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Theory: They're dumping to lower the valuation of Dropbox for a possible later acquisition.

"Well, you could sell to us, or we could put you out of business."

If Google were to buy Dropbox what sort of benefit do you think they would get from it?

I know there have been stranger acquisitions by Google, but I just can't think of any benefit to Google if they were to purchase Dropbox.

Stronger user lock in once they convert users to GDrive. If your plan is to lock users into Google services, then having all their files in GDrive, integrated with Gmail, GDocs, G+ etc. is going to work towards that. Plus it allows them to corner a market as I suspect Dropbox easily has a majority (I'd guess 80+%) share in consumer cloud storage.

Do I think that is worth what Dropbox would cost? Probably not, but Google has heaps of money and hey, what would I know?

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