GALA Incorporated is one of Japan's largest operators of online communities and services (bulletin boards, chat rooms) through a series of Web sites with topics ranging from travel to automobiles. GALA also provides online games, a segment that has grown to make up the bulk of the company's business. GALA Incorporated offers data mining and information analysis services for corporate clients through its e-mining and BUZZ Report subsidiaries. In addition to Japan, Toho operates in other Asian countries, as well as in Europe and the US. In Japan, surfing the Web is a GALA affair.

Founded in 1996, Claranet has evolved from being a pioneering ISP (Internet Service Provider) into an MSP (Managed Services Provider) with annual revenues of around €100 million. We have 520 employees with an international footprint in six countries and although Claranet has grown internationally, the focus has always been on local service, out of local offices, using local data centres. Claranet brings together the best people, process and technology to provide flexible, secure and cost-effective managed services that guarantee network and application performance. We allow customers to focus on their core business, not IT management.

The Motley Fool, Inc. operates in England through its Fool UK site (www.fool.co.uk). To some, this Fool is the king of personal investing tips. The Motley Fool distributes investment information and advice through its Fool.com website. It also publishes about a dozen books (in partnership with Simon & Schuster), a syndicated newspaper column (appearing in more than 200 newspapers), and a handful of subscription-based investment newsletters. Its website offers Fool followers stock quotes, company research reports, personal finance information, news, online seminars, and message boards. In addition, the company's CAPS stock-rating service covers more than 5,000 stocks.

Ariba, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides spend management solutions in the United States. It offers Ariba Spend Management solutions to deploy and integrate with enterprise resource planning and other software systems. These solutions allow organizations to automate tasks, such as identifying global suppliers, sourcing goods and services, negotiating and managing contracts, processing invoices and payments, and managing trading relationships. The company's spend management solutions integrate with and leverage the Ariba Supplier Network, a scalable Internet infrastructure that connects its buying organizations with their suppliers to exchange product and service information, as well as a range of business documents, such as purchase orders and invoices. Its spend management solutions also comprise implementation and strategic consulting, education and training, commodity expertise and decision support, benchmarking, sourcing, and procurement outsourcing services. Ariba, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Looksmart, Ltd. operates as an online search advertising network solution company that provides solutions for search advertisers and publishers. LookSmart offers advertisers targeted, pay-per-click search advertising and contextual search advertising via its Advertiser Networks; and an Ad Center platform for customizable private-label advertiser solutions for online publishers. Looksmart’s customers include intermediaries, who purchase clicks to sell into the affiliate networks of search engine providers; direct advertisers and their agencies; and self-service advertisers. LookSmart, Ltd. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ClickHome operates a Web site that provides real estate services in Santa Clara, California and the surrounding Bay Area. ClickHome serves buyer and sellers of residential, commercial, and investment property. ClickHome's offerings include an online mortgage calculator, searches for available properties, and refinancing and home-selling services.

Tencent Holdings Limited was founded in 1999. This company puts its pennies into Internet services. Tencent is a provider of Internet and instant messaging (IM) services to consumers in China. Users of its QC IM platform can communicate by text, images, audio, video, and email, and also partake in Tencent's mobile games, personals, content downloads, and other value-added services. More than 480 million QC users currently have active accounts. Tencent also operates Internet portal QQ.com, the QQ Game portal, multi-media social networking service Qzone, and PaiPai.com, a Chinese Internet shopping site.

NetDragon Websoft Inc. was established in 1999. Gamers looking to conjure magic, slay dragons, fight wars, and rule fantasy worlds online might turn to NetDragon Websoft. The company is a leading Chinese Internet game developer and operator with a portfolio of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or MMORPGs, in which a large number of players interact within a virtual game world. NetDragon's titles include Era of Faith, Eudemons Online, Heroes of Might and Magic Online, and Monster & Me. It also has several interactive, online games under development. To attract more players, its games are free to play online; revenues are generated from selling virtual items, such as performance-enhancing game upgrades.

GlobalSCAPE, Inc. develops, distributes, and maintains secure managed file transfer software that enables individuals and business users to exchange information over the Internet, as well as wide-area file system (WAFS) collaboration and continuous data protection (CDP) software. The company offers file transfer protocol (FTP) client programs, including CuteFTP, which permits a user to request a file from or send a file to an FTP server or host computer; and CuteFTP Pro, a program that incorporates various standards for encrypting data during transport and at rest, accelerating transfer of large files, and automating common file transfer tasks. It also provides file transfer servers programs, such as Enhanced File Transfer Server, which provides digital certificate management, remote management capability, and ability to manage user accounts with settings for security and control; and Enhanced File Transfer Server Enterprise, an enterprise file server that supports enterprise installations. In addition, the company offers data replication products, including Wide Area File Services, which delivers a file access system, instant file-sharing, and server-to-server mirroring; and continuous backup software that delivers real-time continuous data protection. Further, it provides Mail Express, a software add-in that redirects email attachments for delivery in accordance with administrator-defined policies; and CuteSendIt, a software-as-a-service managed file transfer solution, as well as resells BOUNCER, an enterprise application whitelisting solution. GlobalSCAPE serves finance, health care, energy, retail, manufacturing, and engineering markets worldwide. GlobalSCAPE, Inc. company was founded in 1996 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.

Socket Holdings Corporation company, formed in 1994 by CEO George Pfeneger and CTO John Dupuy, serves more than 20,000 customers in 400 cities in Missouri. Socket Holdings helps customers in Missouri plug in to the Internet. Socket provides residential and business Internet access, data networking, and Web hosting services, as well as local and long-distance phone service for businesses.

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