Box acquires Crocodoc to turn all those docs you upload into HTML5 masterpieces

File-sharing company Box acquired Crocodoc today, which gives people a way to turn documents into smooth, HTML5 experiences.

Microsoft releases ‘Bing Apps for Office’ to transform your documents into something much more like the web

Microsoft's new Office 365 is cloud-integrated, saving documents up to SkyDrive right as you save them on your PC. Now, with five new Bing-powered apps, Microsoft is bringing the power of the cloud back down into your local document.

Google Docs pioneer Sam Schillace joins Box as VP of Engineering

Today, I found myself privy to the first meeting between Box's CEO, Aaron Levie, and his new vice president of engineering, Sam Schillace.

KnowledgeTree takes a few mill to bring businesses better document tools

KnowledgeTree, a company that does business-specific cloud-based document management, has just taken a $4.75 million round of funding from a collection of East Coast and international VCs.

KnowledgeTree isn’t quite like Google Docs; rather, it has some very specific tools …

Microsoft rolls out Office 365 for Government, notes privacy concerns

Not only is Microsoft serious about the cloud, but it’s also serious about keeping its customers in the government happy. acknowledges

Today the company announced a new version of its cloud-based document software suite Office 365 for Government. Essentially, government …

Google Docs puts design font and center

Google added a whopping collection of 450 fonts to its online document service Google Docs today — thus freeing your text from years of enslavement by the likes of Arial, Courier New, and the universally reviled Comic Sans.

Well, you …

Crocodoc’s new cloud-based document service abolishes the need for desktop apps

Downloading a PDF or Microsoft Office file from the web is easily one of the more antiquated practices still being used today. It’s also something cloud document startup Crocodoc wants to abolish with its new HTML5 document embedding service, which …

Yammer buys OneDrum for Microsoft Office social integration

Business-focused social network Yammer has acquired document collaboration startup OneDrum, the companies jointly announced today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Yammer provides companies with their own private social network that employees use to quickly communicate and update …

Google about to make Google Docs into a virtual hard drive called Google Drive

Google appears to be close to rebranding its online document service, Google Docs, as a virtual hard drive in the cloud.

A blurry screenshot (shown above) snapped by blogger and social media consultant Johannes Wigand appears to show a slightly …

Legal document site LegalZoom raises $66M

Online legal document repository LegalZoom has raised $66 million in its most recent round of funding.

LegalZoom is an online service that helps people find and fill out legal documents. That can include documents to create a last will and …

Scribd’s Float app will replace your news apps

Online document sharing site Scribd announced today that it is releasing Float, a mobile application that pulls content from news and content websites and lays it out in a homogenous reading format.

“The things online that you read aren’t just …