The Honolulu Advertiser ran a wire story on the Massachusetts company Akamai this morning. An interesting overview of what they do, and one tiny new tidbit as to how the company got its name:
Akamai, which Leighton co-founded in 1998 with Daniel Lewin, then a graduate student at MIT, takes its name from the Hawaiian word for "smart" or "clever." The company does not have any roots in Hawai'i; according to a company spokeswoman, the name resulted from use of a search engine to find words that meant "smart" or "clever."
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