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Verizon Responds To Go90 Criticism
Thursday, February 2, 2017 - 2:23pm | 328There's drama in the competitive cellular mobile industry. A day after Frost & Sullivan analyst Dan Rayburn criticized Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ)’s Go90 video platform as “pretty much dead,” T-Mobile US Inc (NASDAQ: TMUS) CEO John Legere tweeted confirmation....
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Akamai May Be Forced To 'Slash' Media Prices
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 11:38am | 492Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is desperately trying to retain traffic after six of its media customers shifted a big percent of traffic to their own internal CDNs, leaving Akamai with excess capacity in its network. As a result, the company may be forced to cut rates for media. In a blog...
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Frost & Sullivan Analyst Details Questionable Verizon Sales Tactics
Monday, May 4, 2015 - 10:11am | 447Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) has been criticized for attempting to upgrade a customer’s broadband connection through questionable sales tactics. The customer was Dan Rayburn, Principal Analyst at Frost & Sullivan and EVP at StreamingMedia.com. According to Rayburn, three...
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Will Comcast, Yahoo And The Streaming Video Alliance Reshape The Future Of Entertainment?
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 12:16pm | 786Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) are among the companies that joined the new Streaming Video Alliance last month. The Alliance was created with the goal of producing an open architecture, new standards and best practices that could ultimately improve the...
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Netflix Goes Back To Level 3 and Limelight
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 9:35am | 192After Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) took Netflix's (NASDAQ: NYSE) business from Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) earlier this year and became the primary CDN for Netflix, it appears that Netflix has chosen to return to Level 3 and Limelight, according to Seeking Alpha. Limelight announced last week that Netflix was...