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Jan 24

Forbes: Can RIM Be Saved?

Some observations [on RIM] from the corner offices around the tech industry … more

Jan 10

Fierce Telecom: EdgeCast debuts its licensed CDN program

EdgeCast Networks this week said it had built a production CDN for a tier one U.S. carrier … more

Jan 9

Capacity: EdgeCast licenses CDN platform to major US carrier

Today was the first time the company has officially confirmed it has been working with a major Tier 1 US carrier … more

Jan 9

Telecom Ramblings: EdgeCast Takes the Carrier Plunge

Today [EdgeCast's] efforts culminated in the formal launch of their licensed CDN program … more

Jan 9

Light Reading: EdgeCast Eyes CDN Federation

Licensing its content delivery network (CDN) software to carriers, [EdgeCast is] creating the potential for federated CDNs … more

Dec 22

More Thoughts On The Akamai/Cotendo Deal and Its Impact On AT&T

Streaming Media's Dan Rayburn examines EdgeCast's role as a front-runner in the new CDN landscape … more

Dec 18

Online Video Industry Forecast 2012: Edgecast Networks

EdgeCast's VP of Product Management Ted Middleton explores how increased media consumption in 2012 will call for CDN capacity buildout … more

Dec 1

Capacity Big interview: James Segil, Edgecast

EdgeCast President & Co-Founder James Segil explains how CDNs are changing the way carriers approach their strategy towards interconnection and EdgeCast's role in scaling the internet … more

Nov 29

Telecom Asia: Pacnet CDN goes live

Pacnet recently launched its content delivery network service in Tokyo, with four regional PoPs and a best-of-breed global footprint via its partnership with EdgeCast … more

Oct 12

Investor's Business Daily: AT&T Uses Wireless To Build Content Delivery Business

Using EdgeCast's technology, AT&T "aims to speed up the delivery of web content to corporate clients, especially to wireless devices" … more

Oct 12

GigaOM: Akamai, CDNs face ‘hyperconnected’ world of devices

CDNs like EdgeCast are adjusting to meet the modern, increased demand of video and other rich content … more

Sep 29

Pressure On Akamai Growing, Company Needs To Make Some Acquisitions To Jumpstart Their Business

EdgeCast has shown lasting power and has made significant headway in the realm of software licensing … more

Sep 14

Capacity Magazine: Pacnet develops CDN platform through EdgeCast

Pacnet has announced it will deliver a new next-generation content delivery network (CDN) service through EdgeCast … more

Sep 14

Telecom Ramblings: Pacnet Introduces EdgeCast-Powered CDN

Pacnet announced their intention to deploy a CDN of their own based on technology licensed from EdgeCast … more

Sep 14

Streaming Media: Pacnet Building Out CDN, Licenses Technology From EdgeCast

[Pacnet] has announced that they have licensed EdgeCast's carrier CDN platform to build out their Pacnet CDN … more

Sep 14

Telecom Ramblings: EdgeCast Adds Transparent Caching

EdgeCast’s focus on enabling content delivery for telecommunications providers took on a new dimension today … more

Aug 30

Wall Street Journal: New Address Scheme Aims to Speed up the Net

EdgeCast, Google, OpenDNS, and others team up for the Global Internet Speedup initiative … more

Aug 30

Google, OpenDNS add geo speed boost to Net

OpenDNS, Google, and a few CDNs have built a new technology into their Internet operations to speed data delivery … more

Aug 30

OpenDNS and Google team to speed up the web

Google, OpenDNS, and several content delivery networks announce Global Internet Speed Up … more

Aug 09

OpenDNS and Google team to speed up the web

Gartner analyst Lydia Leong comments on AT&T's new content delivery solution powered by EdgeCast's software solution … more

Aug 08

Game Network Newsletter: EdgeCast VP talks about services for video game industry

EdgeCast's Ted Middleton talks about our services for game companies and what GDC Online attendees can expect at the EdgeCast lounge … more

Jul 28

CDN Provider EdgeCast Says They Now Carry 4% Of All Worldwide Internet Traffic

Content delivery network company EdgeCast announced they are now powering more than 3,000 customers, serving more than 1.5 billion objects per hour … more

Jul 27

Business Cloud News: EdgeCast figures show importance of CDN

CDNs like EdgeCast are fast becoming the vital link for companies whose very existence is reliant on consistently high-speed internet connection ... more

Jul 20

NBC Los Angeles: Back to Work; Tech Is Hiring

So many startups have chosen to locate in Westside LA coastal communities that the area has been dubbed “Silicon Beach” ... more

Jun 22

GigaOM: AT&T reboots its CDN

AT&T hopes to leverage its existing network infrastructure along with CDN software from EdgeCast to offer content delivery services to its large base of Fortune 1000 clients... more

Jun 22

Streaming Media: AT&T Announces They Are In The CDN Space, For Real This Time

Analyst Dan Rayburn examines the deployment of EdgeCast CDN technology on the massive AT&T network... more

May 05

CDN Evangelist: Interview with DaCast CEO regarding Edgecast Partnership

Stephane Roulland, CEO of DaCast, explains to the CDN Evangelist how DaCast's utilization of the EdgeCast CDN has helped shape his business' future... more

Apr 28

Motley Fool: The Big Problem With Akamai's Quarter (and Why It Doesn't Matter)

Growth is slowing, fast. That could be the result of increasing competition from upstarts such as Cotendo and EdgeCast... more

Apr 13

Motley Fool: Will Akamai Endure?

