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[Singapore][Event] ad:tech Singapore 2012 Shows Digital Future For Asia

YoungUpstarts

Leading digital marketers from around the Asia Pacific and beyond gathered yesterday at ad:tech Singapore 2012 to share and discuss the continuing growth of the role of technology and digital media in marketing and advertising. He highlights that: · In 1996, 2/3 of world’s internet population was in the US.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. We had recorded $1.8

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

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Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Akamai: The Present.