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.

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.

DSL.net lets others fight it out for the big fish in the pond. DSL.net provides high-speed Internet access and data communications to small and midsized businesses primarily over a digital subscriber line (DSL) network, as well as via higher capacity T-1 lines. Other services include integrated voice and data systems using voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Web hosting, virtual private networks (VPNs), and remote access to corporate networks. In addition to selling directly to customers, DSL.net uses third-party resellers such as GRIC Communications. DSL.net is a subsidiary of MegaPath Networks.

Alternet Systems, Inc. provides telecom services; education/healthcare application software and content solutions; and mobile transaction services to customers primarily in Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean. It designs and sells proprietary software and hardware systems, known as ‘SchoolWeb’ and ‘CommunityWeb’, which provide high speed Internet access to schools and rural communities; and provides Voice over Internet Protocol services. The company offers a portfolio of solutions for government, business, schools, hospitals, and residents. It also focuses on its electronic transaction products, targeting various industries, such as telecom, financial, utilities, and transportation sectors. Alternet Systems was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

The website, which operates in the US and Canada, was founded in 1995. Classmates Online is a subsidiary of Classmates Media Corporation, which is controlled by Internet service provider United Online (UOL). Maybe you didn't care much for your classmates while you were in school, but now that you've long since graduated, aren't you curious? Classmates Online hopes so. Classmates Online operates Classmates.com, a website that reunites classmates, friends and family, teachers, co-workers, and military personnel. Its database contains some 60 million people from schools, places of work, and the military.

Buzz Media, Inc. was founded in 2005 as Buzznet by chief creative officer Anthony Batt. The buzz surrounding Buzz Media is that this company's Web sites are for diehard music fans. The company's Buzznet.com site differentiates itself from other online communities by having users create their own programming. Members vote (build "buzz") on the interactive content that appears on the front page. Buzz Media cultivates relationships with artists who act as guest bloggers and promote their own work. Launched as a music site, Buzz Media has expanded to include a collection of entertainment sites. It has received funding from Redpoint Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners, both early investors of MySpace.com.

eAccess Ltd. was founded in 1999 and merged with Japanese ISP ACCA Networks Co., Ltd. in 2009. eAccess Ltd. (not to be confused with Cubic Corp.'s eAccess LLC) provides wholesale ADSL services to other Internet service providers in Japan. The company leases NTT phone lines (ADSL relies on copper wire phone lines to transmit data) and partners with about 30 ISPs, including AOL, KDDI, and SOFTBANK, for broadband services. Its device business unit develops fixed mobile convergence (FMC) applications to allow cell phones to switch between mobile and fixed-line telecommunications. Subsidiary EMOBILE, which launched service in 2008, provides broadband cell phone service.

Pathfire is a subsidiary of digital media services firm DG FastChannel. Pathfire delivers the lowdown on the hottest news. The company provides digital content distribution and management services to broadcast media outlets. Pathfire delivers primarily news and syndicated programming, including shows such as Jeopardy, Friends, and Wheel of Fortune. Major networks such as ABC and CNN rely on the Pathfire network to distribute thousands of news stories to hundreds of television affiliates. Pathfire company also provides digital media distribution and management services for advertising delivery. All total, it distributes content to more than 1,300 television stations throughout the US.

HSW International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSWI) develops and operates Internet businesses focused on providing consumers in the world's emerging digital economies with locally relevant, high quality information. HSW International, Inc., which is headquartered in Atlanta and incorporated in Delaware, currently operates businesses in China, Brazil and the United States. HSW International excels at deploying high-quality content tailored to the information needs of consumers in the regions where it operates. It seeks to achieve a consumer following in these fast-growing economies to make its sites compelling platforms for marketers in nearly every business category. Among the Company's advantages are experienced local management teams and strategic business relationships.HSW International's growth strategy is to pursue opportunities in economies where Internet usage and consumer demand are expanding at rates in excess of those in developed markets. HSW International's initial focus is online publishing in China and Brazil. HSW International is the exclusive licensee for the translation and publication in China and Brazil of certain content from HowStuffWorks, Inc., a leading digital publisher whose award-winning website, HowStuffWorks.com, provides in-depth, easy-to-understand explanations, expert product reviews, comprehensive buying guides and informational videos on health, science, travel, automotive, electronics and consumer products, as well as other topics.

Atlantic.Net provides dial-up and broadband Internet access and other Internet and telecommunications services in the southeastern US. Atlantic.Net company's services for residential customers include Internet access and Web hosting. It also offers such business services as long distance and local calling, Web design, data colocation, computer telephony, and network security. Atlantic.Net's partners include broadband telecommunications services and equipment providers, Cisco Systems, New Edge Network, Progress Telecom. Owner and CEO Marty Puranik co-founded Atlantic.Net in 1994.

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