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Patch Tuesday nightmare continues: Certain Windows apps will freeze during use

Usama Jawad — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:32:01 +0000

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update (KB5074109) continues to wreak havoc, by now breaking applications like Outlook that interact with cloud storage services such as OneDrive. Read more...

It is now possible to migrate files and folders from Dropbox to Google Drive

David Uzondu — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:20:01 +0000

Google has announced that its new Data Migration Service can be used to migrate files and folders from Dropbox to Google Drive as it aims to attract organizations using Dropbox. Read more...

Apple quietly opens up background photo backups to third-party apps with iOS 26.1

Karthik Mudaliar — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:38:02 +0000

Apple's iOS 26.1 update introduces a new PhotoKit framework that lets third-party photo apps like Google Photos and Dropbox back up images in the background. Read more...

Sad news: Dropbox will soon be shutting down its Paper mobile app

David Uzondu — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:34:01 +0000

Dropbox has announced it will be discontinuing both the mobile and desktop apps for its Paper document editing service. Read more...

Dropbox Passwords is being killed off

Usama Jawad — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:44:01 +0000

Dropbox has decided to discontinue its password manager and is recommending that customers migrate to 1Password. The price of its subscription is not being reduced despite this removal. Read more...

Dropbox announces new round of layoffs, cuts 20% of workforce

Fiza Ali — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:16:01 +0000

Third time's a charm? Dropbox announced its third major round of layoffs in recent years, cutting 20% of staff to refocus on new growth areas. Read more...

Dropbox Sign suffers data breach; emails, phone numbers, and more compromised

Omer Dursun — Thu, 02 May 2024 20:30:01 +0000

Dropbox has revealed a data breach at its Dropbox Sign e-signature service that may have exposed customers' personal information, including emails, usernames, phone numbers, and hashed passwords. Read more...

Dropbox adds Microsoft 365 real time co-authoring support in beta

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:46:01 +0000

The popular cloud storage service Dropbox has announced it is launching a beta that adds support for real-time co-authoring features with Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. Read more...

Microsoft may be planning to add a way to import files from other cloud services to OneDrive

John Callaham — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:12:01 +0000

An APK examination of a beta version of Microsoft's OneDrive app for Android shows that the company may soon add support for importing files from other cloud services to OneDrive accounts. Read more...

Dropbox is now availble in the Microsoft Store on Windows 10 and 11

Taras Buria — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:18:01 +0000

Dropbox has just made things a bit easier for its Windows users. Those who prefer Dropbox over other cloud storage providers can now download the app from the Microsoft Store on Windows 10 and 11. Read more...

Dropbox is ending unlimited cloud storage for its business customers

John Callaham — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:50:01 +0000

Dropbox says it is ending its unlimited storage options for new customers of its Dropbox Advanced plans for business, due to some users exploiting that amount of space for other purposes. Read more...

Dropbox launches its new AI-powered search engine for files

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 18:24:02 +0000

Dropbox has announced its new AI-powered universal search engine called Dash. It is designed to look for files locally and across various connected services like Google Docs, Slack, Asana, etc. Read more...

Dropbox to lay off 16 percent of its workforce as it pivots towards AI projects

John Callaham — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:08:01 +0000

The Dropbox layoffs will affect 500 of the cloud storage company's workers. It will be hiring new employees to work on Dropbox's AI projects and services which it believes will be needed in the future Read more...

Dropbox announces security breach after employees fall victim to phishing attack

Justin Luna — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 09:06:02 +0000

Popular file hosting service Dropbox recently suffered a data breach that gave threat actors access to 130 of its code repositories. This was after Dropbox employees fell victim to a phishing scam. Read more...

Dropbox to cut its global workforce by 11% for “healthy” future

Paul Hill — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:40:01 +0000

The cloud storage company, Dropbox, is going to lay-off 315 of its employees and it looks to grow over the coming years. The CEO said that redundancies are not a reflection on the workers. Read more...

Dropbox announces new Family plan with 2TB of storage for up to six people

João Carrasqueira — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:22:01 +0000

Dropbox has announced a new Family plan for its cloud storage service. It allows for up to six users to share 2TB of cloud storage, including secure Vault storage, and more. It starts at $16.99/month. Read more...

Zoom calls will gain more functionality with Zapps

Paul Hill — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:52:01 +0000

Zoom has announced that it will be launching Zapps later in the year. Zapps allow people to quickly access third-party services within the Zoom interface to boost efficiency and productivity. Read more...

Google offering Chromebook owners with 100GB of free Dropbox storage space for a year

Rajesh Pandey — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 05:24:01 +0000

Google is offering Chromebook owners with 100GB of free storage space on Dropbox for a year. The offer is valid until July 23, 2021. The offer is only available in selected U.S. regions. Read more...

Dropbox quietly launches an invite-only password manager app for Android

Rajesh Pandey — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:06:01 +0000

Cloud storage service provider Dropbox has launched a password manager app dubbed Dropbox Passwords on the Google Play Store. It is currently in an invite-only beta phase for existing Dropbox users. Read more...

Dropbox launches reimagined shared folders with Dropbox Spaces

Paul Hill — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 03:28:01 +0000

Dropbox has announced Dropbox Spaces, a drastic evolution on shared folders that aims to meet the needs of today's workload. The firm will release some features like Dropbox Transfer later on. Read more...

