Although Apple’s market cap dropped $37B from late April to late July, the GAFAN (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix) Mafia continues to grow like gangbusters, adding a cool ~$150B in valuation in the past three months. Their total combined market
Nikolai Nikiforov, Russia’s Minister for Communications, recently announced plans to launch a new mobile operating system across all the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) that will challenge the dominance of the US developed Android and iOS.
Disruptive technologies and trends continue to transform the CDN business model. At the same, these disruptions usually usher in the creation of new CDN startups that come up new ways of optimizing, securing and delivering content. Three identifiable CDN periods
The Internet has been torn asunder at the news of Verizon buying AOL. The PR machines are on overdrive trying to figure out the reason “why Verizon acquired AOL”. There are dozens of theories on “why the acquisition” and most
It’s been nine months since our last interview with Per Buer, founder of Varnish Software. Varnish Software is one of leading global caching platforms, powering millions of websites and thousands of well known online brands. A lot has happened in
Denis O’Brien, the billionaire owner of Digicel, a Caribbean Mobile Operator with 13M customers, recently stated that “Mark Zuckerberg is like the guy who comes to your party and drinks your champagne, and kisses your girls, and doesn’t bring anything”. We disagree
It looks like Microsoft has in thrown the towel to build out its CDN, and will instead rely on 3rd party CDNs like Verizon Edgecast for content delivery. However, this move is likely to impact Apple more than it will
Who says money doesn’t grow on trees. According to the illustration below, not only does money grow on trees, so does love. Here are some cute couples that can possibly hit it off in 2015. Now we are randomly picking
Today, we are starting our very first series of Q&A sessions. In this session, we talk to Per Buer, the founder of Varnish Software. The topic of discussion is Comcast and Apple’s decision to use Apache Traffic Server (ATS) to
I usually don’t comment on a CDN news article unless it’s way out of bounds from reality. I just found one from Mukesh Baghel, who published an article on The Motley Fool titled “Will Apple and Netflix’s New Moves Destroy
The Apple CDN Team needs to decide whether to go the open source route, or build a caching platform from scratch. I’m sure Apple is currently using some form of caching software in their web environment. However, building a highly
Over the last day or so, there has been a ton of press regarding Apple’s plans to build out a CDN. According to Dan Rayburn, and what he heard from his sources, Apple wants to improve the download performance and
On 2/3/14 Akamai’s stock price dropped 3.5%. Some suggested that an article from Dan Rayburn, regarding Apple building out it’s own CDN, might have caused the drop. However, it’s hard to say since the overall stock market dropped more than
