/\">eBook Technologies<\/a>, according to a notice that is currently appearing on the company\u2019s homepage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Google confirmed the acquisition, with a spokesperson giving us this statement:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/screen-shot-2011-01-12-at-4-10-00-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"71\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are happy to welcome eBook Technologies\u2019 team to Google. Together, we hope to deliver richer reading experiences on tablets, electronic readers and other portable devices.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">And this notice can be found at eBook Technologies web site;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>eBook Technologies, Inc. is excited to announce that we have been acquired by Google. Working together with Google will further our commitment to providing a first-class reading experience on emerging tablets, e-readers and other portable devices.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">In my personal view, it seems to me that google is jumping into eBook reading device race; After a successful product of <a title=\"Amazon Kindle\u00a0\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/16\/amazon-kindle\/\">Kindle by Amazon<\/a>, Google now going to introduce something in this area; The <a title=\"Apple iPad\u00a0Tablet\" href=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/29\/apple-ipad-tablet\/\">iPad from Apple<\/a> is a big giant in this race; Let see what google is trying by acquiring this firm;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s08.flagcounter.com\/count\/ksm\/bg=FFFFFF\/txt=000000\/border=FFFFFF\/columns=6\/maxflags=200\/viewers=0\/labels=1\/pageviews=1\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"free counters\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has just acquired\u00a0eBook Technologies, according to a notice that is currently appearing on the company\u2019s homepage. Google confirmed the acquisition, with a spokesperson giving us this statement: \u201cWe are happy to welcome eBook Technologies\u2019 team to Google. Together, we hope to deliver richer reading experiences on tablets, electronic readers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[360,436,445,550,641],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-ebook-technologies","tag-google","tag-google-has-just-acquired-ebook-technologies","tag-ipad-from-apple","tag-kindle-by-amazon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}