Canoe Inc., Québec's Internet leader, is an integrated company offering e-commerce, information and communication services and IT consulting. It owns the Canoe Network, which attracts 7.8 million unique visitors per month in Canada, including more than 4.2 million in Québec*. The Canoe Network includes content sites Canoe.ca, Canoe.qc.ca, La Toile du Québec (toile.com), Canoe Money (money.canoe.ca and argent.canoe.com), the TVA network site (tva.canoe.com) and the LCN site (lcn.canoe.com). The Canoe Network also offers online services in the fields of employment and continuing education (jobboom.com), housing (Homes-Extra.ca), automobiles (autonet.ca), personals (reseaucontact.com), social networks (espacecanoe.ca) and classified ads (classifieds.canoe.ca).

Tech Wire Media Group takes a low-tech approach to high-tech news. The group publishes e-newsletters, Web sites, and hosts trade shows and conferences for the technology industry. Its five free, regional daily e-newsletters offer headlines, job listings, and event postings in a straightforward, text-only style. The group has three news Web sites: Capital Beat, which covers public policy and financial news in Washington D.C.; Silicon Valley Wire, for tech news in Northern California; and Digital Media Wire, a news service for the music, entertainment, and high-tech industries. Finally, it hosts annual conferences and events such as the Digital Media Conference and the Venture Capital Outlook.

Rakuten was founded in 1997 by chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani. Rakuten is Japan's largest online retailer and a leading provider of Internet-based services. The company's business segments and subsidiaries include Rakuten Ichiba (an online shopping mall), Rakuten Auction (online auctions), Rakuten Books (online bookstore), Infoseek (Internet search, Web logs, and job boards), Rakuten Travel, and Rakuten Securities (online trading). The firm's entertainment activities include television broadcasting in Japan and ownership of a professional baseball team. Its financial services unit offers credit cards and consumer loans. Its Fusion Communications subsidiary (acquired in 2007) provides Internet phone service.

We at Bankrate, Inc. have over three decades' experience in financial publishing. Bankrate was born in 1976 as "Bank Rate Monitor," a print publisher for the banking industry. The "Bank Rate Monitor" newsletter we originally distributed contained much of the same rate research and information we're known for and respected for today. After two decades of conducting quality, trusted rate research, we took our product to the Web, expanded our offerings and made our online debut in 1996. Since then, we have increased our site traffic to over 7 million monthly unique visitors, expanded our distribution outlets, added new content channels and continually strive to provide a better, more comprehensive consumer experience. Today, Bankrate, Inc. is the Web's leading aggregator of financial rate information, offering an unparalleled depth and breadth of rate data and financial content. Bankrate continually surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide clear, objective, and unbiased rates to consumers. Our flagship Web site, Bankrate.com, provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.In addition to rate data, we publish original and objective personal finance stories to help consumers make informed financial decisions. Our staff of award winning reporters and editors provides expert advice on just about every major financial decision facing our readers: from purchasing their first home, to selecting a new car, to saving for retirement. Hundreds of print publications depend on Bankrate as the trusted source for financial rates and information, including 8 of the top 10 newspapers in the country. And we're in broadcast: "The Bankrate.com Personal Finance Minute" plays over 200 times per day on XM Satellite Radio and you will see our data frequently referenced on "CNN Headline News," "ABC News" and many other major broadcast news outlets.

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.

GlobalSpec is the leading specialized vertical search, information services and e-publishing company serving the engineering, manufacturing and related scientific and technical market segments. The company provides its buy-side users with domain-expert search engines, a broad range of proprietary and aggregated Web-based content and over 60+ product and industry e-newsletters that help engineers and related professionals perform their key job tasks with the highest levels of accuracy and productivity. GlobalSpec provides its sell-side client base of companies seeking to reach the worldwide engineering audience with highly filtered sales leads, product promotion and brand advertising platforms and a wide range of e-media advertising and marketing services.GlobalSpec has BPA audited Web site traffic, and a global user base of more than 6,100,000 registered users; a user community that continues to grow by more than 80,000 new registrants each month. GlobalSpec is increasingly becoming "the place" where the engineering community gathers and conducts business.

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.

AOL (then called America Online) originally launched its UK service in 1996. AOL UK sold its broadband and dial-up Internet access business, complete with more than 2 million subscribers, to The Carphone Warehouse Group in 2007 for some $690 million. AOL UK knows that Americans aren't the only ones who think being online is better than AOK. The British subsidiary of American Web portal AOL is focused on providing content and managing online advertising. The site offers communication services such as free email and instant messaging, as well as news, shopping, and entertainment content.

Group NBT was founded in 1995. Easily is not only how but what Group NBT can offer to help a company get a good Web site. Group NBT, formerly NetBenefit, provides Web-hosting services and domain-name management in the US, the UK, and continental Europe. Group NBT operates through three companies: NetBenefit, which provides Web-hosting services to small and midsized businesses; NetNames (acquired 2000), offering domain-name management to large businesses; and Easily (purchased 2004), offering Web-hosting and domain-name services to businesses and consumers in the UK. Group NBT company acquired brand protection services firm Envisional in 2007.

Commtouch Software Ltd., together with its subsidiary, Commtouch Inc., develops and provides messaging and Web security solutions to original equipment manufacturer partners and enterprises. The company through its Recurrent Pattern Detection technology analyzes messages associated with mass email outbreaks and directs the blocking of such emails without the need to analyze individual messages. It offers real-time anti-spam, Zero-Hour virus outbreak protection, and Global View Mail Reputation services, as well as Globalview URL filtering solution that analyzes various feeds from worldwide sources pertaining to URLs. The company provides its solutions through third party distribution channels to network and security vendors offering content security gateways, unified threat management solutions, network routers and appliances, and anti-virus solutions, as well as to service providers, such as software-as-a-service vendors, Web hosting providers, and Internet service providers. It has operations in Israel, North America, Europe, and Asia. Commtouch Software Ltd. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Netanya, Israel.

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