Dropbox acquires CloudOn to strengthen mobile collaboration Dropbox continues to build its business away from sync-and-share cloud storage with the overnight acquisition of CloudOn, an Israeli startup that offers a simple and beautiful mobile document creation and editing tool, to quote Dropboxs marketing spin. We’re thrilled to continue building things that help people work better – and we’re proud and excited to join the Dropbox team to help people be more productive every day, wrote the CloudOn team in an annunciatory blog post. [ Stay atop the coming union of mobile and PC management with minimal hassle and maximum foresight. | Keep up on key mobile developments and insights with the Mobile Computing newsletter. ]The bad news for CloudOns nine million existing users is that Dropbox is going to shut down the service in two months and is no longer accepting new signups. The good news for Dropbox is that for its money -- exactly how much, its not saying -- the company gets a considerable new presence in Herzliya, Israel (adding to its footholds in San Francisco, Dublin, Seattle, and New York) and a new way to build out its mobile productivity game. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here infoworld/article/2873639/techology-business/dropbox-acquires-cloudon-to-strengthen-mobile-collaboration.html#tk.rss_all
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:16:19 +0000
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