Word: akamai
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...about the truth,” said Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine.com blogger. “It’s not us versus them.” And poor news reporting did not originate in the blogosphere, according to Paul Sagan, president and chief executive officer of Cambridge-based media business Akamai. “I see...a lot of good stuff and a lot of crap [on the Internet],” Sagan said. “But I see it in my neighborhood newspaper, too.” Blogs, on the whole, act as checks on mainstream news sources...
David’s accomplishment is the result of an 18-month ongoing project. After creating alkaproject.com, a disease research portal, while in high school, this Greenwich, Conn. native deferred admission to Harvard for a year. In the summer of 2000, he worked at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, and soon afterwards accepted a full time position as product manager at Akamai...
...side, he was developing the idea to expedite the process of putting drugs on the market. Eventually, David gave up his position at Akamai in order to devote all his energy to his innovative plan. “I was working 24 hours a day on this, working with lawyers, writing the patents, making trips to New York and the West Coast,” David said. The idea, which he designed with Alec Machiels, a Harvard Business School student, won the 2001 Harvard Business School Business Plan contest, allowing the start-up of the company. Today, Potentia focuses...
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