The sale of sex.com for $13 million on 17 November 2010 has been officially acknowledged as the “most expensive internet address domain name” by the Guinness World Record, Sedo announced.
Posted By Vrytek On Wednesday, February 23rd 2011 In Domain News | Tags: check-out-sedo, chief-operating, guinness, guinness-world, Industry, market-study, Relationship, sales-at-sedo, such-as-vodka, transaction |
Posted By Vrytek On Thursday, February 10th 2011 In Hosting News | Tags: acquisition, capabilities, center-operator, customer, customers, hospitality, hosted-services, including-voice, press, such-as-hosted, such-as-paetec, technologies, the-acquisition, transaction, web |
A screen shot of XETA Technologies’ website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and data center operator PAETEC Holding ( www.paetec.com ) announced on Wednesday it will acquire XETA Technologies ( www.xeta.com ) for about $61 million.
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Posted By Vrytek On Saturday, February 5th 2011 In Hosting News | Tags: customers, games-on-joyent, gaming-vertical, joyent, offered-as-part, php, running, transaction, web |
A screen shot of Joyent’s SmartMachines offered as part of SmartDataCenter 6 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud software provider Joyent ( www.joyent.com ) and software as a service provider New Relic ( www.newrelic.com ) announced on Friday they are now offering New Relic RPM Bronze as a free service to JoyentCloud customers. The move comes a couple weeks after Joyent launched SmartDataCenter 6 , the newest version of its cloud operating system.
Posted By Vrytek On Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 In Hosting News | Tags: acquisition, Business, data, glenn-britt, nasdaq, said-on-tuesday, says-it-expects, transaction, warner, warner-cable, web, web-hosting, Yahoo, yahoo-finance |
An image from Yahoo Finance, charting NaviSite’s stock performance over 6 months (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cable television operator Time Warner Cable said on Tuesday that it plans to acquire publicly traded managed web hosting provider NaviSite ( www.navisite.com ) for $230 million. Time Warner said it would pay $5.50 per share for the company, a premium of 33 percent over the company’s February 1 closing price of $4.13 on the NASDAQ. The acquisition would be the cable giant’s first foray into the data center services business, with NaviSite itself representing a broad selection of hosting services, including high-end managed hosting and a variety of cloud services, including cloud storage.
Posted By Vrytek On Friday, January 28th 2011 In Hosting News | Tags: agreement, Digital, enterprise, europe, Industry, Investment, press, press-releases, transaction, Unique, usa, verizon, wireless, York |
Hosting News – NEW YORK and MIAMI – In a move that will decisively reshape the rapidly evolving global business technology solutions market, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Terremark Worldwide Inc.(NASDAQ: TMRK) today announced a definitive agreement under which Verizon will acquire Terremark, a global provider of managed IT infrastructure and cloudservices, for $19.00 per share in cash, or a total equity value of $1.4 billion
Posted By Vrytek On Tuesday, December 21st 2010 In Hosting News | Tags: chief-executive, cologix, cologix-dallas, dallas, denver, enterprise, Hosting, Hosting News, press, Sale, Services, texas, transaction, website-hosting |
Posted By Vrytek On Tuesday, December 21st 2010 In Hosting News | Tags: cologix, cologix-as-part, cologix-dallas, Control, enterprise, from-the-sale, its-colocation, selling-off-its, Services, transaction, web |
A screenshot of the control panel for NaviSite’s new TestDev cloud solution (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider NaviSite ( www.navisite.com ) announced on Monday it has sold its Dallas colocation business to Cologix Dallas, a subsidiary of Cologix ( www.co-logix.com ), for $12.75 million in cash. All NaviSite Dallas colocation customers will be transferred to Cologix as part of the transaction.
Posted By Vrytek On Friday, December 10th 2010 In Hosting News | Tags: buffalo-sabres, core101, customer, financial, handle-services, Internet, Migration, says-it-expects, technology, transaction, web |
A sample of Core101’s clientele (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider I-Evolve Technology ( www.i-evolve.com ) announced on Monday it has acquired the customer base of hosting and design firm Core101 ( www.core101.com ).
Posted By Vrytek On Saturday, December 4th 2010 In Hosting News | Tags: entry, expected-annual, hosted-solutions, infrastructure, little-rock, lower-the-risk, press, raleigh, transaction, windstream |
Posted By Vrytek On Monday, November 29th 2010 In Hosting News | Tags: acquisition, america-merrill, annual-revenue, boost-the-value, combined, Companies, complementary, integration, invitation, ronnie-kenneth, says-it-expects, says-it-intends, transaction, united-states, web |
A chart showing Mellanox’s annual revenue from 2005 to 2009 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center equipment firm Mellanox Technologies ( www.mellanox.com ) announced on Monday it will acquire fellow networking technology provider Voltaire ( www.voltaire.com ) for about $218 million. Mellanox will eventually end up paying $176 million after taking into account the cash on Voltaire’s books
