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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. We also have a mobile version of the product, Idrive Lite, which is primarily used to back up contacts. Raghu Kulkami: We started our IDRIVE service around 2007, but we had been around before that. What is iDrive?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002). Enter Facebook.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. I was dead set against it.

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