ĭropbox acquires stealth startup Cove, bringing Ruchi Sanghvi and Aditya Agarwal onto the team. With 45 million users, Dropbox raises $250M In Funding in a Series B round. Files and folders shared with a user, including those in Windows Live Groups, were also accessible in the new interface. With this update, Microsoft consolidated the different entry points for SkyDrive, such as Windows Live Photos and Windows Live Office, into one single interface. Microsoft also doubled the file size limit from 50 MB to 100 MB per file. The updated version featured caching, hardware acceleration, HTML5 video, quick views, cleaner arrangement of photos and infinite scrolling. Microsoft overhauls the user interface for Microsoft OneDrive, built using HTML5 technologies. All users with compromised accounts were notified by email. About 1% of Dropbox's users were logged in at that time all sessions were immediately terminated. Pacific Time it was detected at 5:41 p.m. The error was caused by an authentication code update made at 1:54 p.m. This was later widely reported in the mainstream press and caused some doubt about Dropbox's "cloud" technology model. TechCrunch reports that all Dropbox accounts could be accessed without password for four hours. ĭropbox announces that it has been blocked by the Chinese government. Drew Houston cuts the pitch short and says that Dropbox is determined to stay independent. Steve Jobs approaches Drew Houston and suggests that Drew Houston sell Dropbox. ĭropbox raises $6 million in Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. It also announces storage pricing tiers, with 50GB Dropbox for $9.99/month, or $99.99/year. ĭropbox launches to the public, allowing anyone to get 2GB of free storage. This helped its beta waiting list expand from 5,000 people to 75,000 people literally overnight. SpiderOak – an online backup and file hosting service that allows users to access, synchronize and share data using a cloud-based server – is launched.ĭropbox creates a 3-minute video demonstration of its technology as it is meant to work, which is posted to Digg. Microsoft launches Windows Live SkyDrive (later OneDrive), which also provides users with free storage. ĭropbox is founded by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, as a startup company from the American seed accelerator Y Combinator. Box.com, an online file sharing and content management service for businesses, is launched.
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