From TechCrunch:
Google Takes Out Ajax Spreadsheet iRows
A popular Hebrew blog is reporting that the two founders of Israeli startup iRows have been hired by Google. Along with ZohoSheet and NumSum, iRows is one of a few online Ajax spreadsheets that competes with Google’s own Excel-clone. The blog reports that the founders will retain the intellectual property in iRows, but that the site will be shut down.
If this is accurate, the deal is a mirror of the Google-Gtalkr deal from May 2006, where the founders, brothers Wes and Dudley Carr, joined Google and agreed to close the site down.
This is a shame. iRows was one of the best online spreadsheets out there. Now there are fewer choices for people, and that’s bad.
[tags]irows, google, techcrunch[/tags]