Dropbox news and trends

Dropbox To Let Employees Work From Home Permanently
Personnel // October 13, 2020

Dropbox is the latest company to allow employees to work permanently from home, CNBC reported. The San Francisco-based company said Tuesday (Oct. 13) that it wouldn’t require employees to come into the office even after the pandemic ends. In a blog post, the company said...

Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Japan Fair Trade Commission Receives Amazon Japan’s Improvement Blueprint; Italy’s Competition Regulator AGCM Probes...
Regulation // September 14, 2020

Here’s the latest news for Big Techs Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google, which are coming under increasing scrutiny from regulators and officials. Regulation   Amazon Japan Provides Watchdog With Improvement Plan  Amazon Japan has provided the nation’s fair-trade watchdog with a blueprint describing how it will revise procedures that were believed...

Tracking The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Of Digital Fraud
Security & Fraud // March 03, 2020

Of all the dirty rotten scandalous schemes fraudsters get up to, one of the worst is the old “lonely hearts” scam, dressed up in smartphone attire. Dating websites and apps in the Netherlands have had a spate of this type of fraud in recent years,...

Intuit’s Credit Karma Deal, Buy Buttons, Restaurant Apps Top This Week’s News
News // February 28, 2020

It’s the end of the workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have deep dives into buy buttons and restaurant apps, as well as news on Intuit’s acquisition of...

Interviews & Exclusives
How Dropbox Fights Fraud

February 27, 2020
Fraud continues to increase in many areas, despite extensive attempts to bring it to heel. Retail fraud attempts have doubled year over year, for example, while account takeover (ATO) fraud losses recently hit $14.7 billion, and phishing attacks now comprise 30% of all fraud attempts. Businesses of all kinds suffer from the pervasiveness of fraud, […]

Quick Reads
Dropbox Launches AI-Powered Products to Search and Organize Cloud Data

June 21, 2023
Dropbox has announced on Wednesday (June 21) the launch of its new AI-powered products, Dropbox Dash and Dropbox AI, to help customers search, organize and gain insights from their cloud content. “We’re excited to roll out Dropbox Dash, AI-powered universal search, and Dropbox AI for file summarization and Q&A, today to help our customers search, […]

Dropbox To Let Employees Work From Home Permanently

October 13, 2020
Dropbox is the latest company to allow employees to work permanently from home, CNBC reported. The San Francisco-based company said Tuesday (Oct. 13) that it wouldn’t require employees to come...

Goldman Sachs Employees’ Second Job: Venture Capitalists

June 18, 2018
The bankers at Goldman Sachs have been moonlighting as venture capitalists, investing in many startups that eventually became household names and overseeing a portfolio worth several hundred million dollars. According...

Hackers Have Field Day With 70M Dropbox Accounts

September 01, 2016
In hacking, as in politics, ruining people is considered sport. As noted by Business Insider on Wednesday (Aug. 31), login details tied to as many as 70 million users from Dropbox wound...