Comcast has been boosting the number of VOD titles it has available. But behind the scenes, the technology enabling the VOD service is a new, IP-based distribution and delivery network. That means not just more content, but the potential for new services as well. Read More »
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When we watch YouTube or stream TV through a Boxee, the assumption is that aside from some buffering, the experience will be fine. But add live content and interactive elements to those video streams, and it gets complicated. A new paper shows us how complicated. Read More »
Limelight has spent the last few years acquiring pieces and tacking on new value-added services to its legacy CDN business. Adding a content management system like Clickability could make it even easier for its customers to manage and monetize digital media across their web properties. Read More »
Verivue is announcing that it acquired CDN technology firm CoBlitz, expanding its product portfolio beyond managed networks and giving it a new way to provide telcos and cable companies with CDN infrastructure to more effectively manage IP-based video traveling over their networks. Read More »
3Crowd Technologies, which provides a set of tools for managing content delivery through the cloud, has raised $6.6 million in a Series A round of financing from Canaan Partners and Storm Ventures, the San Mateo-based startup said today. The funding follows an… Read More »
When Amazon introduced its CloudFront CDN (content delivery network) last year, one of the knocks against the service was that it wasn’t primed for delivering video. That changed today, with the addition of video streaming capabilities in the form of Adobe’s Flash Media Server 3.5. Read More »
Online video has significantly contributed to the growth of the market for content-delivery networks, two new research reports show, but it’s unclear how much the industry as a whole will benefit from this trend going forward. The worldwide value of CDN services is estimated to reach… Read More »
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… Read More »
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 »
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… 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 »
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