Mega Exits Beta With 5 Million Users and Big Plans

[NelsonG]

[img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/mega3.png[/img]On January 20, a year after Megaupload was raided in 2012, Kim Dotcom [url="http://torrentfreak.com/dotcoms-mega-launches-to-unprecedented-demand-130120/"]launched[/url] his new file-storage service Mega.

In a matter of days the site’s membership shot from zero to more than a million and in the months that followed the site continued to develop and expand its userbase.

Today the company announced that [url="http://mega.co.nz"]Mega[/url] had exited beta and [url="http://www.linkedin.com/in/nzvikramkumar"]CEO Vikram Kumar[/url] informs TorrentFreak that the service now has about five million users who together have uploaded 435 million files.

While Mega is sometimes described as a file-hosting site, its future plans are to be much more than that. “The immediate focus right now is to give Mega the equivalent function of Dropbox,” Kumar says.

Later this month the company plans to release its long-awaited sync client, which will allow users to keep files backed up across multiple devices. Around the same time the iOS app will also be ready for a public release.





[b]Mega’s iOS app[/b]


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