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Cloud storage company Box will arrive late to its own IPO party, but it will arrive. At least that’s according to sources who spoke with Re/Code Thursday. In addition, those same sources said the company was not for sale. Period. According to the sources, Box hopes to complete its initial...

Dropbox is in full acquisition mode; Tuesday it bought startup MobileSpan, a company that helps employees access corporate firewalled content from their personal devices in a secure manner. According to the MobileSpan website, the company will shut down at the end of 2014, and active...

Dropbox, the startup that won’t stop, has acquired another startup called Droptalk according to TechCrunch. Droptalk developed a tool, available so far only in limited beta, that allows users to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extension. The plan was to offer iOS and...

U.S. Supreme Court justices Tuesday seemed to be wondering aloud whether the case against startup Aereo was also linked to cloud computing. The Associated Press reported Justice Stephen Breyer saying, “Are we somehow catching other things that would really change life and shouldn’t?” The “...

Privately-owned Dropbox isn’t on the stock exchanges, yet. But with each new move, the company seems to be heading in the direction of an initial public offering. Most recently it unveiled Carousel, a product designed to store and manage your photos and videos. The app incorporates features...

In an attempt to make Gmail more useful, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is reportedly in the process of developing several new features. One of them is a Snooze Button. According to Geek.com, email you consider important, but not critical, could be “snoozed.” This would cause the message to go into...

Enterprise-focused cloud-based file-management service Box said Monday, via tweet that it was planning a $250 million IPO. A short while later, re/code said the filing had gone live. Box launched in 2005 as an academic project created by CEO Aaron Levie in his dorm room at USC. According...

According to a story first reported by The Wall Street Journal, GoDaddy is preparing for an IPO. GoDaddy, the internet domain registrar and web host, is now the largest internet domain registrar in the world. The company is owned by a consortium of private equity groups including Kohlberg...

Box, the online cloud-storage company, has quietly filed for an initial public offering, according to a report from Quartz and confirmed by Forbes. Box, one of the main competitors to the extremely popular cloud-storage service Dropbox, took a page out of Twitter's playbook by opting to secretly...

In what can only be described as the biggest surprise announcement of the week, Twitter announced that it has confidentially submitted an S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission for a planned IPO. It did not take more than a few hours for this became the most talked about story in technology...

This weekend in Barron's online: the future of TV, what's next for the Dell buyout, upcoming IPOs and the prospects for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Franklin Resources. Cover Story "The Future of TV" by Alexander Eule. Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is having a good summer, points out Barron's,...

Few issues are as endemic to our time as that of Internet privacy. The unprecedented growth of Internet applications that store users' private information has changed the world and sparked a new legion of legal debates. Since 2011, the nice folks at Gizmodo have been evaluating the commitment of...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is a big propont of the ever burgeoning reliance on data storage in the invisible but growing 'cloud.' This virtual, online-only environment has a number of advantages. The cloud allows users to access files from virtually any device and from any location. It allows users to...