Akamai Technologies, Inc. is marking 2008 as its 10th year as a business. Born out of an academic research project at MIT, Akamai’s early focus on providing services to allow Web sites to handle ever-larger audiences set in motion an Internet revolution. Akamai’s proprietary technology, based on years of software development, ensured that a Web site could always deliver the intended end-user experience quickly and reliably irrespective of audience size or location. The result was an unparalleled solution for providing guaranteed business performance on the Internet.

Since its start in 1998, Akamai has grown from a research “big idea” into one of the world’s most successful technology companies, with 2007 revenue of more than $630 million, consistent profitability, and inclusion in the S&P 500 since last year. With more than 1,300 employees in locations around the globe, Akamai is committed to innovation in technology and service.

Today, Akamai serves:

* hundreds of billions of daily Internet requests
* an average of 20 percent of total daily Web traffic
* 75 of the top 100 U.S. online retail companies
* nine of the top ten global auto makers
* the leading media companies around the world
* seven of the top ten social media networks
* the top five anti-virus companies
* e-commerce sites that are generating a total of over $65 billion dollars in annual revenue
* thousands of mission-critical business applications for enterprises and SaaS providers that have users located in nearly 150 countries

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