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     PRESS RELEASE

     CONTACTS:

     Jeff Young
     617-250-3913              -- or --                 Anjeanette Rettig
     jyoung@akamai.com                                  858-623-8400 x134
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     Caryn Converse
     617-250-4661
     converse@akamai.com
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                     AKAMAI COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF INTERVU

          AKAMAI BECOMES LARGEST INTERNET STREAMING MEDIA AND BROADBAND
               CONTENT DELIVERY COMPANY WITH OVER 1,000 CUSTOMERS

     CAMBRIDGE, MA -- April 20, 2000 -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:
     AKAM), the leading provider of global, high performance services for the
     delivery of interactive Internet content, streaming media, and Internet
     applications, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of
     INTERVU Inc., the leading service provider for Internet audio and video
     delivery solutions.

     Under the terms of the stock-for-stock acquisition, each share of INTERVU
     common stock was exchanged for 0.5957 shares of Akamai common stock. Akamai
     has now become the world's largest Internet streaming media and broadband
     content delivery services company.

     George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai said, "This is a monumental day
     for both companies, and solidifies Akamai's position as a leader in
     Internet streaming. Akamai sees the Internet as the next broadcast medium,
     and the rapid adoption of our interactive content and streaming media
     delivery services by hundreds of leading eBusinesses supports our view. The
     acquisition of INTERVU adds critical mass to Akamai's end-to-end
     interactive broadcast platform. We believe our new, combined company is
     best positioned in the market to offer the next generation of interactive
     streaming solutions."

     With the completion of the merger, Akamai now has:

          *    Over 1,000 current customers, making Akamai the largest Internet
               streaming media and content delivery company;

          *    The world's largest content delivery network with over 3,000 Web
               servers deployed today;

          *    A global, fault-tolerant network that spans 150 individual
               telecommunications networks in more than 45 countries;

          *    Over 850 total employees, including over 300 sales and sales
               support individuals, and more than 200 engineers; and

          *    The most comprehensive streaming media services and applications
               supporting today's popular formats.
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     As a result of the completed acquisition, Akamai's customer base includes
     many of today's leading businesses such as Apple, CBS Corporation, CNN,
     General Motors, IBM, Microsoft, NBC, Paramount Digital Entertainment,
     Quokka Sports, and Turner Broadcasting. Former INTERVU customers will
     automatically be migrated to Akamai's world-class customer care program.
     These companies can now take advantage of Akamai's broad range of
     end-to-end interactive broadcast services, including signal acquisition,
     production, encoding and delivery, as well as eBroadcast services to manage
     and monitor live and on-demand Internet broadcasts related to eLearning,
     corporate communications, and sales and marketing.

     "CNN Interactive relies on services from both Akamai and INTERVU to ensure
     that we continue to deliver the most reliable high-performance online news
     service," said Monty Mullig, senior vice president of Internet
     Technologies, CNN. "Combined, INTERVU and Akamai deliver technology that
     helps CNN.com provide users with one of the best online news video and Web
     experiences available."

     Akamai's headquarters will remain in Cambridge, MA, with offices in more
     than a dozen cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, Cupertino, London, Los
     Angeles, Munich, New York, Paris, San Diego, San Mateo, Seattle, and the
     Washington D.C. area.

     ABOUT AKAMAI

     Akamai is the foremost provider of distributed content, streaming media,
     and applications delivery services, serving over 1000 customers. Akamai has
     deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and
     applications delivery with more than 3,000 servers in over 45 countries
     directly connected to more than 150 different telecommunications networks.
     Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.

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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. 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, the dependence on Akamai's
     Internet content delivery service, Akamai's ability to effectively and
     efficiently integrate INTERVU in its operations, a failure of its network
     infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the
     service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity
     and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form
     10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.