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MWC 2013: 1 bn files being uploaded to Dropbox per day, says CEO

Dropbox's CEO, Drew Houston, yesterday revealed that 100 million files are uploaded to Dropbox every day. Such a figure, if true, makes the cloud storage service...

February 28, 2013 / 12:50 IST
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Dropbox's CEO, Drew Houston, yesterday revealed that 100 million files are uploaded to Dropbox every day. Such a figure, if true, makes the cloud storage service the largest in the world. To help you wrap your head around this figure, here’s a piece of trivia—more files are saved on Dropbox than tweets are sent out daily. During a speech at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Houston said these 100 million users tapped into Dropbox with 500 million devices. The company expects 150 million more devices to connect this year. When Dropbox first started offering cloud storage, you could sync your data between PCs, but smartphones and tablets slowly joined the ranks, making data transfer smoother between a range of devices. Click here for full story

first published: Feb 28, 2013 12:35 pm

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