Reuters Chooses Akamai to Optimize Web Content Delivery
CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 2, 2000 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, today announced that Reuters (NASDAQ: RTRSY), the global news and information group, is the latest company to choose Akamai as its Internet content delivery service provider.
Reuters is using Akamai's FreeFlowSM service for high-speed, reliable delivery of engaging and dynamic content to its clients. Reuters supplies news content to more than 900 websites and major portals across the world, in addition to supplying real-time financial news and data to more than 521,000 financial professionals at more than 52,800 locations globally.
"Akamai continues to be the choice for today's leading financial, entertainment, e-commerce, and new media properties for delivery of all forms of content," said Earl Galleher, vice president, sales and support, Akamai. "We are excited that Reuters chose Akamai to create a more efficient online experience for its clients and their users."
"Akamai's content delivery service is an added value to the Reuters information network," said David Graves, president, Reuters New Media. "Through the use of FreeFlow, we can ensure our brand identity across the Internet and decrease bandwidth needs for our clients, enhancing the performance of their sites."
About Reuters
Reuters supplies the global financial markets and the news media with the widest range of information and news products including real-time financial data, collective investment data, numerical, textual, historical and graphical databases plus news, graphics, news video, and news pictures. It reaches over 521,000 users in 52,800 locations and extensively uses Internet technologies for wider distribution of information and news. Reuters designs and installs enterprise-wide information management and risk management systems for the financial markets as well as providing equity and foreign exchange transaction systems. Reuters provides news and information to over 900 Internet sites reaching an estimated 40 million viewers. Reuters is the world's largest news and television agency with 2,101 journalists, photographers and camera operators in 184 bureaus serving 154 countries. News is published in 23 languages. Instinet, an international electronic agency stockbroker, is an independently managed subsidiary of Reuters. The Group employed 16,548 staff in 212 cities in 97 countries at December 31, 1999.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
The 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. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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| Adam Wolf Reuters America Inc. 212-603-3581 adam.wolf@reuters.com |
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CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 2, 2000 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, today announced that Reuters (NASDAQ: RTRSY), the global news and information group, is the latest company to choose Akamai as its Internet content delivery service provider.
Reuters is using Akamai's FreeFlowSM service for high-speed, reliable delivery of engaging and dynamic content to its clients. Reuters supplies news content to more than 900 websites and major portals across the world, in addition to supplying real-time financial news and data to more than 521,000 financial professionals at more than 52,800 locations globally.
"Akamai continues to be the choice for today's leading financial, entertainment, e-commerce, and new media properties for delivery of all forms of content," said Earl Galleher, vice president, sales and support, Akamai. "We are excited that Reuters chose Akamai to create a more efficient online experience for its clients and their users."
"Akamai's content delivery service is an added value to the Reuters information network," said David Graves, president, Reuters New Media. "Through the use of FreeFlow, we can ensure our brand identity across the Internet and decrease bandwidth needs for our clients, enhancing the performance of their sites."
About Reuters
Reuters supplies the global financial markets and the news media with the widest range of information and news products including real-time financial data, collective investment data, numerical, textual, historical and graphical databases plus news, graphics, news video, and news pictures. It reaches over 521,000 users in 52,800 locations and extensively uses Internet technologies for wider distribution of information and news. Reuters designs and installs enterprise-wide information management and risk management systems for the financial markets as well as providing equity and foreign exchange transaction systems. Reuters provides news and information to over 900 Internet sites reaching an estimated 40 million viewers. Reuters is the world's largest news and television agency with 2,101 journalists, photographers and camera operators in 184 bureaus serving 154 countries. News is published in 23 languages. Instinet, an international electronic agency stockbroker, is an independently managed subsidiary of Reuters. The Group employed 16,548 staff in 212 cities in 97 countries at December 31, 1999.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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The 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. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
