Healthline Networks, Inc. was formed in 1999 as YourDoctor.com; it floundered during the dot com bust and eventually resurfaced as Healthline Networks in 2005 with funding from companies such as VantagePoint and Reed Elsevier. Healthline Networks wants to give you a direct connection to health information. The company's Web site uses proprietary semantic taxonomy to match everyday language with medical terms for a more complete look at interconnected topics from diseases and conditions to causes and treatments. In addition to operating its own ad-supported consumer Web site, Healthline powers search, advertising, and content services to a network of publishers, advertisers, health Web sites, and health plans.

Axia NetMedia wants to reach out to small-town citizens. Axia NetMedia Corporation designs, develops, and operates broadband networks for clients in both urban and rural areas. Its Real Broadband Services unit builds and operates high-speed computer networks for voice, video, and data. Axia NetMedia also offers Intelligence Online, a partnership with Galileo Educational Network that helps K-12 teachers use technology to enhance their teaching abilities. Having set up a broadband network in the Canadian province of Alberta, Axia NetMedia Corporation is developing a similar network for Labrador and Newfoundland, and is pursuing overseas opportunities. Axia NetMedia gets about 80% of its revenues in North America.

FastNet International is an Internet service provider (ISP) that offers DSL-based broadband Internet access to business subscribers in the UK. FastNet company, which does business as FastNet Business Internet, also offers related Internet and communications services such as Web site hosting, leased line and VLAN services, firewall network protection, virtual private networks (VPN), and e-mail services. FastNet International, which was founded in 1995, focuses on the small-business market.

Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone co-founded Twitter in 2006. Here's less than 140 characters for ya: trivial texts or not, every one's all a-twitter about tweeting. Twitter operates a free digital service site that blends social networking with the ability to post short messages (or micro-blogs) limited to 140 characters or less, commonly known by users as "Tweets." Twitter's service is designed for use on personal computers and via mobile devices, such as iPhone and BlackBerry smart phones. When accessed through the Internet, Tweets are published on a poster's personal Web page. Tweets can be restricted to select viewers, or viewed by anyone.

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.

Easynet simplifies the way businesses connect to the 'net. With its own network infrastructure, the company provides Internet connectivity and hosting services, including DSL access, routed ISDN lines, and facility-managed servers and network operations. It also offers VPN and wholesale broadband services, providing direct access in European countries and through partners worldwide. Easynet has six international data centers and more than 50 co-location facilities across Europe. Clients include Ford and Kohler Mira. In 2010 BSkyB sold Easynet to Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) for £100 million (around $150 million), in a going private transaction.

Since everyone, including Dick and Harry, have Internet firms, TOM Group has moved beyond the Web. The company began with portal Web sites targeting audiences in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; but after the dot-com bust it expanded to also include publishing ("Business Weekly" and "PC Home"), outdoor advertising (billboards, street-level signs, bus bodies), and television (through Chinese satellite channel China Entertainment Television, CETV). The company operates its Web holdings through subsidiary TOM Online. Previously active in sports marketing, TOM Group exited that business in 2007 in order to focus its resources on its four other business groups.

The Motley Fool, Inc. operates in England through its Fool UK site (www.fool.co.uk). To some, this Fool is the king of personal investing tips. The Motley Fool distributes investment information and advice through its Fool.com website. It also publishes about a dozen books (in partnership with Simon & Schuster), a syndicated newspaper column (appearing in more than 200 newspapers), and a handful of subscription-based investment newsletters. Its website offers Fool followers stock quotes, company research reports, personal finance information, news, online seminars, and message boards. In addition, the company's CAPS stock-rating service covers more than 5,000 stocks.

This company lives in a (young) man's world, and it would be nothing without games, gadgets, and girls. UGO Entertainment (pronounced "Yu-Ji-Oh") is an online publisher that targets 18- to 34-year-old men with content for video game fans. The site covers topics of interest for the "gamer lifestyle", such as technology, movies, and sports. Flagship sites UGO.com and 1UP.com and their network of related sites, which draw an audience of about 42 million monthly users, also offers streaming media entertainment and features on comics, TV shows, and music. Launched in 1997 as Unified Gamers Online, UGO Entertainment was acquired by publisher Hearst Corporation in 2007; it operates as part of Hearst Interactive Media.

The Gores Group, founded by Alec E. Gores in 1987, is a private equity firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses which can benefit from the firm’s operating experience and flexible capital. Since its inception, Gores has acquired 60 companies worldwide with combined revenues in excess of 15 billion dollars. Currently, Gores has 2.7 billion dollars in equity under active management. Gores’ offices in North America and Europe serve its active investment programs in these regions.

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