Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software,
Akamai's global platform is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform ActThe release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of
Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Attackers flooded
Akamai's domain name servers with spurious traffic, causing response times to drop sufficiently low that the majority of requests for web pages could not be delivered upon before they timed out.
Since 1999,
Akamai has offered to highly popular Web sites ways to ease congestion.
AXS, which serves markets that require high-speed image and data access such as e-business and e-learning, will become a premier member of the
Akamai Alliance Program, providing its customers with access to
Akamai's broad range of services through a single-source provider.
Akamai intends to use approximately $50 million of the net proceeds from this offering to repurchase shares of its common stock from purchasers of notes in the offering in privately-negotiated transactions effected through one or more of the initial purchasers or their affiliates.
The joint venture named Global Open Network (GO-NET) is the result of more than three years of close collaboration between
Akamai and MUFG.