Five months after being bought by Google, the Writely online word-processing application is now open for anyone who wants to sign up and use it. Writely has been closed to all but its existing members ...

Search, maps, images, shopping and now office software — Google’s on the march and headed into the competitive territory dominated by Microsoft. The search giant this week purchased Silicon Valley ...

Writely allows users to store and work with text documents on the Web. Users can share selected documents with other Writely users of their choosing, enabling groups to collaboratively edit documents.

Showing that it's more than a little interested in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Internet, Google said Thursday that it has acquired Upstartle, maker of a Web-based word processor ...

Furthering its plan to challenge Microsoft, Google has purchased Writely, a Web-based word processor. Writely, in beta testing since last August, allows people to access and share their documents ...

Google has integrated its formerly separate spreadsheet and word processing applications, giving them a uniform user interface and a unified document repository. By creating a common platform, Google ...