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Special Delivery: Web Utility Limelight Networks Buys Ad Platform Eye Wonder

in Media on December 21, 2009 at 5:35 am PT

How do you break through in a no-growth industry? Try a different industry. That appears to be the thinking behind this one: Content delivery network Limelight Networks is shelling out $110 million in cash and stock for Eye Wonder, a video ad platform.
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Akamai CDN Pricing Too High, Analyst Says

in News on October 1, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

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

Google to WSJ: I Got Yer Dumb Pipes Right Here…

in News on December 15, 2008 at 8:02 am PT

Ironic, isn’t it, that Google, one of Net neutrality’s staunchest advocates, has been approaching major cable and phone companies with a proposal that appears to violate the very tenets of that principle? How could a company that has argued tirelessly that all Internet traffic should be treated equally, suddenly reverse course and seek preferential treatment for its own traffic? Short answer: it didn’t.