Dropbox's collaboration tool opens up to everyone, gets new apps

Dropbox's new productivity software is getting a big update.

The company has been testing Paper, a new Google Docs-like tool, since last year when they quietly introduced something known as Project Composer in the spring. The collaboration tool was later dubbed Paper and the initial testing group has slowly expanded since. 

Now, it appears Paper is closer than ever to being ready for primetime as Dropbox announced it's opening up the beta to all users and releasing two new mobile apps for the service.

As we noted in our first hands-on last year, Paper is a bit like a mashup of Google Docs and Medium. It's centered around real-time collaboration but it also has formatting and editing tools. You can also easily embed things like Pinterest boards, SoundCloud files and even strings of code within your document. Read more...