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Workflow for Internet Enabled Blu Ray Discs Launched: Will BD Live Be Adopted?
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-01-06
Dan Rayburn submits: This morning, Akamai AKAM, Ascent Media and Sofatronic announced the creating of a new integrated digital workflow and distribution solution for the production, hosting and delivery of BD Live functionality for Blu-ray Discs. The companies say the new service provides a more efficient and cost effective...
Akamai: More Aggressive on CDN Pricing, But More Steps Are Needed
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-12-03
Dan Rayburn submits: Over the last 60 days, I have seen Akamai AKAM getting more aggressive with video delivery pricing and in some cases, appears to be doing a better job of trying to keep existing customers at the time of contract renewal. While that should come as no...
Expect Akamai and Limelight's Court Ruling by the End of the Month
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-12-01
Dan Rayburn submits: Lately, I've been getting a bunch of questions asking for the latest news on the Akamai AKAM and Limelight Networks LLNW patent suit. While there is not much news to talk about, Akamai and Limelight were back in court last month and there is a good...
Broadband Content Bits: Universal/Meebo; Crackle's New Shows; YouTube Live Stats; XFire's JV with H3
Content Next
- 2008-11-25
-- Universal seeds Meebo with content: Social communications company Meebo will feature videos from Universal Music Group artists like The Killers and Kanye West on its site and in its MediaBar ad platform. As part of the promotion, UMG will embed Meebo's IM and chat rooms into a number...
Google uses Akamai for YouTube Live - Rumour
Strategy Eye
- 2008-11-24
Google used Akamai's content delivery network CDN to stream the first live YouTube show last week, reports TechCrunch. Google launched YouTube Live on November 22, with a concert that attracted 863,000 online viewers worldwide. The online giant has yet to announce a technology partner for the service, but server...
Amazon's CloudFront Takes On Akamai
BNET
- 2008-11-19
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront's biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term...
Busy Day at the Show
BNET
- 2008-11-19
It has been a particularly busy day here at PhoCusWright, and I'm exhausted. I thought it might be interesting if I posted a run through of my day so far. by Brett Snyder
Online News Sites Have Recordbreaking Election Night
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-11-05
Erick Schonfeld submits: On Election night everyone was glued to their screens. Not just their TV screens, but also their computer screens. Going to the major news sites, hitting refresh on the interactive electoral maps millions of times, and watching Obama and McCain give their final speeches...
Akamai Technologies Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-10-30
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Michael Turtis from Raymond James. Please proceed. Michael Turtis - Raymond James Hi, guys. Good evening. One, just for clarification, I want to get on the fourth quarter guidance, I want to make sure I got it...
Earnings Preview: Akamai Technologies
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-10-30
Akamai Technologies AKAM is expected to report Q3 earnings after market close Thursday Oct. 30 with a conference call scheduled for 4:30 pm ET. Guidance The consensus estimate is 39c for EPS and $195.21M for revenue, according to First Call. Management guided for revenues to be in the range of...
Microsoft & Akamai's 'Smooth Streaming': How Will It Impact the Market?
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-10-29
Dan Rayburn submits: Yesterday, Microsoft MSFT and Akamai AKAM announced a future new video delivery service dubbed "smooth streaming", designed to deliver HD video quality over the HTTP protocol. Using chunked encoding, the new technology will adapt the quality of the video stream in real time based upon the...
Akamai's $95M Bet on Better Ad Targeting
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-10-21
Erick Schonfeld submits: Akamai AKAM wants to branch out of the content delivery business. Today it announced an all-cash, $95 million acquisition of Acerno, a subsidiary of database marketing firm i-Behavior. Acerno pools purchasing data from online retailers, who then share it among themselves in an aggregate, anonymous...
Akamai President and CEO Paul Sagan to Preside over the Opening of The NASDAQ Stock Market
- 2008-10-06
Akamai celebrates 10 years of incorporation at NASDAQ Opening CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that Paul Sagan, president and chief executive officer, will open The NASDAQ Stock Market in New York tomorrow,...
Top 10 Networking Stocks
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-09-17
Sramana Mitra submits: The phenomenal trends of online video through YouTube, video conferencing, and online entertainment are driving the networking industry. Here’s my list of the top 10 networking stocks. 1. Cisco CSCO by Sramana Mitra
Recent Developments in FTTH
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-09-10
Tim Poulus submits: On Monday, Analysys Mason published its fiber-in-the-UK report for the Broadband Stakeholders Group. Recently, there have been a wide range of FTTH related developments. Let's first make a little list of them:Incufiber: KPN is steadily, if not stealthily, rolling out through its Glashart ('heart of glass')...
FBR Cuts Tech Company Ratings on IT Budget Cuts
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-09-03
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: The slowing economy is taking a toll on corporate IT budgets, Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst David Hilal warned in a series of research notes Wednesday morning. Hilal wrote Wednesday that “the lagging nature of software sales cycles and the nature in which IT budgets...
Nasdaq 100 Struggles
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-09-03
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 is currently set to have its third straight -1% decline. Below we highlight the 25 (out of 100) worst performing stocks in the index since last Thursday's close. As shown, Dell has lost nearly a fifth of its value...
Akamai Technologies: Unusual Options Activity
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-08-25
Steve Patterson submits: Strong Call option buying in Akamai Technologies AKAM on Friday is a positive sign for the company. Most of the buying was in the front month of September with some additional buying in the October Calls noted. Unusual Call Volume by Steve Patterson
Friday Options Update: LEH, SCHW, AKAM, KG, APO, TGT, ORCL, KO
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-08-22
Rebecca Engmann Darst contributed to this report. Lehman Brothers LEH – Shares in Lehman Brothers bounded sharply out of the gate with a 10% gain to $15.09 on speculation that the firm might be bought by Korea Development Bank. The move in Lehman comes a day after respected analyst Richard...
Akamai and the BBC: News Reporting on CDNs Getting Shoddy
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-08-22
Dan Rayburn submits: While I think it's great that more folks are starting to write about the content delivery market as it pertains to video, lately, too many articles being published are full of inaccurate and just flat out wrong info. Earlier in the week, there was the ZDNet...
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- Revenue (Fiscal Year) $636.4M
- Profit (Fiscal Year) $100.9M
- Incorporated: 1998
- CEO: Mr. Paul Sagan
Akamai Technologies provides services for accelerating and improving the delivery of content and applications over the Internet. Co. provides services for digital media and software distribution and storage, content and application delivery, application performance services and other Internet-based offerings. Co.'s service offerings include its Digital Asset Solutions, Dynamic Site Solutions and Application Performance Solutions. Co. markets these services via its direct sales and services organization and active resellers. Co. also has several other types of sales- and marketing-focused alliances with entities such as application service providers, sales agents and referral partners.
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Mr. George H. Conrades Chairman
Mr. Paul Sagan
Ms. Naomi O. Seligman
Ms. C. Kim Goodwin
Mr. Martin M. Coyne II Lead Director
Mr. David W. Kenny
Mr. Peter J. Kight
Mr. Frederic V. Salerno
Ms. Jill A. Greenthal
Mr. Geoffrey A. Moore
Mr. Ronald L. Graham
Dr. F. Thomson Leighton Ph.D.
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All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services: 541990
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