Akamai and Fireclick Enter Into Strategic Alliance; Companies Form Agreement To Speed Internet Content from Origin Sites to End Users.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and LOS ALTOS Los Altos (lôs ăl`tōs, lŏs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,303), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1952. There is diversified light manufacturing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2000 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 foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. , and applications, and Fireclick, Inc., a solutions provider for speeding "last mile" Web access for consumers, today announced a strategic alliance that will enable joint customers to access the benefits of Fireclick's innovative technology through the "Akamaizer" software. The integrated Akamaizer software, available to content providers initiating Akamai's services, will now feature easy access to the Fireclick technology. Joint customers can opt to use Fireclick when Akamaizing content to further increase site performance, thus improving end user satisfaction, visitor retention and opportunity for increased revenue. Fireclick's patent-pending technology, Blueflame(TM), speeds Web site performance by using real-time click-stream analysis to continually prime the browser cache Pronounced "browser cash." A temporary storage area in memory or on disk that holds the most recently downloaded Web pages. As you jump from Web page to Web page, caching those pages in memory lets you quickly go back to a page without having to download it from the Web again. one step ahead of the next mouse click. Downloading "most likely" page elements directly to a user's browser cache, Blueflame reduces average download times significantly. Blueflame's acceleration capabilities complement Akamai's high-performance, reliable and scalable services by adding functionality to accelerate the last mile. "Akamaizer" Software Adds Access to Fireclick's Blueflame As one method for enabling the Akamai FreeFlow(SM) service, content providers use the Akamaizer tool to tag embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. Web objects for delivery via Akamai's global network, transforming their URLs into Akamai Resource Locators (ARLs). Akamai's sophisticated algorithms monitor the Internet on a real-time basis, understand the location of the requesting user and make intelligent decisions about the best and most efficient Akamai edge server from which to deliver content. Fireclick's unique Blueflame technology further accelerates the delivery of certain content over the last mile by pre-downloading that content from the Akamai global network directly to the user's browser. Included as part of the agreement: -- Akamai will make available Fireclick's functionality as part of the Akamaizer software, giving mutual customers a simple way to enable both solutions simultaneously. -- Akamai will deliver content for www.fireclick.com using its FreeFlow service. -- Fireclick technology will be used to accelerate the www.akamai.com site. "We have found a valuable partner in Fireclick, and their technology reinforces Akamai's commitment to providing content providers with new, cutting-edge innovation for ultimately retaining customers and building revenue," said Earl Galleher, executive vice president of Akamai. "The Blueflame functionality is available as an important component to Akamai's expanding service-rich offerings." "Fireclick's unique technology perfectly complements Akamai's global content distribution network," said Ram Srinivasan, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Fireclick, Inc. "We are excited about partnering with Akamai to provide maximally accelerated content delivery for the Web's most intensely used sites." About Fireclick, Inc. Backed by funding from Menlo Ventures, Atlas Venture Atlas Venture is an international early-stage venture capital firm that invests in communications, information technology, and life sciences companies. Atlas Venture has investing offices in Boston, London, Munich, and Paris, and its investments are evenly divided between the , and Thomas Weisel Partners Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWPG), often shortened to just TWP or TWeisel, is a U.S. middle-market and growth focused investment banking firm based in San Francisco, California. , Fireclick drives the success of e-commerce by providing software that speeds Web access for consumers. Its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Blueflame, resolves the inherent slowness associated with the Web by correcting the "last mile" problem. By predictively pre-downloading pages or elements of pages to a user's browser cache, Blueflame accelerates content delivery, improving the online experience for consumers and generating increased loyalty and revenues for e-commerce sites. For more information, please visit Fireclick's Web site at www.fireclick.com. About Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, serving over 1,000 Web property customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,000 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 160 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. for purposes of the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and other documents periodically filed with the SEC. Fireclick, Blueflame, and "Igniting eCommerce" are trademarks of Fireclick, Inc. 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