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Akamai Technologies Inc. – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/20 – ‘EX-101.PRE’

On:  Friday, 11/6/20, at 4:07pm ET   ·   For:  9/30/20   ·   Accession #:  1086222-20-220   ·   File #:  0-27275

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

11/06/20  Akamai Technologies Inc.          10-Q        9/30/20   72:7.2M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    996K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     24K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     24K 
 4: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     21K 
 5: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     21K 
12: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     73K 
13: R2          Consolidated Balance Sheets                         HTML    145K 
14: R3          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical)         HTML     44K 
15: R4          Consolidated Statements of Income                   HTML     97K 
16: R5          Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income     HTML     43K 
17: R6          Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income     HTML     23K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
18: R7          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML    138K 
19: R8          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML     32K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
20: R9          Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity     HTML    104K 
21: R10         Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity     HTML     24K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
22: R11         Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation        HTML     27K 
23: R12         Fair Value Measurements                             HTML     93K 
24: R13         Accounts Receivable                                 HTML     33K 
25: R14         Incremental Costs to Obtain a Contract with a       HTML     55K 
                Customer                                                         
26: R15         Goodwill and Acquired Intangible Assets             HTML     49K 
27: R16         Acquisitions                                        HTML     23K 
28: R17         Debt                                                HTML     77K 
29: R18         Restructuring                                       HTML     37K 
30: R19         Stockholders' Equity                                HTML     42K 
31: R20         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss                HTML     31K 
32: R21         Revenue from Contracts with Customers               HTML     55K 
33: R22         Income Taxes                                        HTML     28K 
34: R23         Net Income per Share                                HTML     60K 
35: R24         Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation        HTML     28K 
                (Policies)                                                       
36: R25         Fair Value Measurements (Tables)                    HTML     93K 
37: R26         Accounts Receivable (Tables)                        HTML     35K 
38: R27         Incremental Costs to Obtain a Contract with a       HTML     27K 
                Customer (Tables)                                                
39: R28         Goodwill and Acquired Intangible Assets (Tables)    HTML     51K 
40: R29         Debt (Tables)                                       HTML     56K 
41: R30         Restructuring (Tables)                              HTML     36K 
42: R31         Stockholders' Equity (Tables)                       HTML     40K 
43: R32         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss (Tables)       HTML     30K 
44: R33         Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)      HTML     42K 
45: R34         Net Income per Share (Tables)                       HTML     60K 
46: R35         Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation        HTML     26K 
                (Details)                                                        
47: R36         Fair Value Measurements - Marketable Securities     HTML     56K 
                (Details)                                                        
48: R37         Fair Value Measurements - Schedule of Fair Value    HTML     63K 
                Measurement (Details)                                            
49: R38         Fair Value Measurements - Contractual Maturities    HTML     27K 
                (Details)                                                        
50: R39         Accounts Receivable - Schedule of Accounts          HTML     32K 
                Receivable (Details)                                             
51: R40         Accounts Receivables - Allowance for Credit Losses  HTML     27K 
                (Details)                                                        
52: R41         Incremental Costs to Obtain a Contract with a       HTML     33K 
                Customer (Details)                                               
53: R42         Goodwill and Acquired Intangible Assets - Schedule  HTML     27K 
                of Goodwill (Details)                                            
54: R43         Goodwill and Acquired Intangible Assets - Schedule  HTML     41K 
                of Acquired Intangible Assets (Details)                          
55: R44         Goodwill and Acquired Intangible Assets -           HTML     35K 
                Narrative (Details)                                              
56: R45         Acquisitions - Narrative (Details)                  HTML     36K 
57: R46         Debt - Narrative (Details)                          HTML    114K 
58: R47         Debt - Schedule of Convertible Senior Notes         HTML     36K 
                (Details)                                                        
59: R48         Debt - Schedule of Interest Expense (Details)       HTML     37K 
60: R49         Restructuring (Details)                             HTML     57K 
61: R50         Stockholders' Equity - Narrative (Details)          HTML     31K 
62: R51         Stockholders' Equity - Schedule of Stock Based      HTML     37K 
                Compensation Expense (Details)                                   
63: R52         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss - Schedule of  HTML     38K 
                Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income Loss                      
                (Details)                                                        
64: R53         Revenue from Contracts with Customers -             HTML     37K 
                Disaggregation of Revenue (Details)                              
65: R54         Revenue from Contracts with Customers -             HTML     32K 
                Performance Obligation (Details)                                 
66: R55         Income Taxes - Narrative (Details)                  HTML     26K 
67: R56         Net Income per Share - Schedule of Components Used  HTML     61K 
                in Diluted and Basic Income Per Common Share                     
                (Details)                                                        
68: R57         Net Income per Share - Schedule of Shares Excluded  HTML     34K 
                from Computation of Diluted EPS (Details)                        
70: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    126K 
11: XML         XBRL Instance -- akam-20200930_htm                   XML   1.77M 
69: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     81K 
 7: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- akam-20200930_cal               XML    210K 
 8: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- akam-20200930_def                XML    420K 
 9: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- akam-20200930_lab                     XML   1.31M 
10: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- akam-20200930_pre              XML    754K 
 6: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- akam-20200930                         XSD    122K 
71: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              331±   467K 
72: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001086222-20-000220-xbrl      Zip    283K

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