Akamai Technologies News

When a new content delivery networks startup named Cotendo exited stealth mode in March with $7 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Benchmark Capital, a typical reaction among those who cover the space was: Is there really room for another player in the CDN space? In the three months that followed, Cotendo named three customers -- Conduit , ...

Leading global broadcasters leveraged Akamai for live streaming covering the Michael Jackson memorial service as well as related news coverage throughout the day BANGALORE, INDIA: Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced online traffic statistics ...

To see the full "Mad Money" Recap, please click here . Here's what Jim Cramer had to say about some of the stocks that callers offered up during the "Mad Money Lightning Round" Thursday evening: Akamai Technologies : "Very controversial.

Flash Prices Spike But Chips Are Down [July 9, 2009] Numbers are influenced by individual companies, but overall the trend is not good for this year.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. : Akamai observed a nearly five percent increase globally in the number of unique IP addresses connecting to its network Japan unseated South Korea for the highest levels of "high broadband" connectivity The inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama drove record levels of streaming and HTTP traffic across the Internet, ...

Looks like I called this one wrong: Earlier in the day, I predicted that Web interest in Michael Jackson's funeral/memorial would be less than expected because anyone who really cared about this would be watching on TV.

TelVue Corporation announced today that it will leverage Akamai's Media Delivery solutions to support live and video-on-demand streaming for the latest release of TelVue's PEG.TV product.

Facebook "update" messages were fired off at feverish rates, with comments tied to CNN Live video feeds peaking at 6000 per minute, the social networking website said.

In death as in life, Michael Jackson continues to light up the Internet. Millions of people around the world watched coverage of Jackson's memorial service on the Web, although the event appeared to fall well short of online viewership records.

Yesterday, Akamai "officially" announced support for variable bit rate streaming of live and on-demand video content for the iPhone and iPod touch and has launched a new showcase site at iphone.akamai.com . The site which has been live for about a month, showcases content from about a dozen content providers including FOX News, MTV and USA Today ...

Looks like a couple of companies are in cahoots to get video delivered straight to your mobile network, among other media.

CINCINNATI-- --Prasco Laboratories, a privately held pharmaceutical company located in Cincinnati, Ohio, announced today it has entered into a distribution and supply agreement with Axcan Pharma US, Inc.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. , the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced variable bit rate streaming support for live and high quality video content on the iPhone and iPod touch.

AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES LACKS the name recognition of Google and Amazon, but the company is probably just as relevant to your online experience.

While there's been a lot of hype about peer-assisted technology [P2P] over the past few years, in reality, the technology has gotten very little adoption when it comes to being used to distribute video, let alone streaming.

The first day of Wall Streeta TMs third quarter brought gains to the major indices as the week looks to a holiday-shortened end.

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Computer networking gear maker 3Com Corp. said Tuesday it has named J. Donald Sherman, the chief financial officer of Akamai Technologies Inc., to its board.

Last week, we hosted our second annual day-long infrastructure conference, Structure 09, in San Francisco.

Running the 11-year-old content-distribution kingpin Akamai, which manages nearly 50,000 servers and optimizes the world's overtaxed web services, might be a high-profile job for some.