The Onion was first published in 1988 by then University of Wisconsin students Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson. Tears from this Onion are most likely induced from fits of laughter. Onion, Inc. publishes the popular satirical weekly newspaper "The Onion", which is available in both online and print editions. Sister Web site The Onion A.V. Club features interviews, reviews, and columns focusing on music and movies. Other operations include book publishing (including the best-seller Our Dumb Century), radio programming (Onion Radio News), online video clips (The Onion News Network), and consumer items such as calendars, mugs, and T-shirts. Onion company earns revenue through advertising and subscription fees.

Eclipse Internet (Eclipse Networking's trading name) sells broadband Internet access via DSL to about 40,000 business and residential customers in the UK. Eclipse Networking company also offers managed network services to corporate clients that include Hamleys and the City of York Council. Founded in 1995, Eclipse started out focusing on customers in the southwest of England, but Eclipse Networking company has since expanded its service areas. Eclipse Networking Limited company was acquired by Kingston Communications in 2004 for £12.5 million.

Looksmart, Ltd. operates as an online search advertising network solution company that provides solutions for search advertisers and publishers. LookSmart offers advertisers targeted, pay-per-click search advertising and contextual search advertising via its Advertiser Networks; and an Ad Center platform for customizable private-label advertiser solutions for online publishers. Looksmart’s customers include intermediaries, who purchase clicks to sell into the affiliate networks of search engine providers; direct advertisers and their agencies; and self-service advertisers. LookSmart, Ltd. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Index Holdings keeps its finger on the pulse of cutting-edge media technology in Japan. The holding company owns a number of businesses that develop technology for cell phone content. It also produces and distributes multimedia products, such as Web sites, games, video, and advertising. Other subsidiaries (including Atlus U.S.A.) publish video games, animation, films, books, and magazines, and Index Communications operates mail order and brick-and-mortar stores to sell its tangible products. Index Holdings also offers its mobile content in China (through China Mobile) and in France (through Index Multimedia, which is traded on the Euronext Paris). The company even owns a French soccer team, Grenoble Foot 38.

Pipex Internet was a subsidiary of Tiscali, which sold the ISP business to The Carphone Warehouse Group in 2009. Pipex Internet Limited operates as part of Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk Group. If you live in the UK, Pipex Internet (doing business as Bulldog Broadband) has a dogged desire to be your broadband provider. Pipex Internet Limited provides DSL-based broadband Internet access to residential and business customers in the UK. Pipex Internet Limited also offers basic dial-up, computer telephony, and digital television services.

Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Flixster, publisher of a social networking Web site that lets users share movie reviews, ratings, and related content with one another. Hollywood movies might stink, but reading critical opinions about them can be fresh. Rotten Tomatoes is an online publisher of movie reviews; the company's Web site provides a capsule summary of the writings of various professional film critics. Its content is governed by its Tomatometer rating system, which denotes the percentage of critics who recommend a certain movie -- or the number of good reviews divided by the total number of reviews. Critics come from accredited publications in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia.

Innodata Isogen, Inc. provides knowledge process outsourcing (KPO), and publishing and related information technology (IT) services in the United States and worldwide. The company’s services help organizations create, manage, and maintain their products. Its publishing services include activities, such as digitization, conversion, composition, data modeling, and XML encoding. These services also include conversion of books to eBook- ready formats. Innodata Isogen’s KPO services target processes that demand information analysis and interpretation, as well as judgment and decision-making. The company’s KPO services for the information and media companies include content creation and enhancement, analytics, taxonomy and controlled vocabulary development, hyperlinking, indexing, abstracting, technical writing and editing, copy-editing, and general editorial services, including the provision of synopses and annotations. In addition, it offers technical services comprising systems integration, custom application development, applications maintenance, tool evaluation, and training; and consultancy services consisting of content supply chain optimization, technology architecture and strategy, global sourcing, product and market strategy and development, and the deployment of content technologies. The company serves information technology, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, government, law, and intelligence industries. It markets and sells its services through professional staff, senior management, and direct sales personnel. Innodata Isogen, Inc was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Hackensack, New Jersey. Innodata Isogen, Inc. has additional offices in Dallas, Texas; Paris, France; and Beijing, China.

DIYonline.com, Inc. provides user generated content in addition to it's how-to guides, helpful articles, and design tools. Its Designer Series Software provides a personalized Specification Kit that includes an installation guide, a suggested materials list, fulfillment services, contractor locators and referrals, and financing sources. From front door to back porch Do-It-Yourself-ers can find a little help at DIYOnline.com. The company's Web site offers home improvement project ideas, design tools, and other information and services that aid in home improvement.

Formed in 1995, the company traces its roots to director of meteorology Jeff Masters' PhD work at the University of Michigan and takes its name from a Bob Dylan song. Want to know the weather for your upcoming ski vacation or how volcanoes effect climate change? The Weather Underground's wunderground.com Web site won't rain on your parade. The company draws climate data from more than 13,000 personal weather stations worldwide. Features of the site include zip code searches, radar and satellite images, historical weather data, and Webcams showing more than 2,000 locations globally. The Weather Underground also provides updates to newspapers and TV stations and offers weather packages for other Web sites.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides services for accelerating and improving the delivery of content and applications over the Internet in the United States and internationally. The company offers Application Performance solutions that improve the performance of dynamic applications used by enterprises to connect with their employees, suppliers, and customers. Its Application Performance solutions include Web Application Accelerator, which enables enterprises to run various applications; and IP Application Accelerator that is designed to address core Internet weaknesses to optimize the performance and real-time sensitivity associated with IP-enabled applications delivered over Internet-related protocols. It also provides Digital Asset solutions that enable enterprises to execute their large file management and distribution strategies. The company’s Digital Asset solutions include Akamai Media Delivery solution that delivers media content on behalf of its customers; and Electronic Software Delivery solution, which handles the distribution of software for its customers. In addition, it offers Dynamic Site solutions, which accelerate business-to-consumer Websites that integrate collaborative content and applications into their online architecture; Advertising Decision solutions that enable advertisers, agencies, publishers, and networks to buy and sell advertising; and custom solutions to commercial and government customers. Additionally, the company offers other solutions, such as EdgeControl tools that provide reporting and management capabilities; network data feeds and Website analytics, which provide customers with real time data about the performance of their content and applications over the Internet; and performance management services that help customers better understand their Web operations with tools that measure various aspects of an application’s performance. Akamai Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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