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		simon_ on March 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Com... Raising a $250MM IPO is amassing a war chest. If that becomes harder, they become less competitive.

debacle on March 25, 2014 [–]

They're not competitive right now, from the sounds of it - they're losing a lot of money, very fast.

amaks on March 25, 2014 | [–]

I don't see how Box could possibly compete on pricing with Google storage, considering the high volume of hardware purchases Google is doing and high volume discounts it's getting.

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