Akamai Technologies Acquires Customers and Select Intellectual Property from Instart
"Akamai identified a unique opportunity to acquire high value customers and migrate them to our platform with minimal cost to us and disruption to the customer," said
New customers are expected to be rapidly migrated to the Akamai Intelligent Edge platform. The acquisition is immaterial to the company's financial results and is not anticipated to negatively affect the company's operating margin target.
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The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about expected revenue and other benefits to Akamai from the acquisition. 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, failure to close the transaction expeditiously or at all, inability to migrate customers to Akamai, failure to successfully leverage the intellectual property acquired; failure to achieve expected post-closing financial results, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the
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