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Dropbox Adds Document Scanning, Creation Tools in Corporate Push
Dropbox Inc. unveiled tools for scanning documents using a smartphone camera and for creating new Microsoft Office documents with the click of a button, as the file-storage company pushes into new parts of the corporate cloud-services market... Dropbox is trying to expand from file-syncing and sharing into the far larger market of cloud-based collaboration.
Dropbox unveils document tools to lure business customers
Dropbox, once one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing consumer tech companies, has shifted its focus fully towards business customers with a new set of tools for workers — in the latest sign that start-ups are seeking more sustainable business models... This new move to turn Dropbox into an online productivity tool for workers comes shortly after the company said it had become free cash flow positive — an important financial milestone that means it does not consume cash apart from spending on capital investment.
Dropbox Announces New Tools To Make Collaboration Easier For Businesses
On Wednesday, the company announced a number of updates to Dropbox for Business based on that user research. The new features and services are designed to help teams be more collaborative and, consequently, more productive. "People have more ways than ever to create and capture information," says Cristen Torrey, head of design research at Dropbox. "We’ve seen the hoops that people jump through just to do something as simple as turn a piece of paper, like a receipt or owner’s manual, into something that they can archive and share."
Dropbox enhances its productivity tools across the board
Dropbox just dumped a ton of new productivity features on users of its file storage and collaboration service that are all aimed at making it easier for people to get work done within its applications. Updates to the Dropbox app for iOS allow users to scan documents directly into the cloud storage service, and get started with creating Microsoft Office files from that app as well. These launches mean that Dropbox will be more valuable to people as a productivity service, and not just a folder to hold files.
Dropbox CEO Pushes Toward Profitability in a ‘Post-Unicorn Era’
Drew Houston, Dropbox's chief executive officer, now declares that we're "entering the post-unicorn era." Unicorn startups, those valued at $1 billion or more, will need to focus on creating healthier businesses as venture capital and other sources of private-market funds dry up, he said Tuesday onstage at the Bloomberg Technology Conference in San Francisco... Houston said Dropbox is free-cash-flow positive but not yet profitable.
Dropbox CEO: We Can Go Public on Our Own Timeline [Video]
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston discusses the company's IPO plans and his outlook for the future. He speaks with Emily Chang at the Bloomberg Technology Conference in San Francisco on "Bloomberg Markets."
Dropbox says it is cash flow positive, in no rush to IPO
It’s been two years since Dropbox, which is backed top venture firms including Sequoia and Benchmark, has raised a private fundraising round. But Houston insists that despite negative publicity surrounding the company’s finances, they have enough money in the bank to stick around. Houston claimed that Dropbox has been cash flow positive, emphasizing that this milestone for a business “means you control your destiny. Instead of being funded by your investors, you’re funded by your customers.”
Collaboration makes flexible workers happier
Dropbox has revealed collaborative technologies are making employees happier in the workplace, whether or not they have the ability to work from home. Of the 710 UK decision makers and information workers surveyed, 81 per cent of those already using collaboration tools in a flexible working environment are happy in their job, while this dropped to 67 per cent for employees who are able to work from home, but don't have access to collaboration tools.
HP Enterprise, Dropbox Team Up to Help Each Other Expand
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Dropbox Inc., two prominent companies operating in separate spheres of computing, are teaming up to help each other expand their business. The companies disclosed on Tuesday that HP Enterprise was the hardware supplier behind a shift in Dropbox’s technology strategy. HP Enterprise modified some of its standard computers to help Dropbox store customer data in its own facilities, part of a more than two-year effort to end the file-sharing service’s reliance on Amazon Web Services by moving the data in-house.
Dropbox steps ups European commitment with local signing
Dropbox has announced the appointment of Philip Lacor, who will act as the new VP for EMEA Sales, based out of the Dublin office. The company has been making notable efforts in recent months to increase its presence in the European market, capitalizing on free-user growth in the region. Aside from Lacor’s appointment, Dropbox has opened offices in Hamburg, Dublin, London, Paris and Amsterdam, as well offering localized payment models in 12 European countries to increase the number of upgrades to the paid-for services.
The Dropbox approach versus Box [Video]
Global Vice President of Revenue for Dropbox Thomas Hansen, discusses the battle for cloud storage.
How Dropbox Moved 500PB Of Customer Files Off AWS
Over the last two-and-a-half years, Dropbox has been migrating its customers' files off the Amazon cloud. The files have moved from an Amazon data center to one of two storage centers run by Dropbox. The San Francisco-based company had been running on Amazon Web Services Simple Storage System since it was founded in 2007. It had 500 million customers and 500 petabytes of data by the time it started the migration. Dropbox needed to pay particular attention to the way it was going to provide the storage networking that would serve all those customers.
Dropbox had a 'no mistakes' policy with a ticking clock as it moved off Amazon
When Dropbox finally finished its two-and-a-half-year-long "Magic Pocket" project in October of 2015, the team paused for a quick champagne toast. And then it was right back to work. Over those two-plus years, Dropbox had designed and built its own storage systems - codenamed Diskotech (get it?) - and moved 500 petabytes (that's 500 million gigabytes) of stored data from the $8 billion Amazon Web Services cloud into its own data centers.
Dropbox Strengthens Mobile Support, Gets Closer to IBM
Since former Microsoft sales exec Thomas Hansen joined Dropbox last July to lead global sales and partnership strategy, his team has been busy. Last fall it inked a series of international distribution deals—including a corporate sales arrangement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE -2.78% —and moved even closer to several influential business software companies that could help make its cloud file-sharing service more attractive to businesses. As of Wednesday, it is adding another big name, IBM to the ranks of its closest allies. IBM is now officially a Dropbox Premier Partner, along with the likes of Adobe, Dell, DocuSign, Microsoft, Salesforce, and VMware.
CIO interview: Cloud a necessity at News Corp
The company has rolled out Dropbox to 25,000 users and before rolling it out, says [CIO Dominic] Shine, “7,000 business users had brought their personal Dropbox accounts to work and were starting to use Dropbox for work purposes”... Shine says it is far better to embrace the technology that employees are already using and put the necessary information security measures around it. For Shine, IT needs to be open-minded about shadow IT.
Dropbox’s Magic Pocket with James Cowling [Podcast]
For the past three years, Dropbox has been working on a project to migrate its file storage from Amazon Web Services to its own custom built infrastructure. Magic Pocket is the name of Dropbox’s new infrastructure layer, and it gives Dropbox more control and improved economics. James Cowling leads the storage team at Dropbox. On today’s episode, James takes us into the architecture of Dropbox and explains how the team moved all of the user file storage from Amazon S3 to Dropbox’s Magic Pocket infrastructure.
Find, Vet and Close the Best Product Managers
Todd Jackson has been a part of product organizations across some of the best companies in the Valley, from Google to Facebook to Twitter, after it acquired his own startup, Cover. Now VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, he’s worked with hundreds of product managers — and hired dozens — over the course of his career... In this interview, Jackson explains how startups can define the type of PMs they need, source candidates, ask the right interview questions — and, perhaps most importantly, convince them to come work for you.
Dropbox goes off to college with new Education service
Dropbox launched a new service on Tuesday to help graduate students, college faculty and staff collaborate on files while they’re at school. Schools can now pay $50 per user, per year for Dropbox Education, a version of the cloud storage company’s premium offering for organizations that’s tailored to the cost-sensitive education market. Dropbox is trying to sell more paid services, but its offerings have been aimed primarily at businesses. Dropbox Education will cost much less than the company's business plans, which typically run from $150 to $300 per user, per month.
Dropbox launches Education offering, costs $49 per user per year
Cloud file syncing and sharing service Dropbox today is announcing the launch of Dropbox Education, a version of the service tailored to educational institutions. The offering is similar to the Dropbox Business tier of service in many respects, although there are a few differences. Dropbox Education will cost $49 per user per year, and volume discounts are available, Dropbox Education director of education Jason Katcher wrote in a blog post.
