Akamai Technologies
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company_slogan = The trusted choice for online business| foundation = 1995| location = Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA| key_people = George H. Conrades, Chairman
Paul L. Sagan, President & CEO| num_employees = 784 (2005)| industry = Internet Software & Services| products = Content and Application Delivery
Application-Performance Services
On-demand-managed services
Business Performance-Management Services| revenue = Template:Profit$283.115 Million USD (2005)|
net_income = Template:Profit$327.998 Million USD (2005)|
homepage = www.akamai.com|
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. Template:Nasdaq, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a corporation that provides, among other services, global Internet content caching. The company was founded by a then-MIT graduate student, Daniel Lewin, along with MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Leighton still serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist. Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning "intelligent" or "clever." Beyond the name, the company has no ties with Hawaii.
Their customers include Yahoo!, AOL Radio, Symantec, Match.com, Google, Microsoft, FedEx, Xerox, iVillage, Apple Computer, Music Television (MTV), the United States Geological Survey, Reuters, Newegg.com, and XM Radio.
External links
- Akamai home page
- Yahoo! Finance "Akamai Technologies, Inc." Company Profile
- Washington Post profile of the company
- Theory of how akamai works