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Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Akamai logo
Type of site
E-commerce
Traded as NASDAQAKAM
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Founded 1998; 19 years ago (1998)
Headquarters 150 Broadway
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
USA
Key people George Conrades
(Chairman)
Daniel M. Lewin
(Founder)
Tom Leighton
(Co-founder, Chief Scientist, CEO)
Industry Internet
Revenue
  • Increase US$ 1.58 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 1.37 billion (2012)
Operating income
  • Increase US$ 414 million (2013)
  • Increase US$ 314.5 million (2012)
Net income
  • Increase US$ 293.5 million (2013)
  • Increase US$ 204 million (2012)
Total assets
  • Increase US$ 2.96 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 2.6 billion (2012)
Total equity
  • Increase US$ 2.63 billion (2013)
  • Increase US$ 2.35 billion (2012)
Employees 6,200 (December 2015)
Website www.akamai.com
Alexa rank 100 (Dec 2014)

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. Over the years its customers have included Apple, Facebook, Bing, Valve, Twitter, eBay, Google, LinkedIn and healthcare.gov. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai's copies of the website.

The company was founded in 1998 by Daniel M. Lewin (then a graduate student at MIT) and MIT applied mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Leighton currently serves as Akamai's CEO.

Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning "intelligent" or "clever".


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