Akamai
Headquarters: 8 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
Employees: 2,000+
CEO: Paul Sagan
Stock Symbol: AKAM
Website: http://www.akamai.com
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Akamai helps companies deliver information over the Internet from important data to streaming video. The company uses its own on-demand distributed computing platform, with more than 84,000 servers in 1,000 networks located in 72 countries.
The company says it handles up to 20% of the Internet's traffic and billions of Internet transactions per day.
Akamai has offices throughout the U.S. as well as Europe, Japan and Australia. The company's headquarters and network operations center is located in Cambridge, MA. The company has over 2,000 employees including more than 600 in Massachusetts.
Akamai was originally formed via an MIT Entrepreneurship competition to help deliver content over the Internet via distributed servers. Akamai officially launched in April 1999 and Yahoo was a charter customer.
In addition to Yahoo, many top companies rely on Akamai servers for their online business including Apple, Adobe, Best Buy, JCPenney, Netflix, Travelocity, FedEx, 1-800-Flowers, Charles Schwab and others. Six of the top seven computer companies are Akamai customers and 90 of the 100 top online retailers.
In 2010, the company reported revenues of $1.02 billion, a 19% increase, and net income of $171.2 million.
"With strength across cloud computing and online digital media solutions, Akamai completed its first $1 billion revenue year in 2010," said Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai. "With our unique, distributed network and growing portfolio of solutions, we believe we are well positioned to help our customers grow as use of cloud computing, online commerce, software-as-a-service, and online media continue to proliferate around the world.”
Benefits Offered
- Medical insurance
- Prescription drug coverage
- Vision benefits
- Dental insurance
- Healthcare Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Business travel accident insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Group home and auto insurance
- 401(k) retirement and savings plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Dependent Care Spending Account
- Educational assistance plan
- Pretax commuter benefit
- Lifeworks Employee Assistance Program
- Group entertainment discounts
- Fitness programs
- 3 weeks paid vacation
- 11 paid holidays
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