Dropbox takes another step into the office
Dropbox, the cloud-storage company, has made a new assault on the business market with products for companies looking to shed old expensive IT equipment and bring the ease of consumer technology to the office. Dennis Woodside, chief operating officer of Dropbox, said the company, which is adding ten million new users a month, is infiltrating the office as workers use personal accounts for work purposes... The company has launched Project Infinite, which enables a business to move all of its data to Dropbox’s servers and give employees access from their desktops.
Qualcomm's Paul Jacobs joins Dropbox board
In a high-profile appointment, Dropbox said it has added Qualcomm executive chairman Paul Jacobs to its board. The addition is an important one for the San Francisco-based file storage and sharing company, which has been under pressure as competition from huge rivals such as Google and Amazon has increased, even as its valuation has decreased. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston touched on the need to have some additional experience in battling big companies.
Dropbox’s Ease Of Use Is ‘Essential’ To Attracting More UK Businesses
Dropbox believes that making its cloud platform as easy to use as possible will help it sign up more European businesses as customers. The company held its first European customer event in London this week and claims that since it opened its office in the capital 18 months ago, business has grown tenfold. In three weeks’ time, it will move to larger premises to accommodate the growth.
Expedia supports global workforce collaboration for 18,000 users with Dropbox cloud file storage, eyes Project Infinite
Up until nine months ago, approximately 10,000 Expedia staff had been using Dropbox on an individual basis to share files. Speaking at Dropbox Open in London yesterday, Chris Burgess, VP of IT at Expedia, said that the company has now completed the deployment of Dropbox Business for its entire workforce. Burgess moved these 10,000 accounts over “seamlessly”, enabling central management of accounts by IT staff. "We have offices around the world and employees collaborating, so they work closely together across locations and use tools like Dropbox to simplify that very easily," said Burgess.
Dropbox’s latest idea could change the way you think about cloud storage
Today at the Dropbox Open conference in London, the company announced Project Infinite with the goal of giving business customers local access to files no matter where they live — in the cloud, on network drives or local drives. In practice, this means when you open Windows Explorer or OSX Finder, you will have access to all of your Dropbox files without having to store them on your drive... We’ll just have to wait for GA for more definitive answers to those questions. In the meantime, Dropbox has solved a big cloud storage problem, and it’s about time.
Dropbox wants to stretch desktop file storage to infinity
Dropbox has a futuristic vision for how its users will be able to share massive files and have quick access to them on their computers, without their hard drives overflowing. The cloud storage company announced a new initiative at its Open conference in London on Tuesday called Project Infinite. It's a push to create a new Dropbox interface that allows users to see all of the files they've stored in the cloud in their computer's file explorer without requiring them to keep local copies of each document, image, spreadsheet or other file.
Davidson College chooses Dropbox over rival services
North Carolina's Davidson College has chosen to implement Dropbox as its collaboration platform to replace its legacy on-premise solution and reduce costs. The college decided to roadtest Dropbox, Box for Higher Education, Google Drive for Education, and Microsoft OneDrive in order to find the solution most suitable for staff and students and most cost-effective for the education establishment's budget. To test the four services, the college's IT department uploaded a 112GB file set to each service to see how they performed. According to the tests, Dropbox was the only service that actually completed the upload and managed to do so in hours. The other three services cancelled it after trying for five days.
Using Cloud Technology in Rare Disease Research: Interview with CEGIR Principal Investigator
"Patient security is a top concern, which is why we decided to use Dropbox to distribute the samples as the service supports HIPAA compliance. This was especially important to the NIH, who fully supports our virtual workflow system and use of Dropbox once they saw the time and cost savings it helps us achieve." – Dr. Marc E. Rothenberg, MD, PhD, director at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and principal investigator at the Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers (CEGIR).
How Dropbox Is Changing The Music Business
In fact, Dropbox’s newfound positioning as a tool for media professionals comes at a time when the company is rapidly expanding its enterprise presence as a whole, adding as many as 25,000 new business users per quarter. On a higher level, the enterprise collaboration market is forecast to grow from $47.3 billion in 2014 to $70.61 billion in 2019, and will likely see particular growth in creative industries as collaborative teams grow in both influence and size.
You can now share Dropbox files directly in Facebook Messenger
Dropbox has launched a new feature that allows you to share photos, videos, and other files directly with people you’re chatting with on Facebook Messenger. The feature is available within Messenger’s iOS and Android apps, and you can either share directly through the messaging app or right from Dropbox.
Dropbox Extends Reach with New Ingram Micro Distribution Agreement
Ingram Micro channel partners in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand can now offer Dropbox file sharing and collaboration services as Ingram Micro has expanded its distribution agreement with Dropbox... In addition, Ingram Micro channel partners in the US, Canada, and the Netherlands are now able to purchase, provision, configure, and manage Dropbox through a single automated portal with its availability in the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace.
Can Dropbox Live Up to $10 Billion Valuation? [Video]
Y Combinator president Sam Altman and Dropbox CEO Drew Houston discuss if Dropbox can live up to its $10 billion valuation with Emily Chang on “Bloomberg West.”
Dropbox and Ta-Ku celebrate collaboration
Dropbox has joined forces with and Perth based producer, photographer and fashion collaborator Ta-Ku to present a week long creative residency in Sydney designed to showcase how technology is redefining the way artists collaborate and create... “Over the past few years I’ve been lucky to connect with inspiring artists from across the world, often while working very remotely from my home in Perth. Technology such as Dropbox has fundamentally redefined the way I work and has made worldly collaboration possible,” he says.
Contractor Uses Digital Framework to Reduce Costs
As digital technology moved into the mainstream, [Brandt Companies] turned to Dropbox Business to provide a framework for file sharing—but also to take the company's workflows to a more advanced state... The results have been nothing short of remarkable. Faster technician turnaround times with clients along with improvements in internal workflows have saved Brandt more than $400,000 a year. This translates into a return on investment approaching 300 percent over three years.
Video: Tech leaders talk to high school students about forming their own companies
San Francisco’s Mission District is where techies and tenants may have found themselves at odds. But at Mission High School, tech leaders are talking to the kids about forming their own tech companies... The founders of Dropbox are sharing their own stories of success and failure, and, perhaps on the side, scouting out some potential talent.
Dropbox: Turning IT from dictators to facilitators with cloud data control
Dropbox essentially kept the same user experience on the client side, but shifted the control over the data to the IT department. The control over how and where the data was shared was is centralised in the IT department, with the user's day-to-day interactions with the product as little changed as possible.
Dropbox Rides BYOD Wave into the Channel
Since arriving at Dropbox from Microsoft just eight months ago, Thomas Hansen has put in motion a channel program that's on pace to bring on thousands of new resellers and solution integration partners... As of last week, Dropbox had 2,200 channel partners, ranging from resellers, systems integrators (SIs) and managed service providers (MSPs).
Dropbox on Android now lets you open PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Reader
As expected, Dropbox and Adobe are announcing today that people can now open PDF documents stored in Dropbox using the Adobe Acrobat Reader app on Android devices. This lets users of the apps sign, highlight, annotate, and comment on files from Dropbox from within Acrobat Reader. The integrations are the result of a partnership between Adobe and Dropbox that was announced in October.
Dropbox partner ecosystem helps with security, shadow IT
The popularity of the Dropbox file storage service is creating more opportunity for partners since the expansion of its Dropbox Partner Network last November as well as the addition of Dropbox Enterprise to its product arsenal, which also includes Dropbox Business. There are now some 2,200 partners worldwide, and the partner ecosystem has been segmented in terms of size and reach, according to Hank Humphreys, head of global channel sales, at Dropbox.
The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire
Over the last two-and-a-half years, Dropbox built its own vast computer network and shifted its service onto a new breed of machines designed by its own engineers, all orchestrated by a software system built by its own programmers with a brand new programming language. Drawing on the experience of Silicon Valley veterans who erected similar technology inside Internet giants like Google and Facebook and Twitter, it has successfully moved about 90 percent of those files onto this new online empire.
Dropbox hits half a billion users
File hosting service Dropbox has reached 500 million global users in its first eight years of operation. Although based in San Francisco, Dropbox said its most recent 100 million users came from all over the world.
