In May 2011, Dropbox struck deals with Japanese mobile service providers Softbank and Sony Ericsson. Because the censorship usually focuses on popular services only, many considered this evidence of Dropbox’s rapidly rising popularity and international user base.
Later, Dropbox confirmed it had been blocked by the Chinese government. In May 2010, Dropbox users in China were unable to access Dropbox. and Evenflow (Dropbox’s parent company), Dropbox’s official domain name was “ ” until October 2009, when it acquired its current domain, “”. Owing to trademark disputes between Proxy, Inc. Dropbox officially launched at 2008’s TechCrunch50, an annual technology conference. in June 2007, and shortly thereafter secured seed funding from Y Combinator. He says 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. Dropbox provides client software for the OS systems Linux, macOS, and Windows NT for the mobile systems Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, and Windows Phone and for web browsers as well as unofficial ports to MeeGo and Symbian.ĭropbox founder Houston conceived the Dropbox concept after repeatedly forgetting his USB flash drive while he was a student at MIT. ĭropbox was founded in 2007, by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, as a startup company from the American seed accelerator Y Combinator.
Dropbox uses a freemium business model, wherein users are offered a free account with a set storage size and paid subscriptions for accounts with more capacity. Files placed in this folder are also accessible via the Dropbox website and mobile apps. 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.ĭropbox allows users to create a special folder on their computers, which Dropbox then synchronizes so that it appears to be the same folder (with the same contents) regardless of which device is used to view it.
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