Content Delivery Firm Limelight Networks Acquires Kiptronic

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 21, 2009 - 7:58am.

Tempe, Ariz. - Limelight Networks, a provider of content delivery network services for digital media, announced on Thursday that it has acquired Kiptronic, a provider of device-optimized content delivery and monetization services.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

San Francisco-based Kiptronic provides video content delivery with the ability to insert ads, for publishers including NPR, Fox, The Guardian and NBC.com.

"The combination of Limelight Networks' distributed computing and delivery platform with Kiptronic's device-targeting and dynamic ad insertion technologies will allow us to provide the world's largest media and entertainment companies a streamlined and scalable solution to this problem," said Limelight Networks chairman and CEO Jeff Lunsford.

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