<p>Dropbox has acquired Zulip, a stealthy startup that was building a workplace chat product.</p><p>The news was originally reported by TechCrunch after Zulip sent an email to customers asking them to stay quiet about the buy-up. In that missive, Zulip's founders claimed that nothing significant would change for the time being and that the focus going forward is an integration with Dropbox.</p><p>Zulip had intended to compete with established workplace messaging providers like Yammer and Convo. On Zulip, employees invited into the pilot could conduct private conversations, drag and drop files, and search through previous messages, among other features.</p><p>Zulip had yet to publicly launch but seemed promising. Its founders are primarily ex-Oracle folk, including Jeff Arnold, Waseem Daher, Jessica McKellar, Tim Abbott, and others. The investors include Paul English, a part-time lecturer at the MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship Center, and Meraki cofounders Sanjit Biswas and Hans Robertson (Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion in November of 2012).</p><p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/17/dropbox-acquires-a-stealthy-workplace-messaging-startup/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://hothardware.com/News/Dropbox-Acquires-Zulip-Messaging-Service-In-Move-For-Stronger-Workplace-Foothold/">Dropbox Acquires Zulip Messaging Service In Move For Stronger Workplace ...</a> (Hot Hardware)</p><p><a href="http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/dropbox-zulip-im-app-141830">Dropbox Buys Workplace Instant Messaging App Zulip</a> (TechWeekEurope UK)</p><p><a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/03/dropbox-acquires-zulip-a-workplace-messaging-startup/?utm_source=mainrss">Dropbox Acquires Zulip, A Workplace Messaging Startup</a> (Ubergizmo)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dcGJ8F99Vlp9FPMfE7aDtG8A850sM&authuser=0&ned=us">18 additional articles.</a></p>