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Submitting Acquisitions section draft for review

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Hi there! Up front, I should disclose my conflict of interest: I'm a Fastly employee, which is why I'm using the edit request system as opposed to directly editing the company's article myself. In the post above this one, User:Nickgray suggested creating an Acquisitions section. I thought this was a good idea, so I wrote a section draft:

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In August 2020, Fastly announced it was acquiring cybersecurity company Signal Sciences for $775 million ($200 million in cash and $575 million in stock).[1] The acquisition was made with the intention of improving Fastly's edge security, as well as the security of its applications and APIs.[1][2] At the time the purchase was announced, Signal Sciences was protecting approximately 40,000 applications and a trillion production requests per month.[1] Shortly after the announcement was made, Fastly's stock price rose by about seven percent.[2]

Fastly expanded its edge cloud services through the acquisition of Fanout in March 2022. The purchase gave developers using Fastly's edge network the ability to build real-time and streaming APIs with their existing HTTP stack without having to maintain a WebSocket stack.[3]

In May 2022, Fastly announced it had acquired Glitch, a web coding platform with more than 1.8 million developers.[4] Glitch apps were subsequently integrated into Fastly's edge computing services and content delivery network, and Fastly customers were given access to Glitch's development tools.[4][5] As part of the deal, Glitch CEO Anil Dash joined Fastly as its VP of developer engagement.[6]

In August 2023, it was announced that Fastly had acquired Domainr, a domain search engine.[7] The Domainr API allows developers to instantly check the availability of domain names and monitor them within their own apps and services.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c Shieber, Jonathan (August 27, 2020). "LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M". TechCrunch. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Haranas, Mark (August 27, 2020). "Fastly Stock Jumps With $775M Acquisition Of Signal Sciences". CRN. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
  3. ^ Jadhav, Abhishek (March 31, 2022). "Fastly adds programmable edge capabilities with the purchase of Fanout — but it needs to add new customers, too". Edge Industry Review. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
  4. ^ a b Kastrenakes, Jacob (2022-05-19). "Glitch acquired by cloud service provider Fastly". The Verge. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
  5. ^ MacManus, Richard (May 25, 2022). "Glitch in the Fastly Matrix: It's about Developer Experience". The New Stack. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
  6. ^ Robinson, Kylie (May 19, 2022). "$1.3 billion cloud company Fastly is acquiring popular developer startup Glitch in a push to help coders build bigger, better apps". Business Insider. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
  7. ^ "Fastly acquires Domainr and launches new TLS Certification Authority". SiliconANGLE. 2023-08-17. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  8. ^ Salmon, Kaleah (August 22, 2023). "Fastly expands its domains API and TLS capabilities". Channel Life. Retrieved March 6, 2024.

This draft covers all the company's significant acquisitions over the past few years, and explains, wherever possible, what the company Fastly acquired was known for at the time of the purchase and the way(s) that company's assets were integrated into Fastly's operation.

I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I should note that if some form of this draft is approved and an Acquisitions section is added to the article, whoever adds the text will probably also want to delete the brief passages about Signal Sciences, Glitch, and Domainr from the History section. But we can cross that bridge when we come to it. In the meantime, I invite independent editors to review my draft and let me know what they think. Thank you! Jagger at Fastly (talk) 16:33, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please make the edit request at the talk page of the article concerned, not at your user talk page. Shadow311 (talk) 19:08, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done: Moved to Talk:Fastly#requestedit. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 10:25, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies for the mistake User:Shadow311 and User:CanonNi! The request, as Canon has indicated, is now on the Fastly Talk page. I'll make sure to post there from now on. Jagger at Fastly (talk) 06:45, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 06:47, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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