YouTube was founded in 2005 by Steve Chen (former CTO) and Chad Hurley (former CEO). Today it is a subsidiary of Internet search giant Google. YouTube is definitely not your father's method of sharing video footage. The company has amassed a collection of more than 100 million video clips, many of which feature user generated content, which it broadcasts online via its Web site at YouTube.com. With about 70 million unique visitors a month in the US (and the sixth-largest audience on the Web), it has become the clear leader in online video sharing. YouTube earns revenue by selling advertising, and has partnership deals with content providers such as CBS, Warner Music Group, and the NBA.

Bandwidth.com has the capacity to carry on. Bandwidth.com, Inc. is a provider of business communications services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), broadband Internet access, conferencing, and managed networks. It acts as an online broker between small and midsized businesses needing broadband access and carriers (like Sprint Nextel or Verizon) selling it. Bandwidth.com also facilitates installation and servicing of the connection following the sale.

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.

AG Interactive, Inc. has just the thing for those special occasions when an e-mail just won't do. AG Interactive is a leading operator of online greeting card websites, boasting a portfolio that includes AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com, and Egreetings.com. Its sites offer e-card services that are used by about 4 million subscribers. In addition, AG Interactive's e-cards can be accessed through Instant Messaging or online partnerships with AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!. Its e-cards are produced in more than 25 languages for distribution in nearly 80 countries. AG Interactive is a subsidiary of greeting card publisher American Greetings.

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.

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.

Mark Oldman and brothers Samer and H. S. Hamadeh founded the company in 1997. Today it is owned by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Looking for career gold? You might find it in the Vault.com. The firm provides company and industry information to help job-seekers determine what it's really like inside Merrill Lynch, CNN, and other employers. Vault.com offers information on interviewing, pay, perks, and corporate culture at various companies. It also publishes 120 digital and print career guidebooks, such as Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms and Vault Guide to Biotech). Vault.com additionally offers employee message boards, a job listings board, and career services such as resume writing.

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.

This company lives in a (young) man's world, and it would be nothing without games, gadgets, and girls. UGO Entertainment (pronounced "Yu-Ji-Oh") is an online publisher that targets 18- to 34-year-old men with content for video game fans. The site covers topics of interest for the "gamer lifestyle", such as technology, movies, and sports. Flagship sites UGO.com and 1UP.com and their network of related sites, which draw an audience of about 42 million monthly users, also offers streaming media entertainment and features on comics, TV shows, and music. Launched in 1997 as Unified Gamers Online, UGO Entertainment was acquired by publisher Hearst Corporation in 2007; it operates as part of Hearst Interactive Media.

Founded in 1992 by chairman Dick Green, Briefing.com operates offices in London, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco. Let's face it: Nobody likes market analysis to be long-winded. Briefing.com offers live, objective market analysis of US and international equity markets. Briefing.com company's services, which are primarily offered via a subscription fee, target traders and individual and professional investors, and include stock tracking, news summaries, and market commentary. Each trading day Briefing.com delivers real-time analysis to nearly one million visitors from more than 20 different countries. Briefing.com provides content to partners such as Charles Schwab, Reuters, MSN, Forbes, and Yahoo! Finance.

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