Google has acquired Upstartle, the Silicon Valley-based maker of online word processor Writely. It gives Google yet another tool in its kit of applications to take on Microsoft — and brush aside its ...

Microsoft Word has been there for all those who scribble away each day on a digital canvas until Google, the apparent heir, came up with a cloud-based solution. The company’s word processor is ...

Following Microsoft's announcement of Office Live Workplace, Adobe is turning up the heat in the online office software market with the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity, the maker of online word ...

In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...