Competitors are stepping up efforts to take another bite out of Akamai Technologies... more

Mar 22

WHIR: EdgeCast Networks and Media Temple Partner for CDN

EdgeCast and Media Temple announced the launch of Media Temple's ProCDN... more

Mar 22

Southern California Tech: EdgeCast, Media Temple Team On CDN Service

EdgeCast, and fellow Los Angeles web hosting provider Media Temple, are announcing today they are launching a new content delivery network offering... more

Feb 11

Computerworld UK: The nastiest performance bottleneck is often the database

EdgeCast cited as an option to alleviate performance issues with a slow website... more

Feb 10

Southern California Tech: LAVA Honors Richard Riordan, Local Technology Firms

EdgeCast wins Best Venture Funding in Software/Services award by the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA)... more

Jan 21

Capacity: EdgeCast and Content Delivery

EdgeCast widely regarded as the carriers' choice of content delivery technology partner... more

Jan 10

Guardian: Keeping your legal head above the cloud

The UK's Guardian examines Moonfruit and EdgeCast's partnership... more

Dec 10

Gartner: EdgeCast joins the ADN fray

EdgeCast has announced the beta of its new application delivery network service... more

Nov 03

iTnews: AAPT loving life without consumer business

AAPT experiencing unprecedented success since deployment of EdgeCast CDN... more

Oct 26

VentureBeat: DaCast launches self-service live video streaming service

DaCast is announcing its [EdgeCast-powered] self-serve live video streaming service... more

Oct 26

TelecomPaper: EdgeCast launches cloud storage

Content delivery networks provider EdgeCast Networks has launched its cloud storage service... more

Oct 25

Southern California Tech: EdgeCast Gets Into Cloud Storage

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast said Friday that it has entered into the cloud storage market... more

Aug 24

TechCrunch: Moonfruit secures $2.25m funding to accelerate internationally

EdgeCast partner Moonfruit experiencing unprecedented growth following their implementation of services on world-class CDN... more

Aug 04

Fierce Online Video: CDN EdgeCast lands Canadian telco TELUS in big client win

Canadian telco TELUS and EdgeCast Networks have entered into an agreement that will allow TELUS to resell the content delivery network's services... more

Aug 03

Streaming Media: TELUS Enters CDN Space With An Exclusive Reseller Deal With EdgeCast

TELUS will use EdgeCast's platform to provision and support their own customers across the EdgeCast network... more

Aug 03

Business Review: TELUS Partners with EdgeCast for Content Delivery

TELUS customers can experience the power of the Internet over their smartphones with world's fastest content delivery network... more

Jul 27

Wall Street Journal: Newest Video Bet By Disney's Steamboat Ventures is Elemental

Steamboat invests in early to mid-stage, technology-focused companies pursuing opportunities in digital media and consumer technology... more

Jun 03

TMC: User-Generated Content Influx Managed by EdgeCast for WordPress.com & Technorati

With the use of EdgeCast, a dramatic improvement in site loading and response times... more

May 12

Capacity Magazine: EdgeCast adds to carrier portfolio in Australia

Australian companies can now deliver content directly to end users from servers around the world... more

May 11

Royal Pingdom: CDN performance: Downloading jQuery from Google, Microsoft, and Edgecast CDNs

So which of these free CDN options will give you the best performance?... more

Apr 16

IT Wire: AAPT teams with EdgeCast to offer content delivery network

AAPT will market EdgeCast's services in Australia and provide communications facilities to support the delivery of EdgeCast's services in Australia... more

Apr 16

IT News: AAPT brings EdgeCast to Australia

Viable alternative to Akamai?... more

Apr 14

Telecom Ramblings: Edgecast Adds Carrier Partner Down Under

Content delivery network Edgecast has found itself another carrier partner, this time in the southern Hemisphere... more

Apr 11

TechCrunch: EdgeCast Secures $10 Million From Menlo Ventures

EdgeCast has secured $10 million in Series C funding from an investor group led by Menlo Ventures... more

Feb 7

CDN Asia 2012

Hong Kong
February 7 - 8, 2012

CDN Asia provides a forum for network operators looking to break into the content delivery business.

Feb 27

eTail West

Palm Desert, CA
February 27 - March 2, 2012

eTail West gathers online and brick-and-mortar retailers to share strategies on how to increase profits and improve the customer experience.

