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  • Amazon Buys MGM Studios

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    Apple will regret they didn’t snap up MGM. Today Amazon buys MGM Studios for US$9 billion. There are only few other content outlets of this quality, and prices for all others will go up.

    Amazon now owns James Bond Photo: Mladen Antonov/AFP (Getty Images)

    It’s official folks— Jeff Bezos now owns James Bond . After murmurs earlier this week, Amazon announced today that it had acquired MGM in an $8.45 billion deal that will bolster the e-commerce giant’s Hollywood ambitions.

    Gizmodo on Amazon buying MGM

    Source: Amazon Buys MGM Studios for $9 Billion

    The news also appeared on lots of other channels, like The Verge or TechCrunch.

  • Amazon CloudFront Edge Locations

    Amazon CloudFront launches new Edge Locations
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    Amazon CloudFront Edge Locations: AWS’ Amazon CloudFront launches 5 new CloudFront Edge Locations. These are located in Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, and Romania.

    AWS CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network and helps webpages to distribute their content globally. To achieve this, CDN’s leverage managed reverse proxy servers. The goal is to bring content closer to the consumer. And through keeping bulky media distributed, it prevents congesting internet connections.

    These added deployments will help AWS customers and their consumers experience significantly improved page load times. AWS has constantly expanded CloudFront’s Network footprint since its launch in 2008. With this recent update, CloudFront now has 216 points of presence in 84 cities across 42 countries. 

    Source: aws blog.

  • BitTorrent Live now in open beta

    Apparently, Bittorrent Live is now in open beta with a test case for live streaming.

    In the market for internet backed streaming, this may make a large difference, should the technology keep it’s promise.

    BitTorrent Live now in open beta, brings live webcasting to the masses

    via: Engadget

  • 62% of streaming consumed on Apple device.

    While everybody is waiting for Apple to launch their TV / Streaming service, Adobe found that the majority of streaming media is consumed on an Apple device.

    and it’s growing rapidly—up 63% in the last year, according to an Adobe study of 159 billion online video starts released Friday.

    Fortune via Daring Fireball.