Google Buys Company Behind Writerly

Posted on March 13, 2006

Google has acquired Upstartle, the company behind Writely, a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser. Following the acquisition a blogstorm erupted to discuss the development and what it means about for the future of the Internet and the computer desktop. It means that Google is now competing with Microsoft with office type tools at a minimum.

he move also has tech bloggers speculating what company Google will buy next to go along with Writerly. CyberNet Technology News speculates that Google might purchase iRows, a provider of online spreadsheet software.

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