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August 2. 01. 7[update])[8]Websitewww. Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox was founded in 2. MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, as a startup company, with initial funding from seed accelerator.
Y Combinator. Dropbox creates a special folder on the user's computer, the contents of which are then synchronized to Dropbox's servers and to other computers and devices that the user has installed Dropbox on, keeping the same files up- to- date on all devices. Dropbox uses a freemiumbusiness model, where users are offered a free account with a set storage size, with paid subscriptions available that offer more capacity and additional features. Dropbox Basic users are given 2 gigabytes of free storage space. Dropbox Plus users are given 1 terabyte of storage space, as well as additional features, including advanced sharing controls, remote wipe, and an optional Extended Version History add- on.
Dropbox offers computer apps for Microsoft Windows, Applemac. OS, and Linux computers, and mobile apps for i. OS, Android, and Windows Phone smartphones and tablets. In March 2. 01. 3, the company acquired Mailbox, a popular email app, and in April 2. Dropbox Carousel, a photo and video gallery app. Both Mailbox and Carousel were shut down in December 2. Dropbox service. In October 2.
Dropbox Paper, its collaborative document editor, in a reported effort to expand its operations towards businesses. As of March 2. 01. Dropbox has 5. 00 million users.
Dropbox has received praise, including the Crunchie Award in 2. Best Internet Application, and Macworld`s 2. Editor's Choice Award for Software. It has been ranked as one of the most valuable startups in the US and the world, with a valuation of over US$1.
Y Combinator's most successful investments to date. However, Dropbox has also experienced criticism and generated controversy for issues including security breaches and privacy concerns. History[edit]. Dropbox founder Drew Houston. Dropbox founder Arash Ferdowsi. Dropbox founder Drew Houston conceived the Dropbox concept after repeatedly forgetting his USB flash drive while he was a student at MIT. In a 2. 00. 9 "Meet the Team" post on the Dropbox blog, he wrote that existing services at the time "suffered problems with Internet latency, large files, bugs, or just made me think too much". He began making something for his personal use, but then realized that it could benefit others with the same problems.[9] Houston founded Dropbox, Inc.
June 2. 00. 7, and shortly thereafter secured seed funding from Y Combinator.[1. Dropbox officially launched at 2. Tech. Crunch Disrupt, an annual technology conference.[1.
Owing to trademark disputes between Proxy, Inc. Evenflow (Dropbox's parent company), Dropbox's official domain name was "getdropbox. October 2. 00. 9, when it acquired its current domain, "dropbox. In an interview with Tech. Crunch´s "Founder Stories" in October 2. Houston explained that a demo video was released during Dropbox's early days, with one viewer being Arash Ferdowsi.
Ferdowsi was "so impressed" that they formed a partnership. In regards to competition, Houston stated that "It is easy for me to explain the idea, it is actually really hard to do it."[1.
User growth[edit]Dropbox has seen steady user growth since its inception. It surpassed the 1 million registered users milestone in April 2. September, and 3 million in November.[1. It passed 5. 0 million users in October 2. November 2. 01. 2,[1. November 2. 01. 3,[1.
June 2. 01. 5,[1. March 2. 01. 6.[2. Acquisitions[edit]In July 2. Dropbox acquired Tap. Engage, a startup that "enables advertisers and publishers to collaborate on tablet- optimized advertising".[2. The following December, Dropbox acquired two companies; Audiogalaxy, a startup "allowing users to store their music files and playlists in the cloud then stream them to any device",[2.
Snapjoy, a company that allowed users to "aggregate, archive and view all of their digital photos from their cameras, phones and popular apps like Flickr, Instagram and Picasa, and then view them online or via an i. OS app".[2. 4] In July 2.
Dropbox acquired Endorse, a "mobile coupon startup".[2. In May 2. 01. 4, Dropbox acquired Bubbli, a startup that has "built some innovative ways of incorporating 3. D technology into 2. D views, and packaging it in a mobile app".[2. In January 2. 01.
Dropbox acquired Cloud. On, a company that provided mobile applications for document editing and creation.
At the same time, Dropbox told Tech. Crunch that Cloud. On's base in Herzliya would become the first Dropbox office in Israel.[2. In July, Dropbox acquired Clementine, an enterprise communication service.[2. In April 2. 01. 4, Dropbox acquired photo- sharing company Loom (which would be shut down and integrated with the then- recently announced Carousel),[3. Hackpad.[3. 1][3. Dropbox later announced in April 2.
Hackpad would be shut down on July 1. Dropbox Paper.[3. Platforms[edit]Dropbox has computer apps for Microsoft Windows, Applemac. OS, and Linux computers,[3. OS, Android, and Windows Phone smartphones and tablets.[3. It also offers a website interface.[3. As part of its partnership with Microsoft, Dropbox announced a universal Windows 1.
January 2. 01. 6.[3. Dropbox's apps offer an automatic photo uploading feature, allowing users to automatically upload photos or videos from cameras, tablets, SD cards, or smartphones to a dedicated "Camera Uploads" folder in their Dropbox.
Users are given 5. In July 2. 01. 4, Dropbox introduced "streaming sync" for its computer apps.
Streaming sync was described as a new "supercharged"[4. In August 2. 01. 5, Dropbox announced the availability of "Universal 2nd Factor" USBsecurity keys, providing two- factor authentication for logging into its services.[4. Financials[edit]Dropbox received initial funding from seed accelerator. Y Combinator.[1. 0] Dropbox also raised US$1.
Series A funding from Sequoia Capital in 2. Series A investment, which included a fresh slug of US$6 million", bringing the total amount to US$7. A May 2. 01. 0 report in The Wall Street Journal said that "since [founder Drew Houston] started reading Eric Ries' Lean startup blog about a year ago, the company has started trickling out new features when they are ready instead of waiting to launch a fully featured product.
That helps test customer appetite, he says, dubbing the practice "minimum viable product".[4. Tech. Crunch reported in July 2. Dropbox had been looking to raise between US$2. US$3. 00 million, and had a valuation "to end up in the $5 billion to $1. As noted in a Forbes article, Dropbox had "revenue on track to hit $2. In April 2. 01. 2, Dropbox announced that Bono and The Edge, two members of the Irish rock band U2, were individual investors in the company.[4. In March 2. 01. 7, Bloomberg reported that Dropbox had secured a US$6.
IPO) "as soon as this year".[4.