The Gores Group, founded by Alec E. Gores in 1987, is a private equity firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses which can benefit from the firm’s operating experience and flexible capital. Since its inception, Gores has acquired 60 companies worldwide with combined revenues in excess of 15 billion dollars. Currently, Gores has 2.7 billion dollars in equity under active management. Gores’ offices in North America and Europe serve its active investment programs in these regions.

Healthline Networks, Inc. was formed in 1999 as YourDoctor.com; it floundered during the dot com bust and eventually resurfaced as Healthline Networks in 2005 with funding from companies such as VantagePoint and Reed Elsevier. Healthline Networks wants to give you a direct connection to health information. The company's Web site uses proprietary semantic taxonomy to match everyday language with medical terms for a more complete look at interconnected topics from diseases and conditions to causes and treatments. In addition to operating its own ad-supported consumer Web site, Healthline powers search, advertising, and content services to a network of publishers, advertisers, health Web sites, and health plans.

HealthStream, Inc. provides Internet-based learning and research solutions for the training, information, and education needs of the healthcare industry in the United States. The company operates in two segments, HealthStream Learning and HealthStream Research. The HealthStream Learning segment, through its Internet-based platforms, the HealthStream Learning Center and HealthStream Express, provides training and education content with administrative and management tools. Its learning management system supports healthcare administrators in configuring training for various groups of employees, modifying training materials, and documenting completed training. This segment also provides training, implementation, and account management services for the adoption of its platform. In addition, it develops, manages, and distributes online, live, and print education and training activities for provider-based healthcare professionals and physicians, as well as provides online education and training services for sales representatives. The HealthStream Research segment provides the hospital-based customers with patient, physician, employee, and community surveys; data analyses of survey results; and other research-based measurement tools. The company sells its products and services primarily through its direct sales teams, consultants, and account relationship managers to healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and other entities in the healthcare industry. HealthStream, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

HomeGain is a leading provider of online marketing programs that connect real estate agents and brokers with home buyers and sellers. HomeGain offers free services to find and compare real estate agents, research home values, and view homes for sale. REALTORS® use HomeGain's real estate marketing programs to connect with consumers, promote their services and grow their business. HomeGain.com has been a top visited real estate website since 1999. HomeGain is your real estate connection.Based in Emeryville, CA, HomeGain is a division of Classified Ventures, LLC, a strategic joint venture formed by Belo Corp., Gannett Co., The McClatchy Company, Tribune Company, and The Washington Post Company. Classified Ventures also owns and operates Cars.com and Apartments.com.

The Hoover's website features a database of information on more than 65 million corporations and organizations, and more than 85 million people. Offering both free and for-pay content, the firm focuses on selling subscriptions (the majority of its revenues) to marketing, sales, and business development professionals. Hoover's also publishes its information in reference books. The company is a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). If you're reading this sentence, you know where to go for company data. Hoover's, the publisher of this profile, offers proprietary business information through the Internet, data feeds, wireless devices, and co-branding agreements with other online services.

HSW International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSWI) develops and operates Internet businesses focused on providing consumers in the world's emerging digital economies with locally relevant, high quality information. HSW International, Inc., which is headquartered in Atlanta and incorporated in Delaware, currently operates businesses in China, Brazil and the United States. HSW International excels at deploying high-quality content tailored to the information needs of consumers in the regions where it operates. It seeks to achieve a consumer following in these fast-growing economies to make its sites compelling platforms for marketers in nearly every business category. Among the Company's advantages are experienced local management teams and strategic business relationships.HSW International's growth strategy is to pursue opportunities in economies where Internet usage and consumer demand are expanding at rates in excess of those in developed markets. HSW International's initial focus is online publishing in China and Brazil. HSW International is the exclusive licensee for the translation and publication in China and Brazil of certain content from HowStuffWorks, Inc., a leading digital publisher whose award-winning website, HowStuffWorks.com, provides in-depth, easy-to-understand explanations, expert product reviews, comprehensive buying guides and informational videos on health, science, travel, automotive, electronics and consumer products, as well as other topics.

IGN Entertainment may not stand for International Geek Network, but the company does court video gamers and science fiction fans. IGN Entertainment is a network of video game-related Web sites that offer free, subscription-based, and pay-per-download content. IGN Entertainment operates flagship site IGN.com, as well as additional game-related sites such as GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, and Direct2Drive. The company also owns male lifestyle site AskMen.com. Together, the IGN and AskMen sites are targeted at males aged 18-34, and attract more than 40 million unique monthly visitors worldwide. IGN Entertainment is a subsidiary of News Corp. and operates as part of its News Corp. Digital Media division.

Impulse Communications, Inc. was founded in 1990 as a computer consulting firm. Impulse Communications owns and operates thousands of Web sites. Its e-commerce sites offer a variety of consumer products such as flowers, sporting goods, vitamins, and art supplies. Properties include Cheapflowers.com and FindMoney.com. Impulse Communications also operates content-based sites that generate ad revenue, such as Bored.com, and sites that generate pay-per-click revenue, such as FindJobs.com and GetWealthy.com. Impulse Communications also sells domain names.

Index Holdings keeps its finger on the pulse of cutting-edge media technology in Japan. The holding company owns a number of businesses that develop technology for cell phone content. It also produces and distributes multimedia products, such as Web sites, games, video, and advertising. Other subsidiaries (including Atlus U.S.A.) publish video games, animation, films, books, and magazines, and Index Communications operates mail order and brick-and-mortar stores to sell its tangible products. Index Holdings also offers its mobile content in China (through China Mobile) and in France (through Index Multimedia, which is traded on the Euronext Paris). The company even owns a French soccer team, Grenoble Foot 38.

InfoSpace, Inc. develops search tools and technologies that assist consumers with finding content and information on the Internet. It offers search services that enable Internet users to locate and view content, information, merchants, individuals, and products online. The company provides search services through its Web sites, such as Dogpile.com, WebCrawler.com, MetaCrawler.com, and WebFetch.com, as well as through the Web sites of distribution partners. It serves primarily search content providers. InfoSpace was founded in 1996 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

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