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| Mar 11, 2008 | DropBox makes online file storage and sharing more simple | updated
DropBox, a Silicon Valley company that is trying to make online file storage and sharing more simple, has come of out of secret testing and is sending out invites for people to use it.
We’ve seen DropBox in use, and it’s a solid pro... |
| Dec 13, 2007 | Omnidrive Heading for Deadpool? (Also See Updates) | A tipster informed us today that online storage solution Omnidrive has been having technical difficulties; and that the CTO has just left the company.
Omnidrive’s forums, both the official one and the Tangler one, are filled with messages c... |
| Oct 24, 2007 | Copyright News: Oink and Tv-Links Down, Demonoid Back Up | After a two-year investigation the torrent directory site Oink has been taken down in a series of raids and arrests in both The Netherlands and England. OiNK was an invitation-only private tracker that mostly dealt with members trading new ... |
| Aug 29, 2007 | 10 Must Have Online Office Apps | Earlier today, as part of our Web Office Week Richard MacManus defined what constitutes an online office. His ultimate definition was a set of applications that include “a combination of productivity, publishing and collaboration features. ... |
| Aug 16, 2007 | The Y Combinator List | We visited the Y Combinator demo day in Mountain View today, where 19 start-ups showed off their products to a group of investors and other entrepreneurs. The start-ups have emerged after eleven weeks of work, so these are very early-stage ... |
| Aug 9, 2007 | Windows Live SkyDrive Launched – Enters a Crowded Online Storage Market | Today Microsoft announcedWindows Live SkyDrive, the final product name for its online storage solution – previously known as Windows Live Folders. Windows Live SkyDrive has a few new features and enhanced UI, in line with upcoming changes a... |
| May 28, 2007 | The Top 60 Web 2.0 Applications in Australia | Editor’s Note: This post was written by Ross Dawson, CEO of Advanced Human Technologies and Chairman of Future Exploration Network. Ross is holding a Web 2.0 event in Sydney, Australia on June 6, which I will be a speaker at. In preparation... |
| May 17, 2007 | Fabrik raises $24.9M more for file storage and sharing | Fabrik, a company that offer online storage and easy sharing of big files, has just closed a $24.9 million deal and added Ross Levinsohn, former President of Fox Interactive Media, to the board.
Its financing came primarily from 3i, with a ... |
| May 7, 2007 | Carbonite, online backup company, raises $15M | Carbonite, a Boston, Mass. company that offers an easy online backup service to consumers and small businesses, has raised $15 million more in a second round of financing.
The round was led by Menlo Ventures, and included 3i Group and Commo... |
| Apr 30, 2007 | Silverlight: The Web Just Got Richer | Update: Listen to our podcast interview with Silverlight product manager Brian Goldfarb at TalkCrunch.
Today at Mix07 Microsoft made a number of major announcements, mostly around the recently-released Silverlight (formerly known as Windows... |
| Apr 12, 2007 | Box.net Releases Two-Way Storage Widget | We wrote about Box.net a long time ago when we did a wrapup of online storage startups, and again in October 2006 when they raised a venture round from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. They’ve been keeping busy. Box.net now has 820,000 registered u... |
| Mar 6, 2007 | Thanks To TechCrunch Sponsors and Readers | Thank you to the current TechCrunch Sponsors (and our readers, who keep the sponsors coming back). If you would like to sponsor or advertise on TechCrunch, details are here.
FOOA – The Future of Online Advertising is a conference happening ... |
| Feb 12, 2007 | Why online backup will never be free | [Editor’s note. Terence Pua is the latest entrepreneur to enter the online backup market. We think he’s crazy, because the industry is pretty crowded. We asked him to explain why he is doing this, and to provide an overview of the sector.]
... |
| Feb 6, 2007 | Commercial Break | First, a big thanks to our readers for providing the lively debate we see day in and day out in the comments and the TechCrunch forums.
One note on our Snap previews that show a preview screen shot when you hover over a outbound link: We’ve... |
| Jan 23, 2007 | PayPal’s “other” story, and Wikio, Infinera, Zoho, Omnidrive & more | Roundup of the latest action in Silicon Valley & tech:
PayPal’s origin explored, one more time — Online payments company Paypal has spawned more Internet entrepreneurs from its founding team than any other company we know. Yet PayPal ha... |
| Jan 19, 2007 | Zoho, Omnidrive Partner For Office Document Storage | Online office suite Zoho and online storage company Omnidrive (see disclosure below) are announcing a partnership today that extends the functionality of both companies. The integration leverages Zoho’s newly updated API.
The partnership is... |
| Nov 20, 2006 | YouSendIt and MyFabrik add to file-sharing options | YouSendIt and MyFabrik are two of the many companies that let you easily share large files, such as videos or photos. They’ve raised venture capital recently, to help them survive the throng of competitors.
Have you ever had an outgoing or ... |
| Nov 7, 2006 | Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad | Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!
The Launchpad at the Web 2.0 Summit is a popular event, the venue is
packed. 13 companies have 5 minutes each. Here are some quick
impressionistic views of how it went….
In
the cha... |
| Nov 7, 2006 | The Web 2.0 Launch Pad | Our favorite event at the Web 2.0 Summit is the Launch Pad, where 13 new start-ups launch and give a five-minute presentation.
Richard McManus has a good, succinct review of the 13 companies, so we won’t duplicate.
We weren’t that inspired ... |
| Nov 7, 2006 | The LaunchPad 13 at Web 2.0 Summit | The annual Web 2.0 Summit kicked off today at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The conference Summit, which has been sold out for months, is noticeably larger than last year and hundreds of people are milling about, seeing and being seen.... |
| Sep 7, 2006 | Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps | Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard
MacManus. Ebrahim runs a search engine called Qube – which is a webified desktop app.Richard’s Note: In some ways Ebrahim’s conclusions in this article contradict
my own views, but I think that ... |
| Jul 25, 2006 | Exclusive Screenshots of Omnidrive | We first wrote about Australia/Silicon Valley based Omnidrive, an online storage company, in late 2005. Since that time we’ve extensively reviewed various online storage services, including rumored products from Google and Microsoft, as wel... |
| Mar 16, 2006 | Should You Bother With Online Storage? | My first attempt at a regular data backup scheme involved burning copies of important files to CDs on a monthly basis. Back in the old days before blank CD-Rs were cheap and plentiful, making a full disc backup still took the better part of... |
| Feb 18, 2006 | I'm Going on Vacation | I am leaving tonight on a long overdue vacation. Nik Cubrilovic has accepted my my invitation to guest blog for TechCrunch in my absence over the next ten days.
Nik is the founder of Omnidrive, a company I have written about here on TechCru... |
| Jan 31, 2006 | The Online Storage Gang | The online storage market is evolving fast. In the past, users could expect no more than a simple service where files could be slowly uploaded and downloaded from a mapped virtual drive or a simple web based interface. Little competition (a... |
