Akamai Technologies News

Others have become wealthy with smart options plays; still others by discovering high-momentum growth stocks like Akamai or MercadoLibre before other investors catch on.

It's usually my Foolish friend and colleague Tim Beyers who stands on the soapbox for Akamai Technologies , trumpeting the Internet traffic expert's many advantages for the world to hear.

According to data compiled by Yale finance professor William Goetzmann, U.S. stocks will very likely close out the worst calendar decade in recorded history this month .

Close down the casinoAfA A A--after you take your winnings. Oddly enough, the insider trading case against managers and analysts at the Galleon Group has turned into a debate about whether or not we even need insider trading laws, as if legalizing illegitimate behavior is anything more than capitulation to criminality.

There's a lot to like about Akamai Technologies ' business. We know because competitors are hungering for a slice of its share of the content delivery networking market.

How do you break through in a no-growth industry? Try a different industry. That appears to be the thinking behind this one: Content delivery network Limelight Networks is shelling out $110 million in cash and stock for Eye Wonder, a video ad platform.

Raj Rajaratnam , the billionaire Galleon Group LLC founder, and Danielle Chiesi , an executive at New Castle Funds LLC, may face a summer trial on federal charges that they used inside information to profit from stock trades.

Content management company Limelight Networks has bought interactive ad shop EyeWonder for $110 million.

Conventional wisdom says that as you get older, you should take less risk with your portfolio.

Todd Dagres of Spark Capital decided that to be the best investor he could be in the frothy market where entertainment and media meet technology, he would need a crash course in the entertainment side.

Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph Demarest, Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the FBI, announced today that Raj Rajaratnam and Danielle Chiesi were charged with a 17-count indictment involving conspiracy and securities fraud crimes stemming from their alleged involvement ...

A U.S. grand jury on Tuesday indicted Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and co-defendant Danielle Chiesi on charges of securities fraud and conspiracy in an insider trading case involving employees of some of America's best-known companies.

Akamai Technologies is introducing a cloud-based managed service called Web Application Firewall it claims will head off the bulk of Web applications attacks before they get inside corporate data centers.

Cloud Security Journal on Ulitzer Breach Security has announced the release of the WebDefend Global Event Manager, a solution developed to work in conjunction with the new Web Application Firewall service offered by Akamai Technologies.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. , the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today expanded its cloud-based suite of security capabilities with the introduction of its Web Application Firewall managed service.

Interest-rate worries limit gains in U.S. stocks NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks remained higher near midday Monday, led by the telecommunications and utilities sectors, although the gains were limited by concerns over whether interest-rate increases could come sooner than previously expected.

FedEx Corp. /quotes/comstock/13*!fdx /quotes/nls/fdx late Monday said it raised its second-quarter earnings outlook to $1.10 a share from the previous estimate of 65 cents to 95 cents a share.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. announced today the results of the quarterly reranking of the NASDAQ Q-50 Index , which will become effective with the market open on Monday, December 21, 2009.

Every day, the sun rises on Wall Street, and a plethora of professional analysts wake to issue new opinions on stocks.

Sterne Agee analyst Henry Coffey upgraded Discover Financial Services on Dec. 7, saying loan-loss levels for the credit-card lender will be smaller than previously expected.