YC startup Ink raises $1.8M to make software more open-minded

"File system as a service" startup Filepicker.io has rebranded as Ink and announced the close of its $1.8 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz and Highland Capital Partners.

BitTorrent accelerator fights off piracy reputation with innovation

Applications opened today for the BitTorrent Acceleration Program as part of its "ongoing quest" to find new and innovative ways to apply the BitTorrent protocol.

Kim Dotcom: ‘Eat this FBI, leading the Time100 poll with a 93% approval rating’

Kim Dotcom is leading the Time100 poll, which attempts to track the top leaders, artists, and innovators in the world. Being Kim Dotcom, he's not one to be silent about it.

With cyberlockers in retreat, Pirate Bay becomes the top file-sharing site

Ever since the U.S. government targeted cyberlocker service Megaupload almost two years ago, file sharing activity has gravitated back to The Pirate Bay.

The Pirate Bay gets the boot from Sweden — now hosted in Norway & Spain

The Pirate Bay will now get its connection to the Internet from two newly formed sister organizations to the Swedish group: the Norwegian Pirate Party and the Catalonian Pirate Party (in Spain). The two-headed nature of the hosting situation has even given rise to a new metaphor and moniker for the site: The Hydra Bay.

Box CEO Aaron Levie: ‘We’d be fine to lose’ IPO race with Dropbox

Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie talks about his company's IPO plans, its competitive standing versus Dropbox, and several upcoming new features.

With new mobile apps, YouSendIt lets you send large files on the go

YouSendIt is best known for its software to help users send and receive large files via a desktop PC. But today, it launching a suite of mobile apps for iPhone, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, so you'll be able to access documents, videos and presentations on the move.

Kim Dotcom’s crazy cloud service Mega goes live for all — will you use it?

Kim Dotcom, the founder of defunct Megaupload service, has finally fully launched his follow-up service with Mega -- a site that offers 50GB of free cloud storage and ultra-secure ways to transmit files to friends.

Kim Dotcom now a bandwidth mogul, wants to build undersea broadband pipe to Los Angeles

Fresh off rebranding his defunct MegaUpload service as a sparkling new file-sharing service called Me.ga -- yes that's Mega, but it's also ME dot GA -- Dotcom now wants to help build a new fat pipe to online content in the U.S.

Actually, file-sharers buy more legal music than everyone else

A study has found that music fans who use peer-to-peer file sharing services actually purchase more music, on average, than those who stay completely legit.

FBI wants to give Kim Dotcom access to one document out of 22M before hearing

U.S. authorities want to give alleged Megaupload kingpin Kim Dotcom access to just a single 40-page document out of 22 million e-mails before his extradition hearing, according to Stuff.co.nz.

Dotcom has become a bit of an Internet folk hero as …

Too legit to quit? Megaupload was headed for billion dollar IPO before Feds shut it down

Apparently Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is under the impression that when companies go public, it means they are a legitimate business (see Enron, Groupon, etc). Pirate news site TorrentFreak reports that before it was shut down by U.S. authorities, Megaupload …

ValCom sues Megaupload for millions over copyright infringement

What will happen to file-sharing company Megaupload’s $42 million in seized assets? Founder Kim Dotcom is scraping by on a monthly stipend of $48,500 (taken from the interest on Dotcom’s $10 million in New Zealand government bonds) but the rest …

Now you can share your Dropbox folders with your Facebook friends

Dropbox announced Monday morning on Twitter that you can now share your Dropbox folders with friends on Facebook.

The integration isn’t huge, but it’s perhaps a sign of what Dropbox has been working on since acquiring business-collaboration company Cove and …

Pirate Bay braces for police raid as global filesharing crackdown continues

File sharing site The Pirate Bay is no stranger to law enforcement, its offices were raided back in 2006, which led to four convictions. Now the team believes that authorities have obtained new warrants and are bracing for another crackdown. …

Collaboration app MightyTeams brings productivity to the iPad (exclusive)

New York-based startup MightyMeeting has its sights on boosting mobile productivity in the enterprise. In keeping with the growing trend of using tablets to do work, MightyMeeting is unveiling a collaboration app called MightyTeams for the iPad and Android tablets.…

FileTrek grabs $10M from Anthem Venture Partners, Telesystem to help businesses track cloud-based files

Cloud file management startup FileTrek has exited stealth mode with good news: it has raised $10 million in second-round funding and is ready to show businesses that it’s the best option for securely sharing and tracking files in the cloud.…