Box News & Articles

Mobile security is one of IT’s biggest headaches, especially in this age of Bring-Your-Own-Device. To help out, online storage/content sharing service Box has undertaken a new partnership with mobile security provider MobileIron and launched a new mobile app, Box for MobileIron AppConnect. 

This week in the document management space is a focus on document viewers and a couple of new releases, including one from Nuance that lets users hear their documents. Accusoft has also released a viewer for the cloud and Box has been busy buying Crocodocs for its HTML 5 viewer technology. Meanwhile, Xerox is on tour of the Middle East.

Box is buying document viewer and rendering vendor Crocodoc for an undisclosed amount, integrating Crococdoc’s HTML5 document viewing technology integrated into the core of the Box platform.

Since Box confirmed at the beginning of this year that it will go public next year, it has really been loading up on new abilities and functions. The latest one, announced just today, sees it entering a partnership with cloud platform and app developer GoodData to provide an app that enables Box users to analyze the way they are using their accounts.

Over the past few years there has been an increasing move towards providing products for specific verticals. The pace of specialization has been increasing. The latest vendor to provide such product is Box, which just this week has announced a number of new apps for the healthcare vertical.

Cloud-based document sharing provider, Box and social business software provider Jive, have released Box for Jive, which enables users to manage and share content across both platforms.

 Box's latest PC-based feature update allows users to create and edit documents within the cloud, avoiding the need for discrete downloads, juggling apps and version conflicts. 

Online storage service Dropbox has been trying, with limited success, to target its offerings at businesses. Now, the company is moving forward on that front, with a name change for its business service and the addition of single sign-on (SSO) capability.

In recent months Amazon has done a lot of tweaking to its services as Google and Microsoft attempt to push it off the top spot as storage provider. This week, it has tweaked a little bit more, this time by adding file sync to its Cloud Drive.

Aaron Levie’s timing could not have been better, though it was probably due more to coincidence than intention.

Box is going to very busy over the next year or so as it prepares for its IPO. In the meantime it needs to keep users happy -- after all, happy users generally means happy investors. Last October Box launched Box for Windows 8. This week it is tweaking that and adding some more.

Box had a really good year last year. And it's aiming for an even better one this year. Given that Box is planning an IPO next year, this is hardly surprising. To create business and boost company value in the run up to the IPO, it has announced the creation of Box Partner Network.

Enterprise powerhouse Box, a cloud sharing utility, has announced integrations with Uberconference, a video conferencing tool, and IntApp, a sharing app designed specifically for legal teams.

Aaron Levie, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of online storage and collaboration provider Box Inc., has announced the company is planning an initial public offering (IPO) for next year.

A US $10,000 partial refund has been offered to a Box customer after the company failed to set up its file sharing system due to the customer's own firewall incompatibility.