Cloud Storage news and trends

Visa On Capturing The Digital Payments Opportunity In Latin America
VISA // June 18, 2020

The advance of digital payments in Latin America over the last two decades has been slow when measured against other parts of the globe. Visa’s Senior Vice President of Products and Innovation for Latin America and the Caribbean Ruben Salazar told Karen Webster in a...

Why Cloud Storage May Be Payments’ Stealth Game-Changer
Innovation // December 20, 2019

Everyone is always looking for some secret sauce for innovation, disruption and growth. Such a thing may or may not exist — it depends on context and industry, of course — but hot cloud storage is making a play as one of the main foundations...

Storage App Used Photos To Train Facial Recognition Software
Security & Fraud // May 09, 2019

A popular photo app called Ever, which was ostensibly used for cloud storage of photos, has been using customer pictures to train facial recognition AI software, according to a report by CNBC. The company, which was started in 2013, marketed itself as a “warm and...

Dropbox Buys HelloSign To Improve Document Workflow
Partnerships / Acquisitions // January 28, 2019

Dropbox, the cloud storage company, announced Monday (Jan. 28) that it has acquired HelloSign, an easy-to-use eSignature and document workflow platform. In a blog post, Dropbox said that while mobile and cloud technology has transformed the way people work over the past decade, the tools...

Interviews & Exclusives
The One Thing: Legacy File Sharing for Creatives Gets a Needed Upgrade in Storage and Smarts

April 27, 2022
If we weren’t thrilled with online file exchange and archiving of product images before the pandemic, surely the past two years fixed that. Correction. It surely did not. Images and video fuel commerce, never more so than during the explosive evolution of eCommerce since 2020. As all that new content ate up more data storage, […]

Visa On Capturing The Digital Payments Opportunity In Latin America

June 18, 2020
The advance of digital payments in Latin America over the last two decades has been slow when measured against other parts of the globe. Visa’s Senior Vice President of Products...

Why Cloud Storage May Be Payments’ Stealth Game-Changer

December 20, 2019
Everyone is always looking for some secret sauce for innovation, disruption and growth. Such a thing may or may not exist — it depends on context and industry, of course...

Quick Reads
Storage App Used Photos To Train Facial Recognition Software

May 09, 2019
A popular photo app called Ever, which was ostensibly used for cloud storage of photos, has been using customer pictures to train facial recognition AI software, according to a report by CNBC. The company, which was started in 2013, marketed itself as a “warm and fuzzy” photo app site that would help customers store photos […]

Dropbox Buys HelloSign To Improve Document Workflow

January 28, 2019
Dropbox, the cloud storage company, announced Monday (Jan. 28) that it has acquired HelloSign, an easy-to-use eSignature and document workflow platform. In a blog post, Dropbox said that while mobile...

Chevron Taps Microsoft As Its Cloud Provider

October 31, 2017
American energy corporation Chevron announced Monday (Oct. 30) it had entered into a seven-year partnership with Redmond, Washington-based technology company Microsoft Corp., through which Microsoft has become Chevron’s primary cloud...

GPS Vehicle Trackers Leak Consumer Data Online

September 25, 2017
Another day, another data breach. This time, Kromtech Security Center announced that information on more than half a million vehicle tracking devices and their users have been leaked online in...