Dropbox Acquires Mailbox To Sync Email With Cloud

Dropbox - one of the most popular file sharing and collaboration service has acquired Mailbox - a unique email client for iPhone. Today, mailbox announced that they've been acquired by Dropbox. Mailbox had reached over 1.3 million downloads in the app store just in a month's time and Dropbox currently enjoys a loyal user base of over 100 million users. On their homepage, mailbox team writes that instead of growing on their own, they've decided to join hands with Dropbox to scale faster.

Both the companies haven't clearly mentioned how they'll alter their offering post merging of the two services but it's likely that dropbox will begin offering email synch through its client. It'd be quite interesting to follow up on that.