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Dropbox, the increasingly popular online storage service, has announced that it will open its first international office in Dublin, Ireland. By doing so, it will join the likes of Facebook and Google in establishing business in a place known for attracting tech companies. In addition to being its first international office, the Dublin location will be Dropbox’s second office.

As of the announcement, Dropbox hasn’t yet selected a building for its international office, nor has it chosen the individual who will head it all. The current Dropbox office is located in San Francisco, California. The company’s CEO Drew Houston has expressed that, despite the need to move into international territory, it is important for both offices to have the same “team culture.”

The majority of Dropbox’s users are located outside of the United States, with 200 countries being home to 100 million of the service’s users. Of its total user base, 30-percent of them are located in Europe. According to Houston, for Dropbox’s continual improvement and expansion, it’s important for the company to grow beyond the US.

We reported back on November 13 that the cloud service had hit its 100-millionth user. Over the course of this year, Dropbox has seen an explosion in growth, with the number of individuals registered with the service quadrupling. Houston had expressed dissatisfaction, stating that although 100 million users is quite a bit, it was nowhere near where it could be.

[via All Things D]

Dropbox to open first overseas office in Dublin is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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When Dropbox decided to get all close and cozy with Facebook Groups, that was just the beginning. With its new Chooser tool any developer can integrate Dropbox for quickly and easily sharing files stored in the cloud. Rather than upload or attach files from your desktop you can simply link files from your online folders. And, since the attachment is actually stored with Dropbox, rather than copied to a site’s own servers, every time you update a document it’s automatically updated for everyone else too. The first site to integrate the new tool is task management service Asana. Check out the source for more info from both companies.

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Dropbox, the cloud-storage provider, announced earlier today that it has exceeded the 100 million users mark. This milestone comes after the massive influx of users the company experienced this year, with Dropbox quadrupling its number of users during 2012. It’s still nowhere near the number the company would like to have, however.

Drew Houston, one of Dropbox’s founders, offered this statement. “Even 100 million is still at a single dot percentage of the people we could reach.” The cloud-storage company is up against steep odds, however, with their competition including such powerhouses as Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft, all of which offer their own varieties of storage.

Still, despite Houston’s large ambitions, hitting the 100 million user mark is quite an accomplishment. Apple, for example, has 190 million users on its iCloud storage service. And Dropbox aims to offer something none of the other aforementioned providers can – a way to store data without concern for the “logo on the back of the computer or device.”

In fact, says the company co-founder, Dropbox, though providing a similar service, is in a better position overall to meet its goals and that it has a different focus. “Those companies are busy trying to build something we had four years ago,” said Houston. “We’re out front. We’re already out there and building smaller features and things. All those other companies have turf to protect, and they’re fighting a battle on a totally different front.”

[via Tapscape]

Dropbox reaches the 100 million users mark is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In case you didn’t hear, Microsoft‘s BUILD developer conference kicked off today in Seattle, and the folks from Redmond took the opportunity to show off some new apps. We got a first hand look at the new ESPN for Windows 8, and then they nicely shared a few details regarding what to expect in the coming months. Obviously apps are coming soon, but today they specifically mentioned DropBox, Paypal, Sports Illustrated and more.

A dedicated Netflix app for Windows 8 is already available, and earlier we shared details on the beautiful ESPN app too. While on stage Microsoft took a minute to shout out multiple brands we’ll be seeing apps from in the coming weeks and months. As shown above some of those include the popular Dropbox, PayPal, OWN, Sports Illustrated, Wikipedia, TBS and many others. These will be more than just apps, they’ll be useful apps built to work great with everything Windows 8 has to offer.

Paypal will not only have their own app, but they’ll offer an API to developers on Windows 8 to use PayPal payments in their own apps right in the Windows Store, as well as any Windows Store app. Dropbox has an app coming soon, but they didn’t give many details on that — obviously wanting users to choose SkyDrive instead.

The link above showing off the all new ESPN app is just one of many, and a fine example of what all the API’s and options Windows 8 brings to app developers. Being able to have an impressive and beautiful score-center and more all working seamlessly in Windows 8 as an app should be exciting. I’m sure we’ll be hearing plenty more all week at build, as well as from these specific app developers themselves.

Microsoft confirms Dropbox, PayPal apps and more coming soon to Windows 8 is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Welcome to Tuesday evening folks. We had a whopper of a day, what with Apple announcing a ton of new products and all. You can find all of our coverage of today’s Apple news in our event round-up or by checking out our Apple Portal. Don’t forget about our hands-on with the bite-sized iPad Mini, the ridiculously thin iMac, and the long-awaited 13″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display. You can even watch a video of the entire event if you missed it earlier, so be sure to have a look at that.

Of course, the rest of the world keeps going when Apple holds an event, so there was plenty of non-Apple news to report today. Earlier in the day we heard that Zynga had laid off a significant number of employees, only to have the company confirms the layoffs later on. We found out today that Xbox Smartglass will arrive on October 26 – the same day as Windows 8 – and that Amazon will soon begin phasing out the Kindle Touch.

Oh hey there awesome Iron Man 3 trailer, when did you arrive? Dropbox for iOS has been updated to add full-resolution image downloads and support for iPhone 5, while Samsung and LG were tipped to release the first 1080p smartphones next year. ASUS gave us a ton of information on its upcoming Windows 8 machines today, and shortly afterward announced that it will be expanding its ZenBook series with two new models. Watch out for those, because ASUS is going to be a big Windows 8 name once the OS hits.

Facebook gave us its earnings report for Q3 today, as did Netflix, and Gearbox confirmed that Borderlands Legends is in fact a real iOS game. Microsoft has added the 250GB Xbox to its $99 subscription offering, and Digital Storm unveiled its new super-slim Bolt gaming PC. Dell has delivered prices for a lot of its Windows 8 machines, and today Sony started teasing its 4K CineAlta camcorder, which will be shown off at an event on October 30. Finally tonight, we get an up-close look at the iPad Mini’s thumb rejection technology and have a review of Microsoft Surface, so be sure to give that a read. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, enjoy the rest of your night everyone!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 23, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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