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Akamai Technologies Inc. said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit slipped 2 percent as higher costs and operating expenses bit into revenue growth.

First Solar, Inc led the decliners in the S&P 500 index with a loss of 17.3%. Affiliated Managers Group third quarter profit increased 72%. Aetna Inc beats analyst expectations.

Click Here Now Investors will tell you that Akamai has the most descriptive logo of any stock trading today.

A surprising number of otherwise smart people find themselves remarking on the phone that they hope the line isna t tapped.

McKinsey said it was conducting an internal probe to see if senior executive Anil Kumar, who has been charged in the case, had leaked confidential information about clients to Galleon.

A high-ranking executive of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices privately shared a lot of potentially market-moving information at crucial moments in the company's recent history, according to court documents.

Hector Ruiz, the former chairman and chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., is implicated in the Galleon Group insider-trading case, The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday.

Industry Document "Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Hedge Fund Managers,Fortune 500 Executives, and Management Consulting Director in $20 Million Insider Trading Case" presented on 10/16/2009 The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York said shares of Google Inc.

For such a wealthy, smart guy, Raj Rajaratnam was one poor, dumb criminal. Rajaratnam, the billionaire founder of the Galleon hedge fund, is alleged to have conspired with six other people to make illegal trades based on insider information that brought in $20 million in profits, according to a pair of criminal complaints filed in U.S. District ...

With a craze for social networking sites such as Orkut, Facebook and the latest, Twitter among users, Internet usage in India is steadily picking up.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. , the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, announced today that it will host a Financial Analyst Day at The Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday, December 7, 2009.

It's very much a Valley story, with Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices featured prominently.

Akamai Technologies , Inc. , the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, announced that Akamai HD Media Analytics, a highly flexible, customizable solution to understand audience characteristics and content consumption, is proving to be a valuable business tool for content providers.

An insider trading scandal at Galleon Group is forcing the hedge fund to unwind its $3.7 billion portfolio, as investors scramble to redeem their holdings.

It only took a few brief phone calls to link an executive at Akamai Technologies Inc.

Cloud Computing, the long-held dream of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry, making software even more attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware is designed and purchased.

Danielle Chiesi , accused with Raj Rajaratnam in the largest insider-trading case against a hedge fund, was allegedly short-selling shares of Akamai Technologies Inc.

The government's case in what it is calling the largest insider trading case involving a U.S. hedge fund contains a detailed list of trades involving household-name companies.

Entangled in one of the biggest hedge fund insider trading cases in US history is a leading Massachusetts high technology company: Akamai Technologies Inc.

The perp walk is back! One of the richest men in the U.S., along with five others, was arrested Friday and charged with insider trading.

On the heels of the company's $9 million in venture funding from Highland Capital Partners in September 2009, these new hires augment InXpo's existing team of successful serial entrepreneurs with a proven history of accelerating revenue growth, providing world class client service, and driving product excellence and innovation.

Online retailers building broadband-absorbing rich media into their web sites may produce the best shopping experiences in New Hampshire, followed by Delaware and Rhode Island, Akamai Technologies Inc.

Galleon Group's billionaire founder, Raj Rajaratnam, was charged Friday in a sweeping insider-trading case, according to court documents filed in Manhattan by federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

With an average internet connection speed of 1,100 Kbps for the second quarter of 2009, Karnataka has been ranked second in a study of the top 10 Indian states for their average connection speeds.

On Tuesday, Barron's noted that Akamai " shares are trading higher in a down market this morning amid rumors that the company might be a takeover target for Google ." Barron's is only reporting what they hear, but seriously, who starts these rumors? Why would Google buy Akamai? They don't need a CDN, they have their own.

The major indices again ended mixed, with the Dow and S&P slipping and the Nasdaq ending virtually flat.

Content & Communications World 2009 takes place Oct. 14 - 15, 2009 at the Javits Convention Center in New York, NY.

Akamai is losing deals in an attempt to hold the line on content delivery network pricing, according to Merriman Curhan Ford analyst Richard Fetyko, who late yesterday cut his rating on the stock to Sell from Hold.

I thought I was all done covering the Akamai HD webcast earlier in the week , but Tim Siglin, one of the writers over at StreamingMedia.com made a really good point about the webcast that I totally missed.

Technology bankers are placing their bets on combinations around enterprise information technology offerings, which they say will spearhead dealmaking in coming months.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. , the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, announced today that the company will hold a conference call for investors on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. ET.

Internet attacks came from 201 different countries in the second quarter, up from 68 countries in the first quarter, according to a report released Thursday.