Tag archive: Akamai

Shares of content delivery network Akamai spiked more than 10 percent overnight on a report from Business Insider that Google was on the verge of acquiring the company—but it appears to have been one of those baseless Internet rumors: today Bloomberg reports the story is not true, citing sources that claim the story is baseless. Why did the report gain so quickly gain traction with investors? Akamai stock has lost roughly half its… Read More

Cloud storage and performance-boosting provider Akamai has published its State of the Internet report for the fourth quarter of 2010 (registration required), including year-on-year results comparing 2010 to 2009. Among the report's highlights: average Internet connection speed increased in 162 countries year-on-year, with the United States seeing a 9.2 percent year-on-year improvement in average measured connection speed. Akamai also saw… Read More

Akamai Technologies—which provides the horsepower behind a lot of media delivery on the Internet—has published its “State of the Internet” report for the third quarter of 2009. Amongst the report's findings: Russia and Brazil have unseated the United States and China as the top origin points for attack traffic on the Internet, accounting for some 22 percent of the world's attack traffic during the quarter.… Read More

Shares of Web video delivery company Akamai Technologies Inc. rose Friday after two analysts upgraded the stock based on an upbeat outlook for online commerce. Shares rose $1.26, or 5.3 percent, to $25.03 in afternoon trading Friday.  Citi Investment Research analyst Mark Mahaney upgraded Akamai to “buy” from “hold” and set a price target of $31.

When online video operator Joost first appeared on the Internet landscape back in 2007, it was a force to be reckoned with: founded by the same folks who gave birth to Skype, Joost promised high-definition real-time streaming of real-time television programming over connections of even modest bandwidth: slap that together with a bunch of what we'd call social networking features today, and you might just have had a killer application… Read More

Back in April, Redmond software giant Microsoft announced it would be taking on Adobe's market-dominated Flash technology with Silverlight, a new interactive platform for delivering "rich media experiences" across browsers and platforms. Today, Microsoft released version 1.0 of its Silverlight browser plug-in , and has announced it will be working with Novell to offer support for Linux. "Our expectations for… Read More

Using an MRI scan, doctors can tell what a healthy brain looks like and what a dysfunctional one looks like – then use the differences to assess the problem. A company out of Massachusetts has developed technology that basically amounts to an MRI scan for the entire Internet. Akamai's real-time visualization of web traffic allows users to get an overview of networks across the world, and use it to pick out anything from the most… Read More

A new market research report from Ireland's Research and Markets finds that Microsoft's Window Media remains the dominant format for streaming video on the Internet, based on distribution volume and contracts. The report, “CDN Growth and Market Share Shifts: 2002&mndash;2006” finds that Windows Media accounted for 50.8 percent of video streams served during 2006, with Flash coming in at 21.9 percent. AOL Media Player… Read More

A new study commissioned by content-acceleration provider Akamai Technology and conducted by JupiterResearch claims that the average online shopper will wait as along as four seconds for a page to load before potentially abandoning an online retailer. And, besides prices, what was the most-cited factor contributing to poor online shopping experiences? Long load times. “The critical takeaway from this research is that online shoppers… Read More

Akamai Technologies has unveiled its Akamai Net Usage Index, a near real-time Web activity report which tracks the total visitors per minute to more than 100 new portal sites around the world. The resulting map shows geographical and time-based trends on where specific news stories are being "consumed." Akamai operates as a high-speed content delivery service for a wide variety of Internet sites worldwide (including CNN, NBC,… Read More

The problem began about 8:45 a.m. EDT and lasted about two hours, said Jeff Young, a spokesman for Akamai Technologies Inc., whose network of servers mirror some of the Web's top destinations to improve their performance. Young called it a “large scale, international attack on Internet infrastructure.” However, there was no evidence that non-Akamai infrastructure was affected. Amit Yoran, head of the Department of… Read More