dropbox is going into this market from scratch. product called paper which just started. filesharing, home turf competing.we asked the ceo and cofounder that question and also, why does the world need another collaboration project? his feeling was that what we have now doesn't really get the job done. he gave the example of, if einstein were alive today he would spend half the morning clearing out his inbox. hiss a humorous example but point is the way productivity and collaboration software works right now as you spend a lot of time working for work. he thinks drop lock in -- dropbox can cut through that. you will have to convince people that his vision is better. , how robots are becoming our primary caretakers in space. how one hotel tighten is trying his luck in las vegas. this is bloomberg businessweek. ♪ oliver: welcome back to bloomberg businessweek. i'm oliver renick and you can catch us on the radio on sirius xm and on these radio stations. in the technology section, automation is making working and traveling in space easi

oliver: in the technology section, dropbox is making more money. will be a clear path to an ipo. >> we ever ported according to sources familiar with the company, dropbox has likely filed for an ipo. as soon as this year. they've been talking to goldman sachs. we are talking about what the company did to get itself into shape after a slump and where they want to go in the future. they are the largest filesharing company. that is a market that is growing rapidly but they have bigger ambitions which put them even more into competition with google and microsoft than they already are. oliver: big ambitions, startup company, they have been around, but startup in the sense they are about to go public which brings on a whole other realm of scrutiny that they have not had to undergo -- it seems like there is the potential for growing pains, but tell us about the company and what they need to do to convince investors that they can compete with the giants? >> this company has had growing pains already. a fair bit of scrutiny, they feel. nothing compares to b

the operation began one week ago i still militants have dropbox from tel afar but they still hold nearby for rock as the of reports now from the recaptured city. we're at the airport of talent five mia five kilometers from the city itself where the operation to liberate is underway this actually serves as a sort of said sold base serving the entire operation and soldiers from the front lines they come here to rest and to eat before heading back there exultant they say that the operation is almost over they've actually even got a message for isis. i have a massive leave they are world now you have no place here will hunt you down wherever you are there jubilation however is a stark odds with what the people of talent have gone through what because miserable we were under occupation imagine that and you know they turned the mosques into prisons there were thirty to forty people there we don't know what happened to them they demanded that molests recruited young people to join eisel and when they refused they locked them up there was no interest in no food nothing to eat we were almost dyin

he thinks the dropbox would cut through some of that.to convince people his vision is better and create products in a competitive market. >> if robots are becoming primary caretakers in space. this is bloomberg businessweek. >> welcome back, you can also catch us on the radio at sirius xm and channel 119. boston and a.m. 960 in the bay area. asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. >> on about how to do different kinds of things in space that are more dangerous that we used to. a we talk about how to demise -- how to the minimize the risk. happening bylot computers. advancement wehe have made has been greatly anded towards automating limiting what humans have to do when they are out there. >> there is a lot of automated flight telemetry. to a great degree the missions are guided by robotic masters. the other piece is being able to automate or remote control. >> tell us what the effort is for the medical side in terms of the medicalo treat space. >> his take is basically for the time being and for the foreseeable future view aren't going to