AuctionRover.com Enhances Site Reliability, Speed with Akamai Service.Business Editors/High Tech Writers RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2000 Integrates technology that benefits both bidders and sellers of online merchandise Ensuring its customers the most reliable, fastest auction resource site available, AuctionRover.com(TM) today announced it has selected Akamai Technologies' (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ) FreeFlow(SM), a global, high-performance service for the delivery of Internet content and applications. AuctionRover.com - the one-stop, feature rich resource for online auctions - has integrated the Akamai FreeFlow service into its Web site to improve the site's speed, performance and reliability and to enable the delivery of richer, more engaging Web site content. In addition, FreeFlow will enable AuctionRover.com to deliver its content and applications over the Internet two to 10 times faster than before. "Akamai's Web performance capabilities will make it even faster for online bidders using AuctionRover.com to find that perfect item across the more than 4 million auctions we search," said Scot Wingo, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder of AuctionRover.com. "For online sellers, Akamai's technology ensures that images hosted through AuctionRover.com will always load quickly and reliably." "Akamai is excited to name AuctionRover.com as a new customer and also our first to represent the growing online auction industry," said Earl Galleher, vice president of sales and support, Akamai. "Speed and reliability are crucial to the success of any eBusiness today. We are pleased that AuctionRover.com has selected Akamai's leading content delivery service to maximize its site's performance and to deliver compelling, graphic-rich content to its end users in the most rapid and reliable fashion possible." Akamai provides global Internet content and applications delivery services for more than 100 customers, improving Web site speed and reliability and enabling richer, more engaging Web site content. Currently, Akamai has deployed 1700 servers in 30 countries across 100 different telecommunications networks. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA with offices in San Mateo San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , CA, Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. "AuctionRover.com is committed to partnering with the Internet's premiere service providers - bringing the best of breed capabilities to our customers," added Michael Jones Mike or Michael Jones may refer to: In sports:
AuctionRover.com is the most comprehensive online auction resource to include bidder and seller services, as well as entertaining, informative and consistently updated content. For online bidders, AuctionRover.com features Rocket Rover(TM) - an advanced, proprietary cross-auction search engine. Rocket Rover provides a comprehensive, categorized cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat and searchable index of more than 30 leading online auction sites - such as Yahoo!, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ), MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). (NASDAQ: MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Auctions.com, etc - including the first licensed search of auction giant eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). Auction enthusiasts can search through more than 850 online auction sites and can find anything from antiques to xylophones in record time. Additionally, they can be notified about new items, monitor items of interest, and participate on several different auction sites simultaneously. AuctionRover.com gives sellers the power to post items across several auction sites, including larger players, like those mentioned above, in addition to hosting images and hit counters. These unique advantages ultimately enhance visibility and manageability. AuctionRover.com has the industry's only Price Trending Service - a free service that enables bidders and sellers to view bid volumes and price histories of more than 350 popular auction items. AuctionRover.com also has the industry's only affiliate program, Rover's Affiliates, with more than 1500 partners using AuctionRover.com's search engine to enable online auction searching from their own Web sites. About AuctionRover.com Founded in July 1999, AuctionRover.com is the one-stop resource for all online auctioning needs. This powerful new site allows buyers to search for items across auction sites, sellers to host images and counters, and provides innovative, relevant content that will keep bidders and sellers informed and entertained. AuctionRover.com is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with a West Coast office in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . The company has received funding from Draper Atlantic - the East Coast affiliate of Silicon Valley's Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. - and internet.com (NASDAQ: INTM INTM Interrupt Mode ). For more information, visit AuctionRover.com at http://www.auctionrover.com . |
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