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Ask HN: Is Akamai silently acquiring CloudFlare?
CloudFlare employees in SF and London have apparently changed their work addresses and are now using Akamai Offices
- Axfon 8y agoCloud Flare is Best...
- regex_warrior 8y agoCloud Front is Best...
- toomuchtodo 8y agohttps://www.techzim.co.zw/2019/02/exclusive-breaking-news-it-seems-cloudflare-is-merging-with-akamai/ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2019/02/exclusive-breaking-news-it... Doesn’t add much beyond what you’ve mentioned, but if the observations are true, it sounds like an acquisition is in progress. Maybe announced at RSA in early March? Total funding was $182.1 million (over 10 years), so interested to see what the acquisition deal is.
- gruffgirl16 8y agoWow. If true, it's interesting given that Cloudflare was rumored to be preparing for an IPO. Perhaps Akamai is offering a better deal? There certainly should be synergies between the two companies.
- techdragon 8y agoIt could be that Akamai and CloudFlare are working together on something, or any number of things including CloudFlare coincidentally renting space in the same buildings where Akamai already has operations. Without more data, such as when they changed the address, what their job roles are, what are the address in question? It’s hard to do anything but generate idle speculation.