The rise of video streaming is dramatically affecting the Internet, according to a two-year study of Internet traffic trends that Arbor Networks recently presented to the North American Network Operators Group. Two years ago, Internet traffic was...
Topics: internet, paid peering, Video, Web

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With the spin-out from eBay complete, and its legal troubles with founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis settled, Skype is looking to the future, where it wants to become a ubiquitous real-time communications platform. And that means thinking about...
Topics: Janus Friis, Josh Silverman, Niklas Zennstrom, Voice, VoIP

{"title":"Skype CEO Outlines Platform Ambitions, Hiring Plans","post_url":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/21\/skype-platform-ambitions\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ommalik","author":null,"date":"2009-11-21 15:59:49","summary":"With the spin-out from eBay complete, and its legal troubles with founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis settled, Skype is looking to the future, where it wants to become a ubiquitous real-time communications platform. And that means thinking about..."}

Twitter, the San Francisco-based micro-messaging start-up, recently raised about $98 million dollars from T. Rowe Price, Insight Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners. valuing the company at a whopping $1.1 billion. NeXt Up...
Topics: Nextup research, Sharepost, Twitter, Web

{"title":"How Much is Twitter Worth? Less Than You Think","post_url":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/10\/twitter-valuation\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ommalik","author":null,"date":"2009-11-10 20:06:46","summary":"Twitter, the San Francisco-based micro-messaging start-up, recently raised about $98 million dollars from T. Rowe Price, Insight Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners. valuing the company at a whopping $1.1 billion. NeXt Up..."}

Meg Whitman, former chief executive officer of eBay,  defended her decision to buy Skype in a radio interview with KTKZ’s Capitol Hour featuring Eric Hogue. Whitman is running for the office of the Governor of California on a Republican ticket, and is.
Topics: eBay, meg whitman, skype, Voice, VoIP

{"title":"Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Defends Skype Buy","post_url":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/10\/whitman-on-skype\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ommalik","author":null,"date":"2009-11-10 17:14:26","summary":"Meg Whitman, former chief executive officer of eBay,\u00a0 defended her decision to buy Skype in a radio interview with KTKZ\u2019s Capitol Hour featuring Eric Hogue. Whitman is running for the office of the Governor of California on a Republican ticket, and is."}

A public interest group and some law professors sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission this morning questioning the FCC’s commitment to preventing carriers from discriminating against certain types of traffic on their pipes. The...
Topics: fcc, Net Neutrality

{"title":"Dissension Festering in the Net Neutrality Ranks","post_url":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/02\/dissension-festering-in-the-net-neutrality-ranks\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ommalik","author":null,"date":"2009-11-02 11:20:57","summary":"A public interest group and some law professors sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission this morning questioning the FCC’s commitment to preventing carriers from discriminating against certain types of traffic on their pipes. The..."}