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• Box throws hat into the digital whiteboarding ring

  Box has become the latest vendor to offer its customers a virtual whiteboard to help support collaboration amongst distributed teams.

• IBM recruits Box's Verity White to tackle Turbonomic partner business

  ​Former Box A/NZ channel chief Verity White has moved to IBM to lead the partner channel and alliances business for its application management division Turbonomic across Asia Pacific.

• Box moves to tackle the shift to hybrid workplaces

  Box is making changes it hopes will help workers better find, share, and use the data and information they need to remain productive.

• Box adds collaboration features, updates app UI

  File preview annotations and enhanced Zoom integration have been added as Box burnishes its productivity and team collaboration credentials.

• How SaaS vendors are designing software for the 'best of breed' world

  Chief product officers must bridge the divide between what users want and ensuring their offering doesn’t become a “Frankenstein of features”.

• Box launches integration with Microsoft Outlook

  US-based cloud content management company Box has integrated its storage service with Microsoft Outlook.

• Box puts automation at the heart of its product vision

  Enterprise cloud storage vendor Box is increasingly looking to help its customers automate repetitive or mundane business tasks.

• Box taps Microsoft talent to run local channel

  Box has appointed Verity White as director of channel and strategic alliances in Australia, recruiting the partner specialist from Microsoft.

• Why was Dropbox valued at four times more than Box?

  Now that both cloud storage companies are publicly listed, we dig into the numbers to see why Dropbox is valued so much higher by the market.

• Box ramps up A/NZ play with Pegasystems talent

  Cloud content management company, Box, has appointed Pegasystems' Scott Leader as its first regional A/NZ vice president.

• Microsoft's free cloud storage offer puts heat on its rivals

  Microsoft has extended Free OneDrive for Business for the remaining term of existing contracts with rival providers Box, Dropbox or Google.

• Revealed: The top 10 apps that companies hate

  Companies are wary about what employees are doing on their smartphones. Be it data loss or time-wasting, a growing number of employers are actively stopping staff from using certain apps on company-controlled devices.

• File sync services provide covert way to control hacked computers

  File synchronization services, used to accommodate roaming employees inside organizations, can also be a weak point that attackers could exploit to remain undetected inside compromised networks.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, June 25

  Snowflake opens cloud data warehouse... Google puts a data center in a coal plant... Facebook opens Messenger to all... and more tech news.

• IBM, Box partner on cloud analytics technologies

  IBM and online storage firm Box have formed a wide-ranging cloud technologies partnership that will allow Box users to apply Watson Analytics know-how to their content while IBM customers can use Box's content collaboration platform.