Dropbox teams up with AARNet and CAUDIT
Dropbox has partnered with research and education network provider, AARNET and the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT)... “Institutions across our research and education community are asking for Cloud solutions that support collaboration by securely meeting the storage needs of students, faculty and staff,” AARNET chief executive, Chris Hancock, said. “The partnership with Dropbox is a great example of how we all work with Cloud technology companies to drive cost-efficient initiatives for the benefit of research and education."
Dropbox partnership to lift female employment
Global cloud storage firm Dropbox is partnering with Melbourne-based social enterprise Diverse City Careers (DCC) to address the lack of women in technical roles.
Servcorp turns to Dropbox for collaboration
After employees rejected Servcorp’s initial choice of cloud storage service, the company was forced to go back to the drawing board to provide a better file sharing solution for its workforce...“Overwhelmingly when we got the feedback from that particular user group the selection was Dropbox,” the CTO said. As a result, Servcorp chose Dropbox Business.
Dropbox Will Host European Customer Data With AWS In Germany
It was recently as December that Dropbox revealed it would be building infrastructure in Europe to store data locally and today, the company announced that from the third quarter of 2016 European business customer file contents will be held in Germany, in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Dropbox opens Benelux office in Amsterdam
Dropbox has opened an office for the Benelux, based in Amsterdam. This is the online storage company's fourth European office, after London, Dublin and Paris. Dropbox claims nearly one in two Dutch internet users have Dropbox installed. One of its local business customers is the Maastricht Academy of Media, Design and Technology (MAMDT), while Dropbox Enterprise also counts as recent customers in Europe UK broadcaster Channel 4 and the pharmacy chain Boots.
Dropbox CEO, new diversity chief address goals with more 'firepower'
Houston is one of the rare tech CEOs to stake his leadership on challenging ingrained attitudes and practices inside the industry and his own company to change those demographics. He and Arash Ferdowsi, the chief technology officer who founded the online storage and collaboration company with him, want Dropbox to better reflect the available workforce and their customers around the globe. And they have a new co-pilot in their endeavor: Judith Williams, Dropbox's first global diversity chief, whom they hired from Google.
Tech, auto companies join forces to thwart patent trolls
Now a who’s who of technology, automobile and other companies has banded together in a novel approach seeking to thwart patent trolls. LOT Network counts Google, Canon, Dropbox, Ford Motor Co., GitHub, JP Morgan Chase, Pandora, Pure Storage Red Hat, Solar City, Uber and Wikimedia Foundation as members.
Dropbox adds real-time collaboration for Office Online docs
Following the release of a Windows 10 app for tablets, Dropbox is expanding its Microsoft Office integration. The cloud-based repository allows multiple users to edit a file with Office Online with all of the updates synced in real time. This means you won't have to alert someone when you're making changes to avoid overwriting tweaks from a colleague.
Dropbox just released a native Windows 10 app for tablets
Dropbox teamed up with Microsoft back in 2014, and since then many of the new features the company has introduced have focused around that partnership. You can now access files stored in Dropbox through Office apps, create Office documents right in the Dropbox iOS app and you can edit your Office docs right through the Dropbox web interface. Most of these features benefitted users regardless of what platform they used, but today's announcement is specifically for Windows users: Dropbox is releasing a native Windows 10 app.
Dropbox Business review: It's the leader in online storage for a reason
While it started life as a consumer product, Dropbox was rapidly adopted by businesses that needed to share files quickly, securely and easily between team members and external colleagues, without the inconvenience of sending large attachments via email. Dropbox has been developing its team and business features over time, and the service now includes a wide range of administration features that mean you can control and monitor staff members' use of your business account.
Dropbox, Innovation Ninjas & Hack Week with Lauren Lee
“Design brings people together.” Lee says. “At Dropbox, we try to take care of our users and employees in ways that they don’t always notice. Our experiences… shine from the fact that they’re discreet, and this all starts with design.”... True to the ‘black ops’ way, Lee and her team are responsible for candidly assuring “people walk away with new insight, takeaways or inspiration from each event they attend.”
Dropbox partners Vodafone for small business package
File hosting service Dropbox has partnered with Vodafone to offer Australian small businesses a data and storage package aimed at providing businesses a platform for working on the go. According to both companies, the collaboration will see Dropbox and Vodafone make a play for Australia's estimated AU$774 million cloud applications market.
Dropbox pins business growth on consumer love and will offer EU data storage in 2016
Thomas Hansen, global vice president of sales at Dropbox and formerly of Microsoft, told V3 that he believes the consumer success of Dropbox is helping the company convince businesses to adopt it as an enterprise tool... Hansen cited the example of Expedia as a company that came to Dropbox Business in this way, as staff were using Dropbox, instead of a corporate-supplied OneDrive service from Microsoft as part of an Office 365 deployment.
Amber Cottle on Dropbox's approach to Washington
Amber Cottle, head of global public policy and government affairs at Dropbox, discusses the company's approach to Washington.
Dropbox Now Lets You Edit PDF Files While On The Go
Dropbox says that, starting now, customers will be able to edit PDF files saved into their Dropbox accounts while using iOS applications, with support for Android set to arrive in the near future. This improved support for working with the popular file format comes on the heels of Dropbox’s partnership with Adobe, announced last month, which included Dropbox’s integration into Adobe’s Document Cloud, among other things.
If Dropbox can transform how we work, it will be worth billions
The vision Houston is selling is one of effortless connections between workers in a fragmented world, in which everything is available no matter where workers are, letting them pick up work seamlessly and be far more productive... If Dropbox can change the way the world works, its $10bn valuation will be justified many times over.
Dropbox goes big on security with Enterprise offering
Vendor also reveals Hewlett-Packard Enterprise as premier Dropbox for Business reseller.
Dropbox: Businesses Really Love Us Too
Dropbox wants the outside world to know it now has more than 150,000 paying customers for its Dropbox for Business service, including the likes of men’s clothing retailer Bonobos, social network Pinterest and travel website Expedia.
Dropbox hits 150K paying business customers, with 50K joining this year
Founded in 2007, the company has evolved from being an app primarily used for personal purposes to one that businesses can deploy for employees. Dropbox is arguably the hallmark of the consumerization of enterprise software.
Exclusive: Dropbox Signs Mexican And European Partners To Nab More Users
Last April, Dropbox tapped telecommunications giant SoftBank as the primary sales channel for its software in Japan. That relationship is just getting off the ground, but the online file-sharing company will emulate the model to win share in Mexico, Austria, and dozens of European nations including Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the U.K.
The technology behind Dropbox Sync
Sync is essentially about bringing together the diversity of devices and applications to work efficiently as though they are operating on the same platform. But how does it work? There are three main technologies that underpin the technology: Delta Sync, LAN Sync and, more recently, Streaming Sync.
Washington is the most collaborative place in the country. In this very specific way, at least.
Think of Washington and you probably think of words such as “deadlock” or “gridlock” first. But at least by one specific metric — the percentage of people working together on Dropbox files — Washington is the most collaborative place in the country. The online file management company took a quick spin through its data to see which states (or non-states, as the case may be) were creating shared folders and shared links for work on the service.
These Are The Colleges Where Students Stay Up On Dropbox The Latest. Nerds.
A ranking of colleges and universities whose students are the most active on the cloud-based file transfer service Dropbox provides a glimpse of which campuses are chock-full of nerds, dorks and all manner of dweebs. Princeton University leads the nation in the percentage of students using Dropbox accounts during the school week late at night, defined by Dropbox as between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. local time, according to a company analysis released this week.
Apple and Dropbox say they don’t support a key cybersecurity bill, days before a crucial vote
Apple and Dropbox said Tuesday that they do not support a controversial cybersecurity bill that, according to critics, would give the government sweeping new powers to spy on Americans in the name of protecting them from hackers.
Paper is Dropbox's new vision for how teams can work together
Six months ago, Dropbox quietly announced a collaborative note-taking tool called Notes and launched it in an invite-only beta test. But starting today, the product is being officially branded as Dropbox Paper and the beta test is expanding significantly.
Dropbox Showcases Creative Freedom in First-Ever Brand Campaign
With a new ad campaign, Dropbox is hoping to lift perceptions of the brand from merely being a cloud storage utility to a facilitator and driver of collaborative creativity.
