Industry Recognition

On June 15, 2011, the TechAmerica Foundation recognized the Akamai Dynamic Site
Accelerator solution as the winner in the Cloud Computing/Software as a Service
category for the American Technology Awards. Akamai Dynamic Site Accelerator
was recognized for its ability to improve the performance, security and
scalability of the public Internet. Nominations for The American Technology
Awards "The Termans" were vetted by a panel of industry experts and
technology company representatives. A list of other winners can be found here
here.

In its March 2011 issue, CRN Magazine named Akamai one of its Top 20 Cloud
Software & Apps Vendors of the year, as part of its annual ranking of the Top
100 Cloud Vendors, which highlights "some of the coolest and most innovative in
the channel and in the cloud market today." Selected by the publication's
editorial staff, Akamai was recognized for "doing something different,
something fresh or something unique" in the cloud software and applications
category. The full list of companies featured can be found
here.

The March/April 2011 issue of MIT's Tech Review featured Akamai in its annual
list of "The 50 Most Innovative Companies." In selecting the TR50, the editors
of Technology Review look for companies that are setting the agenda in an
increasingly important market, on the verge of disrupting an established
market, or creating an entirely new market. Spanning energy, computing, the
Web, biomedicine, and materials, the companies on the list are using their
inventions to reshape their industries and to transform how we live.
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Akamai was presented with the 2010 World Technology Award for IT Software at the annual World Technology Summit awards gala held at the Time & Life Building in New York City. Since 2000, the World Technology Awards, held in association with TIME, Inc., Fortune and CNN, have recognized individuals and companies doing innovative work that will have "the greatest likely long-term significance" in their respective fields.
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On November 3rd, the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC), an organization dedicated to accelerating New England's clean energy economy to global leadership, presented Akamai with the 2010 Corporate Citizen of the Year award. The award recognizes Akamai for its industry-leading commitment to infusing measurable environmental sustainability practices throughout its business operations.
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The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 is the pre-eminent awards program in North America with 2010 being its sixteenth anniversary. Akamai was featured on the list because of the Company's impressive technological innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid growth.
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In October 2010, Forbes magazine featured Akamai on its annual list of the "Best 100
Small Companies" in North America. The list, which includes publicly traded companies with "remarkable sales and earnings growth," recognizes companies that have been able to "hire, innovate, churn out profits and defy the downturn…over the last challenging five year stretch."
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The editors of The Boston Business Journal name Akamai "Company of the Year" stating... The Cambridge-based company has a number of different functional divisions, all of which share one overriding mission - to speed up the delivery of content over the Internet for all end users. In the space of a decade, Akamai has grown from MIT $50K startup to a guidepost on the information super-highway. Its solid revenue growth and its stature in the content delivery arena make it the Boston Business Journal's Company of the Year.
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The editors of Technology Review looked for those companies that, over the last year, have demonstrated their superiority at inventing technology and using it both to grow as businesses and to transform how we live. Recognized for 'optimizing the Internet,' Akamai is one of four Public Web Companies that made the TR50 list, joining Adobe, Google, and IBM.
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Akamai received the Venture Capital Award of Excellence at Ernst & Young's 2009 Strategic Growth Forum, given to the top companies of the year who have been backed by venture capital funding. Out of more than 50 regional 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year winners who have benefited from VC funding, Akamai was selected by an independent panel of judges from leading VC firms.
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Akamai named to the 2009 Boston Globe, "Globe 100" Best of Massachusetts Business
Based on a composite score derived from financial data for the four quarters ending December 31, 2008, Akamai was ranked No. 13 among Massachusetts-based companies whose stock is publicly traded.
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Based on a composite score derived from financial data for the four quarters ending December 31, 2008, Akamai was ranked No. 13 among Massachusetts-based companies whose stock is publicly traded.
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Akamai added to Forbes Magazine "25 Fastest-Growing Technology Companies in America"
To make the prestigious list, companies are measured on revenues and EPS growth for the past 5 years, and are evaluated based on a long-term consensus profit forecast of atleast 10%, annualized.
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To make the prestigious list, companies are measured on revenues and EPS growth for the past 5 years, and are evaluated based on a long-term consensus profit forecast of atleast 10%, annualized.
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Akamai part of 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 500
Recognizing the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in North America, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 is based on the percentage of fiscal year revenue growth over five years (2003 to 2007).
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Recognizing the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in North America, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 is based on the percentage of fiscal year revenue growth over five years (2003 to 2007).
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Akamai named to The Boston Globe, "Globe 100" list of top performing public companies in Massachusetts.
Based on a composite score derived from financial data for the four quarters ending December 31, 2007, Akamai was ranked in the top 25 among Massachusetts-based companies whose stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange or American Stock Exchange.
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Based on a composite score derived from financial data for the four quarters ending December 31, 2007, Akamai was ranked in the top 25 among Massachusetts-based companies whose stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange or American Stock Exchange.
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Akamai named 2008 Public Company of the Year by The Massachusetts Networks Communications Council.
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Akamai named Top 2007 Software/Services M&A Deal, Buy Side, for Acquisition of Netli
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Akamai is honored on Fortune's 2007 List of Fastest Growing Companies.
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The S&P 500 consists of companies from a diverse range of industries, and lists 500 of the most widely held U.S.-based common stocks, chosen by the S&P Index Committee for market size, liquidity, and sector representation. Akamai Technologies joined the S&P 500 after the close of trading on Wednesday, July 11.
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For all the discussion about froth and bubbles, the technology sector of the U.S. economy continues to surge apace. Far from slowing down, the fastest-growing compan