1086222--3/1/2007--AKAMAI_TECHNOLOGIES

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If we are unable to sell our services at acceptable prices relative to our costs, our business and financial results are likely to suffer. Failure to increase our revenues and keep our expenses consistent with revenues could prevent us from maintaining profitability at recent levels or at all. As part of our business strategy, we have entered into and may enter into or seek to enter into business combinations and acquisitions that may be difficult to integrate, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value or divert management attention. Future changes in financial accounting standards may adversely affect our reported results of operations. If we are unable to develop new services and enhancements to existing services, and if we fail to predict and respond to emerging technological trends and customers changing needs, our operating results may suffer. Any unplanned interruption in the functioning of our network or services could lead to significant costs and disruptions that could reduce our revenues and harm our business, financial results and reputation. Because our services are complex and are deployed in complex environments, they may have errors or defects that could seriously harm our business. We may have insufficient transmission and server capacity, which could result in interruptions in our services and loss of revenues. If the estimates we make, and the assumptions on which we rely, in preparing our financial statements prove inaccurate, our actual results may be adversely affected. If we are unable to retain our key employees and hire qualified sales and technical personnel, our ability to compete could be harmed. If our license agreement with MIT terminates, our business could be adversely affected. We may need to defend our intellectual property and processes against patent or copyright infringement claims, which would cause us to incur substantial costs. Our business will be adversely affected if we are unable to protect our intellectual property rights from unauthorized use or infringement by third parties. We face risks associated with international operations that could harm our business. Any failure to meet our debt obligations would damage our business. Internet-related and other laws could adversely affect our business. Provisions of our charter documents, our stockholder rights plan and Delaware law may have anti-takeover effects that could prevent a change in control even if the change in control would be beneficial to our stockholders. Our stock price has been volatile.

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