Dropbox has announced that it is in a round of financing $ 250 million won. The start-up, online storage and transfer of files offers, wants to use the obtained capital to extend its activities.
The money is deployed to other businesses can take over, so you made the start-up known. In addition, the company wants to collaborations with other companies and hire employees. Specific plans were not disclosed. However, let Dropbox know about 45 million users. They store every three days about a billion new files on the servers of the storage service. With the capital injection of $ 250 million, the company has now a total of 257.2 million dollar obtained.
In addition, claims Forbes that Dropbox in 2009, a takeover bid from Apple has turned into. It is unknown what Apple exactly offered, but it would be an amount equal to nine digits. Then-ceo Steve Jobs would be against the founders of the storage service have said that it was wise for the company to sell, because Apple otherwise with a competing service would come. Recently the company from Cupertino with iCloud, which allows online storage of files is possible.
Dropbox provides online storage of files, where users a number of gigabytes for free. This can be extended by others to invite for the service, or by paying. Dropbox was the last time a number of times negative in the news, because the security more than once in order turned out to be.