Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

Accenture said it will acquire Ookla, the company behind Speedtest and Downdetector. Accenture CEO and chair Julie Sweet said that acquiring Ookla will help clients across business and government scale AI safely and build the trusted data foundations they need to deliver reliable, seamless connectivity that creates value.

Speedtest helps people test internet speed, while Downdetector tracks the status of online services and is often cited in media coverage of website and app availability, banks, and more. Under Ziff Davis, both products also offered business-to-business applications.

Ookla says Speedtest gathers, aggregates, and analyzes data for "billions of mobile network samples daily," measuring radio signal levels, network coverage and availability, and quality-of-experience metrics for connected experiences such as streaming video, video conferencing, gaming, web browsing, and CDN and cloud provider performance.

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