After a week of off-again, on-again access to several of its popular Web sites, Microsoft has linked arms with Akamai Technologies to provide a safeguard against future outages, the software giant ...

Akamai chief scientist Tom Leighton says performance of the Internet can be improved without adding any new backbone capacity. Speaking in Sydney, where he today addressed the 5th International ...

Akamai Technologies may be acquired, Bloomberg reports. The speculation is that likely buyers include telcos or perhaps a cable company. It isn’t hard to come up with a rationale, and the current ...

Microsoft Corp. has forged a deal with Akamai Technologies Inc. in an attempt to rectify some of the problems which caused extensive outages across Microsoft’s Web properties last week, according to ...

Akamai is the granddaddy of CDN with a 20-year history of intelligent edge computing and more POPs than all of its competitors combined. Pandemic-driven internet traffic growth has driven revenue ...

Akamai and Speedera have spent the last several years at each other’s throats – not just competing in the marketplace, but also suing, countersuing, and generally whining and bickering. Now, they’ll ...