Dropbox has acquired a stealth messaging company dubbed Droptalk, that allows users to communicate and share links privately via a Chrome extension, for an undisclosed amount.
Droptalk, the startup announced the acquisition in a blog post on Thursday, “We are thrilled to announce that today Droptalk will be joining Dropbox.”
“About a year ago we set out to end the unnecessary friction around communication and collaboration by killing the work email. The world deserves a better way to do business and an integrated sharing product, which our team rapidly created is the answer.”
“Armed with bootstrap funding and a team of ex-Facebook and LinkedIn engineers we set out to change the way people not only messaged but how they actually got work done across all their devices.”
“With Droptalk all your communications happened in the browser, tablet or phone, eliminating the need for emails.”
As part of the deal, Droptalk, the company founded a year back by ex-Facebook and LinkedIn engineers including Rakesh Mathur, Ashok Bhardwaj, Anand Prakash, Manveer Chawla and Nirmesh Mehta, will no longer be accepting signups to its beta service and might soon shut down its service completely. The aqui-hire deal will see the company’s founder employees moving to Dropbox.
Dropbox is expected to integrate Droptalk’s web sharing feature into its cloud storage to allow users to see who is updating and sharing which file while in conversation.
However, Dropbox is yet to comment on this acquisition.
