Comments on: Payday for Red Swoosh: $15 million from Akamai http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/ Startup and Technology News Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:01:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Akamai Fires Engineer Who Spoke Out Against Music Tax http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-2252248 Akamai Fires Engineer Who Spoke Out Against Music Tax Fri, 02 May 2008 21:38:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-2252248 [...] joined Akamai last year as part of the acquisition of Red Swoosh. CrunchBase Information Akamai Information provided by [...] [...] joined Akamai last year as part of the acquisition of Red Swoosh. CrunchBase Information Akamai Information provided by [...]

]]> By: Complete List of 2007 Web / Technology Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1895974 Complete List of 2007 Web / Technology Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:08:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1895974 [...] peer-to-peer technology for the management and distribution of media files. Press Release | TechCrunch | GigaOm | DMW [...] [...] peer-to-peer technology for the management and distribution of media files. Press Release | TechCrunch | GigaOm | DMW [...]

]]> By: Firefox.hk » Blog Archive » FoxTorrent 1.0 - Firefox BitTorrent http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1369779 Firefox.hk » Blog Archive » FoxTorrent 1.0 - Firefox BitTorrent Wed, 09 May 2007 10:00:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1369779 [...] Swoosh (acquired by Akamai for $15 million earlier this month) released v1.0 of FoxTorrent today. This is a fully functional [...] [...] Swoosh (acquired by Akamai for $15 million earlier this month) released v1.0 of FoxTorrent today. This is a fully functional [...]

]]> By: ::lemonup::News, Technology, sports, cars, movie, video, blog, travel, mp3, picture, computer, notebook » Akamai Releases FoxTorrent 1.0 - Firefox BitTorrent Add-on http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1356784 ::lemonup::News, Technology, sports, cars, movie, video, blog, travel, mp3, picture, computer, notebook » Akamai Releases FoxTorrent 1.0 - Firefox BitTorrent Add-on Tue, 01 May 2007 05:40:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1356784 [...] Swoosh (acquired by Akamai for $15 million earlier this month) released v1.0 of FoxTorrent today. This is a fully functional [...] [...] Swoosh (acquired by Akamai for $15 million earlier this month) released v1.0 of FoxTorrent today. This is a fully functional [...]

]]> By: Billco http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1353906 Billco Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:23:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1353906 I would have liked Red Swoosh if they weren't a copycat company sponsored by the world's greatest investment bouncer of all: Mark Cuban. He has been in the business of selling hype for nearly two decades, yet all his ventures have collapsed shortly after acquisition. He's the big-business equivalent to a used-car dealer... he knows it's shit, he covers the shit with hype and sugar-coated press releases, then cashes out and runs off to the next lucky turd. He's ruined many people in his quest, and Red Swoosh will be yet another casualty of this loud-mouthed financial terrorist. I would have liked Red Swoosh if they weren’t a copycat company sponsored by the world’s greatest investment bouncer of all: Mark Cuban. He has been in the business of selling hype for nearly two decades, yet all his ventures have collapsed shortly after acquisition. He’s the big-business equivalent to a used-car dealer… he knows it’s shit, he covers the shit with hype and sugar-coated press releases, then cashes out and runs off to the next lucky turd. He’s ruined many people in his quest, and Red Swoosh will be yet another casualty of this loud-mouthed financial terrorist.

]]> By: Vidya Nath http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1331911 Vidya Nath Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:57:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1331911 I agree with ChrisD about Red Swoosh being a more technology acquisition than a supporting business. While Akamai with its widely spread out network may not need P2P rightaway, it will need to integrate the technology for certain applications deployment in the future. It needed to walk the line and join the P2P brigade. Though there are several contenders in the space, Akamai just needed a complimenting piece to its own technology. At the same time, many in the industry might evangelize the benefits of P2P; it is not that easy to integrate it with a commercial deployment. I agree with ChrisD about Red Swoosh being a more technology acquisition than a supporting business. While Akamai with its widely spread out network may not need P2P rightaway, it will need to integrate the technology for certain applications deployment in the future. It needed to walk the line and join the P2P brigade. Though there are several contenders in the space, Akamai just needed a complimenting piece to its own technology.
At the same time, many in the industry might evangelize the benefits of P2P; it is not that easy to integrate it with a commercial deployment.

]]> By: tim http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1329526 tim Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:48:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1329526 useage? USAGE. useage? USAGE.

]]> By: Isabel Wang http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1329488 Isabel Wang Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:56:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1329488 Earlier this year there was a Red Swoosh blog post on how Steve Jobs could save $15 million if Apple ditched Akamai and used Red Swoosh for iTunes downloads. Was wondering if that's where Akamai got the idea for the $15 million acquisition price? Unfortunately the Red Swoosh blog is gone, but here's the Read/Write Web post about that iTunes post: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/red_swoosh_p2p_apple.php Earlier this year there was a Red Swoosh blog post on how Steve Jobs could save $15 million if Apple ditched Akamai and used Red Swoosh for iTunes downloads. Was wondering if that’s where Akamai got the idea for the $15 million acquisition price?

Unfortunately the Red Swoosh blog is gone, but here’s the Read/Write Web post about that iTunes post:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar....._apple.php

]]> By: ChrisD http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1329440 ChrisD Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:59:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1329440 $15M seems a bit cheap. Must have been viewed purely as a technology acquisition and not much supporting business. $15M seems a bit cheap. Must have been viewed purely as a technology acquisition and not much supporting business.

]]> By: pallet jack http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1329406 pallet jack Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:29:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1329406 Great acquisition - I bet Mark Cuban is - not even noticing his share as its nothing compared to the inflated prices he is used to. - RB Great acquisition - I bet Mark Cuban is - not even noticing his share as its nothing compared to the inflated prices he is used to.

