Dropbox To Acquire Secure Document Sharing Startup DocSend for $165M (techcrunch.com) 9
Dropbox announced today that it plans to acquire DocSend for $165 million. The company helps customers share and track documents by sending a secure link instead of an attachment. From a report: "We're announcing that we're acquiring DocSend to help us deliver an even broader set of tools for remote work, and DocSend helps customers securely manage and share their business critical documents, backed by powerful engagement analytics," Houston told me. When combined with the electronic signature capability of HelloSign, which Dropbox acquired in 2019, the acquisition gives the company an end-to-end document sharing workflow it had been missing. "Dropbox, DocSend and HelloSign will be able to offer a full suite of self-serve products to help our millions of customers manage the entire critical document workflows and give more control over all aspects of that," Houston explained.
Cloudy offerings. (Score:2)
A lot of cloud that can be done on a NAS and local server, with a choice of DMS.
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That's very true, and in the case of Dropbox in particular, I have no idea why it exists. It's very expensive for just storage.
Google on the other hand has amazing tools for searching and accessing photos, which is enough of a killer app for me that I pay for a Gsuite account for just myself. It's hard to argue with Onedrive if you're already all Microsoft, too. Especially since it's so inexpensive to get a 1TB plan that also includes an Office license.
SmartSync is huge-lots of data on small disk (Score:3)
That's very true, and in the case of Dropbox in particular, I have no idea why it exists. It's very expensive for just storage.
I paid for Dropbox originally for Linux Support, but they dropped that. However, SmartSync was a lifesaver. You get pointers to cloud files that are downloaded on demand and transparent to the OS. I don't think Google or OneDrive offers that yet, but I could be mistaken.
I have 1TB of family photos. 90% of them I never read. With SmartSync, I can access all of them in lightroom, but use a smaller disk, like my work computer when I am traveling, or just not overpay Apple a 10x markup for a 2TB SSD.
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I've wound up using a single drive NAS which syncs Dropbox to a local drive, so my Linux machines can access the Dropbox account via a share. There used to be a Dropbox client that was packaged in AppImage, which worked perfectly, but that wound up not updated and not working, so Linux support is dicey at best.
I can see the Secure Docs and other items. They are useful for chain of custody for business, and someone spending the money to handle all the compliance paperwork and sign the HIPAA BAA stuff, etc.
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I can and have automated my photography workflow to publish picutres to the web as I edit them, which is fine, and *my* phone will grab whatever I copy over raw files if I copy them over via USB, the SD card or wifi, so I'm not sure what's wrong with your setup in that department.
I'm a Capture One person myself. I just say no to Adobe and I can't comment on Lightroom-anything, and I have no Apple devices
But Google Photos face, object and location recognition is an absolute killer for me. Searching photos is
165m is so much money (Score:1)
data harvesting front? (Score:3)
"....backed by powerful engagement analytics...." is the value here, I'd imagine
the value is not in the service, which is fairly simple and straightforward, but in the data harvested from users
don't know for sure, just a gut feeling