The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm that provides business information focused on corporate boards of directors and officers. It covers more than 5,400 companies, including the largest North American public companies along with many international businesses. The company also offers company reports and risk assessment tools. Nell Minow (chairman and editor) and Robert A.G. Monks founded The Corporate Library in 1999. The company expanded its overseas coverage with the acquisition of GovernanceMetrics International (GMI) in 2010. The Corporate Library and GMI are together owned by Governance Holdings Co.

Xinhua Finance was founded in 1999 to meet the growing demand from global and Chinese investors for an open exchange of financial information and analysis. Xinhua Finance is betting that investing in China is more than a yuance-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The company is a leading financial information services provider that distributes news, stock market updates, and ratings services to investors and financial professionals in China. It has 15 regional news bureaus across Asia, Europe, and North America. In addition, the company offers investor relations services through subsidiary China Fortune Public Relations.

j2 Global Communications provides a variety of business-critical communications and storage messaging services through its global communications/telephony/messaging network. With offices in eight cities worldwide, j2 Global Communications' network spans more than 4,200 cities in 49 countries on six continents, serving more than 11 million subscribers and providing value-added applications and local presence on a global scale. j2 Global Communications offers billing in twelve currencies with multiple payment methods and customer support in more than seven languages. j2 Global Communications offers a complete array of unified-messaging and communications services, including faxing and voicemail solutions, Web-initiated conference calling, storage messaging services, online backup, and virtual office solutions. j2 Global Communications also provides a full suite of unified communications services that include fax, Web-based voicemail, conference calling and a comprehensive set of outsourced virtual phone services.

iBAHN drives communications on the Internet superhighway. iBAHN Corporation provides high-speed Internet access to the hospitality industry primarily in 40 countries. Over wired and wireless broadband connections, it provides digital entertainment and information services to hotel guests, small group meetings, and large industry events at about 2,000 hotels, conference centers, and meeting rooms. Its secure broadband service also enables videoconferencing for corporations and associations hosting meetings and training sessions. iBAHN's Speed Solution service lets hotels charge a higher rate for speedier Internet service. Clients have included Accor, Marriott, and Hilton. Privately held, iBAHN was founded in 1998.

WebMD Health Corp. provides health information services to consumers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, employers, and health plans through its public and private online portals, mobile applications, and health-focused publications in the United States. The company’s public portals enable consumers to obtain health and wellness information, including information on specific diseases or conditions; check symptoms; locate physicians; store individual healthcare information; receive periodic e-newsletters on topics of individual interest; and participate in online communities with peers and experts. Its public portals for physicians and healthcare professionals provide access to clinical reference sources; stay abreast of the latest clinical information; learn about new treatment options; earn continuing medical education (CME) credit; and communicate with peers. WebMD Health Corp. also provides mobile health information applications for use by consumers and physicians. In addition, WebMD Health Corp. provides e-detailing promotion and physician recruitment services, and information services, as well as print services, including the publication of WebMD the Magazine, a consumer magazine distributed to physician office waiting rooms. The public portals’ sponsors and advertisers include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and consumer products companies. The company’s private portals enable employers and health plans to provide their employees and members with access to personalized health and benefit information and decision support technology that helps them to make more informed benefit, treatment, and provider decisions. Further, it offers telephonic health coaching services on a per participant basis across an employee or plan population for clients of its private portals. WebMD Health Corp. is headquartered in New York, New York.

Altnet distributes digital content such as music, video, games, software, and other digital files to PC users through a subscription-based download service. Brilliant Digital also owns the Kazaa subscription-based digital music service, which it jointly operates through a partnership with Internet marketing firm Atrinsic. Kazaa allows users to download an unlimited amount of music files for one monthly fee. In 2010 Atrinsic announced plans to acquire Brilliant Digital's Kazaa assets. Not sure how brilliant digital entertainment gets to your PC? Brilliant Digital Entertainment operates a peer-to-peer network through its Altnet subsidiary (jointly owned with technology firm Joltid).

Sohu.com Inc., an Internet company, provides news, information, video content, entertainment, and communication services in the People’s Republic of China. It offers brand advertising services that provide advertisements on its portal Websites to companies that expect to build up their brand awareness online; sponsored search services, which offer placements in search directory, as well as pay-for-click services for small and medium-size enterprises; online games, including massively multi-player online role-playing games; and wireless value-added services, such as news, weather forecast, chatting, entertainment information, ring tones, and logo downloads subscribed over mobile phones. Sohu.com company’s products and services include aggregated content on various topics, including news, entertainment, sports, business and finance, information technology, automobile, and women; online video content; streaming online content; and communication and community tools, such as alumni clubs, blogs, email, message boards, and Web messenger. Its Web properties include sohu.com, a mass portal and online media destination; 17173.com, a games information portal; focus.cn, a real estate Website; chinaren.com, an online alumni club; and sogou.com, an interactive proprietary search engine. Sohu.com Inc. was formerly known as Internet Technologies China Incorporated and changed its name to Sohu.com Inc. in September 1999. Sohu.com Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

Sunbeach Communications Inc. operates from one office each in the parishes of St. Michael and Christ Church. Some Barbadians want to surf the waves, while others want to surf the Internet. Sunbeach Communications provides dial-up and broadband Internet services to consumers and businesses in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. Its business Internet services are sold under the BiZconnect brand. The company also offer Web hosting and data backup and security services for business clients. Sunbeach Communications has said that it hopes to expand its service portfolio to include cellular phone service when it has sufficient funds to complete the construction of a wireless network.

Started by Michael Kinsley in 1996, Slate Magazine is owned by The Washington Post. In 2008 the magazine became part of The Washington Post's newly created Slate Group. If you find mainstream journalism a dull, cold world, you might try this online publication. Slate Magazine operates a popular Web site offering news and commentary slightly skewed for hip and erudite readers. The Internet magazine covers the arts, business, politics, sports, travel, and technology and attracts an audience of about 5 million people. The Web site is supported through advertising and sponsorships.

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.

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