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Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Oct 19th 2007

SM: Let me ask you a couple of detailed questions on that framework. You have servers inside of various ISPs. The intelligence in that server is your technology and that is how you route traffic. Is that fair to say? TL: At a very high level that is correct. There is a lot of detail

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Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Oct 19th 2007

SM: Can you talk about the Adobe experience a bit more? Where did you find the Creative Professionals business? JH: There was a lot of work going on in bundling Adobe applications together. We figured out how to go beyond just bundling different applications in a box and we created synergy between the products. In

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Infosys Needs to Diversify Out of Body-Shopping

Posted on Thursday, Oct 18th 2007

The rupee value may rise making Indian services more expensive, but companies like Infosys adapt. In this piece, we look at what is going on inside the outsourcing giant, and whether their strategy is enough to sustain continued growth. Infosys (INFY) delivers information technology (IT) enabled outsourced business solutions and provides business process outsourcing (BPO)

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Web 3.0 & Viacom (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 18th 2007

Acquisition Targets In the past one year, Viacom has acquired Quizilla, Harmonix Music Systems, Atom Entertainment, Xfire, and Y2M: Youth Media & Marketing Networks. These acquisitions are strategic and fit well into the Company’s overall theme of youth focused entertainment. Viacom, through its Nick brand, is popular among the kids. Presumably, the Company would acquire

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Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 18th 2007

SM: Even though you had entered the 50K competition, and had started talking to potential customers, Akamai was not a company yet? TL: We really had no desire to make a company out of our research. We were all academics and we liked writing papers, proving theorems, and giving talks. We were not businessmen in

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Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 18th 2007

SM: You decided to stay with Adobe for a few years after selling them Fotiva, correct? JH: Initially I got out and I spent a few months looking around for the next smaller thing to do, but the market had dried up so badly there were no B and C round deals going on, and

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Web 3.0 & Viacom (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 17th 2007

Web 3.0 Framework discussion Below is a quick overview of the Web 3.0 framework for the Viacom sites. We have not gone into the details of all the properties, but you can review the Web 3.0 section of this site for detailed discussions on some of the vertical categories, especially Online Music, a Viacom mainstay.

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Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 17th 2007

Tom Leighton, co-founder of Akamai, is the Chief Scientist and a member of the Board of Director at Akamai. You can read more about him by visiting his bio here. Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) is the leading content delivery network (CDN) provider which, among other things, allows content providers to accelerate the delivery of Internet

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