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people calling
Telecom
2 min read

Akamai could be up for sale

A recent report claims that Akamai is working with Morgan Stanley to explore strategic alternatives. On the table, apparently, is a sale of the company. To whom, though? The move may be in response to pressure from Elliot Management Corp, which holds a 6.5%…

att
Telecom
1 min read

AT&T and Akamai extend their global alliance

Akamai and AT&T have renewed their global alliance, extending it through 2019. The agreement will keep Akamai’s CDN and web security services on AT&T’s business solutions menu, including the addition of DDoS capabilities. Akamai will also be able to further…

IoT
Research
1 min read

IoT devices drive DDoS attack traffic in Q4

Unsecured IoT devices continued to drive significant DDoS attack traffic in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet / Security Report. The fourth quarter report also revealed that attacks greater than 100 Gbps increased…

internet
Research
1 min read

Beware the Internet of Unpatchable Things: Akamai

A recent spate of attacks involving attackers using IoT devices to remotely generate attack traffic by using a 12-year old vulnerability in OpenSSH have been discovered by researchers at Akamai Technologies. Akamai notes that the research and subsequent…

singtel
Telecom
1 min read

Singtel expands MSS alliance with Akamai

Singtel announced it has expended its alliance with Akamai by becoming the world’s first telco provider to have its advanced security operations centre staff certified to deliver Akamai managed security services. The two companies teamed up last month to…

akamai bocc cambridge
Telecom
1 min read

Korea and Singapore’s broadband lead narrows

South Korea continued to have the highest average connection speed in the world at 27 Mbps while Singapore maintained its position as the country with the highest average peak connection speed at 157.3 Mbps. These were among the findings of the Akamai…

internet speeds
Research
1 min read

Average internet speeds grow 12% during Q1

Global average internet connection speeds grew 12% sequentially during the first quarter to 6.3Mbps, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report. The report aslso shows that the global average peak connection speed increased 6.8% to 34.7 Mbps…

akamai investor relations
Telecom
2 min read

Akamai addresses mobile performance challenges

Akamai Technologies has upgraded its flagship web performance solution Akamai Ion to improve the platform’s mobile capabilities. Ion is designed to accelerate the delivery of websites, web applications and mobile apps over fixed and cellular connections. The…

meet the chinese luxury shoppers who are taking over the world
Research
3 min read

How should retailers prepare for this holiday season?

E-commerce presents enormous opportunity for retailers. Hong Kong’s 2014 sales value of Internet retailing, excluding tax, was HK$1.5 billion (Hong Kong Trade Development Council), and it is estimated to increase to HK$2.1 billion in 2019. As Singles’ Day,…