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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Box.net Upgrades Cloud Storage Platform With New UI, Collaborative Features And More
Today, Box.net unveiled a brand new version of its cloud storage platform. Box's CEO Aaron Levie says that in creating the new version of Box, the company focused on three key themes?simple, open and mobile. The company now stores 300 million documents on its platform (more than the Library Of Congress) and has accumulated 5 million users (up from 4 million last year), with hundreds of thousands of businesses using the application. Levie says that the new version is much simpler, enabling a new, easier set of workflows on the applications, The startup rewrote the entire front end of the application with a new UI. The first new feature of the platform is that the new Box is built entirely around viewing content, with relevant document suggestions, and a more seamless document viewing experience. The new viewing experience uses HTML5 technology to offer a more user-friendly multimedia experience with the ability to drag and drop files in folders, preview files, and more.