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Akamai Drops Ads For Online Gambling
from the why? dept
Akamai has certainly been struggling lately, so it's a bit surprising to hear them say that they're terminating relationships with online gambling companies. You would think that they'd take any business they can get. However, when you look at the details, another possibility arises. They clearly weren't making very much money off of the gambling sites (they claim a fraction of a percent), and were shutting down that business in order to focus on 3 core areas that have nothing to do with gambling anyway. So, someone there had the bright idea that announcing how they were kicking out the gambling companies might make a good press release for a company struggling for attention. Now, they get to do what they were going to do anyway (restructure their business in an attempt to survive) while looking like a good corporate citizen for ditching these questionably legal sites.
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