Dropbox acquisition of well-known iOS photo application loom

"TechWeb reported" April 18 news, cloud storage service provider Dropbox announced the acquisition of well-known iOS photo application loom. Dropbox is not announcing the price of the purchase. Dropbox will transfer loom users to their most recently released Carousel application on May 16, and will then close loom. Currently, loom is no longer accepted for new user registration. Loom is located in San Francisco, where the 8-member German team will join Dropbox and engage in carousel development. Loom in the fall of 2013 to obtain 1.3 million dollar seed round financing, well-known investors including Tencent, Google Ventures. Loom co-founder Senderek said: "We know this is a heavyweight transaction." We made a decision carefully. We strive to develop our own products and find that our goals are highly consistent with Dropbox's goal of Carousel. Over the past 7 years, Dropbox has developed secure file storage services. Currently with Carousel, your photos and videos will also have a home. To prevent users from being dissatisfied with loom being shut down, two companies will provide free 1 years of the same storage space for the loom paying users who switch to carousel. Loom price is slightly lower than Dropbox normal storage services, users need to manually turn files from loom to carousel, but Dropbox will then provide a convenient export tool and detailed instructions. Carousel function is very similar to loom. By storing photos in a cloud computing system and charging users a fee, you can help users take photos without having to worry about the amount of storage space they have on smartphones. With loom, users can store full-size photos in the cloud computing system while keeping a preview on their phone for viewing. And through carousel, it is not necessary for users to do so. All photos will be synchronized between all devices and can be accessed through the cloud computing platform without taking up any space in the user's smartphone.