Akamai

https://www.akamai.com/
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Akamai, also known as Akamai Technologies, is a publicly owned company headquartered in the US, founded in 1998 with approximately 9,160 employees. The company reported $4.2B in revenue as of 2025. The company specializes in enterprise cloud solutions, functioning as a content delivery network (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service provider, delivering web and Internet security services.

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Founded

1998

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9,151

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Enterprise cloud

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Publicly Owned

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On May 1, 2026, Akamai Technologies was named a Customers’ Choice in the Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer” report for API Protection for April 2026, achieving a 93% recommendation rate and standing as the only vendor to earn this distinction. This recognition highlights the significant risk API security breaches pose, particularly with the growing deployment and consumption of API-based AI applications. Earlier on April 30, Akamai Technologies released new research that highlighted significant security gaps as organizations accelerate API deployment without sufficient safeguards.

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Akamai offers 19 products in the connectivity and cloud, telecoms tech, media tech and ad tech and services industries. Akamai's product portfolio comprises of enterprise cloud, ad measurement and verification, video data and analytics, video processing and playout, enterprise security, enterprise and telecoms software, connectivity and distribution services, marketer and agency technology and telecoms network infrastructure.

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Akamai's revenues were $4.2B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Akamai's revenue into 13 different product categories, the largest of which is media Content delivery networks (CDNs), which represents 28% of Akamai's revenue.

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May

28th

2026

14:16

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Best API Testing Tools: Resources To Improve API Security

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have grown right alongside the growth of cloud computing, microservices, and AI integration. But with that comes a less welcome development: more API attacks aimed at stealing data, gaining unauthorized access, and disrupting services.

Shopify

May

28th

2026

06:30

B2B Tag

Consistent Protections Without Compromise: Akamai’s WAF Is Now on AWS Marketplace

Share In the modern enterprise, applications no longer live in a single “home.” They are distributed across on-premises data centers, private clouds, and multicloud environments. While this architecture provides incredible flexibility, it often introduces fragmented security gaps and operational complexity that legacy tools simply cannot handle.

Akamai

May

28th

2026

01:00

Akamai Announces Closing of Upsized $3.5 Billion Offering of Convertible Senior Notes

WilmerHale represented Akamai Technologies, Inc. in connection with its private offering of convertible senior notes, the largest US zero-coupon convertible notes transaction in history. The offering consisted of $1.75 billion in aggregate principal amount of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 and $1.75 billion in aggregate principal amount of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032, reflecting the initial purchasers’ exercise of a $250 million greenshoe for each tranche.

WilmerHale

May

28th

2026

01:00

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Akamai Technologies Inc receives Investment Bank Analyst Rating Update

Investing.com Australia

May

28th

2026

01:00

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Video Streaming Software Industry worth $26.13 billion by 2031

The report "Video Streaming Software Market by Solutions (Video Security & DRM, Al Video Workflow Tools, VCM, Others), Streaming Type (Live, Video-On-Demand, Time-shifted), Deployment Mode, Consumption Mode/Device, Vertical, and Region - Global Forecast to 2031" is projected to reach USD 26.13 billion by 2031.

MarketsandMarkets

May

28th

2026

00:38

Emerging Tech, New Offerings, Artificial Intelligence

Akamai Launches AI Brand Presence to Boost Visibility in Agentic Search

As more people turn to AI to search and navigate the internet, Akamai today introduced AI Brand Presence to help organizations optimize their content for AI search and traffic. AI Brand Presence enables businesses to automatically translate their website content for LLM search and AI agents, while monitoring bot activity and providing security at the edge.

CXOToday

May

27th

2026

03:30

Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Distributed AI Inference: Why Placement Is the New Bottleneck

Share Executive summary In April 2026, I spoke on a panel at the Taiwan Cloud & Datacenter Convention about edge AI, why intelligence is moving closer to data, and what that shift means for infrastructure. The conversation covered a lot of ground, but one idea kept surfacing, and it's the one I want to spend some time on here: In real AI systems, bottlenecks don't disappear.

Akamai

May

27th

2026

03:30

Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Distributed AI Inference: Why Placement Is the New Bottleneck

Akamai

May

27th

2026

02:54

New Offerings, Artificial Intelligence

Akamai Technologies Launches AI Brand Presence for AI Search Optimization < IT·Gaming < 기사본문

Akamai Technologies has launched "AI Brand Presence," a new solution designed to optimize corporate web content for AI search services and AI agents. The company said the platform automatically converts website content into formats that are easier for large language model (LLM) search engines and AI agents to interpret.

THE ELEC

May

26th

2026

12:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Introducing Password-Less Provisioning and Atomic Customization for VMs

Share In the modern cloud landscape, security is more important than ever. AI-based, GPU-powered algorithms have made passwords a major weakness in security. Security is now being “baked in” from the very first API call. Historically, the process of provisioning a virtual machine (VM) has relied on legacy patterns, including the mandatory root password.

Akamai

May

25th

2026

11:30

Capital Investment, Emerging Tech

Akamai Technologies (AKAM) Completes Convertible Note Offering to Accelerate Growth

Akamai Technologies AKAM has successfully completed its previously announced offering of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 and 2032, raising a total of $3.5 billion. This strategic financial maneuver is aimed at bolstering the company's Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) business and enhancing its global footprint.

GuruFocus

May

25th

2026

07:13

B2B Tag

APAC finance firms pummeled by 52% of global cyberattacks in 2025

Banks accounted for 44% of all attacks and got 92% of lower-level attacks. The Asia Pacific (APAC) region was the most targeted region of denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against financial institutions for the fourth consecutive year, according to data from Akamai.

Asian Banking & Finance

Akamai's customers primarily consist of retail and computer Games companies. Examples of Akamai's customers include NBCUniversal, Riachuelo and Ubisoft. Akamai has commercial and technical partners like Mirada, Deloitte and Bitmovin. Examples of Akamai's suppliers include Nvidia, Hydrolix and Telestream.

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