Dropbox has sneakily added a three device limitation to its free storage plan

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:42:01 +0000

The cloud storage and file sharing site recently - and rather sneakily - updated its support pages to indicate that the company will start instituting a three device limit to users on its free plan. Read more...

Dropbox buys HelloSign to improve document workflows for users

Paul Hill — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:08:01 +0000

Dropbox has announced that it is in the process of buying HelloSign, an eSignature service that helps improve document workflow productivity and efficiency. Dropbox is paying $230 million in cash. Read more...

Microsoft is apparently working on more storage options for OneDrive

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:44:01 +0000

A tweet by OneDrive's Director of Program Management, Omar Shahine, suggests Microsoft may be looking at upgrading the amount of storage you can have on OneDrive from the current cap of 1TB. Read more...

Dropbox Extensions aims to make users more productive

Paul Hill — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 19:06:01 +0000

Dropbox has announced Dropbox Extensions; these are additional tools provided by third-party companies to enhance Dropbox user productivity. Extensions will be available from November 27. Read more...

Dropbox announces improvements to its mobile apps

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 22 May 2018 18:00:01 +0000

The online storage and collaboration service is making improvements to its mobile apps in an attempt to facilitate collaboration, including file activity history and a new sharing experience. Read more...

Dropbox files for IPO; company most recently valued at $10 billion

John Keefer — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:16:01 +0000

The file-sharing company - once called "a feature, not a product" by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs - has taken the initial steps to go public and start selling company stock in the next few months. Read more...

Dropbox's competitor for OneDrive placeholders is here, and it's coming to consumers

Rich Woods — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:58:01 +0000

Dropbox announced back in April that it would be bringing placeholders to its service. Now called Smart Sync, it's available starting today for businesses, but it's also coming to consumers. Read more...

Dropbox has updated their Windows 10 app with support for the Xbox One

Cage Appleby — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 10:14:01 +0000

Dropbox has just released an update for the Universal Windows Dropbox app with support for the Xbox One. The app features an adaptive UI, with support for gamepads and the Xbox media remote. Read more...

Dropbox is telling its long-term users to reset their passwords as a precaution

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:16:02 +0000

If you've been a Dropbox customer since 2012 and haven't changed your password since then the service will notify you to reset your credentials. The company is adamant this is purely precautionary. Read more...

Dropbox 4.3 Universal app update adds video casting, interactive notifications in Windows 10

Ian Ginos — Sat, 21 May 2016 03:36:01 +0000

An update released today for the Dropbox app in Windows 10 adds several new features, including the ability to cast videos to another device or to respond to comments directly from the Action Center. Read more...

Dropbox is adding placeholder files to its client; shows Microsoft how it's done

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:26:01 +0000

Dropbox has announced it's working on Project Infinite: an implementation of placeholder files in its clients. This feature first showed up in OneDrive but Microsoft abandoned it soon after. Read more...

Dropbox to drop Windows XP support

Paul Hill — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:38:01 +0000

Dropbox has warned Windows XP users to upgrade to a new operating system as it plans to make the Dropbox desktop app stop working on the 15-year-old system. Support ends on August 29th. Read more...

Outlook.com upgrades now out of preview, rolling out soon to all users

Andy Weir — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:56:01 +0000

After first announcing its major upgrade to Outlook.com last May, Microsoft has now brought the new version of its webmail service out of preview, and will roll it out worldwide in the coming weeks. Read more...

Microsoft adds Dropbox and Box integration on Outlook.com; new Office cloud partners on iOS

Andy Weir — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:52:01 +0000

Microsoft is expanding its Office partnerships with cloud storage providers, including Dropbox and Box integration on Outlook.com, more integration in iOS, and real-time co-authoring in Office Online. Read more...

Dropbox launches new Universal Windows 10 app for PCs, including Windows Hello support

Andy Weir — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:56:01 +0000

Dropbox's new app is rolling out to Windows 10 PCs, offering a wide range of features including support for Windows Hello password-free biometric authentication, and a Mobile version is "coming soon". Read more...

Dropbox to close 'Mailbox' and 'Carousel' in early 2016

Matt Blowes — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 02:06:01 +0000

Failing to gain traction after their initial launches, Dropbox's Mailbox and Carousel services will be discontinued in 2016. Dropbox will instead focus on its core storage service. Read more...

Windows Phone developer Rudy Huyn hired by Dropbox, assures 6tag and other apps will live on

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:42:01 +0000

Windows Phone developer Rudy Huyn is taking a new position at Dropbox. Although the technical lead position will have him headquartered in San Francisco, he insists this will not effect his apps. Read more...

Dropbox now collects URLs inside your folders just like files

John Devon — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:22:01 +0000

Dropbox introduces URL bookmarking, allowing drag and drop links inside your folders, helping organize your projects. But is this enough to compete in the expanding collaboration space? Read more...

OnePlus One gets a permanent price cut, now starts at $249

Andy Weir — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:17:15 +0000

OnePlus has cut $50 off the price of the One, with prices now starting at $249. A new bundle will also be offered for $349, including the 64GB One and a one-year Dropbox Pro subscription. Read more...

Microsoft's Office Online now lets users work with Dropbox documents

Adrian Potoroaca — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:32:01 +0000

The next milestone in Microsoft and Dropbox's partnership is giving non-business users the ability to work with Dropbox files directly from the browser when using the Office Online web apps. Read more...