Sources confirm cloud storage provider Box.net did in fact rebuff a buyout offer earlier this year.

FORBES: Box.net Rejected $550 Million+ Acquisition Offer

Standing silently but amiably to one side, he would unbolt the magic boxes, hold the ropes, demonstrate the emptiness of beakers and pots, confirm the thickness of a sheet of glass before a near-naked girl would climb into a magic box and pass straight through it!

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