F-Secure sells Younited Personal Cloud to Synchronoss
F-Secure is probably best known for its security products that it makes available for desktop and mobile operating systems.
While that is the company's main business, it started to offer other services in recent years including the virtual prvivate network service F-Secure Freedome and the password manager F-Secure Key.
F-Secure Younited, a cloud hosting service, was launched in 2013 publicly when several companies launched cloud-based products.
While not directly related to security, F-Secure advertised it as the world's most secure cloud storage.The company published desktop programs for Mac and Windows, and mobile apps for Andorid, iOs and Windows Phone.
Free accounts came with 5 Gigabyte of space and options to upgrade storage were provided as well.
The company announced on February 4th, 2015 that it sold its Younited Personal Cloud service to Synchronoss, a US-based cloud-solutions company.
The deal, valued at $60 Million USD in cash, includes a partnership agreement to sell personal cloud and security services to mobile carriers and operators around the world.
F-Secure revealed additional information about the sale on the company forum. According to the post, all data stored in European data centers will remain in those data centers. In other words, user data won't be moved to the US or another location in the world.
F-Secure did reveal as well why it made the decision to sell Younited. According to the press release, the company wants to focus its efforts on security products and services.
Younited users who want to cancel their accounts can do so by sending an email to F-Secure.
According to the company, it will take a couple of business days before the account is removed permanently from the servers. It advises users to download the data before the request is made as it cannot be recovered afterwards anymore.
We will update the article with additional information once they become available and impact the service or its operation in a major way. (via Caschy)
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.