Dropbox

On Monday at WWDC, Apple announced a huge batch of products aimed straight at the heart existing companies and apps. Here are just a few of the things that are feeling a spinning beachball target on their backs. DROPBOX: iCloud has never been a hugely appealing cloud storage option, that’s at least partially because Dropbox Continue Reading →

Dropbox has an automatic photo upload feature that’s pretty wonderful. Turn it on, and it automatically uploads every picture you take to its server. But unless you adjust your sync settings, it’s also a good way to chew through all your hard drive space in a hurry. If you’re a Dropbox user, you’ve been prompted Continue Reading →

Touting 275 million users, Dropbox on Wednesday debuted a set of productivity tools to help users work more efficiently, including Mailbox for Android, a standalone photo app Carousel, and collaborative editing features. “What makes me so happy is this family just got a lot bigger,” CEO Drew Houston said. About a year after beloved iOS Continue Reading →

Dropbox will let you manage separate work and personal accounts on all of your devices next month, The Verge has learned. In advance of an April 9th press event, the company has notified users of its Dropbox for Business product that they will soon be able to access personal and work Dropbox files without logging Continue Reading →

Dropbox said Sunday it was making progress in restoring service after the popular file storage service went offline on Friday. As of Sunday afternoon Pacific time, the service said more than 99 percent of users can access their files. But 5 percent of users were having trouble syncing files from the desktop client, and about Continue Reading →

Over the last six years, Dropbox has emerged as one of Silicon Valley’s most promising startups on the strength of a simple idea—allowing Internet users to store such files as baby photos and Word (MSFT) documents in the cloud and to access them from any computer or mobile device. On Tuesday the company gathered journalists Continue Reading →

Dropbox, an online storage service that has gained 200 million consumers in five years, is heading to the office. On Wednesday, the company announced Dropbox for Business, a significant advance from its previous efforts to build storage for work groups. It also signaled a willingness to compete with some of the biggest companies in the Continue Reading →

A little over two months after FindIt first launched for iPhone, the email- and file-search app has now quietly rolled out on Android too. It’s a beautifully designed app, one that currently connects with Gmail, Google Drive and Dropbox, though there is scope for opening this up to additional cloud-based services in the future. There Continue Reading →

Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston occupies a funny reality. On one hand, as he readily admits, he works on cloud storage — boring and geeky stuff. On the other hand, when Dropbox works, people can’t stop talking about how much they love it. The company has 175 million registered users who save more than Continue Reading →

Dropbox on Tuesday announced a new Dropbox for Business feature: team folders. Administrators can now create folders that are instantly shared with all members of their team, both current ones and new ones that join later. This means all important files that all colleagues need can be shared with the whole team in just one step. Furthermore, Continue Reading →