Humyo
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humyo.com is an online file storage service which synchronizes files across multiple computers and a remote data store. Files stored in humyo can be shared with other users and published on web pages. The company owns a former Bank of England
Bank of England
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in the world...

 bullion vault in which it houses the servers used to store its users data.

Company history

humyo.com was founded in 2007 by Dan Conlon (MD) and Peter Dubens (Chairman) and initially offered 30GB of storage space for free.

The company closed its beta in March 2008 with 100,000 users and by August 2008 had 215,000.

In October 2008, the company reduced the amount of storage space offered free of charge to new users to 10GB. (5GB for Pictures, Videos, and Music and 5GB for Other files)

On 11 June 2010 it was announced that the company was acquired by Japanese anti-virus company Trend Micro
Trend Micro
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.

In September 2010 the service was re-branded to Trend Micro SafeSync.
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