The Durable Data Corporation, which does business as DDC, provides Internet connections and a range of more advanced data hosting and management services primarily to business clients in Texas. Durable Data Corporation offers dynamic and dedicated Internet access, domain registration, e-mail scanning, spam blocking, Web Hosting, and data and server colocation services. Digital Design also provides a variety of information technology services such as systems integration and installation.

Weather Decision Technologies (WDT) offers weather data and related technologies to local news stations, online weather sites, and other weather services organizations that provide information to consumers. Its offerings include iMap Weather, a customizable weather map designed for integration into customer Web sites; iWatch, a severe weather monitoring and alert system; as well as forecasting technologies, real-time lightening tracking systems, and other products. Operating in the US and abroad, WDT has served CNN, ABC, The Weather Channel, and Bonnier, among other customers. CEO Michael Eiltsa co-founded the company in 1999.

Since 1995, when it launched the first car-buying website, Autobytel Inc.'s (Nasdaq: ABTL) mission has been to empower automotive consumers with the best available tools and information they need to make smart, well-informed vehicle purchasing and ownership decisions. By providing a convenient and comprehensive online automotive experience for in-market car shoppers, and then connecting those shoppers with its nationwide network of automotive dealers, the company has helped millions of consumers find the vehicle they want and generated billions of dollars in car sales for dealers. Through its extensive marketing network, Autobytel provides dealers and manufacturers with advanced web-based advertising and marketing programs, as well as opportunities to build relationships with customers and programs to efficiently manage and convert online business.

OnlineAuction.com formed in 1998 by Chris Fain, a former auctioneer and online auction seller. Looking to play David to eBay's Goliath, OnlineAuction.com offers an online auction marketplace for buyers and sellers of everything from collectibles to real estate. OnlineAuction, aka OLA, charges sellers a flat monthly or yearly fee to list items for sale; it hosts the usual online auction fare as well as cars, RVs, and residential and commercial properties. OLA's site also offers a chat room where buyers and sellers can share ideas, and what it says is a simplified fee structure, invoicing, and bidding system.

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.

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.

Easynet simplifies the way businesses connect to the 'net. With its own network infrastructure, the company provides Internet connectivity and hosting services, including DSL access, routed ISDN lines, and facility-managed servers and network operations. It also offers VPN and wholesale broadband services, providing direct access in European countries and through partners worldwide. Easynet has six international data centers and more than 50 co-location facilities across Europe. Clients include Ford and Kohler Mira. In 2010 BSkyB sold Easynet to Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) for £100 million (around $150 million), in a going private transaction.

CGI Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides information technology services (IT) and business process services in Canada, the United States, India, Europe, and Asia Pacific. CGI Group provides systems integration and consulting services in the areas of business intelligence and data warehousing, business transformation, change management, collaborative technologies, compliance process and reporting, customer relationship management, data management services, enterprise content management, enterprise resource planning, enterprise risk management, management consulting, spend management, service oriented architecture, and supply chain management. It also offers application-specific services, including application development, application transformation and modernization, enterprise application integration, and enterprise testing and quality services. In addition, CGI provides managed application services covering service planning and monitoring, service management and support, service delivery, and contract administration areas; and technology management services principally comprising server consolidation and virtualization, storage and archiving solutions, remote access solutions, data center management and assessment, technology modernization, Web hosting, IT service management, managed security, regulatory management, policy and governance, and business continuity services, as well as various cost management solutions. Further, it offers business process services, which primarily include document management, payroll processing and human resources management, trade services, housing contract administration, and finance and administration, as well as billing, enrollment, and member services. CGI serves banking, healthcare, government, insurance, manufacturing, oil and gas, retail, telecommunications, utilities, wealth management, and distribution sectors, as well as credit unions. CGI Group Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Spike.com, the Internet sibling of cable TV network Spike TV, isn't afraid to be manly. Billing itself as "the premiere online destination for men", the advertising-supported site offers guy-centric content under categories such as sports, games & gadgets, girls, and movies & TV. It also publishes regular columns on The Ultimate Fighter series, as well as features such as The Guy's Guide and Girls of Spike. Parent company MTV created Spike.com in 2007 when it folded general video streaming site IFILM into its SpikeTV.com site in order to leverage the Spike brand.

Wall Street extends beyond Manhattan's financial district and into the ether through The Wall Street Journal Digital Network (WSJDN). The division operates WSJ.com, the online version of the leading business daily The Wall Street Journal. Launched in 1996, it is one of the first websites to be accessible only to paying users; with more than one million subscribers it is the largest paid subscription news site on the Internet. (It also sells advertising.) In addition to WSJ.com, WSJDN includes MarketWatch (business news); SmartMoney (personal finance); Barrons.com (investment information); and AllThingsD.com (new media). WSJDN is owned by Dow Jones & Company, itself a part of media conglomerate News Corp.

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