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.

Started by Michael Kinsley in 1996, Slate Magazine is owned by The Washington Post. In 2008 the magazine became part of The Washington Post's newly created Slate Group. If you find mainstream journalism a dull, cold world, you might try this online publication. Slate Magazine operates a popular Web site offering news and commentary slightly skewed for hip and erudite readers. The Internet magazine covers the arts, business, politics, sports, travel, and technology and attracts an audience of about 5 million people. The Web site is supported through advertising and sponsorships.

Market Leader (NASDAQ: LEDR) provides real estate professionals with innovative marketing and technology solutions that enable them to grow and manage their business. Founded in 1999 by a second-generation real estate agent, Market Leader provides real estate agents, agent teams, and brokerage companies with subscription software and advertising products that enable them to generate a steady stream of prospects, as well as the tools and training they need to convert these prospects into clients.With a long history of innovation, Market Leader pioneered online lead generation for real estate professionals a decade ago and today is the leading marketing partner to the real estate industry. Market Leader company also provides consumers with free access to the information and tools they need throughout the home buying and selling process through its national consumer real estate sites. These websites enable Market Leader to provide its customers with access to millions of future home buyers and sellers while providing these consumers with free access to the information they seek throughout the home buying and selling process.

FullNet Communications, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides integrated communications, Internet connectivity, and data storage solutions to individuals, businesses, organizations, educational institutions, and governmental agencies. Its services include dial-up and direct high-speed connectivity to the Internet through the FullNet brand name; backbone services to private label Internet services providers and businesses; carrier-neutral telecommunications premise co-location; Web page hosting; equipment co-location; and traditional telephone services. The company also provides Internet access services to individual and small business subscribers located in Oklahoma on a retail and wholesale basis, private label retail and business direct dial-up connectivity to the Internet, and secure private networks through its backbone network. In addition, it provides leased line Internet connections; and sells Internet access to other Internet service providers. The company provides branded and private label Internet access services in 232 communities in Oklahoma. It markets its carrier neutral co-location solutions in its network operations center to other competitive local exchange carriers, Internet service providers, and Web-hosting companies. As of December 31, 2009, the company had approximately 1,200 subscribers. It was formerly known as CEN-COM of Oklahoma, Inc. and changed its name to FullNet Communications, Inc. in December 1995. FullNet Communications, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

You might say this company has the most populous domain on the Internet. Formerly hongkong.com Corporation, China.com is a leading provider of online content and games for Chinese audiences. It operates through two portal sites, China.com and Hongkong.com, both of which feature news and entertainment content, as well as e-mail, message boards, and other online services. Content is organized around channels devoted to topics such as Automobiles and Webgames; revenue primarily comes from online advertising sales. Enterprise software maker CDC Corporation owns about 80% of China.com.

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.

MediaTel Group, founded in 1981, developed and manages J-ET, an online trading network for radio advertising; J-ET handles approximately 7 million radio spots annually. Looking for media information? Do tell! MediaTel Group develops and markets Web-based information databases, including MediaTel.co.uk (media intelligence and research) and MediaTel INSIGHT (media analysis and forecasting). The company's services are used primarily by media planners, buyers, and others interested in researching such organizations as advertising agencies, media outlets, and investment banks. MediaTel's products and services also include Web-based campaign management systems, application development, and Web development.

IGN Entertainment may not stand for International Geek Network, but the company does court video gamers and science fiction fans. IGN Entertainment is a network of video game-related Web sites that offer free, subscription-based, and pay-per-download content. IGN Entertainment operates flagship site IGN.com, as well as additional game-related sites such as GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, and Direct2Drive. The company also owns male lifestyle site AskMen.com. Together, the IGN and AskMen sites are targeted at males aged 18-34, and attract more than 40 million unique monthly visitors worldwide. IGN Entertainment is a subsidiary of News Corp. and operates as part of its News Corp. Digital Media division.

ViewCast.com, Inc., doing business as ViewCast Corporation, develops industry hardware and software for the transformation and delivery of digital media over Internet protocol and mobile networks worldwide. ViewCast.com company’s products include Osprey Video line of capture cards for video acquisition/capture/streaming; Niagara Streaming Systems and Software for live video streaming; SimulStream and Niagara SCX software; and ViewCast Media Platform (VMp) Software, which develops software solutions to manage and automate media from production to scheduling, editing, processing, and content distribution. In addition, it provides professional services and support services, as well as installation, service, and maintenance services. ViewCast.com serves broadcasters and narrowcasters; federal, state, and local governments; small, medium, and large enterprises; mobile and wireline carriers; content delivery networks; and digital signage integrators. ViewCast.com, Inc. markets and sells its products and professional services through directly to end-users or through original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, resellers, distributors, and computer system integrators. ViewCast.com was formerly known as MultiMedia Access Corporation and changed its name to ViewCast.com, Inc. in April 1999. ViewCast.com, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

Kelley Blue Book Co., Inc. was established in 1926 by car buff Les Kelley. In 2010 online automotive advertising company AutoTrader.com agreed to buy Kelley Blue Book. Kelley Blue Book helps steer people away from something yellow -- a lemon. The company publishes information on vehicle pricing, including automobile trade-in values, as well as car ratings and reviews. While the company still publishes the traditional print Blue Book Official Guide, it has shifted its focus to the Web, offering all of its information online. In addition, Kelley Blue Book owns CDMdata, which provides hardware and software for the auto industry, and CDM Dealer Services, which offers inventory-management software.

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