{"id":35052,"date":"2022-02-17T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T21:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35052"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:15:36","slug":"pair-networks-and-linode-acquired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/17\/pair-networks-and-linode-acquired\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair Networks and Linode Acquired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pair.com\/2018\/01\/03\/podcast-host-liberated-syndication-acquires-pair-networks\/\">Pair<\/a>, in 2018:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.pair.com\/2018\/01\/03\/podcast-host-liberated-syndication-acquires-pair-networks\/\"><p>Today, Liberated Syndication, Inc. (LSYN), the Pittsburgh-based podcast hosting network, announced that it has closed its acquisition of pair Networks, Inc.<\/p><p>You can read the press release <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PRLibsynPairFinal010318c.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/02\/15\/akamai-acquires-linode-for-900m\/\">Frederic Lardinois<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/02\/15\/akamai-acquires-linode-for-900m\/\">\n<p>Akamai, the company you probably mostly think of as a content delivery network but that also offers security and edge computing services, today announced that it has acquired Linode. The price of the acquisition is $900 million, with Akamai expecting Linode to add about $100 million in revenue for its fiscal year 2022.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The opportunity to combine Linode&rsquo;s developer-friendly cloud computing capabilities with Akamai&rsquo;s market-leading edge platform and security services is transformational for Akamai,&rdquo; said Akamai CEO and co-founder Dr. Tom Leighton in today&rsquo;s announcement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"pair-networks-and-linode-acquired-update-2022-03-09\">Update (2022-03-09): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/atp.fm\/470\">Accidental Tech Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pair, in 2018: Today, Liberated Syndication, Inc. (LSYN), the Pittsburgh-based podcast hosting network, announced that it has closed its acquisition of pair Networks, Inc.You can read the press release here. Frederic Lardinois: Akamai, the company you probably mostly think of as a content delivery network but that also offers security and edge computing services, today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-02-17T21:34:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"e2e03f38-5abf-4e38-a4a1-e4a3e62ef1a8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-12-09T21:15:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A4uA_OFq_TjikoeSj5i7xqA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,2338,101,2337,2339,96,2862],"class_list":["post-35052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-akamai","tag-business","tag-linode","tag-pair-networks","tag-web","tag-web-hosting"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35236,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052\/revisions\/35236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}