Kuaishou, a Chinese live-video streaming start-up, whose name means “fast hand” in Chinese, is nearing the end of a $1 billion funding round led by Tencent, and has plans to list later this year, according to Nasdaq. Kuaishou is emerging
Limelight Networks and Tencent Cloud recently announced a major reseller agreement that radically expands access to each company’s services. Limelight will offer its CDN customers in China its service through Tencent Cloud. Reciprocally, Tencent will offer CDN services from Limelight
According to a new survey from data Artisans interviewing Apache Flink users, the majority of surveyed businesses are planning on deploying more applications powered by Apache Flink software in the year ahead. Apache Flink is an open-source stream processing framework
Last week, a policy statement from the State Council announced China’s intention to become a leader in artificial intelligence research, products, and innovation. The statement included plans for China to become competitive with the US and other countries in AI
Today, Wowza announced updates to their portfolio that will allow for dramatically expanded global delivery with Wowza Streaming Engine software and Wowza Streaming Cloud Service. The updates will allow broadcasters more options to scale streams and deliver them to global audiences
Out of the twenty or so US based CDNs, what CDNs are the best match for Alibaba? There is one US based CDN that is a great fit for Alibaba and that is Yottaa. Yottaa has a development staff in
According to a Bloomberg article, Cyrus Mewawalla, Managing Director of CM Research, explained that Alibaba might be interested in acquiring Akamai to expand its cloud infrastructure. Alibaba will receive $8B in cash from going public, plus another $50B in loans
