Akamai President and CEO Paul Sagan to Preside over the Opening of The NASDAQ Stock Market.Akamai celebrates 10 years of incorporation at NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on Opening CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that Paul Sagan, president and chief executive officer, will open The NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of tomorrow, Tuesday, October 7 at 9:30 a.m. (all times are Eastern time). The event will spotlight the 10th anniversary of Akamai's incorporation and nearly nine years of listing with NASDAQ. To learn more about the key milestones in the Company's growth and participation in events that have shaped the Internet, please visit http://www.akamai.com/10years. Mr. Sagan will join NASDAQ Chief Executive Officer, Bob Greifeld, in presiding over the Market Open. The ceremony will begin at 9:20 a.m., with remarks from Greifeld and Sagan just prior to the official market opening at 9:30 a.m. Access to the live ceremony is available at http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_about.stm (scroll to the bottom of the page under the heading MarketSite Live Webcam (WEB CAMera) A video camera that is used to send periodic images or continuous frames to a Web site for display. Webcam software typically captures the images as JPEG or MPEG files and uploads them to the Web server. ). A replay will be archived on the Akamai Website following the day's event. Incorporated in 1998, Akamai has been listed on the NASDAQ since October of 1999. The Akamai Difference Akamai([R]) provides market-leading managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been adopted by the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. The alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai's global network of tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance for businesses to succeed online. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, interact, and collaborate. To experience The Akamai Difference, visit www.akamai.com. |
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