Transparent Caching & CDN Merging: Juniper Licenses BitGravity’s CDN Technology

A few weeks ago Juniper announced they had licensed BitGravity's CDN technology and plans to add the functionality to their transparent caching Media Flow solution. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but I hear that there is a revenue sharing component between Juniper and Tata Communications, which owns BitGravity. Juniper does not plan to re-sell any of Tata Communications…

Rumor: Facebook to file $5 billion IPO today

Facebook’s rumored $10 billion IPO now is rumored to be only $5 billion, according to reports that also said the company was likely to file its S-1 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. Reuters

EdgeCast reports doubling revenue, customers in 2011

Content delivery network EdgeCast Networks said it doubled revenue, customer base and employee headcount in 2011, as well as network points of presence in Madrid and Osaka as it continued to expand its footprint. The company said it turned a profit in 2011 and continued to innovate in the space. EdgeCast earlier this year announced it had built a production CDN for a Tier One U.S

Report: Facebook IPO filing could come this week

The long-anticipated wait for Facebook to take come action on its IPO-which is expected to raise $10 billion on the companies $75 billion to $100 billion valuation-could come this week. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources said the social networking company may file paperwork to get the ball rolling with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the next few days. The Journal said Facebook likely would select Morgan Stanley rather than Goldman Sachs to lead the transaction

Studios Still Don’t Get It: Paramount Charging $20 To Stream 10+ Year Old Movies

For all talk from the studios about how much they are “embracing” digital, they really aren't. Consumers are asking for more choices when it comes to being able to get first-run content in digital form, for multiple devices, yet the studios continue to launch services that are limited in playback, with pricing that's too expensive. The latest example comes from…

Juniper buys BitGravity’s service management tech from Tata

Less than a year after it acquired U.S. content delivery network BitGravity, Tata Communications has sold the company’s service management layer technology to Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a move that will help Juniper strengthen its content and media solution portfolio. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Juniper said the move is in reaction to exponential growth in online video traffic, with aggregate traffic doubling every six months according to leading analysts

Connected devices will fuel the next rising tide for online video industry

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook may have reiterated the company’s stance that its Apple TV franchise is still just a hobby to the company, and with the numbers Apple put up in the first quarter for iPads and iPhones, what else could it be? But there are increasing indications that that “little business” of Apple’s is about to boom, and that it’s likely to be part of a rising tide that will give the online video industry yet another boost, perhaps becoming the flood tide that puts it over the top and firmly into mainstream America. NPD In-Stat today rolled out some research that said 2011 was a banner year for connected devices, and it’s likely to just be lighting the candle on a boom that the research company expects to see deliver a compound annual growth rate of 52.6 percent through 2016.

Cook: Apple TV sales accelerated in quarter, but still a hobby

During Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)’s earnings call this week, CEO Tim Cook, while not talking directly about the company’s plans for its strategy for the living room, did say that the company’s connected device, Apple TV, was “doing actually very well.” “In last fiscal year that ended in September, we sold a bit above 2.8 million units. And just in the past quarter–the December quarter–we set a new quarterly record for Apple TV with over 1.4 million (units).” But, Cook pointed out in a response to Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster, “if you dollarize this in revenues, we still classify this as a hobby. However, we continue to add things to it…We continue to pull the string to see where it takes us.” The current Apple TV connected device runs on the same processing chip as the original iPad and the iPhone 4; when, and if, it gets an upgrade, may be a sign that Apple has decided to move beyond the hobby stage with it.

Encoding.com integrates Vid.ly, creates ‘future proof’ encoding

Cloud-based Encoding.com has integrated its Vid.ly universal video platform into its video encoding workflow, accessed through a preset within the Web, Watch Folder and API interfaces. Selecting the Vid.ly preset automatically transcodes the source video into 24 different video formats. Vid.ly creates a short URL and the embed code for the Vid.ly-hosted video. The company, which rolled out a beta version of Vid.ly just a year ago, said the platform automatically transcodes video into all of the HTML5 formats, detects the browser and delivers the correct video format. Vid.ly prepares video for both iPad and iPhone adaptive bitrate stream to dynamically serve the bitrate most appropriate to the bandwidth of the requesting device.

Sony Kills Off Internet TV with Google TV Platform

While not officially announced from Sony corporate, I have been able to confirm via a Sony Store and multiple calls to Sony's sales number that Sony has stopped producing their Sony Internet TV with the built-in Google TV platform. Over the past few weeks I've been noticing that Sony's Google TV model has disappeared from nearly all supply channels and…

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