Dropbox’s Data Breach Scare Doesn’t Check Out
A version of this post titled "Dropbox, dropped ball" originally appeared in the Cyber Saturday edition of Data Sheet, Fortune's daily tech newsletter. Social media sites have been the subject of a...
View ArticleHP Enterprise Touts Dropbox Deal to Show Its Hardware Is Still Relevant
A few months ago, Dropbox disclosed it had moved 90% of its storage business away from Amazon Web Services to internally managed data centers. While there had been rumblings about this move before it...
View ArticleHere’s How Two Visionaries Want to Fix a Broken Internet
When Tim Berners-Lee or Brewster Kahle talk about the state of the Internet, people should probably listen. The two, after all, have contributed much to the global network that we all rely on for work,...
View ArticleDropbox Promises It Is Finally Headed Toward Profitability
Dropbox, the file sharing and storage company, is apparently getting serious about business--and making money. The company was valued at $10 billion two years ago, but that number has been called into...
View ArticleMillennial Employees Could Be Your Company’s Biggest Cybersecurity Risk
Maybe it's not so surprising that Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts got hacked last week. A recent study by IT consultants Softchoice suggests that the 32-year-old Facebook CEO was only acting...
View ArticlePayPal Restores Account of Dropbox Rival After File-Monitoring Row
PayPal pypl has reinstated the account of a cloud provider that said it was cut off for refusing to monitor its customers’ files and data for illegal content. The payments firm said Wednesday that it...
View ArticleBox Sweetens Cloud Pitch With Service that Helps Move Digital Files
One of the bigger concerns that many companies have about switching their existing systems for managing digital documents is highly tactical and practical--it takes a lot of time and effort to move...
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies, and Cloud Adoption Numbers
In technology as in life, there are lots of stats. And the numbers on how many companies will adopt cloud computing in any given time period are all over the map. Last week a survey of 100 chief...
View ArticleEphemeral Messaging App Snapchat Makes a Slight U-Turn With Its New Feature
The best part about Snapchat is that photos and videos disappear forever--or is it? Apparently, the ephemeral app’s users sometimes want to save some of these photos and videos of silly faces or...
View ArticleDropbox Says Controlling its Own Tech Makes it Faster, Nimbler
Dropbox, the cloud storage company that says it has half a billion users, now says it’s well on its way to 200,000 paying business customers. And Dropbox CEO Drew Houston is banking that its new...
View ArticleCloud Computing’s Big, Disruptive Multiple Hundred Billion Dollar Impact
Another day, another report about how cloud computing will upend the way businesses buy and use technology. This time out, market research firm Gartner it said $111 billion worth of IT spending will...
View ArticleThis Startup From Apple Veterans Thinks It Can Do Better Than Dropbox
Update from 8:04 a.m. The company just disclosed $77 million in funding led by KPCB and Western Digital, with contributions from Elevation Partners, Floodgate, GV, NTT Docomo Ventures. Upthere, a...
View ArticleDropbox Could Be Going Public Sooner Than You Think
Cloud storage startup Dropbox is inching toward an initial public offering with an eye on 2017, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The San Francisco-based business, which boasts to have half a...
View ArticleWant to Work for a Cloud Company? Here’s the Cream of the Crop
What do Asana, Greenhouse Software, WalkMe, Chef Software, and Sprout Social have in common? They’ve been deemed the very best privately held “cloud” companies to work for, according to new rankings...
View ArticleHere’s Why Dropbox Is Urging Users to Reset Their Passwords
Dropbox has emailed many of its users, urging them to reset their passwords. The popular cloud storage said the move was related to the theft of an old set of Dropbox credentials, dating back to 2012....
View ArticleHow to Check If You Were Caught Up In the Dropbox Breach
Dropbox recently reset many of its users passwords due to a data breach that took place back in 2012. However, the scale of that breach has only now become apparent. According to Motherboard, the...
View ArticleWhy Evernote Is Giving Up on Its Data Centers for Google Cloud
Evernote, which has run its cloud-based services from its own data centers since launching in 2008, is moving completely over to Google Cloud Platform, the two companies announced on Tuesday. “We hope...
View ArticleWhy This Small Cloud Company Is Still Partnering With Rival Microsoft
In the modern tech era, there are still just a handful of massive public cloud providers--namely Amazon, Microsoft, and Google--that offer an array of computing, storage,and networking services. Yet,...
View ArticleUncle Sam Needs Techies and Vice Versa
The Obama Administration has attracted some high-powered tech talent to do government work over the last eight years, but the need to recruit the best and brightest technologists to work in the public...
View ArticleWhy This Popular Developer Site Dumped Cloud to Build Its Own Storage
“How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud.” That headline is roughly equivalent to “Man Bites Dog” in the tech blogosphere, so it was eyebrow-raising to those who read it atop a new blog post from...
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