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The Red Swoosh technology included a centralized directory that indexed online clients and caches. The software downloads and
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On April 12, 2007, Akamai Technologies acquired Red Swoosh for $ 18.7 million in a stock-for-stock transaction.
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applications. There is also a forum and a wiki available for the developer community.
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and was recapitalized in 2005, raising an additional $ 1.7 million from
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from websites that support the Red Swoosh technology. The Red Swoosh
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verification
improve this article
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"Red Swoosh"
news
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books
scholar
JSTOR
Learn how and when to remove this message
Peer-to-peer file sharing
Travis Kalanick
Akamai Technologies
Travis Kalanick
Akamai
Travis Kalanick
early 2000s recession
Mark Cuban
BitTorrent
peer-to-peer
sideloads
multicasts
peercasting
browser extension
sharing files
Distributed Network
proprietary
file distribution
protocol

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