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Of the shares being offered, 12,500,000 are being offered by Limelight Networks, and 3,500,000 are being offered by selling stockholders. Limelight Networks will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares being sold by the selling stockholders. Net proceeds to the company are expected to be approximately $170 million.

The company has granted to the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 2,400,000 shares from Limelight Networks at the initial public offering price. Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as the sole book-running manager for the offering, Morgan Stanley acted as joint lead manager and qualified independent underwriter, and Jefferies & Company, Piper Jaffray, and Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., Inc. acted as co-managers.

The offering of the common stock may be made only by means of a prospectus, copies of which may be obtained from the prospectus department of Goldman, Sachs & Co., Attn: Prospectus Department, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, via fax at 212-902-9316, or via e-mail at prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; or from the prospectus department of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014, via telephone at 1-866-718-1649, or via email at prospectus@morganstanley.com.  

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Content Delivery Network Limelight Exceeds 1 Terabit Per Second
Submitted by Mark Hefflinger on January 16, 2007 - 1:32pm.

Tempe, Ariz. - Limelight Networks, a provider of content delivery network services that speed the delivery of digital media content across the Internet, announced on Tuesday that its global delivery capability now exceeds 1 Tbps (one terabit per second). "Hitting terabit per second content delivery network capacity is a strong validation of both our architecture and our success with innovative, high-growth media and entertainment customers, who increasingly are turning to online rich media as their most promising growth opportunity," said Limelight chairman and CEO Jeff Lunsford. Limelight customers include Amazon Unbox, Brightcove, MySpace and Xbox Live.



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Limelight Raises $240 Million in IPO, Exceeding Expectations

By Adam Satariano and Tim Mullaney

June 7 (Bloomberg) -- Limelight Networks Inc. raised $240 million in an initial public offering, exceeding expectations for the maker of technology to deliver movies and video games through the Web.

Limelight sold 16 million common shares for $15 apiece. The Tempe, Arizona-based company had expected to sell 14.4 million shares at $12 to $14 each in the offering led by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley, according to a regulatory filing.

Limelight and competitor Akamai Technologies Inc. control about 90 percent of the market for delivering content on the Internet, which researcher Gartner Inc. says will grow 33 percent a year through 2011. The two companies store movies, TV shows and video clips on their networks that can be delivered to customers through the Web.

Investors will push the shares up if they value Limelight as they do larger competitor Akamai Technologies Inc., Paul Bard, an analyst at Renaissance Capital, said before the share sale results were announced. A post-offering jump also would signal investors are looking past Limelight's loss of business from MySpace.com, which brought in 21 percent of 2006 sales, in the weeks before the company filed for the share sale.

Founded in 2001, Limelight had a first-quarter net loss of $4.44 million. Still, the company more than doubled sales to $22.9 million even after losing most of its MySpace business, according to the filing. Walt Disney Co. and Microsoft each contributed more than 10 percent of sales.

To contact the reporters on this story: Adam Satariano in San Francisco at Asatariano1@bloomberg.net ; Tim Mullaney in New York at tmullaney1@bloomberg.net  

Limelight Networks Inc. (LLNW US) gained $7.18, or 48 percent, to $22.18 on the first day of trading. The maker of technology to deliver movies and video games through the Web raised $240 million in an initial public offering, selling 16 million common shares for $15 apiece.

Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM US), a rival of Limelight, rose $3.37, or 8 percent, to $45.60. The stock was raised to ``buy'' from ``hold'' by analyst Robert Stimson at WR Hambrecht + Co., who cited ``competitive chatter dying down following the completion of the Limelight IPO and the potential for upside surprises in calendar year 2008 due to incremental revenues from smartphone-related traffic.''  

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