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Dropbox Acquires MobileSpan To Bolster BYOD Security
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 10:12am | 585Dropbox is in full acquisition mode; Tuesday it bought startup MobileSpan, a company that helps employees access corporate firewalled content from their personal devices in a secure manner. According to the MobileSpan website, the company will shut down at the end of 2014, and active...
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Dropbox Acquires Startup Droptalk
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 10:56am | 700Dropbox, the startup that won’t stop, has acquired another startup called Droptalk according to TechCrunch. Droptalk developed a tool, available so far only in limited beta, that allows users to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extension. The plan was to offer iOS and...
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SendHub's Innovative BYOD Service Could Put Its Competitors Out Of Business
Monday, May 12, 2014 - 1:34pm | 702SendHub is a startup that could be worthy of that silly, over-used word that entrepreneurs love to throw around: disruption. The Y Combinator-backed company created a Web- and mobile-based phone system that allows users to bring their own devices to work. Pricing starts at $25 per month (per...
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Dropbox Continues Its March Towards An IPO, With Carousel Launch
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 4:20pm | 550Privately-owned Dropbox isn’t on the stock exchanges, yet. But with each new move, the company seems to be heading in the direction of an initial public offering. Most recently it unveiled Carousel, a product designed to store and manage your photos and videos. The app incorporates features...
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Box Files For Initial Public Offering
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 11:15am | 629Enterprise-focused cloud-based file-management service Box said Monday, via tweet that it was planning a $250 million IPO. A short while later, re/code said the filing had gone live. Box launched in 2005 as an academic project created by CEO Aaron Levie in his dorm room at USC. According...
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The Ins & Outs Of The GoDaddy IPO Plan
Monday, March 17, 2014 - 10:47am | 454According to a story first reported by The Wall Street Journal, GoDaddy is preparing for an IPO. GoDaddy, the internet domain registrar and web host, is now the largest internet domain registrar in the world. The company is owned by a consortium of private equity groups including Kohlberg...
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Box Appears To Have Secretly Filed For IPO, Could Go Public As Soon As April 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 12:53pm | 372Box, the online cloud-storage company, has quietly filed for an initial public offering, according to a report from Quartz and confirmed by Forbes. Box, one of the main competitors to the extremely popular cloud-storage service Dropbox, took a page out of Twitter's playbook by opting to secretly...
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The Opposite Sketches: The Pay-To-Make Exchanges
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 4:12pm | 642Last week, the maker-taker exchanges was touched upon: Nasdaq OM, NYSE Arca (formerly Pacific Stock Exchange) and BATS. These trading venues offer a significant rebate to liquidity providers (limit orders) and charge a taker fee to liquidity sources. For names like Bank of America (NYSE: BAC),...
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Thinking Inside Aaron Levie's Box
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 8:54am | 481Box has been a leader in online file sharing and management via the Cloud while investing major time in securing it. With over 150,000 businesses using the service, Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning and addressed the security eScares seen recently (...