Founders of Israeli spreadsheet company iRows join Google

By: Elinor Mills
Topics: Google

The founders of iRows, a provider of a browser-based spreadsheet service, are joining Google, the company said.

"Google has not acquired iRows, however, iRows founders Yoah Bar-david and Itai Raz have joined Google," according to a Google spokeswoman. "We are excited to have engineers with their talent join us in our growing Tel Aviv and Haifa R&D centers. iRows will continue to support its customers until the end of the year."

The iRows founders reported the news on their company blog.

"Being at Google will allow us to continue doing what we love to do best but on a much larger scale. There is a lot of exciting work at Google waiting for us," the blog posting says, before detailing how to migrate iRows spreadsheets over to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Google is making aggressive moves into the online productivity application area. A few weeks ago, Google bought JotSpot, a company with a system for building collaborative Web pages called wikis.

Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press.
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by redbeard630 January 31, 2010 11:06 AM EST: I think this is the real message of this vote. Many voters including myself are not happy about the current party politics and are starting to realize that we can do something about it by making a statement in our voting. Just this morning I heard a republican say on Face the Nation that "the country doesn't want health care reform". It may be true that there is a large number of people that don't want reform. But it is also true that there are people who want health care reform and just didn't like the options that were presented. But to say that the country doesn't want it, means that this particular politician doesn't consider me part of the country, because I do want it. Now because of an exclusionary statement like that, I don't want him! I don't want any politician who feels that only those who agree with them are worth considering as part of this country. And I hope the people continue to vote people like this out of office, from state governments all the way to president. The American populus has had enough!!; Reply to this comment


by lakota2012 January 29, 2010 4:38 PM EST: by sjc_1:
The Democrats have had a real majority since January 2009, one year ago. To expect everything to be fixed in one year when it took 8 years to destroy is not realistic. Especially when you have the Party of NO stopping the repair process.
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While I certainly agree that expecting everything to be fixed in one year from the total mess that took even longer than the past 8 years to make, is totally ridiculous.

The other point is, that despite the 2008 election giving the Dems a theoretical super majority with the 2 Independents (not sure how I'd classify turncoat Joe) the GOP held up Franken for over 6 months, and he didn't even get seated due to the MN tricks until last summer!; Reply to this comment


by lakota2012 January 29, 2010 4:26 PM EST: by ComLink:
"My prediction is this will be a huge trend of demands for smaller government, fiscal responsibility (no money out unless the money's there to spend), and actual integrity and transparency.

Seems pretty simple to me. No?"
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Actually, NO! Not simple at all, especially knowing what we know today, compared to back just 10 years ago when bush pushed his tax cuts to spend the Clinton surplus. So far, the bush tax cuts have cost us $2 Trillion in lost federal revenue, driving budget deficits through the roof while spending also increased.

My point is, that many on the right will be extremely upset to know that we must let the bush tax cuts sunset to increase our revenue back to at least 2000 amounts. Remember, we had about $226 Billion in surplus in 2001 before bush/cheney got their hands on it, and that was before TWO WARS, Medicare Part D and a doubling of health care costs -- all driving each year's budget deficits higher -- and not even taking into account other spending increases.

So my point is, there is no way we can address spiraling budget deficits each and every year from now, until we turn back the clock on reduced federal revenue as well as spiraling health care costs, which means letting the bush tax cuts sunset and address real health care reform. Anything else is just partisan rhetoric and useless!; Reply to this comment


by lakota2012 January 29, 2010 3:53 PM EST: by nevadarose:
"I respectfully suggest they might want to consider my seven point Bipartisan plan that includes all the key issues of the left, right, and center."
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While you have definitely combined ideas, many have to be taken a bit further to fully understand the complexities of the problem.

Tort reform (or capping medical malpractice suits) will only be beneficial to the medical malpractice insurance industry, and also needs to cap their rates at a fraction of the current cost. Also, just like your other transparencies, we need to hold those doctors making the mistakes accountable, since their peers protect them now, and not e very doctor graduated at the top of his/her class. Removing those doctors from the system is imperitive to lowering mistakes in the medical field.

Selling insurance across state lines has been thrown out there for years by the GOP without any documentation in savings, especially knowing that the largest insurance companies in almost every state (some up to 85-90% monopoly in a particular state) is a form of BC/BS. How can one BC/BS in one state offer lower rates to residents in another state when they also have a BC/BS monopoly? I would also think that each state's insurance networking with providers would be non-existent in a different state, and this would add to the confusion.

Also, just requiring coverage to those with pre-existing conditions hardly caps the price of that same coverage. High deductibles, high copays, yearly and lifetime caps are all part of the problem of soaring health care costs that also need to be addressed, as long as we have a for-profit insurance/pharmaceutical nightmare.

Also....how about negotiating price and allowing importation of pharmaceuticals for better competition?; Reply to this comment


by lakota2012 January 29, 2010 3:27 PM EST: "Three-fourths of his voters said they wanted him to work with the other side."

