The Onion was first published in 1988 by then University of Wisconsin students Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson. Tears from this Onion are most likely induced from fits of laughter. Onion, Inc. publishes the popular satirical weekly newspaper "The Onion", which is available in both online and print editions. Sister Web site The Onion A.V. Club features interviews, reviews, and columns focusing on music and movies. Other operations include book publishing (including the best-seller Our Dumb Century), radio programming (Onion Radio News), online video clips (The Onion News Network), and consumer items such as calendars, mugs, and T-shirts. Onion company earns revenue through advertising and subscription fees.

BroadVision, Inc. develops, markets, and supports enterprise portal applications. Its applications enable companies to unify their e-business infrastructure and conduct both interactions and transactions with employees, partners, and customers through a personalized self-service model. The company’s solutions include business agility suite, which enables interaction with visitors through personalized views of information, resources, and business processes stored in diverse internal and external legacy information systems. It also offers commerce agility suite that allows businesses to manage business-to-business and business-to-consumer channels through a single solution; OnDemand solution that provides visibility and agility for various members of organizations to collaborate; Clearvale, an integrated Enterprise 2.0 platform; and QuickSilver, which provides features for creation and publishing of documents supporting multiple output formats. In addition, BroadVision offers application services, including commerce services to display product offerings and transact business on Web sites; portal services to provide end users with a personalized and intuitive navigation as they interact with business; process services that extend Web capabilities, and transforms processes and collaborations into Web-based self-service applications; and content services to manage Web content. Further, the company provides staging services to simplify the process of moving content from multiple systems to the production environment; eMerchandising to create, manage, and implement sales discounts while maintaining oversight over profitability; and search solution that provides text and field searching of online content. BroadVision serves financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications industries in the Americas, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. BroadVision, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

NetEase.com, Inc., an Internet technology company, engages in the development of applications, services, and other technologies for the Internet in China. It provides online game services to Internet users through the in-house development or licensing of massively multi-player online role-playing games, including Fantasy Westward Journey, Westward Journey Online II, Westward Journey Online III, Tianxia II, Heroes of Tang Dynasty, and Datang, as well as the licensed game, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft. The company also offers online advertising on its Web sites. In addition, NetEase has paid listings on its search engine and Web directory, and classified advertising services, as well as an online mall, which provides opportunities for e-commerce and traditional businesses to establish their own storefront on the Internet. Further, it provides wireless value-added services, such as news and information content, matchmaking services, music, and photos from the Web over SMS, MMS, WAP, IVR, and Color Ring-back Tone technologies. Additionally, the company offers community services, including instant messaging, online personal advertisements, matchmaking, alumni clubs, and community forums; and aggregates news content on world events, sports, science and technology, and financial markets, as well as entertainment content, such as cartoons, games, astrology, and jokes from over 100 international and domestic content providers. NetEase.com, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

eAccess Ltd. was founded in 1999 and merged with Japanese ISP ACCA Networks Co., Ltd. in 2009. eAccess Ltd. (not to be confused with Cubic Corp.'s eAccess LLC) provides wholesale ADSL services to other Internet service providers in Japan. The company leases NTT phone lines (ADSL relies on copper wire phone lines to transmit data) and partners with about 30 ISPs, including AOL, KDDI, and SOFTBANK, for broadband services. Its device business unit develops fixed mobile convergence (FMC) applications to allow cell phones to switch between mobile and fixed-line telecommunications. Subsidiary EMOBILE, which launched service in 2008, provides broadband cell phone service.

XAP Corporation operates XAP.com, an online resource for college-bound students. The site offers information and services for high school counselors, college recruiting officers, and students and their families. It provides students with tools for college planning and the college application process, as well as SAT and ACT test preparation services. Offerings for college administrators include online applications and transcripts and prospect management systems. XAP Corporation also helps counselors organize and monitor the status of their students.

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.

EarthLink, Inc. provides Internet access and related value-added services to individual and business customers in the United States. EarthLink company operates in two segments, Consumer Services and Business Services. The Consumer Services segment offers narrowband access comprising premium dial-up Internet access and value dial-up Internet access; broadband access that provides high speed Internet connection using a modem across an existing home phone line or cable connection; voice-over-Internet protocol that offers voicemail, call waiting, caller ID, call forwarding, and E911 service under various plans; and value-added services that include products for protection, communication, and performance, such as security products, email, home networking, email storage, and Internet call waiting. The Business Services segment provides secure IP-based networks, including virtual private networks (VPN) and CPE-based VPNs; high-speed and dial-up Internet access for business customers; and wholesale services comprising network services to communications carriers. This segment also leases server space and provides Web hosting services that enable customers to build and maintain an online presence, including domain names, storage, mailboxes, software tools to build Web sites, e-commerce applications, and 24/7 customer support. In addition, the Business Services segment offers other services, such as installation programs, managed network services, remote access, and disaster recovery services. EarthLink primarily sells its products and services to telecommunications carriers and network resellers through direct sales force, telephone, Web sales groups, search engine marketing, affinity marketing partners, resellers, sales agents, referral partners, and marketing alliances. EarthLink company has strategic marketing alliance with Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House Networks. EarthLink was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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.

Rediff.com India Limited provides online Internet based services with a focus on India and the global Indian community. Its Web sites consist of interest specific channels relevant to Indian interests, including cricket; astrology; matchmaker and movies; content on various matters, such as news and finance; search facilities; a range of community features comprising e-mail, chat, messenger, and e-commerce; and broadband wireless content, as well as short messaging services for the mobile phone subscribers in India. Rediff.com India Limited company also publishes two weekly newspapers, including ‘India Abroad’ and ‘India in New York’ for the Indian-American community in the United States and Canada. As of March 31, 2009, it had 77.9 million online registered users. Rediff.com India Limited company was formerly known as Rediff Communication Private Limited and changed its name to Rediff.com India Limited in February 2000. Rediff.com India Limited was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Weddings are often one of the most stressful, complex, and expensive endeavors people undertake. WeddingChannel.com exists to help marriage-bound women and men through the sometimes challenging but always exciting process of planning a wedding and starting a new home. Our staff is dedicated to creating the most comprehensive, useful and fun wedding-related site on the Internet. Our team members bring to the site not only their professional expertise, but their personal experiences as wedding guests, wedding party members, and as brides and grooms. In creating our site, we strive to embrace and celebrate the very best of the marriage tradition, while at the same time addressing the tastes, interests and issues of concern to today's couples. WeddingChannel.com launched on July 15, 1997.

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