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Dropbox soars to 100 million users
I guess in hindsight the Dropbox folks made the right call by refusing Apple’s reported $800 million buyout offer a few years back. The cloud storage solution company that nearly everyone I know seems to use just announced that they’ve reached 100 million users. Not too shabby at all. Five years pass more quickly than […]
Continue reading...Dropbox as a disruptive force
Saturday, March 10, 2012
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Apple’s first “hub strategy”, so to speak, placed the PC at the epicenter of user’s lives and was first introduced in 2001 at Macworld when Steve Jobs introduced Apple’s “Digital Hub” strategy. 10 years later, Apple recognized the shifting technological landscape, and introduced iCloud in the process. “We think this is going to be pretty […]
Continue reading...Apple’s Finder team balked at incorporating Dropbox functionality into OS X
Monday, January 23, 2012
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Apple’s iCloud offering doesn’t represent the company’s first foray into the world of cloud computing, but it certainly is their most successful effort to date given that it was preceded by MobileMe. A few months back we reported on how Apple reportedly made a $800 million offer to acquire Dropbox, an offer which Dropbox refused […]
Continue reading...When Dropbox told Steve Jobs that they weren’t for sale
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Apple this week delivered its latest attempt at giving users the ability to seamlessly share documents and media across a multitude of devices with the roll-out of iCloud. But before Apple developed iCloud in-house, it sought to acquire Dropbox – which you might recognize as the highly regarded web based file hosting and digital storage […]
Continue reading...Apple reportedly made $800 million offer for Dropbox
Friday, September 9, 2011
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Founded by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a Y Combinator startup, Dropbox is one of those services that, to borrow a phrase from Steve Jobs, “just works”. Positioned as a web-based file hosting service that lets users share and download files from friends with alarming ease, Dropbox is insanely easy and convenient […]
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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