Ancestry.com, Akamai: After-Hours Trading

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Ancestry.com(ACOM) rose in late trades Wednesday after the company handily beat Wall Street's earnings expectations and agreed to acquire privately held Archives.com for $100 million.

The Provo, Utah-based company said its subscriber base stood at 1.87 million as of March 31, up 16% year-over-year, and announced a new $100 million buyback program as well.

For the first quarter, Ancestry.com said it earned $13.5 million, or 30 cents a share, on revenue of $108.5 million, besting the average estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters for a profit of 23 cents a share on revenue of $107.4 million.

The stock was last quoted at $26.99, up 10.4%, on volume of nearly 90,000, according to Nasdaq.com.

Ancestry.com also forecast revenue of $115 million to $117 million for the second quarter with subscribers rising to a range of 1.965 million to 1.980 million. For the full year, it sees revenue of $460 million to $470 million with between 1.965 million and 1.985 million subscribers.

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Akamai Technologies

Shares of Akamai Technologies(AKAM) fell in the extended session after the content delivery technology company reported above-consensus quarterly results but announced Paul Sagan, its president and CEO, is leaving at the end of 2013.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based company posted normalized earnings of $75 million, or 41 cents a share, on revenue of $319 million. The average estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters was for a profit of 38 cents a share on revenue of $310.7 million.

Akamai also said its board has approved the repurchase of up to $150 million worth of its common stock.

The stock was last quoted at $35.54, down 8.3%, on volume of more than 1.3 million, according to Nasdaq.com, pulling back after running as high as $41. Based on Wednesday's regular-session close at $38.75, the shares were up nearly17% so far in 2012.

Sagan has served as CEO of Akamai since 2005 and was named president in 1999. The company has formed a search committee to find his successor.