Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion
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Re: Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion
#2"Dropbox, which is increasingly competing with Microsoft and Google as well as fellow startup Box in the fast-growing field of cloud storage,"
This implicitly (if not explicitly) reverses the actuality, which is really:
"Dropbox, which is increasingly facing competition from Microsoft and Google as well as fellow startup Box in the fast-growing field of cloud storage,"
They do a better job later on with, "Those features come at a time large rivals like Microsoft and Amazon Inc are muscling into cloud-storage, a strategic weapon in an era of widespread mobile computing."
Re: Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion
#3Every time I see Dropbox on the front page of HN I think about this[1] all over again…
Re: Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion
#4Every time I see Dropbox on the front page of HN I think about this[1] all over again… 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
That thread is hilarious, especially the first reply.
Re: Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion
#5Every time I see Dropbox on the front page of HN I think about this[1] all over again… 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
"The only problem is that you have to install something."
Re: Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion
#6"Dropbox tallied $116 million in sales last year, more than doubling its $46 million in revenue in 2011. The year before, it nearly quadrupled sales from $12 million."
http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303...
Re: Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion
#7Re: Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion
#8Every time I see Dropbox on the front page of HN I think about this[1] all over again… 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially...."
That's my other favourite gem.
But in all seriousness, I wish I could use Dropbox, but sadly where I live and work my ADSL upstream speed is 448kbit/s rendering it useless for anything other than very small files.
Re: Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion
#9"Dropbox, which is increasingly competing with Microsoft and Google as well as fellow startup Box in the fast-growing field of cloud storage," This implicitly (if not explicitly) reverses the actuality, which is really: "Dropbox, which is increasingly facing competition from Microsoft and Google as well as fellow startup Box in the fast-growing field of cloud storage," They do a better job later on with, "Those featu…
"zOMG. You guys are going head on against the giants? Wow. So cool."
They are probably looking at that reaction from the people who don't know the rough timeline when Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft's own service and Box started.
Re: Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion
#10Every time I see Dropbox on the front page of HN I think about this[1] all over again… 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
"The only problem is that you have to install something."
Eh. I don't use Dropbox, in part because of exactly that. I passed over Spotify for the same reason. Given feature parity, I will choose a browser-based solution over one that requires me to install some random binary blob every time.