LinkedIn Corporation is backed by venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as individuals such as Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Netscape and chairman of Opsware), Joe Kraus (co-founder of Excite), and Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal). Feeling a bit disconnected? LinkedIn wants to help. LinkedIn Corporation is an online business network designed to help professionals find jobs, people, and service providers. It is also offers career management tools. LinkedIn Corporation has grown to reach approximately 80 million users in some 200 countries since its founding in 2003. LinkedIn is free to join; it also offers a paid premium membership with additional tools, and sells advertising.

The SCO Group, Inc. engages in the sale and service of UNIX software products to small-to-medium sized businesses, and franchisees or branch offices of businesses worldwide. The company offers UNIX software technology for distributed, embedded, and network-based systems. Its principal products include OpenServer used by small-to-medium businesses to run multi user, transaction, and business applications; communications gateways; and mail and messaging servers in both host and client/server environments; and UnixWare, an advanced deployment platform for industry standard Intel processor systems used by medium-size businesses and enterprise customers. The SCO Group also offers product maintenance and additional UNIX-related products, such as SCOoffice Server, a UNIX-based e-mail and collaboration system, and other UNIX system add-ons; and provides technical support services to its partners, including resellers, hardware and software vendors, and solution providers. In addition, it offers Mobility Server product that provides a connection point between handheld devices and corporate infrastructure applications and servers; HipCheck Service, which enables pro-active mobile administration for UNIX and Windows servers; Shout product that enables users to communicate multimedia messaging to groups of various sizes via a mobile smart phone or rich media Web landing page; and a Shout Postcard product, which allows users to send virtual postcards from their smart phone; and Me Inc. Mobile, a collaborative time and task management tool allowing users to set appointments, connect with others, create tasks, track goals, and blog with associates using their mobile phones. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Lindon, Utah. On September 14, 2007, The SCO Group, Inc., along with its affiliate, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

OnRamp Access, Inc. company, which serves clients primarily in central Texas, got its start in 1994 as a mall kiosk staffed by husband-and-wife co-founders Chad and Elisa Kissinger. OnRamp Access encourages its customers to drop the hammer as they get their business technology up to speed. OnRamp Access company offers a number of broadband services, including dial-up, ISDN, and T-1 Internet access, as well as data colocation and server management at its Austin data center. OnRamp also has a Web development department that has provided design and programming for more than 700 Web sites for the likes of James Avery Craftsman and the Texas Railroad Commission. Other data services include disaster recovery and data backup.

CariNet shoulders some of the load for businesses with heavy data requirements. A "cloud" (or Internet-based) computing provider, the company provides managed data and hosting services for business and Internet service providers from its five data centers. CariNet also provides e-commerce services, as well as colocation and broadband Internet access to customers in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Southern California businesses through its Complex Drive division. Additional services and products include backup, firewalls and security, IP addresses, and switches.

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.

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.

iMergent, Inc., an e-services company, together with its subsidiaries, provides e-commerce technology, training, and various Web-based technologies and resources to entrepreneurs, and small, medium, and large enterprises. Imergent, Inc. offers search engine optimization and search engine management services. Its solutions enable its customers to market and sell their business products or ideas via the Internet. The company offers the StoresOnline software and Website development platform that enables customers to develop Internet Websites for commerce. It also provides site development, Web hosting, and search engine optimization services. iMergent sells and markets its products and services in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Imergent, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

Unlike the Dada anti-culture movement of the early 20th century, DADA embraces culture, particularly Internet culture. A media and technology company, DADA operates through two divisions: Dada.net, which runs music-sharing and downloading, blogging, and social networking sites; and Dada.pro, which provides domain registration, Web-hosting, online advertising platforms, and other services. Some of the company's assets include Italian blogging site Blogo, UK Web-hosting site Namesco, and Simply, an advertising firm that caters to small and midsized businesses. Most of DADA's operations are in Italy, but it does operate in Europe and the US as well. It was founded in 1995 by Paolo Barberis and other executives.

Tabor Communication was founded by CEO Tom Tabor in 2002. Tabor Communication provides media, research, market intelligence, and communication services for the computing industry. The company specifically focuses on the highly technical High Productivity Computing (HPC) market segment. Its flagship publication is HPCwire (www.HPCwire.com), an online news analysis and information source for the HPC community, including technical professionals, corporate management, and journalists. Tabor Publications also produces custom-published books, executive summits, industry showcases, and other special events. It sold its research and consulting business (Tabor Research) in 2009.

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