"My own take is the vote for Brown was not so much a vote for or against policy or party, as it was a vote against the process itself."
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by steeepe:
"They want Brown to work with Democrats to get Republican ideas into law? The GOP has been devastating to the country. Who would want more? The GOP is dug in against any and all Democratic policies. The voters of Massachusetts endorsed a few more years of paralysis in DC. Way to go! I can't figure out if Americans are becoming dumber or are plagued by more and more dementia among older voters."
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Yep....I'm inclined to agree, that these MA voters are completely delusional or dementia has set in, if they 'think' that giving the GOP a 41st vote in the Senate will solve the D.C. gridlock. The GOP has filibustered every single piece of legislation until the Dems got the super majority just for a few months. Remember, even though they won 58 seats in 2008, it took over 6 months to seat Franken from MN.

While bi-partisanship is a nice thought, and was even tried in the Senate Finance Committee last year with the "gang of six," it just dragged-out the health care legislation that still never got even one GOP vote. While the GOP whines that they have been left out in the cold in all current legislation, they did the same thing back just a few years ago, and did their negotiating behind closed doors too! As a matter of fact, they kept the vote open all night long to twist arms and cut deals, when the Medicare Part D bill was finally passed -- a bill that has added to the budget deficit each and every year, and now is estimated at $18 Trillion in unfunded future liability.; Reply to this comment


by Empire-George- January 25, 2010 7:42 PM EST: by sjc_1 January 25, 2010 2:01 PM EST

I have said that the Republicans ruin everything and the Democrast have to fix it.
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Your idea of "fixing" a mess, is to drive an out-of-control garbage truck down to Washington, and dump the contents on the floor of Congess, and say "we are cleaning up the mess"....we are "fixing" things.....while everyone in America gazes at the heap of trash, that is Liberalism !; Reply to this comment


by Empire-George- January 25, 2010 7:39 PM EST: by sjc_1 January 25, 2010 1:59 PM EST

As soon as the Party of NO starts helping
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"Starts helping".....(laughing)

You and your arrogant Democrat Liberals spent the past year, claiming how "Irrelevant" the Republicans were, and how they will be out of power for decades to come, the people rejected Conservatives and republicans...the Democrats in congress shut-out all Republican input, and did all deals behind closed doors without Republicans

and....NOW you want them to "start helping" ? Go pound salt lib, we will be "helping" when we achieve a decent majority in the House and Senate, or until the Democrat show Real bi-partisan ship,instead of arrogance and get sober from them being drunk with power....until then....NO thanks; Reply to this comment

by thesevenveils January 25, 2010 8:13 AM EST

Here is the logic:
Ted Kennedy, was a bipartisan. For those on the hard right, B I P A R T I S A N! That is the voice of Massachusetts. And Scott Brown presented himself as that kind of purpose, putting the good of the country before the good of the party. He did that much better than is adversary.
Now it is time to see if he walks the walk.

But in his first public apperance he stated: I have not read the health care bill and I do not like it. I will read the health care bill and not like it more. This statement is hard line Republican. It is hoped he is not another wolf in sheeps clothing.

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by sjc_1 January 25, 2010 1:59 PM EST: As soon as the Party of NO starts helping and stops throwing stones, we can make progress. You can not reason with people that are unreasonable. They will continue to obstruct and foot drag while the economy and people suffer.

by hillarynow January 25, 2010 7:05 AM EST

In Obama's defense, the obnoxious, bloated, incompetent Republicans that all created the mess we Democrats inherited from Bush's utter disaster administration and majority in the House and Senate, have nothing to be proud of, absolutely, nothing.. The minute the Dems slip some you see the true colors of the Republicans come right out, ignorant, clueless, obnoxious and self righteous, as if, they've ever done anything good for America or this economy. This recent Republican attitude is no different than when Bush ran things into the ground for 8 years. Though the Dems have screwed this up some and put the health care cart before the economy horse, there is plenty of time to turn things around. For the sake of America, they had better get it right now that they have been sent this wake up call, because God knows the Republicans surely won't ever get it right, they never have and never will, that's a given. A few things need to happen now, get out of Iraq and stop wasting money on that non sense war Bush created, find creative ways to get American business and the economy thriving once again, get employment going in the right direction and get the unnecessary spending and out of control lack of regulation under control. One thing I'd like to see is some very strict oversight of exactly how every last dime of the stimulus is being spent. Biden could be a huge help there in making sure the bulk of it is being put into permanent job creation and getting the economy and businesses back online.

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by retm-w January 25, 2010 9:28 AM EST: Democrats inherited the mess, they knew the problems. Now quit blaming and whinning, do what you said you were going to do fix it.


by sjc_1 January 25, 2010 2:01 PM EST: I have said that the Republicans ruin everything and the Democrast have to fix it. That one of these times the Wrong Wing would ruin everything so much that NO one could fix it. We are close to that condition right now.


by thesevenveils January 25, 2010 5:23 AM EST: Here is the logic:
Ted Kennedy, was a bipartisan. For those on the hard right, B I P A R T I S A N! That is the voice of Massachusetts. And Scott Brown presented himself as that kind of purpose, putting the good of the country before the good of the party. He did that much better than is adversary.
Now it is time to see if he walks the walk.

But in his first public apperance he stated: I have not read the health care bill and I do not like it. I will read the health care bill and not like it more. This statement is hard line Republican. It is hoped he is not another wolf in sheep's clothing.; Reply to this comment