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Dropbox announced they receive one billion uploads every day a few weeks ago at MWC, which obviously means they have a ton of users uploading their files onto the service on a regular basis. They’re always looking to expand their features, which is why they previously acquired Audiogalaxy and Snapjoy. Today, Dropbox is announcing another acquisition that may make them a major player in the world of email clients.
Dropbox has announced they have acquired a newly popular iPhone email application, Mailbox. “Like many of you, when we discovered Mailbox we fell in love,” wrote Dropbox co-founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in a recently published blog post. “It was simple, delightful, and beautifully engineered.”
Mailbox’s acquisition doesn’t mean the service will suddenly become a part of Dropbox and be used as an added service. Dropbox plans to keep Mailbox as a separate entity and will help push it forward to add more email providers and mobile devices, as well as additional features. All 14 employees of Mailbox will keep their positions and continue their work on the application.
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That was fast. It was just a month ago that Mailbox launched its unique (if queue-ridden) email client for iPhone users, and today we’re hearing that it’s been acquired by Dropbox. While the two aren’t explicit about their plans, the Mailbox crew makes clear that a Dropbox union will help scale its client, including to non-Gmail providers and more devices. The team also isn’t shy about speculating about what could happen if Dropbox’s cloud storage was “connected” to Mailbox. We’ll just have to give the new partners some time to produce what could be an alluring software hybrid.
Update: “Sources” are suggesting the asking price was around $100 million. Which… we’ll present without comment.
Filed under: Cellphones, Storage, Internet, Mobile
In what may be considered as a surprise move, popular cloud-storage service Dropbox has acquired recently-launched Mailbox. The new email app that launched around a month ago to hordes of curious users is now in the hands of Dropbox. Both Mailbox and Dropbox announced the acquisition on their respective blogs.
Dropbox says that they fell in love with Mailbox right away, describing the app as “simple, delightful, and beautifully engineered.” Dropbox discovered that Mailbox’s calling was the same as theirs: “to solve life’s hidden problems and reimagine the things we do every day.” That’s when the Dropbox folks realized they would make a team.
Mailbox said that rather than grow the app and the company on its own, they’ve decided to join forces with Dropbox to possibly achieve more than what they could do on their own. The Mailbox app itself will still be sticking around and won’t be changing, save for a few new features coming in the future, including Dropbox integration, according to a hint from Mailbox CEO Gentry Underwood.
Exact plans for the acquisition haven’t been disclosed, but we should definitely be seeing more features coming to Mailbox. We reviewed the app shortly after its release, and its certainly worth a try. The developer says that 60 million emails are going in and out per day, and the company’s service capacity has grown 2,000x since launching last month.
Dropbox acquires recently-launched email app Mailbox is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Mailbox, the iOS mail app that caused quite the splash when it burst on the scene with 250,000 users ready and waiting, has just been acquired by Dropbox. The announcement comes by way of a Dropbox blog post, in which Dropbox says it was impressed by how Mailbox actually delivered on its promise to simplify mail, and wants to bring that goodness to Dropbox users everywhere. More »
Although web-based editors like Google Docs are wonderful for writers who don’t have a save shortcut hardwired in their muscle memory, they’re lousy for anyone who’s interested in seeing major revisions on the road to a final copy. Nathan Kontny’s new Draft web app might be far more helpful for those creators who work step by step. It lets writers declare given document versions as mid-progress drafts, and offers editing side-by-side with older versions to see just what’s new in the current session. The app also avoids some of the lock-in that comes with cloud services by allowing imports and syncing with Box, Dropbox, Evernote and Google Drive. There’s no easy way to directly publish online as this stage, but if you’re only concerned with producing a masterwork in the cloud from start to draft to finish, Kontny’s web tool is waiting at the source link.
Filed under: Internet
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Draft
Dropbox announced the new Dropbox menu for computers in their official blog today. It enables user to keep track of all his Dropbox activities in one place. With the Dropbox menu, it is now easier to accept invitations to shared folders, see links or albums that people have shared and keep tabs of the changes as all these can be done on the menu itself. (more…)
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Dropbox has been making more of an effort at updating its mobile apps lately while leaving its desktop client by the wayside. However, the cloud storage company released a big update to the desktop client for Windows and Mac that comes with a new look, as well as improved notifications and enhanced sharing features.
The desktop client for Dropbox lives in the system tray or the menu bar (depending on whether you have Windows or Mac), so all the updates and new features are happening there. Specifically, Dropbox made it easier to access shared files, and you can also accept or decline invitations to shared folders right from the dropdown menu.
You’ll also get notifications in real-time as people share files with you. Dropbox also made it much easier and quicker to see what files have recently changed in your Dropbox, and they also added a new way to share files with a link. You can easily click “Share” on any recently-changed file and paste the link to the person you want to share it with.
However, the desktop client wasn’t the only thing to get the new features today. The mobile app for both iOS and Android both received an update that will provide notifications for shared folders. It’s not a huge update for the mobile version, but some users will enjoy getting the improved notifications on their smartphones.
Dropbox desktop client updates with redesign, improved notifications is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In a world that’s becoming increasingly swamped with cloud storage options, it’s good to see a true, original gangster innovating like the pressure is on. In a matter of moments, Dropbox is going to launch a re-imagined desktop client — one that promises “more visibility into activity in one’s Dropbox, faster access to your files, and a brand new look and feel.” The changes here are fairly subtle, but they’re ones that power users are bound to appreciate. You’ll be able to accept invitations with less friction, see links or albums that people have shared with you, and keep tabs on what’s changed in your Dropbox. There’s also a newfangled way to share your stuff with a link, right from the Dropbox menu.
Over on the mobile side, notifications for shared folders will also show up on the latest versions of Dropbox’s iOS and Android apps (and on the web at dropbox.com/events). Keep an eye on the source link; the new download links should be live any minute.
Filed under: Storage, Internet
Source: Dropbox
Even as online storage options proliferate, Dropbox has managed to stay ahead of the pack thanks to better features. Well now Dropbox’s desktop client is getting a prettier Version 2.0 overhaul to match its excellence. More »
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