{"id":10001,"date":"2014-01-16T00:46:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jan\/16\/box-offers-50gb-free-storage-new-users-aiming-dropbox\/"},"modified":"2014-01-16T00:46:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:46:17","slug":"box-offers-50gb-free-storage-for-new-users-aiming-at-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/box-offers-50gb-free-storage-for-new-users-aiming-at-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Box offers 50GB free storage for new users, aiming at Dropbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud storage provider Box is offering 50GB&rsquo;s worth of free storage for users who sign up to its service in the next month &ndash; twisting the knife further into rival Dropbox, whose service went down over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Dropbox hit the skids after what VP of engineering Aditya Agarwal described as a routine server upgrade, with a bug installed on active servers bringing down the show.<\/p>\n<p>While Dropbox was at pains to insist that everyone&rsquo;s files were safe, it&rsquo;s fair to say the news will have affected the company&rsquo;s reputation. And in a not coincidental move announced yesterday, Box is opening up 50GB of storage for new customers, as well as rolling out a new iPhone and iPad app.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve overhauled our app to make it super-fast, simpler to use and more immersive,&rdquo; wrote David Still, Box VP mobile products in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The result &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud storage provider Box is offering 50GB&rsquo;s worth of free storage for users who sign up to its service in the next month &ndash; twisting the knife further into rival Dropbox, whose service went down over the weekend.<br \/>\nDropbox hit the skids afte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}