Dropbox – Wikipedia

Dropbox is a storage and sharing service of local online files offered by Dropbox, Inc., a company located in San Francisco, California.

Dropbox provides customer software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone as well as a web interface. There are unofficial portes for Symbian and Meego.

Founded in 2007 by entrepreneurs Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi ^{[ 2 ]} , Dropbox Inc. quickly requests the STARTUPS FIRED Y SOMPINATOR for its development ^{[ 3 ]} . Dropbox was officially launched in 2008 on the occasion of TechCrunch50, an annual conference on new technologies ^{[ 4 ]} .

Drew Houston would have had the idea of ​​Dropbox after having repeatedly forgotten his USB key when he was MIT student. According to him, at that time, existing services suffered from latency problems, bugs or were too complicated to use. He then begins to create the service for himself, before realizing that he could be useful to others ^{[ 5 ] [Insufficient source]} .

Since April 24, 2012, a new function has given a direct download link to a user who does not have a Dropbox account.

In early 2014, Dropbox raised 250 million dollars from Blackrock, which values ​​the company at $ 10 billion ^{[ 6 ]} .

The April 9, 2014 , Dropbox launches new features: Carousel which allows you to visualize and share photos or videos; and services intended for companies that facilitate collaboration between employees on Word documents, Excel tables or PowerPoint presentations ^{[ 7 ]} .

In April 2014 , Dropbox acquires two startups: LOOM (sharing photo on the cloud) and HackPad (exchange of collaborative documents) ^{[ 8 ]} ; Bubli application for the creation of 360 ° photos.

In June 2014 , Dropbox acquires Droptalk, “discreet” messaging to exchange private links ^{[ 9 ]} . In September 2014, Dropbox acquired Mobilespan, specialist in storage and synchronization.

In June 2015, Dropbox announced that it has reached 400 million users ^{[ ten ]}

In July 2015, Dropbox acquired the Clémentine startup specializing in corporate communication ^{[ 11 ]} . In October 2015, Dropbox announced a partnership with Adobe around PDF files ^{[ twelfth ]} .

In February 2016, Dropbox France announced the launch of his blog “Dropbox Business” ^{[ 13 ]} .

In March 2016, Dropbox reached 500 million users ^{[ 14 ]} .

In 2016, Dropbox offers the Project Infinite service, now called Smart Sync, which allows professionals to access unlimited cloud storage space. A specificity is added to this program since the user can choose to synchronize his files locally or on the cloud ^{[ 15 ]} .

The deadline of August 29, 2016 Mark the end of Dropbox’s compatibility with Windows XP.

In January 2019, Dropbox acquired Hellosign, a company specializing in electronic signatures for $ 230 million ^{[ 16 ]} .

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What a service of cloud computing is accessible via any web browser, but also using an operating multi-system customer: under Linux for X86 and X86_64, OS X, Microsoft Windows, iOS as well as on Android, on Blackberry and on Webos. This customer allows you to use Dropbox transparently, the files located on the saved directory of the computer’s hard drive being copied to the Dropbox server after each recording.

In addition, Dropbox:

• Allows synchronization of files stored on different computers
• works transparently (backups and synchronizations are automatic)
• The website allows access to a copy of the files, but also their successive versions and a copy of the destroyed files.

The free version allows you to store up to 2 GB of data, extensible thanks to the sponsorship, and a paid version allowing to obtain a storage space of 1000 GB (1 TB), or even more with the “Business” or “Enterprise versions ».

To store user files, Dropbox used the Amazon.com accommodation service (Cloud) (Cloud), but since 2016 Dropbox has been using its own servers, with cutting -edge techniques developed by its own engineers, in order to to be independent of the Amazon cloud and to overcome the related cost ^{[ 17 ]} .

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In July 2011, Dropbox changed its conditions of use and announces that it can use files stored by its customers without their authorization ^{[ 18 ]} . Consequently, users abandon the service to turn to alternatives that record local data.

From November 4, 2015, the confidentiality rules are detailed and precise ^{[Personal interpretation?] [ 19 ]} .

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In August 2013, two security researchers published an article explaining how to hack Dropbox accounts ^{[ 20 ]} .

In August 2016, Dropbox announced the reset of passwords that have been unchanged since 2012 and confirms the leak of 68 million identifiers ^{[ 21 ]} .

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In early 2013, an anonymous denigration campaign emphasizes the technical weaknesses of Dropbox ^{[ 22 ]} .

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