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Box down 7% despite “strong quarter”
Enterprise cloud storage company Box posted its first-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday. Despite beating analyst expectations on revenue and earnings per share, the stock dropped 12.89 percent then recovered to an 8 percent loss in after-hours trading after investors were disappointed with the billings numbers. Read More
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New Box product will let you choose storage from IBM and AWS
For several years, Box CEO Aaron Levie has been trying to get people to understand his company is not in the storage business. To drive that point home Box announced Box Zones today, a product that lets customers choose a storage component from another vendor, enabling customers to store files in-country when their privacy laws require it. Box is actually announcing the product today,… Read More
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Okta expands partnership with Box to include enterprise mobility management
Okta, a company mostly known for cloud identity management, made a foray into enterprise mobility management (EMM) at the end of 2014. Today, it announced a partnership with Box to support device-level security for the Box mobile app. The company is hoping this is the start of a series of partnerships with enterprise mobile app vendors that will enable them to apply a set of policies on… Read More
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Box KeySafe Aims To Simplify Encryption Key Management For SMBs
Box announced a new product today called Box KeySafe that should help simplify encryption key management, putting it in reach of small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) who require encryption, but want to avoid the complexities associated with Box’s higher end Enterprise Key Management product. Many highly regulated industries have wanted to move to the cloud, but security and… Read More
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Office Online Gets Real-Time Collaboration For Files Hosted By Microsoft Partners
Microsoft announced today that it is expanding the Cloud Storage Partner Program (CSPP) it first announced a year ago and launching deeper integrations with Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, Citrix and ShareFile. One new feature the company is touting is real-time co-authoring for Office Online, even if the documents are stored in the partner cloud services. This means that co-workers can collaborate on… Read More
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A Year After IPO, Depressed Stock Price Not Bringing Box CEO Down
It was just about a year ago that Box finally pulled the trigger and IPOed. It was a good day by all accounts, with an IPO price of $14 that promptly went up to $23 a share. Today that price sits below $10 a share, well below that $14 launch price and light years from that heady first day close.
All that said, Box CEO Aaron Levie reports he has no regrets about going public and insists he… Read More
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Box Marketing SVP Whitney Bouck Announces She Is Moving On
Five years ago Whitney Bouck joined Box from EMC Documentum to teach them a thing or two about the enterprise. Today she announced she was leaving the company. Her last day at Box is today. In an interview with FierceContentManagement right after she joined the company, she likened the experience at Box with her early days at enterprise content management vendor Documentum.… Read More
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Box-Salesforce Partnership Demonstrates Power Of Cloud Connectivity
Salesforce and Box announced a partnership today in which Salesforce customers can access Box content or content management services directly in Salesforce without switching applications or creating elaborate workarounds. The partnership involves two pieces. First of all, there is Salesforce Files Connect for Box, a plug-in that allows for a smooth integration of Box content directly inside… Read More
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Aaron Levie, Box And A Whole Pile Of Apps
Box’s recent platform push is more than a new product direction for the company. The service may become a key revenue driver for the enterprise-facing productivity shop. I recently sat down with Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, and his recently hired head of platform, Jeetu Patel, to dig into the matter. At its most basic, the quickly growing company wants to power the content layer of… Read More
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Box’s Head Of PR Ashley Mayer To Exit For New Job At Social Capital
Tonight Ashley Mayer who runs PR at Box, announced in a Medium post that she was leaving the company after six years for a new job running brand and talent at Social Capital.
Mayer, who went to high school with the co-founders, started at Box in 2009 after answering a query on her Facebook page from one of the founders.
She grew into the job from a one-person shop to managing a team of PR… Read More
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