Alphabet acquired Tonic Systems, a transaction completed in April 2007.
Tonic Systems operates in Productivity / Google Docs (presentations), is based in San Francisco, United States. Google acquired Tonic Systems, a San Francisco company that built Java-based presentation-automation and document-management tools. Google positioned the team and technology as a fit with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, and it became a building block for Google's online presentations product. The deal was described as officially closed at announcement.
Add presentation-automation technology and talent to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, supporting Google's push into online collaboration and a web-based presentations tool.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.