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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.

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Microsoft has announced several Windows Azure updates this week including a Hadoop distribution preview called HDInsight.

 Newly launched, mobile-focused, email manager and productivity boosting service Mailbox has joined forces with Dropbox to provide a more rounded, yet somehow boxier, service. Expect the move to help improve and scale the Mailbox side of the offering. 

Content storage and sharing provider, Dropbox has announced updates to the menu feature of its desktop client designed to improve the service’s functionality.

IT solutions provider Barracuda Networks has released Copy, a cloud- based file storage and sharing tool. With Copy, users are able to share, view and sync files from any device, at any time.

File sharing service, Dropbox has announced new features for its Dropbox for Teams which gives administrators better visibility and control over collaborative projects. 

Creating iOS and Android apps with Dropbox functionality built right in has been simplified due to the company releasing its Sync API -- allowing apps to work as if Dropbox was a local file system right on the device itself.

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.

File sharing service YouSendIt has expanded its roster of duties by purchasing Found, a system for enabling file search across devices and clouds.

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. 

Cloud storage mover and shaker Dropbox has bought fellow Y Combinator alum Snapjoy, a photo viewing app that lets people consolidate and view photos from around the Web or stashed away on various devices and memory cards.

Strategies for managing information didn't change dramatically, but the different platforms where one could seemingly save, store and share information evolved quite rapidly. Whether we were on mobile devices, in the cloud or on premises, there was a lot of information and it wasn't always well-organized or well-secured.