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MK Capital Completes Acquisition of Kontiki From VeriSign

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

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Kontiki Provides Peer-Assisted Content Delivery to Enterprise and Consumer Media Customers Worldwide

Kontiki, the leading provider of managed peer-assisted delivery for high-quality video and digital content, announced today that it has completed the anticipated divestiture from VeriSign, Inc. As a result, the assets previously comprising VeriSign’s Broadband Content Services business unit will be re-launched as Kontiki [...]

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Rights to OMN technology to be given to public TV

January 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Rights to OMN technology to be given to public TV - Current.org
On behalf of public TV, stations in New York and San Francisco plan to accept the gift of Kontiki, an economical online video distribution technology used by the BBC iPlayer, AOL and Open Media Network.
Two years ago, Mike Homer, a onetime Netscape exec who [...]

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