June 20

GigaOM Structure

San Francisco
June 20 - 21, 2012

GigaOM's Structure brings together the leaders innovating, shaping and defining the ongoing evolution in the technology industry: cloud computing.

June 25

O'Reilly Velocity

Santa Clara, CA
June 25 - 27, 2012

O'Reilly Velocity is an event for web ops and performance professionals to learn from their peers, exchange ideas with experts, and share best practices and lessons learned.

Sep 10

NewTeeVee Live

Denver
September 10 - 12, 2012

Shop.org's Annual Summit brings retailers, thought leaders, and retail partners together to tackle all things digital retail.

EdgeCast makes the Deloitte "Fast 500" ranking of fastest growing companies

EdgeCast was named to Deloitte’s 2011 “Technology Rising Stars” list, which recognizes fast-growing private technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies that have been in business three or four years, and is based on percentage revenue growth from 2008 to 2010. EdgeCast was one of just three companies in the Los Angeles area named as a “Rising Star.”

EdgeCast recognized as one of the companies with the greatest impact in online video in Streaming Media 100

EdgeCast made the cut to a list of companies that are the most important, most innovative, and have had the most impact on the space in the recent past and are likely to continue to do so in the future.

EdgeCast Founders Finalists for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Ernst & Young have named EdgeCast CEO Alex Kazerani and president James Segil as finalists for the celebrated Entrepreneur of the Year award.

EdgeCast Wins Venture Award From LAVA

The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) honored former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, as well as local, venture backed companies in a banquet at the Luxe hotel.

AlwaysOn 2010 OnHollywood Winner

The OnHollywood 100 were selected from more than a thousand domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and entertainment industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2010 list.

Chosen by Red Herring as a Top 100 Global Private Company

The Red Herring editors assessed nominees on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their ecosystem. EdgeCast Networks made the cut and is proud to be included in this group of the top 100 privately held companies in the world.

EdgeCast - Top Online Video Company 2009: FierceOnlineVideo, Fierce 15

Fierce Online Video is the first place to turn for must-know B2B news in the online video industry. Each year they publish their "Fierce 15" list of companies that they feel are representative of those that are driving this space. Fierce wrote, "EdgeCast is a CDN on a roll. It started the year with just 200-some customers and now has 450 direct customers and 550 resellers, a bonus in that the resellers in effect extend EdgeCast's own sales force and help spread the word..."

EdgeCast was named the winner for "Best Market Innovation" at the Capacity Europe 2009 Conference

Capacity magazine is the essential source of information in today's telecommunications carrier and service provider marketplace. Capacity is a must-read for the carrier industry, offering telecoms executives a rich blend of insightful analysis and business intelligence.

EdgeCast is named in the 2008 “Top 200 Private Technology Companies” report by Nollenberger Capital Partners

Nollenberger Capital Partners is a full-service Broker Dealer & Investment Advisory Firm serving institutions and affluent individuals. EdgeCast was named as a "Top Private Technology Company" in this 2008 special report.

EdgeCast Networks Named #1 CDN Contender by Yankee Group.

In their 2009 CDN Scorecard, Yankee Group named EdgeCast Networks the #3 CDN in the industry and labeled them the #1 “Contender”.

EdgeCast Networks Selected by the Readers of Contentinople as the Best CDN of 2008.

EdgeCast is the proud winner of Contentinople's first annual "Reader's Choice Award". The award was based on a vote by the readers of Contentinople and was awarded to EdgeCast at the Contentonomics seminar in Los Angeles, CA in Oct. of 2008.

EdgeCast Networks Selected by AlwaysOn as OnHollywood 100 Top Private Company Award Winner

The OnHollywood 100 was selected from more than 1000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts.

EdgeCast Networks Wins Red Herring 100 Top Tech Startups in North America

For over 10 years, the Red Herring editorial team has diligently surveyed entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation.

EdgeCast Networks named 2008 Finalist in 5th Annual PricewaterhouseCoopers Entretech Entrepreneurship Awards

The PricewaterhouseCoopers Entretech Entrepreneurship Awards spotlight exceptional companies realizing their potential for market leadership and long-term profitability.

SDForum & Vator.tv: EdgeCast Wins the 2007 “Tech Behind Digital Media” Competition

“I was delighted to partner with Vator.tv for what turned out to be an exciting competition- together with a small panel of judges and the Vator audience voting, we chose a great selection of companies that represent the cutting edge of technology driving new media” - Susan Lucas-Conwell, CEO, SDForum.

Web Host Directory Award

Every month, WebHostDirectory.com compiles a list of the most popular companies on their site. The List is based on the companies that received the most votes and profile page views during the month. EdgeCast was the most popular company under their SaaS Directory category for June of 2009 and was a winner of their Web Host Directoy category for 2009.