Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Type of site	E-commerce
Traded as	NASDAQ: AKAM 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	US$ 1.58 billion (2013) US$ 1.37 billion (2012)
Operating income	US$ 414 million (2013) US$ 314.5 million (2012)
Net income	US$ 293.5 million (2013) US$ 204 million (2012)
Total assets	US$ 2.96 billion (2013) US$ 2.6 billion (2012)
Total equity	US$ 2.63 billion (2013) US$ 2.35 billion (2012)
Employees	6,200 (December 2015)
Website	www.akamai.com
Alexa rank	100 (Dec 2014[update])

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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