For stepping up its omnipresence in users’ lives through smart partnerships and acquisitions. How omnipresent? Try 200 million users saving 1 billion files every 24 hours. Dropbox Platform--a suite of tools that allows developers to sync users’ app data across devices--now powers 100,000 active apps, including Shutterstock, Yahoo Mail, and, of course, the email-overload cure it acquired last year, Mailbox. As it edges further into the enterprise world (to the tune of 4 million business customers), Dropbox continues to fuel its user base--and, with a reported $10 billion valuation, rumblings of an impending IPO.
