Cell service along the East Coast was spotty following a Virginia-based earthquake that was felt as far away as New England.
This earnings season, the market has been unforgiving to any company that fell short of expectations.
Today hundreds of Internet giants, including Google and Facebook, are participating in the first worldwide "test flight" of a major engineering upgrade to the Internet's infrastructure.
As news of Osama bin Laden's death made its way across the globe Sunday night, Internet traffic exploded.
A record number of people may have watched live video of the royal wedding online.
Prince William gives his new bride, Catherine, a kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
When Kate Middleton and Prince William kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on Friday afternoon, all bloody hell could break loose online.
President Obama's election in 2008 was historic. But in terms of internet traffic, Tuesday's midterm election was more popular, according to the internet traffic monitor Akamai Technologies.
A quick post to start on Patrick McEnroe's decision to vacate his Davis Cup duties. This has been in the ether for a while. Unlike Mardy Fish, P-Mac has an awfully full plate these days, plus a wife and brood of young kids.
The dramatic ending to the World Cup match between the U.S. and Algeria on Wednesday could set a new record for internet traffic.
Did Cyber Monday outshine Black Friday this year?
Not satisfied with your holiday weekend shopping? Don't worry, it's Cyber Monday.
In death as in life, Michael Jackson continues to light up the Internet.
A decade ago Akamai was not much more than a handful of scientists at MIT trying to come up with an approach that would rid the Internet of congestion. The only glitch was that in 1998 there wasn't any congestion on the Internet. Today, of course, it all makes sense. The Internet is getting jammed as more people conduct their business, find information, or simply get entertained online. The Akamai team's foresight and the solutions they have concocted are now a business that booked $636 million in sales in 2007, with a profit just north of $100 million. The company, based in Cambridge, Mass., was No. 48 on our 2007 list of fastest-growing companies and is projected to break $1 billion in revenue in 2009. Not bad for an outfit that solved a problem nobody knew we had.
Online retailers were set to break one-day records for traffic and sales, as consumers hunted down Cyber Monday bargains.
CEOs reveal the business strategies that put companies like Akamai, Netflix, and Priceline at the top of Business 2.0's ranking of the 100 fastest-growing technology companies.
Each week, it seems, brings fresh protestations that the sky is falling on the U.S. capital markets. Nobody wants to list on U.S. exchanges anymore, goes the argument, because Sarbanes-Oxley has poisoned the well, because the U.S. regulatory climate is too onerous, because selling out is a far more favorable alternative than the tedium of going public.
After having secured their Black Friday deals, shoppers next turned to e-tailers to pick up more holiday discounts on Cyber Monday, the online retail world's version of Black Friday.
Fortune: The boom is backupdated: Wed Apr 19 2006 10:56:00
Back when the Internet bubble was deflating disastrously, the fashionable view was that we'd never see its like again -- and thank goodness.
Cyber Monday, the online retail world's version of Black Friday, got off to a busy start as many holiday shoppers logged on at work and trolled the Internet in an effort to bag a few more bargains.
Business 2.0: A Star Is Rebornupdated: Fri Jul 01 2005 00:01:00
Akamai CEO Paul Sagan is—once again—ready to speak confidently about the future. An Emmy Award-winning television producer turned high-tech exec, he's putting the finishing touches on his company's...
Business 2.0: Favoritesupdated: Wed Jun 01 2005 00:01:00
CEO on the Go
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Let's take a stroll through the dot-com cemetery.
CNNMoney: Techs fizzleupdated: Tue Mar 23 2004 14:53:00
Technology stocks ended modestly lower Tuesday after struggling much of the afternoon as lingering security fears cramped investor optimism.
Money Magazine: Market Benchmarksupdated: Mon Mar 01 2004 00:01:00
MARKET MEASURES % TOTAL RETURN Level 3 months 1 year 3 years[1] S&P 500 1132.1 8.3 26.0 -4.2 Nasdaq[2] 2109.1 8.2 48.1 -8.7 Russell 2000 586.4 11.0 50.4 7.3 Morgan Stanley EAFE 1317.5 11.4 38.6 -2....
Money Magazine: Market Benchmarksupdated: Thu Jan 01 2004 00:01:00
MARKET MEASURES % TOTAL RETURN Level 3 months 1 year 3 years[1] S&P 500 1033.7 3.5 12.7 -6.4 Nasdaq[2] 1881.9 5.9 28.2 -12.0 Russell 2000 523.1 6.0 33.3 6.0 Morgan Stanley EAFE 1169.1 8.8 22.4 -6.4...
Fortune: Casualties Of Warupdated: Mon Oct 01 2001 00:01:00
When terrorists struck New York City and Washington, D.C., in September, business people were on the frontlines. As a nation, we will struggle to properly memorialize the thousands who have perishe...
We all knew it was a mania. From August 1999 to March 2000, hordes of tech-hungry investors drove up the Nasdaq index by 103%. In that time, tech stocks like Ariba and VerticalNet surged by more th...
Judge Jackson's antitrust ruling and next-generation Internet appliances have both taken a toll on Microsoft. But when you invest in the $411 billion company, you're not only buying a software mono...
Charlie Tillett remembers the year he entered MIT's business plan competition. It was 1991, and the second-year business student counted himself among the 50 or so active members of the school's Ne...
The emergence of Big Business, i.e., the large integrated industrial unit, as a social reality during the past 50 years is the most important event in the recent social history of the Western world...
As everyone knows, some of the most successful technology companies were started by university students. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to join Paul Allen to pursue their software pro...
Enron--a champion of business' old world--is plunging into the new. Its audacious executives think they can fundamentally alter the way the Internet works. Proclaims CEO Ken Lay: "I think we could ...
When you click on Yahoo today, you get the same simple, nearly graphics-free home page you would have seen had you clicked there three years ago--a virtual lifetime in Internet years. This steady s...
One of the frustrating things about tech stock investing is that there's always a new buzzword to learn. It used to be a tongue twister like "enterprise-wide resource-planning software." Then came ...
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