Adobe Updates Its Document Cloud With Dropbox Integration, Improved eSign Services
Today, Adobe is launching a number of new features for Document Cloud, including an integration with Dropbox, as well as a number of updates. The Dropbox integration is the highlight of this update. Thanks to this, Adobe Acrobat DC (essentially the ‘pro’ version of Acrobat) and Acrobat Reader users can now access PDFs they have stored on Dropbox directly from these apps and edit them.
Dropbox’s VP of People Will Make You Think About Jobs in Tech Beyond… Tech
Arden Hoffman is VP of People at San Francisco-based Dropbox — and she doesn’t take her title (or responsibilities) lightly. Arden, who was previously an HR exec at Google, sat down for a deep and meaningful with us to talk about an emerging army of “hackers,” why engineering is far from the only job in tech and how the industry has a whole new story to tell beyond coding.
Drew Houston’s Mission: Get The World Working Together On Dropbox
And that, Houston says, is the crux of the company’s goal: to convince people to host their photos, their work documents — and essentially their lives — on Dropbox and give those people easier ways to connect and collaborate with each other.
Dropbox CEO: Our focus is on collaboration [video]
Drew Houston, CEO & Co-founder, Dropbox, talks to CNBC's Julia Boorstin about the future for his company and how his company stacks up against the competition.
Dropbox’s new team feature makes it a better tool for the workplace
Dropbox is launching a team feature that aims to make its file hosting service a better tool for workplace collaboration, the company announced Monday. Existing Dropbox users will soon see a "team" tab on the left-hand menu list that will let you organize groups of employees and share files with those sets of users in a central hub.
How One Company Reduced Its Help Tickets by 80%
GIW Industries turned to Dropbox for Business to introduce a more streamlined and efficient file exchange system. It went live with the cloud-based service in December 2014. "It has fundamentally changed the way business takes place," Lucas McCuistian said.
Interview Insider: How to Get a Job at Dropbox
Karen Sperling, head of engineering recruiting, explains what the company is looking for: "Our hiring philosophy centers on our company values and candidates who can speak to them often do well. For example, we focus on teamwork and trust. Building a product useful to millions of people is truly a team effort — whether you're an engineer, designer, marketer, or anything else. Our users rely on Dropbox to help simplify their lives, and we take that trust seriously."
How Dropbox is helping modern-day explorers chart unclaimed lands
The project is a collaboration between Royal Holloway and Durham universities and also has support from the Royal Geographical Society. It's also backed by businesses and industry, including Dropbox, which will be helping the team to analyse and share their findings.
Dropbox's head of enterprise says collaboration will set it apart
Ross Piper believes collaboration -- fueled by the 2.1 billion connections already existing in the service -- is what will set Dropbox apart for business users.
Dropbox Lands Arizona State as Enterprise Customer, Hires Education Unit Head
Cloud file-sharing and storage company Dropbox said today that it has secured a deal to provide its enterprise services to the faculty and staff of Arizona State University. It also said that it has hired Jason Katcher, the head of Google’s education efforts in the Americas, to lead a new business unit devoted to selling its enterprise services to colleges and universities.
Silicon Valley meets Austin weirdness: Dropbox unveils downtown offices
Amid a continuing hiring spree, Dropbox Inc. raised the curtain on its ultra-hip downtown Austin offices on Wednesday, showing that the San Francisco-based tech company has spared no expense to keep employees happy and motivated.
These Engineers Just Built Their Own "Pied Piper" Compression Algorithm
Pied Piper came out of a "Hack Week" held at Dropbox, where Daniel Reiter Horn works as an infrastructure engineer.
Dropbox Syncs Its Enterprise Strategy To Australia
With a strong foundation of 8 million users in Australia, Dropbox has ramped up a team of 50 under the helm of Country Manager, Charlie Wood.
Dropbox Adds Support For U2F Security Keys
Dropbox today announced that it will now support security keys. Security keys are physical USB dongles from companies like YubiCo that allow you to bypass the traditional app- and text message-based two-factor authentication schemes with their six-digit codes by simply plugging the key into your computer.
Dropbox promotes former Google engineer to infrastructure lead
Dropbox has promoted one of its lead engineers, Akhil Gupta, to vice president of infrastructure.
Dropbox security chief defends security and privacy in the cloud
Patrick Heim is the (relatively) new head of Trust & Security at Dropbox. Formerly Chief Trust Officer at Salesforce, he has served as CISO at Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corporation. Heim discusses security and privacy in the arena of consumerized cloud-based tools like those that employees select for business use.
We Want Your Job: Designer at Dropbox
One of my most-loved tools (and one I often use daily) is Dropbox. Known for its user-friendly-ness, fun branding and illustrations, and the tireless and talented team behind it all, Designer Linda Eliasen’s role fits right into all of those.
Dropbox Is Under Siege -- But It's Not Slowing Down
“No one touches more of Dropbox than Arash [Ferdowsi] does,” says Ramsey Homsany, the company’s general counsel. Ferdowsi’s far-better-known cofounder, CEO Drew Houston, puts it more succinctly: “Don’t start a company without him.”
How cooler co-workers communicate
Dropbox has quietly become the coolest company in communication, and eight million Australians are using it, for sharing documents in the office, storing photos and videos or working on group projects.
Dropbox Hires Google, Facebook And Twitter Veteran Todd Jackson As VP Of Product
Dropbox has hired Twitter's Todd Jackson to be its first VP of product. Jackson’s hiring comes days after Dropbox recruited Microsoft veteran Thomas Hansen to be its global vice president of sales and channel.
Dropbox Hires Its First Head of Sales, Longtime Microsoft Executive Thomas Hansen
It has created a new position — head of sales — and recruited long-time Microsoft exec Thomas Hansen to the role.
Can Dropbox go from consumer hit to business success?
Dropbox successfully leveraged its popularity and success with consumers to develop a credible business-grade service – Dropbox for Business – that was launched in April 2013.
Dropbox and Xero form alliance as small business cloud computing battle heats up
Fast-growing cloud accounting software company Xero has signed a strategic partnership arrangement with US cloud computing giant Dropbox which will see the two businesses combine aspects of their products to lure more small business customers from rivals.
Dropbox Hops to School With New Education Team
Ross Piper, Vice President of Enterprise at Dropbox, says its entry into the education market is eased by the fact that many university students and faculty already use the service. “We already have massive adoption by individuals within the education space,” he says.
Dropbox Now Has More Than 400 Million Registered Users
Dropbox said today that it now has more than 400 million registered users — a jump from the last public figure about its user base in May last year.
Dropbox's New Android App Is All About Invisible Design
When it came time to redesign Dropbox’s five-year-old Android app, the goal was to downplay design even more. And damned if they didn’t pull it off. Now, that may not seem like an impressive feat, but the company managed to make the UI even more straightforward.
EFF’s 2015 Data Privacy Report Lauds Apple, Dropbox, Slams Verizon
Digital rights organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published its fifth annual "Who has your back?" report into online service providers’ transparency and privacy practices when it comes to government requests for accessing user data.
Dropbox now lets you request files from multiple people with just a link
Dropbox today launched a very interesting feature: file requests. In short, you can now ask one or more people to upload photos, documents, or any other files to a Dropbox folder you specify. All you need to do is put together the request, and Dropbox generates a link that handles the rest.
An exclusive peek inside Dropbox’s new Seattle office
Dropbox officially opened its new Seattle engineering office this week, and walking into the office, there’s no mistaking the location. The space, high up in Seattle’s Columbia Center skyscraper, features picturesque views of Mt. Rainier, the Space Needle, Elliott Bay and every other major regional landmark.
How GlobalMedic Uses Dropbox to Maximize Funding Impact
"We use Dropbox to assemble teams, funding, and resources at the drop of a hat. Everyone has access to and collaborates on the same information. This allows us to quickly secure funding from multiple sources and coordinate our grant writing efforts across the globe."
Dropbox Pro Will Come Bundled With the OnePlus One Phone
In a bid to hook more customers into using its paid version, Dropbox has teamed up with Chinese phone maker OnePlus.
Dropbox Adds More Features To Attract Enterprise Customers
Dropbox announced several updates today designed to appeal to larger enterprise customers and make them feel more comfortable using Dropbox for Business.
