Alcatel-Lucent Acquires Velocix; terms of the deal not disclosed, according to Dan Rayburn, the company was acquired for its technology and not its revenue. (The Business of Online Video) Viacom Q2 Profit Drops 32 percent; ad revenue still down for cable nets (though it picked up […] Read more »
MySpace CEO Ousted; Chris DeWolfe’s contract not being renewed, co-founder Tom Anderson’s role in the company uncertain. (release) With this announcement, Om likens MySpace to an 80s rock band whose time has come and gone. The Guild Goes Up on Amazon; seasons 1 and 2 of […] Read more »
Palm addressed their Q3 sales results today and it looks like they can’t get the Pre released fast enough. Their falling financial position has led many to believe that the Palm Pre is a make or break proposition for the smartphone maker and these numbers would […] Read more »
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For content delivery startups, partnering with large carriers is the only path to survival in a cut-throat business dominated by Akamai. Edgecast, a Los Angeles-based startup, today announced that it is teaming up with German giant Deutsche Telekom to offer a new service that will use […] Read more »
Updated with Limelight response: A source of mine just alerted me that Limelight Networks is suffering some kind of outage in Asia and Europe. Their U.S. network is working just fine, and perhaps that’s why I have not heard anything. It is hard to tell from […] Read more »
Today Amazon Web Services launched the beta version of its pay-as-you-go content delivery network service, CloudFront. But the simple service isn’t everything a video shop could want — there’s no streaming, live broadcasting or transcoding, and a low level of customer service. See the GigaOM story […] Read more »
With a flurry of announcements in recent weeks, Amazon has extended its cloud computing lead. The beta label’s gone. It can run Windows applications. By investing in firms like Elastra, it’s tackling enterprise deployment. And there’s a 99.95 percent uptime guarantee. Much of this is a […] Read more »
BitGravity Adjusts Video Delivery Quality to Match Connection; CDN launched a new API today that lets content distributors automatically tweak the quality of video stream delivered, based on the quality of the user’s connection. (VentureBeat) Candidates Urge Networks to Free Up Debate Footage; letters from Obama […] Read more »
NBC.com Serves 29 Million Full-Episode Streams in Sept.; network says it got 25 million uniques, and 28.8 million short-form content streams were served. (TV By The Numbers) Powering a bunch of those views was Saturday Night Live, as a new study shows more than half of […] Read more »
Akamai, Limelight, Level 3 and more than a dozen other startups should be worried about Amazon’s move into the content deliver business. Amazon Web Services’ latest offering will cause price pressure in an already commoditized business. In an email to its customers today, Amazon said that […] Read more »
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Akamai, Limelight, Level3 and more than a dozen other start-ups should be worried about Amazon’s move into the content deliver business. Amazon Web Services’ latest offering will cause price pressure in an already commoditized business. Read more »
FastSoft, a Pasadena, Calif.-based startup with $4.3 million in funding from Miramar Venture Partners and Caltech, has developed a device that sits between a router and the Internet (or any other wide area network) and ensures the faster, smoother delivery of data — without using an expensive content delivery network. Read more »
[qi:_newteevee] AT&T today announced more details of its expected effort to enter the teeming content delivery network market, naming three software partners and saying it would spend nearly $70 million on network infrastructure before the end of this year. For smaller CDN companies, the move is […] Read more »
Studios, SAG Still Clashing Over Clips; studios want to pay a flat fee to use clips of old TV shows and films online rather than bargain with each performer. (Reuters) ABC Unveils New Ad Measurement Tool; to combat lower ratings and ad dollars shifting to the […] Read more »
The first taste is free, or in this case, the first 500 GB. Velocix is betting on the free business model bandwagon today by giving away its entry-level CDN service. The move isn’t surprising as CDNs are engaged in a bit of a price war right […] Read more »
Earlier today some blogs reported that Sequoia Capital had invested in Cotendo, a content delivery company based in Israel. The reports didn’t offer much details in terms of technology and the people involved with the project. Thanks to some helpful friends in Israel and in the […] Read more »
Remember all those stories and reports about how the writers’ strike was driving TV viewers over to the Internet? Limelight Networks wants you to forget them. After posting a larger-than-expected loss for its most recent quarter, Limelight says the current quarter won’t be much better. Why? […] Read more »
William Roper Jr., the new chief executive officer of Mountain View, Calif.-based VeriSign, wants to streamline the company by selling off non-core businesses. His plan — sell or shut down, something I first reported back in August. At the time, VeriSign had no plans to sell […] Read more »
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