View image | gettyimages.com Once upon a time, there was an exclusive club that only allowed technology companies worth $1 billion to join. While that sounds like an opening line to a… Read More
Facebook launched a new platform today for companies to share information about security threats and work together to solve them. Called ThreatExchange, it’s a new “social platform designed for sharing… Read More
[Update: Here’s the official announcement from Dropbox.] Dropbox, the San Francisco-based cloud storage and file sharing company, is planning to open a Seattle engineering office — becoming the latest in a… Read More
The year may be winding to a close, but a coalition of 9 tech companies want lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to curb the government’s surveillance powers before the close of… Read More
Microsoft and Dropbox announced a key partnership today that will allow Dropbox users to access their cloud-based files while using the web, smartphone, and tablet versions of Microsoft Office. Those… Read More
Yesterday, a cache claiming to hold Dropbox passwords was dumped onto the net, leading many people to speculate that the company had suffered a breach. Dropbox, for its part, has said… Read More
Dropbox has updated its Dropbox Pro premium online storage product today in order to make large amounts of storage more affordable and provide some key new security features. Starting today,… Read More
A Seattle-based startup wants to make it easier for you to access your cloud files — no matter which app you use — and is reeling in a chunk of dough… Read More
Microsoft announced today that it’s offering 1 TB of storage to every person who subscribes to its OneDrive for Business plan, compared to the 25 GB of space it offered… Read More
Dropbox is one of the leading providers of consumer cloud storage, but the company’s bread and butter has been offering users a folder on their computer that syncs to the… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – Dropbox CEO Drew Houston is sitting pretty. Most recently, the cloud storage company raised $250 million on a $4 billion valuation in 2011, and according to Houston,… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Your Dropbox just got more useful. The cloud storage company held its first DBX developer conference today at Fort Mason in San Francisco, and took the opportunity… Read More
Here’s a new bar for startups: Mailbox, the trendy iPhone email app, has been acquired even before clearing its wait-list of new users. But what’s more interesting about this deal… Read More
Steve Ballmer has made a habit of publicly downplaying competitors right before they eat Microsoft’s lunch. His comments about the iPhone in 2007 will be cited in business school case studies… Read More
Audiogalaxy, a music streaming service that was initially created more than a decade ago by developer Michael Merhej, has been acquired by fast-growing Dropbox for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition… Read More
The Storage Wars are heating up, but this has nothing to do with television or storage units. Microsoft this morning rolled out new features for its SkyDrive online storage service,… Read More
Google appears to be getting closer to the launch of its online storage service: A GeekWire reader says Google Drive has been enabled in his Google Account — as shown… Read More
We’ve been watching in amazement over the past 18 months or so as Amazon.com has risen to prominence as one of the most dominant companies in technology. (And yes, in… Read More
In the past few months, file sharing and cloud storage startups Box and Dropbox have raised massive amounts of cash at whopping valuations. Now, a third, much smaller Seattle startup… Read More
If you’ve ever been part of a startup, then you know how much hard work it involves. And you usually don’t have enough people to get all the work done!… Read More
Dropbox updated its terms of service last week and a firestorm of controversy ensued. Many thought Dropbox was setting itself up to take license rights in user content that went beyond… Read More