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2024. Box adds crucial piece to its AI platform with Alphamoon acquisition



It was a curious and distinctly Box-ish sort of moment when Box, with all the casual grandeur of a galactic hitchhiker stumbling upon a rare interdimensional tea recipe, announced it had rather cleverly acquired Alphamoon—a Polish startup with an uncanny knack for deciphering the dense and, quite frankly, mind-numbingly tedious text of documents like contracts and loan applications. As Box CEO Aaron Levie (who was likely wearing an impressively casual jacket) put it, this acquisition injects an essential layer of brilliance into the already quite intelligent Box AI, allowing it to not only understand documents better, but also seamlessly whisk them into workflows as if they’d been programmed by a particularly well-organized Vogon. The magic of intelligent document processing, as one might imagine, is in deftly extracting pertinent metadata from the document heap, shoving it into some metadata system or other and then letting automation do the heavy lifting while you go make a nice cup of tea.


2023. Proton Drive encrypted cloud storage service arrives on Mac



Proton, a Swiss company with a rather strong penchant for privacy (possibly because they suspect the universe is watching), has made a bold move in the realm of secure digital storage with its launch of the end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) cloud service, Proton Drive, now available for Mac users. This comes just a mere four months after its debut on Windows—so one might imagine Mac users raising an eyebrow or two at being fashionably late to the encryption party. Proton Drive, however, is unapologetically thorough, applying encryption to all files and folders right out of the box, unlike Apple’s iCloud, where end-to-end encryption is more of an elective course. Not content with merely encrypting data, Proton Drive goes all out, wrapping even the metadata and file names in a shroud of encryption as the default state of affairs. You can dip your toes in with 1GB of free storage, or if you're the type who hoards data like a packrat, you can upgrade to a paid plan starting at $4 per month, snagging 200GB of space, plus delightful extras like the ability to keep previous file versions for up to a decade. Yes, ten years—because sometimes, even in a universe this odd, you never know when you’ll need an old file.

2023. Apple revamps iCloud.com with more features for drive, mail and notes



Apple has, in what can only be described as an unusually practical flourish, introduced a freshly polished version of iCloud.com that seems to nudge PC users into a faint state of blissful productivity. This modernized marvel, still recognizably iCloud yet somehow more useful, now extends the sheer thrill of browser notifications for Mail and Calendar, effectively allowing PC dwellers to enjoy alerts right where they were least expected—on their actual PCs. In a fit of customization rarely seen in such circles, users are now gifted the power to rearrange the homepage itself, creating a truly personalized landscape where they can nonchalantly download files, dispatch emails to the ether, mark off tasks with an elegant unread flair and perform various other quick actions, all with the ease of a single click. It’s all rather progressive, building off last year’s momentous widgets update, which dared to toss apps like Notes and Pages into a glance-friendly layout. And, as if to put a link-shaped cherry on this digital sundae, iCloud.com now generously allows users to weave notes together with hyperlinks, in the spirit of iOS 17, crafting a tapestry of interconnected thoughts that just might inspire unparalleled feats of organization—or, at the very least, a highly satisfying bout of hyperlinking.


2022. Google is adding new Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Keep optimizations for tablets



Google introduced Android 12L earlier this year to enhance tablet usability and at I/O, the company revealed plans to update over 20 Google apps on tablets to optimize them for larger displays. Today, Google announced several new features for Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Keep to advance this initiative. The most significant feature unveiled is the ability to drag text or images between two Workspace apps when they are open side-by-side. Google highlights that you can now drag text or images from apps like Chrome or Sheets and drop that content directly into an existing document or spreadsheet cell. In Google Drive, you'll be able to quickly upload files by dragging and dropping them into the app. You can also add links to Drive files by dragging the file into an open app such as Keep.


2021. Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M



Dropbox acquires (for $165 million) DocSend, a service that helps users share and monitor documents by sending a secure link rather than an attachment. When integrated with the electronic signature functionality of HelloSign, which Dropbox acquired in 2019, the acquisition provides the company with a comprehensive document-sharing workflow it had previously lacked. Dropbox, DocSend and HelloSign will be able to offer a complete suite of self-serve products to assist millions of customers in managing critical document workflows and provide more control over all aspects of the process.


2020. Egnyte introduces new features to help deal with security/governance during pandemic



In a universe where file management is often more perplexing than Vogon poetry, Egnyte has decided to swoop in with a couple of innovations so nifty they might just outwit a Babel fish. First up, there’s Smart Cache, a feature so clever it makes sure that your most-loved files (no matter where they’re hiding in the digital cosmos) are always ready at your fingertips, as if summoned by a mildly efficient butler. And then there’s the email governance tool, a vigilant little beast that scans your content like a hyperspace customs officer, detecting malware and ransomware with a flair that says, “Not today, Zarquon!” Harmful files? Simply blocked before they can escape into the wild. Ford Prefect would be proud.


2020. Dropbox introduces slew of new features for business



Dropbox introduced several updates for business users. To assist with managing the multitude of passwords in our lives, it's branching into the realm of password managers like LastPass or 1Password. Dropbox is also entering the online vault market. The concept with these tools is to provide a secure space for storing your crucial documents in a digital format, rather than relying on a traditional safe deposit box. You can share a pin with trusted individuals to grant access to these documents, such as a will or insurance policy, in case of an emergency. Additionally, the company is venturing into the backup sector, offering Dropbox Plus users the capability to regularly back up the entire contents of their PC or Mac and recover it fully in the event of a computer loss or a complete machine failure.


2020. Wasabi raised $30M for its cloud storage service



In the sprawling cosmos of tech startups, there exists a curious entity called Wasabi, a company that seems to have discovered the arcane secret to making cloud storage both ludicrously cheap and astonishingly effective. They’ve just conjured $30 million from the ether, presumably to tackle their rather Herculean dilemma: how to scale up a sprawling infrastructure to hoard even more data, while continuing to promise customers that it won’t cost them the proverbial arm, leg, or spleen. This newly acquired booty will fuel their relentless quest for more data centers (because, apparently, hoarding digital detritus isn’t free) and catapult them into markets with those delightfully bureaucratic "store-your-bits-here" laws. Truly, a tale for the galactic archives.


2020. Box adds new collaboration capabilities



Box is introducing new collaboration features in response to the pandemic. To start, they are providing a streamlined interface to facilitate user interaction and file sharing. They are also assisting users in organizing their files with a new feature called Collections, which allows them to group their files and folders in a way that suits their needs. This is arranged on an individual level. Additionally, they are implementing an annotations feature that simplifies adding comments either as a single editor or in a group discussion about a file. This is similar to Google Docs collaboration tools but applicable to any document, enabling individuals or teams to comment on a file remotely in real time, which is particularly valuable right now. Lastly, external partners and clients can share files in Box from a dedicated landing page.


2020. Box adds automated malware detection to Box Shield security product



It is a truth universally acknowledged (at least in the universe of cloud storage and cyber-skulduggery) that Box, in its infinite quest for both innovation and preventing general chaos, has unveiled a set of malware detection tools for its Box Shield security system—because apparently, last year’s announcement wasn’t quite enough. Employing a strategy so cunning it might have been designed by a particularly ambitious hyperintelligent shade of blue, this three-pronged marvel starts by letting users peek at files without the terrifying prospect of actually downloading them, complete with a gentle nudge if there’s trouble afoot. Next, it takes a firm, almost matronly stance by refusing to allow the download of files it deems untrustworthy. And finally, like a vigilant cosmic butler, it whispers warnings to the security team whenever something dodgy sneaks its way into Box, ensuring that even the laziest of interstellar bureaucracies can rest easy.