Google, which late last year dodged rumors it was developing productivity applications, can no longer make that claim as Thursday it acquired Writely, an online word processing application. While the ...

Google has acquired the online word processing company Writely in a move that could bring the search giant into even closer competition with Microsoft. The acquisition sees Google gain another ...

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.