Cambridge, MA-based Internet content-delivery provider Akamai Technologies, alongside MIT, are suing Cotendo, a Sunnyvale, CA-based startup in the Web content space, according to documents filed this week with the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. They have claimed that “in an effort to compete against Akamai as a low-cost provider,” Cotendo has used content-delivery technology that Akamai has protected in three separate patents, one of which is licensed from MIT. The plaintiffs have asked that Cotendo, founded in 2008, pay unspecified monetary damages and terminate its use of the technology covered under the patents.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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