Akamai Technologies
American computer networking company
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| February 2025 | Akamai was chosen as the strategic cloud computing provider by a major technology company, securing a multi-year commitment of over $100 million for cloud infrastructure services. |
| June 25 2024 | Akamai completed the acquisition of Noname Security for $450 million. |
| May 7 2024 | Akamai announced its intent to acquire API Security vendor Noname Security for $450 million. |
| February 15 2022 | Akamai acquired Linode for $900 million. |
| September 29 2021 | Akamai Technologies acquired Guardicore for $600 million. |
| February 9 2021 | Akamai announced a reorganization into two internal groups: Security Technology and Edge Technology. Robert Blumofe was named chief technology officer, and Andy Ellis announced his departure as chief security officer. |
| February 1 2021 | Akamai acquired Inverse Inc., a Montreal Canadian based security company making an open source network access controller (NAC) called PacketFence. |
| October 27 2020 | Akamai acquired IoT and mobile security provider Asavie. |
| August 2020 | Presented research 'Akamai DNS: Providing Authoritative Answers to the World's Queries' at the ACM SIGCOMM conference, demonstrating advancements in DNS technology. |
| October 2019 | Akamai agreed to acquire security software provider ChameleonX for $20 million. |
| January 24 2019 | Akamai acquired CIAM provider Janrain. |
| October 11 2017 | Akamai acquired Nominum, a carrier-grade DNS and DHCP provider, for an undisclosed all-cash amount. |
| March 29 2017 | Akamai acquired SOASTA, a digital performance management company based in Mountain View, CA, for an undisclosed all-cash amount. |
| December 19 2016 | Akamai acquired Cyberfend, a bot and automation detection solutions provider, for an undisclosed amount. |
| October 4 2016 | Akamai acquired Soha Systems, an enterprise secure access delivered as a service provider, for an undisclosed amount. |
| September 28 2016 | Akamai acquired Concord Systems, a provider of technology for the high performance processing of data at scale, for an undisclosed amount. |
| November 2 2015 | Akamai acquired Bloxx, a provider of Secure Web Gateway (SWG) technology, for an undisclosed amount. |
| August 2015 | Presented research on 'End-User Mapping: Next Generation Request Routing for Content Delivery' at the ACM SIGCOMM conference, advancing content delivery network routing strategies. |
| April 2015 | Published 'Protecting Websites from Attack with Secure Delivery Networks' in IEEE Computer, highlighting Akamai's approach to website security. |
| April 6 2015 | Akamai acquired Octoshape, a cloud OTT IPTV service provider, for an undisclosed amount. |
| February 2015 | Akamai acquired Xerocole Inc., a domain name system technology company. |
| February 2014 | Akamai acquired cyber security provider Prolexic Technologies for an aggregate purchase price of $390 million. |
| 2013 | Tom Leighton was elected chief executive officer, replacing Paul Sagan. In the same year, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged a former executive in an insider trading scheme. |
| November 8 2013 | Akamai acquired Velocius Networks for an aggregate purchase price of $4.3 million. |
| December 4 2012 | Akamai acquired Verivue, Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $30.9 million. |
| September 13 2012 | Akamai acquired FastSoft, Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $14.4 million. |
| March 6 2012 | Akamai acquired Cotendo, Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $278.9 million. |
| February 7 2012 | Akamai acquired Blaze Software, Inc., for an aggregate purchase price of $19.3 million. |
| June 10 2010 | Akamai acquired Velocitude LLC, for an aggregate purchase price of $12 million. |
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