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Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Company type
Public
Traded as
Nasdaq: AKAM
S&P 500 component
Industry
Internet
Cloud computing
Founded
1998; 26 years ago (1998)
Founders
Daniel Lewin
F. Thomson Leighton
Randall Kaplan
Preetish Nijhawan
Jonathan Seelig
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people
F. Thomson Leighton (CEO)
Daniel Hesse (chairman)[1]
Revenue
US$3.81 billion (2023)
Operating income
US$637 million (2023)
Net income
US$548 million (2023)
Total assets
US$9.90 billion (2023)
Total equity
US$4.60 billion (2023)
Number of employees
c. 10,250 (2023)
ASN
20940
Website
akamai.com
Footnotes / references [2]
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American company that provides content delivery network[3] (CDN), cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and cloud services.[4][5] Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it operates a worldwide network of servers whose capacity it rents to customers running websites and other web services, with the goal of providing end users with greater speed and availability via Akamai-owned servers located closer to them.
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^"Akamai Technologies, Inc. 2023 Form 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 28, 2024.
^J. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop, R. Sitaraman, and B. Weihl. "Globally Distributed Content Delivery, IEEE Internet Computing, September/October 2002, pp. 50-58" (PDF).
^Hendy, Nina (March 3, 2020). "How to avoid falling victim to a cyber attack". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
^"Akamai Stock Finds Support On Video Streaming Surge | Investor's Business Daily". Investor's Business Daily. March 17, 2020. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
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