While devices and apps get most of the attention, data storage is every bit as important, particularly as objects like phones, tablets, cars and thermostats become appendages of the Internet. The smaller ones have to focus on ways businesses actually use it.” For example, she said, the services can help companies collaborate with each other online instead of sending emails back and forth with attachments. “Amazon’s focus is really computing itself.

“There’s a place for all of them,” said Amita Potnis, an analyst at IDC.

Lyft: The co-founders of the ride-hailing platform will step down from their day-to-day responsibilities at the company, which has struggled through layoffs and disappointing financial results.

Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple.

Apple: The iPhone maker is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months.

To widen opportunities for students, a historically Black university has set up its own internship placement program.

Tech Internships: Critics say that the recruitment process at big tech firms often gives an advantage to well-connected and wealthier candidates.

A Crisis at Meta: Mass layoffs, an absentee leadership and concerns about the business’s precarious future have devastated employee morale at Facebook’s parent company.

And Dropbox? It is trying to make sure that its consumer-minded service stays easier to use than what the big guys provide. Hightail is trying to do something similar for customers like law firms. So how do you avoid free? Box is trying to cater to special data storage needs, like digital versions of X-rays for health care companies and other tasks specific to different kinds of customers. “You do not want to wait for Google or Amazon to keep cutting prices on you. “These guys will drive prices to zero,” said Aaron Levie, co-founder and chief executive of Box. But as often happens, the much bigger companies liked the idea so much they decided to do the same thing - at a much lower price. They pioneered a new kind of Internet service that allows people and companies to store all kinds of electronic files in an easy-to-use online locker. Just ask executives at companies like Box, Dropbox and Hightail. SAN FRANCISCO - Nothing concentrates minds at a tech start-up like living in the middle of a price war between Amazon and Google.

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