Back in early 2013, the COO of VMWare once said the following about Amazon “I find it really hard to believe that we cannot collectively beat a company that sells books”. Well, it wasn’t a happy ending for the COO
Good to know we’re not crazy after all. What a difference a year makes. On Nov 10, 2014, we published an outrageous idea on “What Happens if FireEye buys Fastly to Counter Palo Alto Networks”. A day after, we published
On October 11, 2014, we wrote a post on why Google should create the “Great Firewall of the World” – primarily because they are the Internet and generate vast fortunes from it. Then on December 2014, we wrote another post
Let’s put a check mark next to Apple, as they join Google in their quest to control the wireless last mile. According to Business Insider, Apple is in talks with carriers to launch an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) in
According to StreamingMedia, HEVC Advance, a new group that formed a patent pool for licensing HEVC technology, plans on charging something to the effect of 0.5% of gross revenue for HEVC usage, that is retroactive “to the date of first
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
The rumor is “Google plans to invest $100M” in CrowdStrike, which essentially locks up the startup for a later acquisition. If the investment materializes, it will mark a major shift in the overall cyber security business model. Back in April,
The CDN business is about leveraging the latest innovations, and crafting solutions that correspond to shifting trends in all things content. However, there is a technology so innovative that it has the potential to wreak havoc on the current CDN
Did We Get It All Wrong Billions have been invested in cloud infrastructure research, as everyone tries to figure what the future of tech holds. Is it possible that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and everyone else got it wrong, because of
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
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
In 2006, a start-up by the name of Strangeloop Networks developed the Site Optimizer. It was one of the first products of its kind, and it became known as FEO (Front-End Optimization). Thereafter, two other FEO start-ups emerged, Blaze.io and
Technology innovation in the wireline and wireless industry is experiencing unprecedented growth. In a few years, Gbps connectivity to the last mile eyeball networks (US wireline & wireless) will become the norm. Everyone and everything that participates in the Content
