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Inside Dropbox’s Reverse-Engineered Company Culture

Both Dropbox’s product and its company culture seem to be about thinking something through and intuiting what it’s capable of.

Dropbox to Hold DBX, Its First Developer Conference

Given that Dropbox helps people save one billion files a day — of all different types, from all different devices — the company has been due for a developer conference.
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Yahoo Deal Is the Latest Example of Dropbox Flexing Its Muscles

Dropbox has emerged as the strongest-positioned consumer technology startup in Silicon Valley, given that it actually makes money, is a talent magnet and has lots of room to grow.
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Spotify and Facebook Designer Rasmus Andersson Joins Dropbox

Dropbox, that fast-growing Silicon Valley company with a product that regular people actually pay money to use, has made another big hire. Rasmus Andersson joins the company’s design and engineering teams from Facebook, where he spent two years after being the chief designer at Spotify.

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Dropbox Will Help Mobile Developers Sync Better

Dropbox said today that it was releasing better tools for Android and iOS developers to include file syncing within their apps. The new syncing should happen within a couple of seconds of any change, and it’s smart about understanding things like when a device comes back online. The move speaks to Dropbox’s larger ambitions about being an embedded part of applications, devices and platforms.

What’s Next for Dropbox This Year: Content Instead of Files

Feature additions around photos and document viewing point to a larger strategy for 2013.
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Maybe “Being the Product” Isn’t So Bad: Why Data Harvesting Doesn’t Have to Be a Nightmare

We already give up massive amounts of personal data on a daily basis. It’s payback time.
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Dropbox Poaches Top Sales Execs From Salesforce, Apple and Google

Kim Malone Scott and Kevin Egan will join the fast-growing cloud storage company.
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Dropbox and Airbnb Do a Little Holiday Shopping

Airbnb has acquired mobile social start-up Localmind, while Dropbox has made a talent acquisition of the team behind Audiogalaxy. Localmind will continue to be available, at least for now, while Audiogalaxy has already shut off new sign-ups.

Dropbox Picks Dublin for Its Second Office

Dropbox, the San Francisco online syncing and storage provider, is establishing an international presence to better serve a global clientele.
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Dropbox Summons the Spirit of Its Early Days With Employee Hack Week

The Dropbox staff stays sharp by staying up all night coding and making Rubik’s cube mosaics.
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Sundar Pichai: Google Drive Is About Context, Where Competitors Are About Files

Get Off of My Cloud: Found Makes Personal Files Searchable on the Desktop

Y Combinator’s Demo Day Gets Supersized

Q&A: Dropbox Nabs Early Facebook Engineers With Cove Acquisition

Spool Raises Funding to Help You Take the Web Offline

Interns Are Latest Target in Battle for Tech Talent

Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups

Today in Hyperbole (or Possibly Reality): What Did Apple Just Kill?

Instagram Pushes Photos to Developers With New API

Techies Pause Long Hours for Long Weekend of Snow Kiting in Utah