Twice each year, we publish a Transparency Report describing the number of government data requests we received and how we responded to them. Today, we’re updating and expanding our report. The update details the government data requests we received in the first half of 2015. We’re expanding the report to cover government requests to block content.
Now you can edit PDFs stored in Dropbox from your iPhone and iPad
Last month, we unveiled a new partnership with Adobe to make working with PDFs in Dropbox simpler and faster. Today, we’re excited to share that our iOS integration with Adobe is live and ready for you to use — so you can easily edit PDFs stored in Dropbox, anytime and anywhere.
Furthering accessibility: KNFB Reader + Dropbox
Monday was the 75th anniversary of the National Federation of the Blind, and we’re marking the occasion by announcing a new integration with KNFB Reader. Using optical character recognition (OCR), KNFB Reader converts photographed text into speech, to make printed materials accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
Give the gift that keeps on syncing
The gift-giving season is almost here, and for a lot of us that means finding the perfect thing for friends, family, and coworkers — some of whom can be very tough to shop for. After all, it’s so hard to know what people need these days. A new sweater? Oven mitts? The latest gadget that’ll be obsolete in six months anyway? Luckily for you, we have your holiday gifting needs covered with something that will make a lot of people on your list happy: a year-long subscription to Dropbox Pro.
Starting today, you can buy a Dropbox Pro gift subscription for one year,
University Insights: Linguists and shutterbugs
Welcome to the fourth and final post in our Dropbox University Insights series. In these posts, we’ve been taking aggregated usage data* from Dropbox users at universities around the world, and surfacing interesting trends.
For our closing Insights post we’re taking a look at two different forms of communication: one old, and one relatively new. For most of us, language is our default method of communication — be it written, spoken, or signed. But photographs can be a powerful communication tool as well, especially in the digital age with tools like Instagram and Snapchat.
Building a supportive community for LGBT employees
Today we’re proud to announce that we’ve been ranked on two lists recognizing corporate LGBT-friendliness. We’ve always sought to make Dropbox a place where all employees feel included, and those who identify as LGBT are an important part of that. Over the past few years, we’ve ramped up our involvement in the broader LGBT community by marching in San Francisco, Austin, and Dublin Pride parades and coming out in support of the Obergefell v. Hodges amicus brief.
University Insights: Collaborators and syncers
Welcome to the third post in our Dropbox University Insights series. In these posts, we’ll take aggregated usage data* from Dropbox users at universities around the world, and surface interesting trends.