Dropbox

Dropbox doesn’t want to be a storage service. It wants to be the data layer uniting your information on all apps. To get more apps and enterprises integrated with its platform, it announced DBX, the six year-old startup’s first developer conference. To be held July 9th at San Francisco, you can request an invite for Continue Reading →

Sharing is getting a bit easier on Google Drive. Google has just announced that users on a PC or Mac can now share files simply by right clicking and choosing “share” from a Google Drive submenu. The file(s) in question will need to be in your Google Drive folder, of course. It’s a small addition Continue Reading →

Nir Goldshlager just saved your identity. One of the world’s top white hat security researchers, Goldshlager this week helped Skype and Dropbox fix a critical security flaw that could have let hackers take control of their users’ Facebook accounts. Tomorrow Goldshlager will detail how he found the exploit, but he gave TechCrunch the early heads Continue Reading →

It’s no secret that Yahoo! is overhauling all of its flagship products, including mail. The service has gotten a refresh on both the web and mobile, and on Tuesday, the company has announced a partnership with file-backup and sharing service Dropbox. The partnership will make it easier to send, receive and manage attachments in Yahoo! Continue Reading →

If you are a Dropbox user, you are acutely aware of the number of content links that your friends, family, and coworkers will send you. It can become confusing. Happily,Dropbox has released a new feature today that will track what content you have visited via shared links. Now, you can keep close tabs on just Continue Reading →

Apple may not have the best reputation for online services but that hasn’t stopped its iCloud online storage service from becoming the most-used cloud service in the United States. A new report from Strategy Analytics shows that 27% American web users user iCloud, giving it a lead of 10 percentage points over runner-up Dropbox, which Continue Reading →

Dropbox announced on Friday that it had acquired Mailbox, the startup focused on changing the way users handle e-mail on the smartphone. “After spending time with Gentry, Scott, and the team, it became clear that their calling was the same as ours at Dropbox—to solve life’s hidden problems and reimagine the things we do every Continue Reading →

A thread on the Dropbox forums is filling up with reports of users getting sent spam email to addresses that have exclusively been used for the service. The uptick in spam has grown beyond just a few users, sparking some comparisons to last year’s data leak. Dropbox has taken notice and is now investigating. The Continue Reading →

One billion files are now being uploaded to Dropbox’s servers each day, CEO Drew Houston has revealed during a speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It’s a staggering figure that is double the number of tweets that Twitter revealed were being published to its social network each day last October. CNET cited Houston saying Continue Reading →

Dropbox is a robust independent file syncing tool (which Apple once tried to buy) that recently hit the 100m user milestone. It’s arguably the most popular cloud service around, and for good reason. One of the key advantages of Dropbox is that it’s so easy to use—you simply set it up and then forget about Continue Reading →