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Video: Will Apple’s own content delivery light a fire under its TV sales?

Apple (AAPL) is developing its own content delivery network, which might be just what the doctor ordered for its flagging Apple TV set-top box sales. Market research firm Strategy Analytics on Tuesday said Apple’s TV sales growth has slowed significantly this year in the face of increased competition from the likes of Amazon.com (AMZN) and Google (GOOGL). Apple’s market share in OTT (over-the-top) video streaming has dropped to 27% from 38% in 2012, says Strategy Analytics in a report released Tuesday. The research firm forecasts that global OTT streamer unit shipments will top 35 million in 2014, up from about 15 million in 2012 and about 24 million last year. Apple quietly launched its own CDN last week, according to a blog post at StreamingMedia.com by Dan Rayburn, a Frost & Sullivan analyst. Apple has been a customer of CDN leader Akamai Technologies (AKAM), whose stock slipped late last…

Google and Facebook portrayed as real people now a comedy staple

To drive home the point that Facebook and Google know an alarming amount about you, online comedians like to show what life would be like if those Web services were real people. Anthropomorphizing websites has become a comedy staple in reason years. CollegeHumor lately has been running a funny series called “If Google Was a Real Guy.” The series stars actor Brian Huskey as search engine Google (GOOGL). The first video premiered in January and demonstrated how awkward it would be if people asked their weird search queries to a real person. In part two, which dropped in March, the National Security Agency appears to check out some suspicious-sounding Google queries. CollegeHumor premiered part three in the series last week. In it, Google grows increasingly exasperated with dumb questions, porn requests and senior citizens who don’t know how to use the Internet. Facebook (FB) has gotten the real-person treatment as…

Google Rises On Solid Q2 Sales But Earnings Miss

Google (GOOGL) stock rose Friday to a four-month high after the search powerhouse posted Q2 revenue that beat Wall Street expectations, fueled by a 33% jump in paid ad clicks on its own sites. The No. 1 search provider’s earnings per share actually missed analyst views, but analysts and investors liked the top-line numbers. Google stock was up 3% in afternoon trading in the stock market today ex items jumped 27% to $6.08, its best year-over-year