Announcing IGNITION 2018 speakers: Don't miss Mark Cuban, Sir Martin Sorrell,...
Prepare for the year ahead with insights from today's brightest minds. Join us at Business Insider's flagship conference, IGNITION: Media, Technology & Transformation, now in its ninth year. This...
View ArticleThe CEO of Dropbox explains the one thing that's worse than having your...
At Business Insider's Ignition conference, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston explained the one thing that's even worse than a failing startup: a "zombie startup." A zombie startup is a company that's neither...
View ArticleDrew Houston and Paul Graham on how Dropbox was created on a Chinatown bus...
At IGNITION 2018, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham talked about how the two met, coming up with the idea for Dropbox on a Chinatown bus, and the issue with "zombie...
View ArticleUber, Lyft, China, and more — top tech investment bankers share their biggest...
Market volatility at the end of this year put a pause on the initial-public-offering pipeline, but tech investment bankers expect the deals to flow at the turn of the calendar year. With a long list...
View ArticleAt $230 million, Dropbox made its largest acquisition ever — and Wall Street...
When the nearly $10 billion cloud-storage company Dropbox announced Monday that it planned to acquire the e-signature startup HelloSign for $230 million, analysts were not surprised. Some analysts see...
View ArticleThe era of the all-powerful tech CEO has only just begun, even though...
At a growing number of companies, particularly in the tech sector, CEOs and other insiders have outsized control over their corporate decisions. The executives have that control through special...
View ArticleGM Cruise plans to double in size by the end of 2019 and has hired a new exec...
Cruise plans to grow its headcount to more than 2,000 by the end of 2019. The company, valued at $14.6 billion, has also hired the former human resources exec from Dropbox to serve as its Chief People...
View ArticleThese former engineers from Dropbox and Facebook just got $9 million to help...
On Tuesday, Gem announced it raised $9 million in series A funding led by Accel, launched a new product and rebranded its company -- previously known as ZenSourcer. Cofounders Steve Bartel, CEO, and...
View ArticleSalesforce is quietly investing $100 million in Zoom ahead of its big IPO —...
Salesforce owns $441 million in equity in other public companies, and that number is growing. Its latest investment is a $100 million private placement in Zoom, which is set to go public in...
View ArticleHow to download movies and videos onto an iPad, from iTunes, Netflix, cloud...
You'll need to download movies and other videos onto your iPad to be able to play them if you're heading somewhere without an internet connection. You can download TV shows and movies from the...
View ArticleHow to recover deleted photos from your iPhone in 4 different ways
It's easy to recover deleted photos from an iPhone in four different ways. You can recover deleted photos for up to 30 days in the Recently Deleted folder of your Photos app. If more than 30 days...
View ArticleA former Y Combinator partner says a founder's answer to this one question on...
Harj Taggar is a former partner at Y Combinator, the tech accelerator that launched a number of successful startups including Airbnb, Dropbox, and Instacart. He's currently the cofounder and CEO of...
View Article$9 billion Dropbox explains why it's blowing up its product for its biggest...
On Tuesday, Dropbox announced that it has made its biggest redesign in its history. Dropbox partnered with Zoom, Slack, and Atlassian for new integrations. On the new Dropbox, users will not only be...
View ArticleA founder who sold his startup for $100 million within weeks of launching is...
On Tuesday, Gentry Underwood wrote a blog post about his new startup Navigator, which will create an AI-powered team assistant to help with meetings. Previously, Underwood founded a mobile email app...
View ArticleDropbox plummets after reporting disappointing user growth (DBX)
Dropbox reported second-quarter earnings Thursday fell short of analyst expectations for revenue per user. Shares fell as much as 14% on the report. Watch Dropbox trade live on Markets Insider....
View ArticleHow to transfer files from one PC to another PC in 3 different ways
You can transfer files from one PC to another PC easily using cloud storage services like OneDrive or Dropbox. You can also copy files to an intermediate storage device like a USB flash drive, or...
View ArticleA scooter exploded inside Dropbox's San Francisco headquarters, forcing...
An e-scooter exploded and caught fire inside Dropbox's San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday. The building was evacuated, the fire was put out, and no one was hurt, Dropbox told Business Insider in...
View ArticleSentry, a startup co-founded by a former Dropbox engineer that helps...
On Tuesday, the software monitoring startup Sentry announced it raised $40 million from Accel and New Enterprise Associates. CEO and co-founder David Cramer started Sentry as an open source project...
View ArticleThe 30 most coveted tech companies to work at, according to thousands of tech...
Career marketplace Hired asked 3,600 tech workers to share which tech companies they want to work at most for Hired's 2019 Brand Health report. The final list is 30 private and public tech companies...
View ArticleHere are all the major US tech companies blocked behind China's 'Great Firewall'
The US has blacklisted a slew of Chinese companies this year, including major tech entities like Huawei, from doing business in the country. On the flip side, China has long blocked major US tech...
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