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Tuesday Webinar: Best Practices for Video Search and Discovery 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Analysts agree that video is growing, both in terms of volume and the need to expose it to search. In fact, Cisco’s 2013 VNI study predicts that globally, consumer Internet video traffic will be 69 pe...
CDN Provider Highwinds Closes $205M In Debt Financing 8 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
This morning, content delivery provider Highwinds announced they have closed $205M in a debt financing deal with Cerberus Business Finance and Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. along with a follow-on investment...
Why AOL Paid Too Much For Adap.tv, Inside The Numbers No One Else Is Mentioning 8 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
This morning AOL announced it would buy ad technology platform provider Adap.tv for $405M in cash and stock. The strange part is that for all the news outlets that covered the deal, more than 86 by my...
Streaming Media West Conference Program Published: Speaker Placement Starts Today 1 Aug 2013 | 11:32 pm
We’ve got a great lineup of content planned for the 2013 Streaming Media West conference (nov. 19-20), and have moved the event to a beautiful new venue this year, located in Huntington Beach. Below a...
Latest ISP Data Shows Transparent Caching Increasing QoE Inside Carrier Networks 31 Jul 2013 | 02:23 am
This morning transparent caching provide Qwilt announced they have raised $16M in a Series C round, now having raised a total of $40M to date. The funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, includes c...
CDN Provider EdgeCast Raises $54M: What It Means For The Industry 29 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
I’ve been out for a while with a cold, so I’m late in writing up the recent news from CDN provider EdgeCast, which on July 18th, announced a big fourth round of funding for the company, totaling $54M....
Verizon’s Pipe Dream: Consumers Will Need 500 Mbps To The Home, Will Sell It To You For $310 23 Jul 2013 | 04:17 am
While I have been a FiOS triple play customer for more than five years, and like my FiOS service so much I let them film an Internet commercial at my house, it pains me to see that Verizon has just an...
Global Smart TV Sales To Grow At A Low CAGR of 23%, Over Next Five Years 19 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
The strongest drivers of smart TVs are expected to be the easy access to content and high picture-quality, whereas its software-based configuration is expected to be its strongest restraint when it co...
Samsung Owned 30% Of The Global Smartphone Market In 2012, Apple At 18% 18 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
Of all the devices covered in our latest Frost & Sullivan report on the size of the Consumer Video Devices Market, smart phones arguably represent both the most mature market in terms of penetration a...
Set-Top Box Sales Slowing: CAGR of Only 4% Over Next Five Years 17 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
The digital divide between advanced and emerging economies is expected to define the nature of growth in the STB market over the next few years, which is detailed in our latest Frost & Sullivan report...
