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Report: State of Broadband According to Akamai

Om Malik, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 11:55 PM PT Comments (4)

Akamai Technologies’ new State of the Internet report, released today and likely every quarter has some interesting findings about the state of the broadband around the world. (Related Posts: OECD report.)
Through our globally deployed server network and by virtue of the billions of requests for Web content that we service on a daily basis, Akamai [...]

Voxel Takes Aim at CDNs, Amazon S3 Service

Om Malik, Monday, April 28, 2008 at 2:16 PM PT Comments (9)

Voxel, a New York-based startup, wants to upend the content delivery network business by offering an ultra low-cost service that rides on the back of Amazon’s S3 offering. It’s a move that is sure to further exacerbate the woes of the CDN business, which has already been wracked by price wars.
Raj Dutt, Voxel’s [...]

Limelight Getting Dimmer?

Stacey Higginbotham, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 3:00 PM PT Comments (7)

After losing an infringement case brought against it by fellow content delivery network Akamai, Limelight Networks is going all out to reassure its customers that the $45.5 million judgment against it was merely a flesh wound.
In a letter posted to the company’s web site (and sent around to the media), Limelight notes its $197 million [...]

March 3, 2008: AT&T as an LP and WiMax in Italy

Stacey Higginbotham, Monday, March 3, 2008 at 6:38 AM PT Comments (0)

NYTimes: Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T: It’s a Deal
WSJ Blogs: Should Verizon Buy Sprint?
Investor’s Business Daily: Big Tech Companies Eyeing Acquisitions as Valuations Drop
XConomy: Akamai Wanted $100M Patent Award
NickCarr: Rumor: Microsoft Set for Vast Data Center Push?
BroadbandReports: WiMax Auction in Italy Set To Break Records

Surprise! Limelight Will Appeal Akamai’s $45.5M Patent Win

Stacey Higginbotham, Friday, February 29, 2008 at 3:01 PM PT Comments (4)

Like a ballet, a patent lawsuit has dozens of carefully orchestrated steps, and today’s judgment against Limelight Networks marks the beginning of the exciting part of the show, which could drag on for years, or get cut short by a settlement. Earlier today a jury in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts found Limelight guilty [...]

Limelight’s Share Surge: Don’t Celebrate Yet

Stacey Higginbotham, Friday, January 11, 2008 at 10:15 AM PT Comments (1)

Content delivery network Limelight Networks’ shares surged nearly 20 percent Friday after saying it expects fourth-quarter revenue to come in at the high end of its previous guidance. The bad news is that the sales are estimated to range from $29.3 million to $30 million, essentially flat compared with the previous quarter.
Given that there’s a [...]

Five Computer Clouds Are All We Need

Guest Column, Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 4:00 PM PT Comments (24)

Baris Karadogan makes a case for five big cloud computers.

Interesting: Covad, Vonage, SkypePhone, Akamai HD, Hypres & Apple Airport

Om Malik, Monday, October 29, 2007 at 9:36 AM PT Comments (4)

Covad to be acquired by Providence Equity Platinum Equity Partners for $1.02 a share in cash, a 59 percent premium to its closing price on Friday. Covad is one of the handful of independent broadband service providers to have survived the telecom bust. Providence, I suspect, will have Covad focusing on wholesale and wireless [...]

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