- RB

]]> By: Sebastien http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1329163 Sebastien Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:24:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1329163 This news tends to prove that even giants like Akamai with strong CDN networks cannot compete against p2p delivery networks. So if you cannot beat them, join (buy…) them ! To another extent, this news is very good and confirm the efforts from my company to evangelize P2P and provide P2P Content Delivery solutions: peer-to-peer is now seriously considered as the main architecture when companies develop their online video distribution portal, while client-servers architecture are deprecated. And of course it is not limited to video contents: you can use p2p content delivery networks for music, pictures, work documents, zip archives, programs … Sebastien http://www.1-click.com This news tends to prove that even giants like Akamai with strong CDN networks cannot compete against p2p delivery networks. So if you cannot beat them, join (buy…) them !

To another extent, this news is very good and confirm the efforts from my company to evangelize P2P and provide P2P Content Delivery solutions: peer-to-peer is now seriously considered as the main architecture when companies develop their online video distribution portal, while client-servers architecture are deprecated.

And of course it is not limited to video contents: you can use p2p content delivery networks for music, pictures, work documents, zip archives, programs …

Sebastien
http://www.1-click.com

]]> By: FK http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1329070 FK Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:49:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1329070 You can still read the blog here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060504214413/http://blog.redswoosh.net/ You can still read the blog here:
http://web.archive.org/web/200.....woosh.net/

]]> By: RaJ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328950 RaJ Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:35:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328950 Thanks for the post again. Congrats swoosh to achieve this soon. ~ RaJ http://www.suggestusability.com Thanks for the post again. Congrats swoosh to achieve this soon.

~ RaJ
http://www.suggestusability.com

]]> By: Adam Bruce http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328917 Adam Bruce Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:02:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328917 Woo-Hoo! Congrats to the RedSwoosh team for reaching the Finish line! Woo-Hoo! Congrats to the RedSwoosh team for reaching the Finish line!

]]> By: Nick Dynice http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328821 Nick Dynice Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:09:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328821 Here is the audio of an interview I did with one of the founders, Travis Kalanick about a year ago. http://www.web20show.com/articles/2006/05/04/web-2-0-show-barcampla-episode-4-travis-kalanick Here is the audio of an interview I did with one of the founders, Travis Kalanick about a year ago.
http://www.web20show.com/artic.....s-kalanick

]]> By: David Mackey http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328750 David Mackey Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:53:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328750 Nice acquisition price for Red Swoosh. Nice acquisition price for Red Swoosh.

]]> By: Nathan Schmidt http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328725 Nathan Schmidt Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:35:50 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328725 Agreed that Travis and crew are good people. I still get the vibe that this is Akamai's way of making sure this kind of edge-oriented delivery system stays marginalized instead of eating away at their existing business. 15M in stock on an 8.75B market cap to defend 35M/mo of revenue is a pretty easy defensive move. And hey, they're up 71 cents on the day, which is... 10x what they paid for Red Swoosh. Nice. Agreed that Travis and crew are good people.

I still get the vibe that this is Akamai’s way of making sure this kind of edge-oriented delivery system stays marginalized instead of eating away at their existing business. 15M in stock on an 8.75B market cap to defend 35M/mo of revenue is a pretty easy defensive move. And hey, they’re up 71 cents on the day, which is… 10x what they paid for Red Swoosh. Nice.

]]> By: Josh http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328698 Josh Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:20:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328698 Those blog links are 404'd. Looks like Akamai have already replaced the Red Swoosh websites. Those blog links are 404′d. Looks like Akamai have already replaced the Red Swoosh websites.

]]> By: Cuneyt http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328695 Cuneyt Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:18:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328695 Bravo, these are a good bunch of guys and they deserve it! Bravo, these are a good bunch of guys and they deserve it!

]]> By: Rishi http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328569 Rishi Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:26:40 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328569 Akamai makes money from clients who want to be able to serve to users fastest by routing cached data from the least number of hops. By integrating bit torrent into Akamai's platform they will have a lot of "servers" that will be only one hop away from a majority of users, without using their own bandwidth and infrastructures . And Akamai will probably still be able to charge its usual 1 dollar per GB transfered. Akamai makes money from clients who want to be able to serve to users fastest by routing cached data from the least number of hops.

By integrating bit torrent into Akamai’s platform they will have a lot of “servers” that will be only one hop away from a majority of users, without using their own bandwidth and infrastructures .

And Akamai will probably still be able to charge its usual 1 dollar per GB transfered.

]]> By: lemon obrien http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328555 lemon obrien Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:14:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328555 i know the guys who build/built red-swoosh; congradulations. maybe they'll through another sushi get together. I guess Akamai would the technology to add to their http server technology. i know the guys who build/built red-swoosh; congradulations. maybe they’ll through another sushi get together. I guess Akamai would the technology to add to their http server technology.

]]> By: Kewtr http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328461 Kewtr Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:06:47 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328461 Other than getting my head sliced off or getting shot and then burned alive, I'd love to 'outsource' myself to Krabi. Other than getting my head sliced off or getting shot and then burned alive, I’d love to ‘outsource’ myself to Krabi.

]]> By: Direct Textbooks http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/comment-page-1/#comment-1328453 Direct Textbooks Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:58:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/#comment-1328453 I think direct BitTorrent downloads are pretty intimidating for a lot of people, I think RedSwoosh is in a pretty good position, and even more so, I think Akamai understands data transport well enough not to buy a turd. I think direct BitTorrent downloads are pretty intimidating for a lot of people, I think RedSwoosh is in a pretty good position, and even more so, I think Akamai understands data transport well enough not to buy a turd.

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