Intuit 'Akamaizes' Quicken.com
Intuit's Quicken.com, a leading e-finance site, brings together tools, resources and expertise to help empower consumers to make confident investment decisions and financial choices. With more than 7 million unique visitors each month relying on Quicken.com for solutions in all areas of personal financial management, including investments, insurance, tax and mortgage, Intuit recognized that Akamai's FreeFlowSM service can provide its end users with high levels of performance and reliability.
"As a leading e-finance site on the Web, it's critical that we deliver consumers the resources to make more informed financial decisions with flawless execution," said Roy Rosin, director of marketing for Quicken.com. "By leveraging Akamai's technology, Quicken.com is able to provide improved customer experiences. Our users will realize faster delivery of everything from their stock quotes and news, to the bank account and tax information people want at their fingertips."
"We are excited to 'Akamaize' Intuit's Quicken.com and deliver content faster for Quicken.com's millions of consumers," said Earl Galleher, vice president of worldwide sales and support, Akamai. "The addition of Intuit to our customer base further validates the strength of our technology and our customer support team. We are pleased to be working closely with Intuit to enhance its presence on the Web."
About Intuit Inc.
Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) is the leader in e-finance, including financial software and Web-based financial services for consumers and small businesses. Intuit develops and markets QuickBooks?, the most popular small business accounting software; Quicken, the leading personal finance software; and TurboTax, the best-selling tax preparation software. An innovator in delivering Web-based financial tools, Intuit is the leading provider of online tax preparation and filing and online mortgages. Intuit is also breaking new ground as a leader in online bill presentment and payment, and in the delivery of its QuickBooks Internet Gateway platform of connected e-services for small businesses.
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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Akamai to optimize Web content delivery for leading e-finance site
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 20, 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 Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) has selected Akamai's high-speed content delivery services for fast and reliable delivery of the popular financial content found on Intuit's Quicken.comTM Web site (www.Quicken.com).Intuit's Quicken.com, a leading e-finance site, brings together tools, resources and expertise to help empower consumers to make confident investment decisions and financial choices. With more than 7 million unique visitors each month relying on Quicken.com for solutions in all areas of personal financial management, including investments, insurance, tax and mortgage, Intuit recognized that Akamai's FreeFlowSM service can provide its end users with high levels of performance and reliability.
"As a leading e-finance site on the Web, it's critical that we deliver consumers the resources to make more informed financial decisions with flawless execution," said Roy Rosin, director of marketing for Quicken.com. "By leveraging Akamai's technology, Quicken.com is able to provide improved customer experiences. Our users will realize faster delivery of everything from their stock quotes and news, to the bank account and tax information people want at their fingertips."
"We are excited to 'Akamaize' Intuit's Quicken.com and deliver content faster for Quicken.com's millions of consumers," said Earl Galleher, vice president of worldwide sales and support, Akamai. "The addition of Intuit to our customer base further validates the strength of our technology and our customer support team. We are pleased to be working closely with Intuit to enhance its presence on the Web."
About Intuit Inc.
Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) is the leader in e-finance, including financial software and Web-based financial services for consumers and small businesses. Intuit develops and markets QuickBooks?, the most popular small business accounting software; Quicken, the leading personal finance software; and TurboTax, the best-selling tax preparation software. An innovator in delivering Web-based financial tools, Intuit is the leading provider of online tax preparation and filing and online mortgages. Intuit is also breaking new ground as a leader in online bill presentment and payment, and in the delivery of its QuickBooks Internet Gateway platform of connected e-services for small businesses.
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.
