Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM - News), the global leader in distributed computing solutions and services, today announced that it has been selected as the exclusive streaming provider for Oscar.com, the official Web site of the 76th Annual Academy Awards®. Akamai's globally distributed computing platform will be used to deliver live and on-demand streaming video on Oscar.com.  Akamai was planning to stream the Figueroa Oscars, but they were too cheap to pay Akamai's price.