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Re:CloudOn Joins Dropbox by rcchen on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:43AM (#8922299)
Looks like they're grabbing up talent for a future Office suite competitor of sorts. Makes sense if they want to differentiate themselves as a cloud storage platform, but I do wonder how that would play into their current partnership with Microsoft as the sole "external provider" for the Office iOS apps.
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Re:CloudOn Joins Dropbox by tdkl on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @05:17AM (#8922377)
> current partnership with Microsoft as the sole "external provider"

I don't see that as an special partnership, MS used their public API to integrate Dropbox into their apps. The benefit is more on MS side for Office, since they invited more DB users to use MS Office.

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Re:CloudOn Joins Dropbox by paddyzab on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @07:49AM (#8922816)
They acquired Berlin based startup a year ago https://readmill.com/, which was building ebook reading service.

They specialised in PDF and epub formats.

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Re:CloudOn Joins Dropbox by blumkvist on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @05:41AM (#8922436)
Competing with MS Office... The business acumen in dropbox seem like an all-time high.
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