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Over the past few years, many tech giants have decided to design and build their own hardware including the computer chips. Amazon is now hoping to join this list as the e-retail giant secretly tries to amass the technologies and personnel to do so.

Cloud storage has become fairly critical to our data-centric digital lives these days. A new entrant in the cloud storage industry has now come up with an extraordinary offer: iDrive is offering 50 GB of cloud storage space to iOS users for a mere $0.99 for a year.

Google recently cut down the price for its Google Drive storage by a significant margin. Following in these footsteps, Amazon has also announced significant cuts for a wide range of its cloud services.

Tech IPOs are becoming increasingly common by each passing year. We have already seen some of them this year and now, enterprise cloud storage company Box has filed for a $250 million IPO.

Currently, Dropbox requires you to log out of one account and into another when switching between personal and business accounts. This is going to change next month, the company promises.

When data saved in cloud storage is deleted, the hard drive need to be scrubbed to totally annihilate the data, or someone else may access it later. Digital Ocean had a policy of not scrubbing hard drives until quite recently when a developer exposed this flaw in the cloud service's data management.

With the rising popularity of cloud storage, many of us today store our important video and audio files online. Online Video converter is an excellent tool that lets you convert local or cloud files with a few simple clicks.

There was a time when email services offered by popular big-wigs such as Gmail were considered secure. Gone are those days and today virtually every popular email service is prone to countless exploits and vulnerabilities. The Wedg is an Indiegogo campaign offering a very private email server that fits nicely on your desk.

Amazon has decided to leverage its cloud computing end to roll out new services of a similar nature. Called 'Amazon Workspaces', the new service essentially brings virtual Windows desktops to Windows and Mac computers as well as a number of tablets including iPad, certain Android tablets and Kindle Fire.

A lot of users are using Dropbox cloud services these days and I am sure that 90% of people who are reading this article also does the same. Dropbox is phenomenal but one thing most of us don't actually like is its pricing because you will need to upgrade your account which is not quite cheap. Of course there are some options for you to rise that…