Monthly Archives: March 2014

Google clamps down on Android apps with deceptive ads

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Deepak verma

Google has issued revised rules for Google Play apps in its continuing effort to stay one step ahead of nefarious developers. This time, the primary target is apps with pop-up ads that spoof a system, service or app notification and trick you into…
March 30, 2014 at 06:09AM
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Report puts Box on track to surpass $200M in revenue this year

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Gigaom

Box, which filed for a “secret IPO” not too long ago, is on track to double its revenue this year to $200 million or more, at least according to Bloomberg’s anonymous sources.

The Los Altos, Calif.-based company was founded by Aaron Levie, its charismatic CEO and his college friend Dylan Smith, who is CFO, in 2005 and has made a splash pushing its file-sync-and-share service as an enterprise-friendly alternative to Dropbox, which pretty much set the standard for file sharing and cloud storage in the consumer space.

Box claims some big accounts including Proctor & Gamble, Six Flags, Avaya, Hearst Corp., Stanford University and others.

The big question for Box (and Dropbox for that matter) is how many of its users pay for the service. There’s a free version for individual users as well as paid tiers for companies.

The company’s prospectus is due out soon, so maybe some of…

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