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.

Daum Communications is the leading operator of Korean-language websites, including flagship news and information portal Daum.net, Hanmail.net (Web-based e-mail), and Daum Cafe (online community). Other brands include TV Pot (online video), Media Daum (news updates), and Congnamul (online maps). Its properties boast nearly 40 million registered users. It also offers search marketing services through its Namu Communications subsidiary. In 2010 it sold the US-based Web portal Lycos. (Daum had acquired Lycos, a pioneering force in the US Internet build out of the dot com era, from Telefenica in 2004.) You might say this company has added a little Seoul to the Internet.

HealthStream, Inc. provides Internet-based learning and research solutions for the training, information, and education needs of the healthcare industry in the United States. The company operates in two segments, HealthStream Learning and HealthStream Research. The HealthStream Learning segment, through its Internet-based platforms, the HealthStream Learning Center and HealthStream Express, provides training and education content with administrative and management tools. Its learning management system supports healthcare administrators in configuring training for various groups of employees, modifying training materials, and documenting completed training. This segment also provides training, implementation, and account management services for the adoption of its platform. In addition, it develops, manages, and distributes online, live, and print education and training activities for provider-based healthcare professionals and physicians, as well as provides online education and training services for sales representatives. The HealthStream Research segment provides the hospital-based customers with patient, physician, employee, and community surveys; data analyses of survey results; and other research-based measurement tools. The company sells its products and services primarily through its direct sales teams, consultants, and account relationship managers to healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and other entities in the healthcare industry. HealthStream, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

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.

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.

Altnet distributes digital content such as music, video, games, software, and other digital files to PC users through a subscription-based download service. Brilliant Digital also owns the Kazaa subscription-based digital music service, which it jointly operates through a partnership with Internet marketing firm Atrinsic. Kazaa allows users to download an unlimited amount of music files for one monthly fee. In 2010 Atrinsic announced plans to acquire Brilliant Digital's Kazaa assets. Not sure how brilliant digital entertainment gets to your PC? Brilliant Digital Entertainment operates a peer-to-peer network through its Altnet subsidiary (jointly owned with technology firm Joltid).

Weddings are often one of the most stressful, complex, and expensive endeavors people undertake. WeddingChannel.com exists to help marriage-bound women and men through the sometimes challenging but always exciting process of planning a wedding and starting a new home. Our staff is dedicated to creating the most comprehensive, useful and fun wedding-related site on the Internet. Our team members bring to the site not only their professional expertise, but their personal experiences as wedding guests, wedding party members, and as brides and grooms. In creating our site, we strive to embrace and celebrate the very best of the marriage tradition, while at the same time addressing the tastes, interests and issues of concern to today's couples. WeddingChannel.com launched on July 15, 1997.

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.

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.

Tucows Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides Internet services worldwide. The company offers reseller services, including domain services, email services, personal names service, SSL digital certificates, and platypus ISP billing solutions. It also provides domain names through YummyNames, a portfolio of various classes of domain names, such as gems, premium names, direct navigation names, and surname. In addition, it offers various retail services, such as domain registration, email, and other Internet services through Hover.com. Further, Tucows company provides content services through tucows.com, a directory site offering reviews of and links to approximately 40,000 shareware, freeware, and demo software packages; and butterscotch.com that provides television-like shows and video tutorials designed to visually teach users about technology and the Internet. Tucows Inc. provides domain name registration, security, and identity products through digital certificates; and email through its global Internet-based distribution network of Internet service providers, Web hosting companies, and other providers of Internet services. Tucows company was formerly known as Infonautics, Inc. and changed its name to Tucows Inc. in August 2001. Tucows was founded in 1992 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

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