WeTransfer

WeTransfer (. Composite word made engl We we = and transfer, so something like: We broadcast ) is a 2009 introduced Internet service, digital data from a computer or smart phone on a remote host system stores ( file hosting, cloud storage ). The primary purpose of WeTransfer is not the sharing of files with others, as it offer competing services, but the mere sending large files to one or more recipients. A special feature is that you do not have to register to use the service. Suffice it Leave your own e - mail address and the recipient. According to the operator files will be deleted one week after uploading from the server, a file must not exceed 2 gigabytes in size, and the number of users of 20. WeTransfer announced that in November 2013 two million people have used the service for transferring files per day.

Function

Unlike other file hosting services WeTransfer has no application software ( app ) for smartphones and various operating systems, but only works on the web browser. If you have a file via the web portal to WeTransfer - encrypted - transfer, the recipient receives a message and can not download on a public web - link that file. Has he done this, the sender is notified and the process is complete.

The encryption when uploading and when you save the file in leased by WeTransfer data center is, as with all cloud providers, no guarantee of data protection, data security and confidentiality. Although the company is in the Netherlands, the data will remain the company says is not necessarily within Europe but can be stored or cached on other continents.

WeTransfer financed by advertising in the form of full-screen, high-resolution photographs of advertisers ( " Wallpapers" ) and by regularly paying customers who receive by subscribing to special privileges, such as larger volumes of data, your own e -mail address and password protection. The direct competitors are large cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Wuala Hightail (formerly YouSendIt ).

History

WeTransfer was founded in December 2009 in Amsterdam by the Dutch, Ronald Hans (nickname Nalden ) and Bas Beerens. Beerens conducts an advertising agency and wrote to save on courier and shipping software to transfer large files to and from customers. Ronald Hans comes from the blogosphere, where he got the idea to put large format advertising under his blogs - today the optical base of WeTransfer. The founders emphasize to operate WeTransfer exclusively of equity (English: bootstrapping.)