The 3 Best Ways to Keep Your Small Business Safe Online [Op-Ed]
As attackers get more sophisticated, and more businesses have the potential to be targeted, how do you keep your company’s data safe? Here are three important ways to help protect your business.
Dropbox updates Windows app with better sharing, now universal
Dropbox updated its Windows app today with the ability to have multiple concurrent uploads, better shared folder management and easier integration with other apps.
Dropbox for Business meets another global cloud security standard
Dropbox for Business has jumped over another hurdle as it aims to garner more professional clientele with sensitive and valuable data. The San Francisco-based business announced on Monday it has been granted ISO 27018 certification, the world's first international standard for cloud privacy and data protection.
Disruptor #6 Dropbox: Business segment growing [Video]
Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston, discusses collaborations with businesses, and keeping information secure.
2015 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies - #6 Dropbox
In January the San Francisco-based company opened offices in London and Israel after adding two others in Sydney and Japan last year. It also recently signed a deal with Japan's SoftBank, whereby its commerce and service arm will be the primary reseller and distributor of Dropbox's business products in Japan.
Dropbox for iOS will soon let users make Microsoft Office documents directly within the app
Today, yet another new Office-related feature is being announced: the Dropbox app for iOS will soon let you create Office documents right inside it, without having to jump to another app.
Dropbox Is Not Part of ‘Security Problem,’ Says New Security Chief
In recent months, the online storage and file-sharing company expanded its API to help companies and developers integrate Dropbox’s features with other software, the WSJ reported in December. The two most requested enterprise features are Groups and the Groups API, Mr. [Patrick] Heim said.
NPR From Scratch: Drew Houston, Co-Founder of Dropbox [Audio]
Host Jessica Harris talks with Drew Houston, co-founder of Dropbox.
Dropbox debuts file comments to bring social to file-sharing
Dropbox wants you to read the comments. In a new feature unveiled today, you can now leave comments on Dropbox files much in the same way that you can comment on news articles like this one. Except instead of trolling, Dropbox is hoping you’ll use these comments to get something done.
Dropbox arrives in Paris to meet French companies
The US company, a specialist in online file hosting, opened its Paris office Thursday.
Why Do 300m People Choose To Store Their Pictures & Files With Dropbox? [Video]
Sky News' Ian King interviews Dennis Woodside, Dropbox's chief operating officer.
Dropbox's Push Into Europe [Video]
Dropbox Chief Operating Officer Dennis Woodside discusses the company’s growth in the U.K. compared to the U.S. and expansion into Europe.
Dropbox launches bounty program on HackerOne
Dropbox has become the latest high-profile Internet firm to start a bug bounty program, hooking up with HackerOne to provide rewards to security researchers who report vulnerabilities through the program.
Dropbox Teams With Microsoft To Allow Anyone To Edit Documents Online
Microsoft and Dropbox are expanding their already close partnership today with the reveal of a new integration that will now allow consumers to edit their Microsoft Office files, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents, in Dropbox using Office Online via the web.
3 things Dropbox for Business gets right
So what is it that makes Dropbox so appealing to businesses? To find out, we decided to test out Dropbox for Business, and sat through a demo session by Dropbox.
How Dropbox is wooing businesses [Video]
Fortune senior writer Leena Rao sits down with Ross Piper, VP of Enterprise at Dropbox, to discuss the company’s strategy to gain business customers.
In a bid for overseas growth, Dropbox partners with SoftBank in Japan
Online file sharing company Dropbox is ramping up its international expansion plans in a deal with Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank.
Behind the Scenes at Dropbox Black Ops
Jon Ying, 28, has been with Dropbox from its earliest days. Originally brought in by his friend (and Dropbox cofounder) Arash Ferdowsi to do tech support, his role evolved into developing the brand's approachable, human vibe.
Dropbox updates document preview so that you can do more than just preview
If you accessed a document today on Dropbox.com, you might notice that it looks a little different -- the preview screen real estate is a little larger, the design is a little cleaner and oh wait, is that a new toolbar?
Dropbox Versus The World
Dropbox just may be the most adroit cloud company in the world, the one that has solved more problems for its users than any other.
This Is What Impactful Engineering Leadership Looks Like
"When engineering management is done right, you're focusing on three big things," Jessica McKellar says. "You're directly supporting the people on your team; you're managing execution and coordination across teams; and you're stepping back to observe and evolve the broader organization and its processes as it grows."
Dropbox debuts file commenting, rolls out "badge" for collaborating on Microsoft docs
How many emails have you already sent to your colleagues today to discuss a single file? How many times have you edited a document, only to realize someone else has been editing the same thing at the same time? The answer to both of these questions is probably "a lot," but if you're a Dropbox user, file collaboration is about to become a lot less migraine-inducing.
Dropbox drops into New York with new Flatiron space
Dropbox has dropped itself into New York City with a new 11,000-square foot office space in the Flatiron District.
Here's Another Reason for CIOs to Like Dropbox
Today the team at Dropbox for Business is releasing another much requested feature.... Groups was initially released to 12,000 customers through an early access program in November. It was well extremely well received. As of today, it’s generally available.
Dropbox Taps Vodafone for International Growth
Dropbox is partnering with Vodafone to offer its file-storage service to more than 400 million wireless customers. The deal, which the companies plan to announce Friday, could give Dropbox tens of millions of new users outside the U.S., Marc Leibowitz, head of partnerships for the San Francisco company, said in an interview.
Dropbox can now open shared links on Android and iOS
Dropbox is closing the gap on mobile. Mobile productivity is a big priority for the company, and though [Henrik] Berggren thinks it is “still early” days, the company wants to reduce the number of clicks (or taps) to get work done, while also supporting more and more platforms.
Dropbox’s new Open button launches desktop applications right from the web
If you get frustrated transferring files from the cloud to your desktop, Dropbox has revealed an interesting new feature that will make the transition from browsing a file on the Web to editing it on your PC just that little bit easier.
Dropbox app arrives on Windows tablets, phones
The app is a product of the recent partnership between Microsoft and Dropbox, which enables users to access Dropbox directly from their Office apps and edit Office files from the Dropbox app.
Dropbox opens London office and buys Israeli mobile startup CloudOn
Dropbox has hit the ground running in 2015: opening a new office in London, launching its first app for smartphones and tablets running Microsoft’s Windows software; and buying Israeli mobile startup CloudOn.
Dropbox Dips Into Israel With CloudOn Buy
[Dropbox] closed a deal to acquire CloudOn, a developer of mobile productivity tools with an engineering hub in Herzliya, Israel. CloudOn’s more than 30 employees will join Dropbox and the Israeli office will become a base for the company’s “aggressive hiring” in the region, Ilya Fushman, head of product, business and mobile said in an interview.
Dropbox launches Microsoft Office collaboration features for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows and Mac
Dropbox today launched its much-anticipated Project Harmony functionality, which brings collaboration tools to Microsoft Office desktop applications. Now known simply as “the Dropbox badge,” the new feature is rolling out today to the Dropbox for Business early access program.
Dropbox's Carousel app now frees up phone storage for you
A new feature [is] arriving on Dropbox's Carousel app starting today: the ability to free up space on your phone with just a single tap.
Dropbox Steps Up to Rescue Us From Corporate Software
On Wednesday, the file-syncing startup launched an application programming interface, or API, that lets outside developers build software on top of its Dropbox for Business service. That may sound like a jumble of tech speak, but it could be very useful to businesses, and ultimately, it represents a kind of finale to a decades-long contest: consumer technology has now emerged triumphant over corporate IT as the way to get work done.
Cloud powerhouse Dropbox reveals plans for Seattle engineering office
Aditya Agarwal, Dropbox vice president of engineering, disclosed the news in an interview with GeekWire this afternoon, saying that Seattle will be one of “three pillars” of the Dropbox engineering operations in the U.S., along with New York and San Francisco.
Dropbox for Business becomes a platform with new API
Dropbox, the sync-and-share startup so popular it essentially created a market category, is finally, finally opening up to become an enterprise platform with the launch of a Dropbox for Business API that enables team-level app management and integration with third-party services.
