FriendFinder Networks (formerly Penthouse Media Group) owns and operates a variety of social networking websites, including FriendFinder.com, AdultFriendFinder.com, Amigos.com, and AsiaFriendFinder.com. All total, its sites are offered to some 245 million members in some 170 countries. The company also publishes the venerable adult magazine PENTHOUSE, and produces adult video content and images. It began focusing on the Web when it acquired Various (doing business as FriendFinder) in 2007. The following year the company changed its name from Penthouse Media Group to FriendFinder Networks. In 2010 it postponed plans to go public.

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.

Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone co-founded Twitter in 2006. Here's less than 140 characters for ya: trivial texts or not, every one's all a-twitter about tweeting. Twitter operates a free digital service site that blends social networking with the ability to post short messages (or micro-blogs) limited to 140 characters or less, commonly known by users as "Tweets." Twitter's service is designed for use on personal computers and via mobile devices, such as iPhone and BlackBerry smart phones. When accessed through the Internet, Tweets are published on a poster's personal Web page. Tweets can be restricted to select viewers, or viewed by anyone.

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.

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.

AllBusiness.com is the world's largest online resource for small businesses, providing essential tools and resources to start, grow, and manage your business. AllBusiness.com brings you real-world expertise and practical advice from some of the best minds in small business: Our unique corp of 50 world-class bloggers bring you in-depth subject-matter knowledge in key topics from sales and marketing to human resources and technology. Our large and growing library of how-to articles offers quick, insightful tips to improve your business. Special Reports and weekly coverage on important trends and business leaders keep you up-to-date on the latest, most important news and events. Videos and podcasts bring business to life, adding important voices to your network of experts. The AllBusiness AllStar Franchise List ranks the country’s best new business pportunities.

ServiceMagic helps you hire residential contractors with the click of a mouse -- presto! The company operates an online marketplace where homeowners can find information about qualified contractors and service professionals in their area and post projects and service requests for contractors to bid on. The company fields requests for services in more than 700 categories, including bathroom remodeling, locksmiths, and handymen. It has more than 70,000 pre-screened businesses, many of which are rated by customers, that pay fees for leads received as a result of the service. Co-Chairmen and former CEOs Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice started ServiceMagic in 1998. It was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2004.

Allrecipes.com started out in 1997 with the site Cookierecipe.com. Allrecipes.com is a subsidiary of The Reader's Digest Association. Got Cravings? Allrecipes.com can help you satisfy them with one of their 40,000 recipes. The community-driven Web site not only offers recipes, but also meal- and diet-planning, and newsletters. Its advice section offers articles, cooking tips, step-by-step photo tutorials, glossaries, and reference charts. Users can search for recipes by ingredient, keyword, type of dish, or brand name. In addition, Allrecipes.com publishes cookbooks such as Allrecipes Cookbook, Dinner Tonight, and Best Brands.

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.

Salary.com is a subsidiary of human resources firm Kenexa Corporation. Think you're grossly underpaid? Check out Salary.com to find out for sure. (Just refrain from doing so while you're at work.) The company's website provides the Salary Wizard, which offers employee compensation data and analysis geared toward individuals, managers, and businesses. Salary.com's flagship CompAnalyst product is a software application that manages compensation programs for employees, integrating the company's data, third-party survey data, and a customer's own pay data. The company's TalentManager software tracks performance goals, linking each employee's pay to performance. The firm has offices in the US, the UK, and China.

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