The Phoenix Business Journal is reporting that on Friday, private equity company Tuition Build Inc. submitted a $645M bid to acquire CDN provider Limelight Networks in an effort to take the company private. With Limelight’s stock closing at $2.83 a share on Friday, Tuition Build’s offer values each share of Limelight at just over $6.50, […]
While some want to suggest that TV personality John Oliver brought a lot of exposure to the topic of net neutrality by doing a segment about it on his show last Sunday, in reality, all he did was make the industry take two steps back. In addition to getting many of the details on net […]
Last week StreamingMedia.com hosted a webinar with Microsoft and iStreamPlanet talking about the backend technology and platforms that powered the online streaming of the Winter Olympics. During the Q&A portion of the event, the companies gave out details on server technology, protocols, encoding bitrates, transport services and other pieces of information. Below are their answers […]
On Sunday, Comcast and Netflix announced a commercial interconnect relationship between the two companies, which is in the very early stages of implementation, and as a result, many who clearly don’t understand how the Internet works are writing about the news. [Here’s How The Comcast & Netflix Deal Is Structured, With Data & Numbers] Those […]
Over the past few days, I’ve been watching and personally using a lot of the major online e-commerce sites and so far, it seems most have done a good job of having their infrastructure ready for this year’s online shopping crush. I haven’t seen anyone on Twitter or Facebook complaining about any website problems with […]
Thanks to everyone who helped made this week’s Streaming Media West show such a success. The feedback we got on the new venue and location was awesome and it really helped make the show much more enjoyable. I got a lot of positive feedback on our speakers, the topics discussed and all of the data […]
Over the last few months, I’ve seen a lot of customer RFPs in the market sent to me from content owners and publishers looking for an online video platform (OVP) provider. In some cases, these content owners already use a OVP and are looking to change vendors while in other instances, they have a new […]