First Internet, Hosting Trade Assoc / Industry leaders have announced the official launch of the first-ever trade association serving the shared interests of providers and vendors in the Web hosting and Internet services industry. ...
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Rackspace Sees IPO of 15m Shares / Rackspace Hosting (rackspace.com) announced on Friday it has registered its initial public offering of 15 million shares at an estimated price of $12 to $16 per share, according to a report on Reuters (reuters.com).
In April, Rackspace filed its S-1 form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to raise up to $400 million through an IPO of its common stock. According to the fil ...
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MS Executive Joins Juniper as CEO / According to reports on Friday, software giant Microsoft (microsoft.com) announced that Kevin Johnson, the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations, is leaving the company and stepping into the role of CEO at Juniper Networks (juniper.net).
Johnson, who was a significant player in Microsoft's unsuccessful multi-billion dollar bid to buy Yahoo!, will be replacing current CEO, Scot ...
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Botnets Help Click Fraud Hold Strong / Click fraud investigator Click Forensics (www.clickforensics.com) has released its pay-per-click fraud findings for the second quarter of 2008, showing the rate of fraud is holding at 16.2 percent (0.6 percent down from last quarter) but sophisticated Botnet attacks have grown to make up more than a quarter of all PPC fraud.
"Although click fraud rates were relatively unchanged in the second ...
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Peak 10, tw telecom Deliver Ethernet / Managed voice, internet and data networking solutions provider tw telecom (twtelecom.com) and data center operator Peak 10 (peak10.com) have announced an expansion of a mutli-million dollar master services agreement, enabling tw telecom to deliver ethernet services through Peak 10's Cincinnati data center.
According to the announcement Wednesday, the addition of the Cincinnati data center wil ...
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Microsoft Nears Facility Completion / Software giant Microsoft (microsoft.com) announced on Thursday that construction for its new container data center in Northlake, a Chicago suburb, is set to tentatively be completed in the first half of October, according to a report on FranklinPark Herald-Journal.
Located at 601 Northwest Avenue, the 550,000-square-foot building will house 300,000 servers used to control Microsoft's online ...
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