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    Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American company specialized in content delivery network (CDN), cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and cloud services. It...
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  • provided virtual private server (VPS) hosting. Linode was acquired by Akamai Technologies in February 2022 for $900 million. Linode (a portmanteau of the words...
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  • Daniel Lewin (category Akamai Technologies people)
    American and Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur who co-founded Akamai Technologies. A passenger on board American Airlines Flight 11, it is believed...
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  • cybersecurity and cloud services company Akamai Technologies acquired Prolexic Technologies. In 2003 Prolexic Technologies was founded by Barrett Lyon and was...
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  • Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., 797 F.3d 1020 (Fed. Cir. 2015), is a 2015 en banc decision of the United States Court of Appeals...
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  • Edgio (section Technologies)
    Lynrock Lake LP, a private equity firm, for around $110 million. Akamai Technologies purchased Edgio's customer contracts and patents among assets. Edgio...
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    companies were added to the Nasdaq-100 index: F5 Networks, Akamai Technologies, Netflix, Micron Technology, Whole Foods Market, Ctrip and Dollar Tree, replacing...
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    Content delivery network (category Film and video technology)
    optimization. Notable content delivery service providers include Akamai Technologies, Edgio, Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, and Google Cloud CDN...
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    F. Thomson Leighton (category Akamai Technologies people)
    Leighton (born 1956) is an American mathematician who is the CEO of Akamai Technologies, the company he co-founded with Daniel Lewin in 1998, and a professor...
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    Randall Kaplan (category Akamai Technologies people)
    Randall Kaplan is an American entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Akamai Technologies. Kaplan is the managing partner of JUMP Investors, a Los Angeles–based...
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    Paul Sagan (category Akamai Technologies people)
    joined Akamai Technologies in October 1998 as chief operating officer, became president the following year in 1999. He was elected to the Akamai board...
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  • 2007, Akamai Technologies acquired Red Swoosh for $18.7 million in a stock-for-stock transaction. Red Swoosh used a BitTorrent-like technology to transfer...
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    Travis Kalanick (category American technology chief executives)
    Swoosh, a peer-to-peer content delivery network that was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007. Kalanick was CEO of Uber from 2010 to 2017. He resigned...
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    Preetish Nijhawan (category Akamai Technologies people)
    American entrepreneur known for co-founding the internet company Akamai Technologies in 1998. Nijhawan studied at Hyderabad Public School, then received...
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  • college. His career in tech included the role of vice president at Akamai Technologies, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and leading Software...
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    to the modern formulation of the Standard Model, in 1967 at MIT. Akamai Technologies – Daniel Lewin and Tom Leighton developed a faster content delivery...
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  • California Institute of Technology and now being commercialized by FastSoft. FastSoft was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2012. FastTCP is compatible...
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    Marc Andreessen (category American technology company founders)
    1993, Andreessen moved to California to work at Enterprise Integration Technologies. Andreessen then met with Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics...
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    Michael J. Saylor (category American technology chief executives)
    Force Base. In 1983, Saylor enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on an Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) full scholarship...
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  • million investment in June 1999. The company's customers included Akamai Technologies and eToys. The company changed its name to VA Linux Systems. On December...
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  • Speedera Networks (category Internet technology companies of the United States)
    advance technology applications for Internet communications and collaboration and became the first CDN to turn a profit. In June 2005, Akamai acquired...
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    before it reaches its destination[citation needed]. For example, Akamai Technologies manages an overlay network that provides reliable, efficient content...
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  • and/or developed additional technology companies based in Silicon Valley, such as Tesla, Inc., LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Affirm, Slide, Kiva...
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    Companies 3Com 360networks AboveNet Actua Corporation Airspan Networks Akamai Technologies Alteon WebSystems Amazon America Online Arthur Andersen Ask Jeeves...
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  • Companies 3Com 360networks AboveNet Actua Corporation Airspan Networks Akamai Technologies Alteon WebSystems Amazon America Online Arthur Andersen Ask Jeeves...
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    attacks represented 20% of all DDoS attacks. According to research by Akamai Technologies, there have been "51 percent more application layer attacks" from...
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  • Operation Aurora (category 2009 in technology)
    directed at dozens of other organizations, of which Adobe Systems, Akamai Technologies, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace have confirmed publicly that they...
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    Charles E. Leiserson (category Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty)
    formerly director of research and director of system architecture for Akamai Technologies in Boston, a company that developed content distribution networks...
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    George Conrades (category Akamai Technologies people)
    board and chief executive officer of Akamai Technologies. Prior to Akamai, Conrades eas CEO of BBN Technologies. Before joining BBN he spent 31 years...
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  • Yahoo (category Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area)
    next four years, it developed its own search technologies, which it began using in 2004 partly using technology from its $280 million acquisition of Inktomi...
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