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Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM) is in the Business Services Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $636.4M
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $100.9M
- Market Cap
- Sep 03 2008
- $3.4B
Latest News and Analysis
FBR Cuts Tech Company Ratings on IT Budget Cuts
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: The slowing economy is taking a toll on corporate IT budgets, Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst David Hilal warned in a series of research notes Wednesday morning. Hilal wrote Wednesday that “the lagging nature of software sales cycles and the nature in which IT budgets...
Nasdaq 100 Struggles
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 is currently set to have its third straight -1% decline. Below we highlight the 25 (out of 100) worst performing stocks in the index since last Thursday's close. As shown, Dell has lost nearly a fifth of its value...
Akamai Technologies: Unusual Options Activity
Steve Patterson submits: Strong Call option buying in Akamai Technologies AKAM on Friday is a positive sign for the company. Most of the buying was in the front month of September with some additional buying in the October Calls noted. Unusual Call Volume by Steve Patterson
Friday Options Update: LEH, SCHW, AKAM, KG, APO, TGT, ORCL, KO
Rebecca Engmann Darst contributed to this report. Lehman Brothers LEH – Shares in Lehman Brothers bounded sharply out of the gate with a 10% gain to $15.09 on speculation that the firm might be bought by Korea Development Bank. The move in Lehman comes a day after respected analyst Richard...
Akamai and the BBC: News Reporting on CDNs Getting Shoddy
Dan Rayburn submits: While I think it's great that more folks are starting to write about the content delivery market as it pertains to video, lately, too many articles being published are full of inaccurate and just flat out wrong info. Earlier in the week, there was the ZDNet...
Video CDN Revenue Will Grow to over $1.4 Billion by 2012
Dan Rayburn submits: Tuesday, on my Frost & Sullivan webinar about the video CDN market, we released preliminary data from the upcoming Frost & Sullivan report entitled "World Content Delivery Networks Market". Due out next month, this report will break out the worldwide CDN revenue, specific to video delivery...
Interview with Level 3 CEO Jim Crowe on CDN Business
Dan Rayburn submits: In trading some e-mails with Jim Crowe recently, he was nice enough to spend some time to answer questions about Level 3's LVLT CDN business for publishing here on the blog. While Level 3 has been pretty quiet in regards to their CDN business and the...
Current State of the Content Delivery Market
Dan Rayburn submits: To those who are new to the online video industry, it may seem like the content delivery market has been around for only a few years. But amazingly, 2008 marks the 13th year since some of the first content delivery networks [CDNs], such as Sandpiper and...
Digging Deeper Into Limelight's Earnings Call
Dan Rayburn submits: On Limelight Networks' LLNW Q2 earnings call, various segments of its business was talked about on a high level that is worth digging deeper into. For starters, one of the biggest questions Wall Street seems to be asking is why did Akamai AKAM have a weak...
Updates on Networking Sector: F5, Juniper, Akamai
Sramana Mitra submits: I have written extensively on Cisco CSCO and other networking companies as part of the Online Video Beneficiaries Series in which I suggested that smaller networking players will consolidate to take it on. The core businesses of Cisco’s biggest rival, Juniper, are going strong. F5 is...
Akamai Technologies, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Akamai Technologies, Inc. AKAM Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
The Fastest Retail Web Sites in the U.S. Use Akamai for Acceleration
* Data from Gomez[R] ExperienceFirstSM Benchmark for Retail Product Order transactions shows that web sites such as Newegg, Circuit City, Victoria's Secret, Best Buy, LL Bean and Overstock.com have the retail industry's best response times in May 2008
Akamai Enables JC Whitney to Improve Site Performance and Increase Conversion Rates Leveraging Dynamic Site Accelerator
CHICAGO -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that it has helped JC Whitney, the largest direct marketer of name-brand automotive parts and accessories, to improve its site performance and reduce page load times by nearly 80%....
Fortinet Discovers Critical Vulnerability for Akamai ActiveX Control
Fortinet® -- the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management UTM solutions -- today announced that its FortiGuard® Global Security Research Team has discovered a parameter injection vulnerability in the Akamai Download Manager. The vulnerability, which is protected by Fortinet's intrusion prevention system IPS, allows a remote file to...
The NewsMarket Teams with Akamai to Accelerate Dynamic Content and Applications to Global Media Ahead of Beijing Olympics
Akamai's Web Application Accelerator solution proves a strategic value-add inside media and entertainment companies by accelerating dynamic content and applications
Akamai Releases Inaugural "State of the Internet" Report
Quarterly Report Provides Insight into Key Internet Statistics Such as Origin of Attack Traffic, Network Outages and Broadband Connectivity Levels
Akamai to Participate in Investor Conference Call on Its Differentiated Solutions Moderated by Piper Jaffray
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced it will participate in an investor conference call on Akamai's differentiated solutions hosted by Aaron Kessler of Piper Jaffray & Co. Equity Research.
Akamai Selected as a Key Technology Provider for Newly Launched Borders.com
Borders Leverages Multiple Akamai Solutions to Deliver an Enjoyable and Engaging Online Shopping Experience
Akamai's Stream OS Solution Powers New Award-Winning Global Creative Video Showcase
Launched over the weekend, the site has seen more than 30,000 unique visitors and more than 100,000 video streams
Citrix and Akamai Collaborate to Enhance Web Application Delivery for Enterprise Customers Worldwide
Web Application Delivery Powerhouses Form Global Strategic Partnership to Provide End-to-End Application Delivery Solution
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- Incorporated: 1998
- CEO: Mr. Paul Sagan
Akamai Technologies is engaged in providing services designed to accelerate the delivery of content and applications over the Internet. Co. provides services for digital media and software distribution and storage, content and application delivery, application performance services and other Internet-based offerings. Co.'s service offerings include its Digital Asset Solutions, Dynamic Site Solutions and Application Performance Solutions. Co. markets these services via its direct sales and services organization and active resellers. Co. also has several other types of sales- and marketing-focused alliances with entities such as application service providers, sales agents and referral partners.
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Akamai Technologies Inc. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. George H. Conrades
Chairman
Mr. Paul Sagan
Ms. Naomi O. Seligman
Mr. David W. Kenny
Mr. Peter J. Kight
Mr. Frederic V. Salerno
Mr. Martin M. Coyne II
Lead Director
Ms. Jill A. Greenthal
Mr. Geoffrey A. Moore
Mr. Ronald L. Graham
Dr. F. Thomson Leighton Ph.D.
Contact Information
8 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA
617 444-3000
NAICS Code
All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services: 541990
