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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

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That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. Here, we wanted to build a Netflix-like experience for this. It's the idea of bringing a modern web experience to this. Think Dateline, the Discovery Channel, and Netflix. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Has Facebook Achieved What AOL Could Have A Generation Ago?

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Of course, just like any other update, there will be winners and losers depending on how you play the game. If you think about our behavior on AOL in the early to mid 90’s, people never really left AOL to go on the world-wide-web. It’s up to you to test and figure out what works best for you. By that I mean: Let me explain.

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Internet Video is Hot, But Not a Money-Maker Yet

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Hulu is for TV what NetFlix is for movies, but its growth has been dropping off sharply. There is now even a search engine, called Clicker , which is geared to find the online video and Web TV content to be able to watch it. They provide a fast, free, and easy way to search for online video all across the Web.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Content, of course, is the same!]. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month). Online text book rental service. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

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There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Netflix is a great example. The “ Amazon deal &# was so large that, according to another Revolution portfolio company Clearspring , it materially changed sharing on the web that day. Monetizing content is going to be a moving target.