Dropbox for Business launches API as it passes 100K customers
Dropbox this week is launching the Dropbox for Business API, offering its business storage and security features to enterprise developers. The company also announced that Dropbox for Business now has 100,000 customers.
Dropbox’s Mobile Apps Are Now Integrated With Microsoft Office
Earlier this month, Dropbox and Microsoft announced a partnership that would see Dropbox offer better support for Microsoft’s Office Suite, including the ability to edit Office docs from the Dropbox mobile app among other things. Today, those integrations have gone live for users of both the Android phone and iOS Dropbox applications.
Dropbox launches iPad and Web app versions of its Carousel photo gallery app
Dropbox Carousel, the photo gallery app launched for iOS and Android smartphones last spring, is now available for the iPad and the Web.
Meet Sara Adler - Corporate Development, Dropbox
"Looking back, all of the dots seem to connect, but they certainly didn’t seem to at the time. My advice to those looking for career direction is to chat with people doing the job you think you want."
Time to tackle surveillance reform (Op-Ed)
It’s been more than a year since the Snowden revelations, and government agencies continue to demand access to broad swaths of personal information online. We’ve yet to see serious privacy reforms from Congress. This is troubling because one of the biggest threats to privacy is the absence of modern laws that reflect the way that people today use the Internet.
Dropbox thinks outside the box on diversity
Dropbox has overhauled recruiting, promotions, compensation, engagement and retention, said [Blaire] Mattson, who is heading up diversity efforts.
Dropbox and Microsoft form surprise partnership for Office integration
Office mobile apps will soon seamlessly sync to Dropbox.
Dropbox Names a Few Enterprise Customers in the Media Biz
Hearst, News Corp., and MacMillan Publishing have signed on to Dropbox, according to a company blog post by enterprise head Ross Piper.
Dropbox expands desktop footprint by teaming with HP, Acer
The development follows up a security update from the cloud storage provider, bolstering Dropbox's plan to maintain data security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Mailbox email app for Mac opens beta to all users
The Dropbox-owned email app has done away with its waitlist and is now letting all comers try Mailbox on the desktop. We took a first look at Mailbox's move to Mac in August and came away impressed.
World's Coolest Offices
"The way the Dropbox product is a home for your stuff, we want the Dropbox office to be a home to our employees," says Molly Strong, a design project coordinator at the company. "We want it to be really delightful for everyone here."
Meet The Team Putting Dropbox On Your Phone
Dropbox’s partnerships — including its new one with Sony — aim to go beyond pre-loading the application. [Christine] Moon works with Samsung and other partners to give those manufacturers access to special functions that allow a deeper level of integration.
U.S. startup Dropbox expanding its cloud over Japan
Heading the new wholly owned subsidiary is Hiroaki Kawamura, whose resume includes past positions as president of the Japanese units of both Sun Microsystems and Symantec. The company said some 8 million people now use the Japanese-language version of Dropbox introduced in 2011.
Dropbox Is Now iOS 8-Ready With A Notification Center Widget, App Extension Support And More
Dropbox has rolled out its iOS 8 upgrade, which now includes a new Notification Center widget of its own, offering a quick overview of your files and recent changes.
Google and Dropbox launch Simply Secure to improve online security
Google and file-hosting service Dropbox announced the creation of Simply Secure on Thursday, an organization that aims to make security tech easier to use.
Dropbox Calls For Support Of The Senate’s NSA Reform Bill
This morning, Dropbox released new information detailing government requests for its user data, and information about certain user accounts. The company also called for the passage of the Senate’s version of the USA FREEDOM Act.
Samsung to serve up seamless access to Dropbox through core apps, including photo gallery
While Samsung and the cloud-storage giant have partnered for a number of years already to offer Dropbox pre-installed on some devices, including premium access, things are now being pushed to the next level.
Dropbox Beefs Up Its Pro Feature Set, Now Offering 1TB Of Storage For $10/Month
The new Dropbox Pro feature set is designed to give prosumers the flexibility they desire while maintaining the same general user experience that they’ve become used to. In doing so, Dropbox is mainly targeting creatives and independent professionals who rely on Dropbox for collaboration and sharing of files with partners and customers.
The New Dropbox Pro Offers 1TB for Only $10/mo, Adds a Ton of New Functionality
Dropbox is a Go-To for many photographers. Whether they’re storing their photography, sharing albums with clients or, ahem, sending files to the press, more often than not it’s Dropbox they use. And starting today, anybody not using Dropbox’s Pro offering has a whole lot more reason to do so thanks to a steep drop in price, a big jump in storage space, and a bunch of new features and functionality.
Dropbox Hires Lookout CMO for Marketing VP Slot
Dropbox issued a statement from [Dennis] Woodside: “Julie is an exceptional leader with a remarkable track record in building great teams and executing innovative marketing strategies at both hyper-growth startups and global corporations. We’re thrilled to add her talent and vision to the Dropbox team as we continue to scale our business globally.”
Dropbox Adds Former Priceline CFO Mylod to Board
Cloud storage company Dropbox today added Bob Mylod, the former CFO of Priceline.com, as the fifth member of its board of directors. The company disclosed the move in a corporate blog post by CEO Drew Houston and CFO Sujay Jaswa.
Email overload? Mailbox takes on the desktop inbox
Suffering from email overload? Don't worry, Silicon Valley feels your pain - and relief may be coming to the desktop. Mailbox is beginning to roll out the Macintosh version of its popular mobile app for iOS and Android.
Mailbox, the Innovative Email App, Is Now Available for Mac
When Mailbox came out for the iPhone, people were so excited about its novel mail-sorting features that they lined up like it was a hot new nightclub to try it out. Now its coming to desktop, with beta invites trickling out to users starting today.
Dropbox's Olga Narvskaia: Operations manager. Global innovator. Focused learner.
Olga Narvskaia, head of online revenue operations at Dropbox, talked to TechRepublic about her life in Russia, working for a company that's changing the world, and the power of focus.
Think Dropbox Isn't Serious About the Enterprise? Think Again
Today [Dropbox is] releasing a new Android app that the company says will make the “Dropbox mobile app experience as fast, seamless and efficient as possible.” That way you can get your work done on the spot, wherever you happen to be.... Is this a big deal? If you access Dropbox for Business from an Android phone, it’s a major convenience.
Dropbox Cultivates an Austin Culture and Continues to Hire and Expand
“I love the Bay Area but I love Austin more. I just couldn’t wait to get back here in general,” [Sherry] Birk said. “I’m just excited to build something here.” And Dropbox is doing just that. It’s going to move into a five-story building at Fifth and Congress, which is under construction. The company plans to occupy three of the floors or approximately 58,000 square feet. Move-in date is set for next January.
The Coolest Techie Digs In S.F.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that a generous chunk of the apps and sites we use on a daily basis operate practically right in our own backyard. Case in point: Dropbox. The storage-solving site is our work lifeline and we log in and out of it more times a day than we can count. In the real world, it exists right over in SoMa.
It might get weird: why Dropbox employees are goofing around on company time
"Part of the spirit of Hack Week is getting out of your comfort zone, learning something new, doing something unusual," says engineer Alicia Chen.
Dropbox Boosts Enterprise Features, Has 80,000 Paying Corporate Customers
Dropbox announced a bunch of new features for its enterprise service today, including the ability to set who has access to edit or only read a file, passwords to shared folders that expire after a set time and a text search capability. The company also disclosed some numbers around the adoption of its business product, saying it’s now in use at 80,000 paying companies.
Why Dropbox Is Tying Its Future to Microsoft Office
People still use Office. Lots of people. And that reality, in turn, speaks to Dropbox’s strategy... “Right now our focus is on slotting into people’s basic workflow and making that really good,” Ilya Fushman, head of the company’s Dropbox for Business product.
Dropbox steps up international expansion
Dropbox, the fast-growing US cloud storage company, is embarking on a new phase of international expansion. Roughly 70 per cent of Dropbox’s users are outside the US.
Dropbox partners with Deutsche Telekom
Seeking to reach all 3 billion of the world's connected people, Dropbox will be pre-installed on the phones of one of Europe's biggest telecoms firms.
