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"Today's inauguration is an example of the global power of the Internet as a platform to unite. Like never before, people from around the world joined together to experience this historic moment," said Nathan Raciborski, chief technical officer and co-founder, Limelight Networks, Inc."Such a powerful, unifying event was exactly what we envisioned eight years ago when we launched our innovative, network-based CDN, and we are pleased that our platform played such a major role in delivering today's ceremony to the world."

Limelight Networks, Inc. announced that the jury found in favor of the Company in the case Level 3 Communications, LLC. v. Limelight Networks, Inc (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Civil Action No. 2:07cv589).

The jury found that Limelight does not infringe any asserted claims of the patents at issue.

"We are pleased with the jury verdict in this matter, which is a positive development for our shareholders, employees, customers, and partners. This decision affirms that Limelight Networks respects the intellectual property of others, and that our ability to fairly compete in the marketplace is due to our own hard work and innovation," stated Jeff Lunsford, chairman and chief executive officer, Limelight Networks, Inc.

Limelight Networks, Inc., announced that it will host its second annual rich media summit, the 2008 Digital Media Innovation Forum. The event will take place at the Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix on 15-17 October 2008.

With the theme "Innovation: From Creation to Consumption," the three-day event will feature senior-level executives from the content publishing, technology, and telecom sectors discussing the opportunities and challenges in building a scalable and profitable online business.

Using LimelightDELIVER, Nintendo delivers text and graphic contents to the News Channel and Forecast Channel that are accessible from the Wii menu. Since Limelight Network's content delivery network (CDN) is directly connected to over 900 broadband and last-mile providers worldwide, Nintendo can ensure the rapid delivery of these contents to the many Wii users around the world.

"We are pleased to be enabling a great user experience for the highly successful Wii console, and to be working with such a respected global gaming brand as Nintendo," said Shinji Tsukamoto, vice president, Limelight Networks, Inc. "Limelight Networks is now delivering content and providing services for all three major gaming platforms around the world."

Limelight Networks, Inc. announced that the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts today issued certain rulings in the Company's ongoing case against Akamai Technologies.

Among these rulings, which were issued electronically, the Court denied Akamai's motion for a permanent injunction as premature, and denied Akamai's motions for partial summary judgment on certain Limelight Networks' defenses. Additionally, the Court denied Limelight Networks' motions for a new trial, judgment as a matter of law, and obviousness.

The Court did not announce a date for the resolution of Limelight's pending defenses.

Limelight Networks, Inc. announced that Smart AdServer will use the LimelightDELIVER object delivery service to increase the quality of service SmartAdServer provides to international clients, manage peaks of online demand, and decrease the cost of bandwidth.

Smart AdServer is a large European provider of adserving and digital marketing services to media agencies, ad networks and publishers. Since its founding in 2001, the company has quickly become a key player in France and is growing its business rapidly throughout Europe because of the unique and innovative functions of its solutions. Today the company has over 110 clients and 1000 Web sites on four continents.

Limelight Networks, Inc. today announced that the company will provide Live Event Services for online broadcasts of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, the popular Japanese league baseball team, delivered by RCC Broadcasting Company.

The live online broadcasts will begin on Friday April 11 with a game between Hiroshima Toyo Carp and Chunichi Dragons. The company will broadcast 15 home games that are not planned for TV broadcast, and 10 additional games that have previously been edited for time to fit into traditional broadcast TV time slots. Plans are to also broadcast "Climax Series" and "Nippon Series" playoff games if the Hiroshima Toyo Carp advance to those tournaments. Details of the live broadcast schedule are available online at http://shop.rcc.jp/douga/carp/index.htm.

Limelight Networks, Inc. announced that Label Gate Co., Ltd. has selected the Limelight Networks content delivery network (CDN) for the distribution of audio and website content objects of mora and mora win, two of Japan's largest music distribution sites.

To further reinforce the infrastructure of leading Japanese music distribution sites mora and mora win in conjunction with business growth, Label Gate has deployed Limelight Networks' high performance CDN. Limelight Networks will distribute the music titles sold on mora and mora win, along with website objects.

Limelight Networks, Inc. today reported fourth quarter and full year results for the period ended December 31, 2007.  "2007 was a year of strong growth for Limelight Networks. We added over 450 new customers, substantially expanding our domestic and international market presence and winning key new customers in the online game, social media, and mainstream entertainment market segments, all while growing our peak traffic levels over 90%," said Jeff Lunsford, chairman and CEO, Limelight Networks, Inc.

Limelight Networks, Inc.announced that the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts provided notice of certain rulings in the Akamai Technologies, Inc. et al. v. Limelight Networks litigation matter. The Court conducted a pretrial conference and ruled on certain pending pretrial motions.

Among its rulings, the Court granted Limelight's motion for summary judgment of noninfringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,553,413, thus removing that patent from the upcoming trial in this matter. The Court ruled on certain other matters, including: that certain fact issues precluded granting Limelight's motion regarding the remaining patent in the case, U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703; denying Akamai's motion on certain equitable defenses; and granting Akamai's summary judgment motion on Limelight's patent misuse defense.

Limelight Networks, the leading content delivery network (CDN) for digital media, today announced a streaming service beta program for Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3. The new service leverages the integration of Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 into Limelight Networks' global, rich-media CDN. Select customers in the US can take advantage of this program to enable their Adobe Flash media content and bring the next generation of online experiences to consumers worldwide.

The new platform created by Limelight Networks to support Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 will provide customers with enhanced features and capabilities including the ability to stream industry standard H.264 video and HE-AAC audio streaming for high quality Web video and encrypted streaming using RTMPE and SWF verification for improved content protection.