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Dropbox announces bigger, better workspace

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Dropbox , the global collaboration platform, has unveiled a new integrated workspace. With updates to the Dropbox desktop experience, dropbox.com , and the mobile app, users get a single workspace designed to bring files, fragmented work tools, and teams together. The update includes early access to a new desktop app designed to provide a convenient new access point to the workspace. "Work has become scattered—files are spread across devices, in the cloud, and on our hard drives. We're working across multiple apps that don't talk to each other, and teams are struggling to keep up,” said Drew Houston, CEO, Dropbox. "We're focused on removing the friction from that experience, pulling everything together in a way that nobody has done before. The new Dropbox helps you quiet the noise and find focus at work.” The new Dropbox brings web-based files into the Dropbox file system to provide one central location for all content, including: Cloud-based content like...

Lazada leverages cloud and AI to boost business

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Lazada, a top e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia, has been able to progress towards its goal of serving 300 million customers by 2030 through introducing innovations that are driven by Alibaba Cloud infrastructure. Lazada has been operating on Alibaba's infrastructure and Alibaba Cloud middleware since 2017, shared Raymond Yang, Chief Product Officer of the Lazada Group, at the recent Alibaba Cloud APAC Summit in Singapore. Some of the new features on the Lazada platform have included live streaming, launched in Thailand in 2018, as well as personalised recommendations. "We don't want users to just come and purchase. We want them to spend time with us, enjoy the moment, really try to experience and explore and watch our new user/customer engagement experiences," Yang explained. Today, key opinion leaders (KOLs) and sellers host 3,000 live streams in Thailand alone, while Alibaba Cloud's ApsaraVideo Live live streaming platform and content delivery netw...