Dropbox Adding Speedier 'Streaming Sync' Feature
Dropbox has added a brand-new feature to its desktop client that promises faster file synchronization between devices. The new featured, dubbed "streaming sync," doesn't require you to do a thing beyond your standard dragging and dropping of files into your magical Dropbox folder.
With a new website, Dropbox gets down to business
On Wednesday morning, the company unveiled a new website for corporate customers.... Dropbox’s service continues to shine in its simplicity and ease of use—a feature the company has very strategically extended from its consumer business to the enterprise side.
Google, Canon, Dropbox and Others Pool Patents to Ward Off Trolls
A coalition of technology companies large and small has created a sort of arms-control treaty to prevent future abuses of their intellectual property.
I'm Tina Wen, Engineer at Dropbox, and This Is How I Work
Tina Wen has been with the company for over two years, having seen Dropbox go from a staff of 100 to 700, and has worked on some of their essential features. In fact, she was integral in building some of the core features of Dropbox's photo app, Carousel. We caught up with Tina to learn how she managers her time, her code, and her marathons.
Dropbox learns Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Thai in international expansion
Dropbox launched Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Thai versions of its application and clients, as the company seeks to grow the international usage of its cloud storage and file sharing service. The Dropbox service, now available in 19 languages and 200 countries, has about 70 percent of its 300 million users outside of the U.S., said Johann Butting, Dropbox’s head of EMEA.
How Alice Lee Blends Art And Tech As An Illustrator At Dropbox
Creating art is a full-time job for Dropbox’s Alice Lee. As an illustrator and product designer, Lee spends her days designing, doodling, and drawing, helping create the visual images that represent Dropbox and all its various offerings to the outside world.
The Guiding Principle That Helps Dropbox Move Big Projects Forward
Liz Armistead leads the team at Dropbox responsible for telling the company's story to consumers. This means everything from blog posts to web design to massive product launches, like an event in April to unveil a host of new productivity features.
Dropbox reaches 300m users, adding on 100m users in just six months
Dropbox announced today that it has hit a new milestone of 300 million users, tacking on 100 million users in just six months since it passed the 200 million mark in November 2013.
Who Has Your Back? Protecting Your Data from Government Requests
Since its inclusion in our Who Has Your Back report in 2012, Dropbox has consistently demonstrated strong transparency around government data requests and a commitment to protecting the privacy of its users. This year is no exception, with Dropbox setting a strong example for other cloud storage companies.
Dropbox Lands Spotify as an Enterprise Customer
After several months of building on a new strategy to capture more enterprise customers, Dropbox, the popular cloud-storage and file-sharing service, will later this week announce that it has landed subscription music service Spotify as a corporate customer...
As It Becomes an App Platform, Dropbox Gobbles Up More Than One App Startup Per Month
In addition to a massive hiring spurt and fundraising stockpile, Dropbox has been quietly acquiring startups that make productivity and media apps so their teams can work on similar products internally.
Three Brilliant UI Details in Carousel, Dropbox's New Photo App
Reinventing the photo album for the digital age will take both sharp UI smarts and a mastery of cloud-based storage. Fortunately for us, that’s exactly what Underwood and Dropbox have going for them.
Dropbox Hits 275M Users And Launches New Business Product To All
This morning in San Francisco, Dropbox announced that its updated enterprise-facing Dropbox for Business product is now available for all. The company also announced that it now has 275 million users. That figure is sharply higher than the 200 million users that the company indicated it had in November 2013.
Dropbox's Next Chapter
Dropbox was—and perhaps still is—the most celebrated startup in Silicon Valley. Two hundred and seventy five million people use it to manage their digital lives, storing personal documents, photographs, and videos across expanding collections of phones, tablets, and personal computers.
Dropbox’s Cloud Storage Kings Drew Houston And Arash Ferdowsi Win Founder Of The Year Crunchie
You know you’re doing something right when Silicon Valley rock stars are ditching cushy jobs at Google and Facebook to join your startup. This year’s Founder Of The Year Crunchie goes to the talent magnets at Dropbox, CEO Drew Houston and CTO Arash Ferdowsi.
The World's Ten Most Innovative Companies in Productivity - Dropbox
1. DROPBOX - For stepping up its omnipresence in users’ lives through smart partnerships and acquisitions. How omnipresent? Try 200 million users saving 1 billion files every 24 hours. Dropbox Platform--a suite of tools that allows developers to sync users’ app data across devices--now powers 100,000 active apps, including Shutterstock, Yahoo Mail, and, of course, the email-overload cure it acquired last year, Mailbox.
Dropbox Tweaks Consumerization Model
Dropbox is incredibly popular with consumers – it claims a whopping 200 million users – and, as it turns out, is also successfully making its way into the business market, claiming 4 million businesses and 97% of the Fortune 500.
7 Awesome Benefits of Using Dropbox
I use Dropbox because it is simple and functional. I mainly use it store important documents, pictures of my kids that I share out to family and friends, and enjoy the convenience of not having to sync anything.
Dropbox Aims at Business
In a significant design step, Dropbox for Business can be allocated to new users or appear alongside an existing Dropbox customer’s personal account. The idea is to create a relatively seamless experience of managing business and personal data.
Dropbox revamps Dropbox for Business
If you're a working professional and Dropbox user, you're in luck. With the revamped Dropbox for Business, accessing -- and separating -- your business and personal content on the cloud storage startup should soon be a quicker, simpler process.
In Sync: Inside Dropbox’s Quest to Bury the Hard Drive
Dropbox has a radical plan: become the portal to your digital world – and join the ranks of Apple, Google, and Facebook.
Dropbox further promoting business angle with new apps hub
Dropbox is further pushing its business-friendly services into the spotlight with the addition of a new hub dedicated to third-party apps. The new page launching this week highlights some of the apps that integrate with Dropbox for Business and leverage the Dropbox Platform for fostering collaboration and facilitating identity management.
Dropbox hires top VMware techie with an eye on the enterprise
Dropbox has enlisted Matt Eccleston, one of the top technologists at VMware, as it plans a renewed assault on enterprise customers. Eccleston is well regarded in the virtualization circles and this is a big hire for Dropbox. After dominating the the consumer file-sync-and-store market, it’s now looking to make a concerted push into the enterprise.
Instagram Lead Designer Tim Van Damme Headed to Dropbox
Dropbox is bulking up on its design talent. As I wrote on Monday, Tim Van Damme, Instagram’s lead designer, will be leaving the company a year and half after joining the photo-sharing startup.
Dropbox for the Enterprise ‘Will Be Dropbox’
The market for file storage and sharing is crowded, but Dropbox seems to have the drop on Box, and others.
The secret to Dropbox's runaway success: Making it look easy
Dropbox makes it look easy, but it is not easy. Dropbox has taken one very complicated problem that's absolutely necessary to solve, and presented a deceptively simple solution to it. That's now what the company is promising to do for developers.
Dropbox Blows Up the Box, Connecting Every App, File, and Device
Today, at Dropbox’s first-ever developers conference, the company is officially launching a new set of coding tools designed to push Dropbox into every corner of your digital life. Not content to stay sequestered inside the box, the company’s co-founders are unveiling ways for developers to meld their service with every app on every device you own.
Dropbox for Business Arrives, Bringing Single Sign-On
Dropbox began as a consumer-focused service, but as anyone who works with digital files knows, it has been adopted by businesses — both large and small — en masse.
Yahoo Deal Is the Latest Example of Dropbox Flexing Its Muscles
Just two weeks after Dropbox beat Yahoo's efforts to buy young mobile email startup Mailbox, the cloud storage upstart just won prominent billing within Yahoo's own email product. How's that for a cherry on top?
Dropbox Hits Another Hiring Homerun With Rasmus Andersson, Facebook's Mobile Design Guru
Dropbox has scored another big win on the staffing front. Rasmus Andersson, the Swedish designer and technologist who for the past two years has worked at Facebook leading the design of mobile products and working on product infrastructure, is leaving the social networking giant to join Dropbox.
Dropbox Buys Mailbox, an App With Some Buzz
Dropbox is buying the owner of the buzzy Mailbox mobile app, making its first move into products outside its core file-sharing service. Under the deal, the 13 employees of Mailbox owner Orchestra Inc.-including alums of Apple, Stanford University and Ideo-will join Dropbox.
