I was working on a briefing for a client yesterday, and one trend I outlined was the file sync-and-share storage war, where I suggested that we are on a trend toward functionally… Read more »
This was a week where so many things broke that I am having trouble keeping track. Amazon Fire Amazon announced the much anticipated Amazon phone, called Amazon Fire. I had made… Read more »
Box has announced the acquisition of Streem, a Y-Combinator startup that had raised $875,000 to build — in essence — a streaming file system. StreemFS allows users to maintain large files… Read more »
Dropbox continues its acquisition spree, this week pulling in MobileSpan, a provider of mobile apps for secure editing of Office documents behind corporate firewalls. This is clearly in line with Dropbox’s… Read more »
After a week of assimilating Apple’s tour-de-force at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference last week, a long list of market watchers are saying that the event — and the design and development… Read more »
Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox, told the story last fall at Dreamforce about Steve Jobs’ effort to acquire Dropbox, and how Job was committed to ‘kill’ the company with iCloud. The… Read more »
Apple is being unusually tight-lipped about what we can expect this week, but one thing is clear: they are working hard on becoming more of an enterprise-oriented company. The teasers in the… Read more »
Our internet connections are so slow that it makes more sense to ship physical media, which is why iDrive is now syncing files with USB drives. Read more »
The battle of the customer announcements has commenced. Following soon on the heels of Box’s disclosure that GE had selected that file sync-and-share solution over other alternatives (see Is the tide turning… Read more »
Two announcements made last week by Box, the file sync-and-share company, suggest that the company’s recent string of bad luck may be turning. First, and most importantly, Aaron Levie announced on… Read more »