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Box Expands Mobile, Yeh To VP, Platforms

Box, the enterprise-focused file-sharing and collaboration service is enhancing its mobile apps running on Apple's iOS, including the iPhone and iPad, and on devices running Google's Android. Box CEO Aaron Levie says its necessary, since legacy software vendors aren't keeping up.



"Many of today's entrenched software solutions don't have mobile counterparts -- let alone an open platform for third-party mobile developers to leverage," Levie wrote in a blog post this morning.

To support the expansion and to handle Box's relationships with developers, the company hired Chris Yeh, former head of the Yahoo Developer Network as vice president, platform. Before Yahoo, he was vice president of marketing at Tacit Software, which was acquired by Oracle in 2008.

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