Dropbox clears 1 billion file uploads per day
People save 1 billion files every day to Dropbox's online storage service, Chief Executive Drew Houston said today at the Mobile World Congress show here.
Dropbox woos enterprise IT with new admin and security tools
Dropbox for Teams lets admins monitor, control how members connect to file-sharing service and which documents they can share . Several file-sharing companies have been billed as "Dropbox for the enterprise." Turns out Dropbox wants that title as well.
New Dropbox For Teams Gives IT Deep Control And Visibility, Reveals More About Company's Next Chapter
Dropbox for Teams has a new set of features that gives IT deep visibility and control over the way both individuals and groups use the service. The new features show how Dropbox is entering a new chapter in its evolution, pointing to a future where a significant aspect of its business will focus on the business market.
Dropbox Unveils Sync API For Mobile Developers, Allows Apps To Work With Cloud-Based Files As If They Were Local
Dropbox is unveiling a brand new API for developers today that should give mobile app makers an excellent new tool to work with. The Dropbox Sync API allows apps for iOS and Android to treat files stored on a user's Dropbox account as if they were local, managing syncing, caching, offline access and tracking changes easily so that developers only have to worry about building an app, and not the storage and management of the files users create with said software.
Dropbox Adds Photo Sharing, Document Viewing
The company is adding a new layer of photo and document features to give its users much more things they can do with their files. In other words, Dropbox is aiming to be more than just a file syncing or file storage service but a full-service way for people to use their digital files - which these days is increasingly in the cloud, not just on devices.
Dropbox drops onto more Samsung devices
Dropbox and Samsung are expanding their relationship with new integration on existing devices.
Dropbox Snags Google Exec And Python God Guido Van Rossum
Dropbox has hired Google executive and programming guru Guido van Rossum. Van Rossum, originally from the Netherlands, is known for creating the Python programming language.
Dropbox: The Best Online Photo-Sharing Site
Q: I know I'm late to this party, but what's the best photo-sharing service? A: There are so many photo-sharing sites that, like the Kardashians, it's impossible to keep up with them all. Let me make this simple: Use Dropbox.
Dropbox Is Now The Data Fabric Tying Together Devices For 100M Registered Users Who Save 1B Files A Day
"At this scale, when you help people save 10 minutes or an hour, you're saving lifetimes of pain...And we're just getting started." That's what CEO Drew Houston thinks about his company hitting 100 million registered users and 1 billion files saved a day.
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什麼是 Dropbox？
Dropbox 提供的服務讓您可以隨時隨地存取自己的所有相片、文件和影片，也可以輕鬆與他人共享檔案。所有儲存在 Dropbox 都會自動儲存到您的電腦、手機或平板電腦，以及 Dropbox 網站中。Dropbox 的共享功能也十分簡單易用。如果您的電腦損壞當機，只要在 Dropbox 網站中按幾下，就可以輕鬆還原所有檔案。
- 隨手可得。只要將檔案儲存在 Dropbox 上，便可從電腦、手機、或平板電腦任意存取。在任何地方都能編輯文件、自動匯入相片、和分享影片。
- 安心共享。與好友分享相片。與您的團隊協同合作，就像大家用同一台電腦工作一樣。所有檔案都預設為私人擁有，您可以控制他人存取的權限。
- 安全有保障。就算您的手機泡水，您的資料仍會安全地儲存在 Dropbox 上，彈指間就能還原。Dropbox 使用 AES-256 位元加密技術和兩步驟驗證，確保您的檔案安全無虞。
- Dropbox Business。全球數百萬人都在工作中使用 Dropbox。使用 Dropbox Business 就能享有強大又有保障的 Dropbox 功能、完整的管理員控制工具、專屬支援服務、和您所需要的儲存空間。
全球成長
- Dropbox 有超過 500,000,000 名使用者。
- 每天人們都會在 Dropbox 儲存 12 億份檔案。
- Dropbox 提供 20 種語言版本，使用者遍及世界各地 200 多個國家。
- Dropbox 總部位於舊金山，另外在奧斯丁、都柏林、海爾茲利亞、倫敦、紐約、巴黎、西雅圖、雪梨、和東京都設有辦公室。
公司背景
- 創立：2007 年 6 月由 Drew Houston 及 Arash Ferdowsi 共同創辦。
- 推出：2008 年 9 月，Dropbox 問世。讓您能隨時隨地存取並分享檔案。
- Dropbox Business：我們在 2011 年開始提供專為團隊打造的 Dropbox 服務。2013 年，此服務蛻變為 Dropbox Business並正式推出。企業得以更高的能見度和管理權，掌握公司的重要檔案。Dropbox Business 每天都為大大小小的團隊即時同步所有協作內容。
- Dropbox 平台：開發者在 Dropbox 平台上打造了 300,000 個應用程式，可與包括 Facebook、Yahoo、1Password、Autodesk、Adobe EchoSign、Notability、CareerBuilder、Vimeo、HP、DocuSign、Microsoft Azure、Rackspace 和 Samsung 等多項服務結合。Dropbox 於 2014 年 12 月推出 Dropbox Business API 以及 20 多種企業整合功能，讓 Dropbox Business 可以為使用者提供更強大安全的協作平台。
Dropbox 的故事
Dropbox 由 Drew Houston 及 Arash Ferdowsi 於 2007 年成立。當時他們因為對於總是要使用多台電腦來執行作業而感到挫折，所以 Drew 就想，如果能夠設計出一種服務，讓人們不管是從什麼地方都能夠存取檔案，而不需要再使用電子郵件附加檔案，應該會非常方便。因此，Drew 就設計出一套 Dropbox 的示範編碼，並將這套編碼展示給 MIT 的同學和 Arash Ferdowsi 看。Arash Ferdowsi 當時只剩下一個學期就可以畢業，但他卻毅然決然地辦理休學，專心協助成立 Dropbox。他們所做的所有決策，都是以設計出一套簡單易用，而且可靠的系統為主，並且致力於讓所有電腦和手機都可以使用。
Dropbox 運作方式
Dropbox 可讓您輕鬆使用電腦或手機存取自己所有的檔案，方法就和在 Dropbox 資料夾中新增任何檔案一樣簡單。您可以在辦公室開始作業，回家後再完成作業，完全不需要煩惱應將檔案存在什麼地方 -- 檔案一直都在您的身邊，垂手可得。
加入 Dropbox 相當簡單：只要安裝 Dropbox 軟體 (適用 Windows、Mac 和 Linux 作業系統)，系統就會自動在您的電腦中建立一個專用資料夾。所有放入 Dropbox 資料夾的檔案內容，都會自動儲存到您所有電腦和 Dropbox 網站中。您也可以邀請其他人共享您 Dropbox 中的資料夾。因此，Dropbox 非常適合工作團隊專案，或與親朋好友分享相片，就像您直接將檔案儲存到他們的桌面一樣簡單。Dropbox 行動版應用程式可讓您將自己的生活點滴隨身帶著走。因為 Dropbox 可以保留工作歷程紀錄一個月，所以如果不小心出錯，您也可隨時還原檔案，或救回已經刪除的檔案。
Dropbox 一開始提供 2 GB 的免費空間，而且只要介紹好友加入，就能額外贏取最多 16 GB 的紅利空間；您也可以升級至 Pro 帳戶，享有最多 1 TB 的空間，以及最多 32 GB 的紅利空間 。Dropbox Business 滿足您的團隊在儲存空間方面的需求，一開始每位使用者先提供 1 TB。想瞭解更多內容，請瀏覽 www.dropbox.com/pricing。
媒體消息
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Dropbox 是一種免費服務，可讓使用者隨時隨地輕鬆存取及共享自己的文件、相片和影片。今天，Dropbox 隆重推出 Dropbox 企業方案。世界各地已有 4,500 萬名使用者仰賴 Dropbox 的功能服務，而且有了 Dropbox 企業方案，企業現在除了可享有更簡單一致的使用體驗以外，還有全新的管理控制項、彙整帳單、電話支援以及龐大的使用空間，讓工作團隊中每一個成員都可以使用。
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