AKAM - Mergers and acquisitions

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM), announced the acquisition of thousands of NVIDIA® Blackwell GPUs to bolster its global distributed cloud infrastructure. The deployment creates a unified platform for AI R&D, fine-tuning, and post-training optimization that intelligently routes AI inference workloads to optimized compute resources across Akamai's massive global network. The architecture is designed to support rapid inference by reducing the latency and data egress issues associated with centralized data centers. While the first wave of AI focused on model training in centralized hubs, the industry has reached a tipping point where inference matters

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announces that it has acquired assets, including select content delivery customer contracts, from Lumen Technologies, Inc. Akamai will extend its offerings and support to Lumen customers looking for an enterprise solution to their content delivery needs, providing them the ability to leverage the world's most distributed cloud platform. "As these new customers come on to Akamai Connected Cloud, they will not only have a reliable

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, announces it has agreed to acquire Montreal-based Inverse. The acquisition is intended to enhance Akamai's enterprise security capabilities and expand its portfolio of zero trust and secure access service edge solutions for IoT. Inverse provides a robust data repository and world class algorithms capable of identifying an expansive universe of IoT, mobile and other device types. These include HVAC, lighting systems, medical equipment, robotics, printers and beyond, along with a deep understanding of their expected network b