article thumbnail

Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

socalTECH

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. Raghu Kulkami: We started our IDRIVE service around 2007, but we had been around before that. We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost. What is iDrive?

article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. The Past (1985-2002).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. 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 Google turned YouTube into one of the most valuable future Internet properties. The Past (1985-2002). Enter Facebook.

article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

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.

Startup 343