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This 20-Year-Old Emailed Mark Cuban, Got $350K — Now His Company Is Worth $4.6 Billion
Saturday, May 31, 2025 - 1:39pm | 457A cold email to billionaire Mark Cuban by Aaron Levie, co-founder cloud storage and file-sharing business Box, was the catalyst for the company’s current valuation of $4.6 billion. What Happened: Back in 2005, Levie, then a University of Southern California student, was on the hunt for...
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Trump Media & Technology Group, Box Inc, Lumen Technologies, Tesla, Nvidia: Why These 5 Shares On Investors' Radars Today
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 - 10:50pm | 625Major U.S. indices closed in positive territory on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average inching up 0.02% to 41,250.50, the S&P 500 gaining 0.2% to 5,625.80, and the Nasdaq also advancing 0.2% to 17,754.82. These are the top stocks that gained the attention of retail traders and...
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Box CEO Compares AI With Mobiles In Mid-2000s — And Elon Musk Couldn't Agree More
Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - 7:16am | 576Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX) CEO Aaron Levie drew a striking analogy between the current state of artificial intelligence and the mobile industry in the mid-2000s, gaining Elon Musk’s agreement. What Happened: While generative AI platforms like ChatGPT’s ...
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Morgan Stanley Tackles Customer-Centric Service With Cloud Document Solution
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - 3:53pm | 160Morgan Stanley on Monday launched a new cloud-based document management solution provided by Box (NYSE:BOX), a leader in cloud content management and file sharing systems. This development will give Morgan Stanley clients and advisors access to encrypted cloud document tools that improve...
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Benzinga's Bulls & Bears Of The Week: Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla And More
Sunday, April 29, 2018 - 8:43am | 762Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included two tech giants and some investor conference picks. Bearish calls included semiconductor makers and REITs. The broader equity markets are around 2 percent higher over the past month,...
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MUFG Analyst Upgrades Box On Momentum, 'Multitude Of Opportunities'
Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 2:26pm | 453Analysts at MUFG Securities found Box Inc (NYSE: BOX)'s earnings report convincing enough to upgrade the stock from Neutral to Overweight with a price target boost from $17.50 to $23. Box executed well in its earnings report, led by at least a 30-percent growth in top line, bookings and...
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Billings, Box Inc's Key Metric, Were Up 31% In An Impressive Q1
Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 11:29am | 423Analysts at JMP maintain a bullish stance on Box Inc (NYSE: BOX) after the company reported its first-quarter results, in which revenue and earnings per share came in better than Wall Street expected. JMP's Greg McDowell commented in a research report that Box's billings in the quarter rose...
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Is Google Eyeing An Acquisition Of Box After Forming A New Partnership?
Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 11:44am | 379Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and its Google unit announced on Wednesday a new partnership with the cloud storage company Box Inc (NYSE: BOX). As part of the agreement, Box's customers will have better access to Google Docs and other Google services and apps. As noted by Recode,...
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What This 'Esteemed' Venture Capitalist Learned From Mark Zuckerberg
Monday, March 28, 2016 - 5:50pm | 418Chamath Palihapitiya runs one of the best-respected venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Social Capital, which has backed several tech companies with valuations in the billions, including Slack, Box and SurveyMonkey. Vanity Fair recently interviewed Palihapitiya. The former Facebook Inc (...
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Retail Earnings Parade Continues: Dicks Sporting Goods, Dollar General, Urban Outfitters
Monday, March 7, 2016 - 9:31am | 774Three more prominent retailers are on deck to share their latest earnings results this week. Analysts expect year-over-year revenue growth from all three but earnings growth from just one. Consensus forecasts see earnings growth from only a few other retailers this week. Although most of the big...
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PacCrest: Buy These IT Security, Infrastructure Picks In H2
Monday, August 24, 2015 - 8:55am | 401Since mid-July, security and infrastructure names have taken a large hit. Barracuda Networks Inc (NYSE: CUDA) and Palo Alto Networks Inc (NYSE: PANW) are down nearly 20 percent, while Imperva Inc (NYSE: IMPV) has lost 18 percent and Box Inc (NYSE: BOX) dipped 14 percent. Pacific Crest's...
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Did Alibaba, Box And Fitbit Peak At Their IPOs?
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 6:57pm | 491Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA), Box Inc (NYSE: BOX) and Fitbit Inc (NYSE: FIT) attracted a world of attention before their IPOs, but investors have been leery ever since. "Previously, an IPO event would signal the growth phase of the company," Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry...
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Box Just Did Something Rare For A Company About To Go Public
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 11:57am | 596It is rare for a company that has already filed for an IPO to seek new financing. Box Inc. did just that Monday, raising $150 million from private equity firm, TPG Growth and from Coatue Management, L.L.C. According to The Wall Street Journal, data from Dow Jones VentureSource indicated that...
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Sources: Box Now Planning July Or August IPO
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 9:39am | 679Cloud storage company Box will arrive late to its own IPO party, but it will arrive. At least that’s according to sources who spoke with Re/Code Thursday. In addition, those same sources said the company was not for sale. Period. According to the sources, Box hopes to complete its initial...
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Google Glass Rapidly Gaining Traction With Physicians
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 10:48am | 643Despite controversy surrounding Google Glass and privacy, one area of potential use is set to explode. This potential comes in an area involving a sacred privacy– the doctor/patient relationship. According to The Wall Street Journal, doctors at California health care-provider Dignity...