MapQuest reaches more than 40 million visitors per month. MapQuest is a subsidiary of AOL, which spun off from media giant Time Warner in 2009. Where are we? MapQuest's products and services are geared for people who are going places. MapQuest, Inc. supplies maps and proximity information to consumers through its Web site, and also offers services to businesses and to travel guides and map publishers. It also publishes road atlases, books, and laminated street maps. MapQuest's content can be downloaded to wireless devices made by such providers as Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T.

Allrecipes.com started out in 1997 with the site Cookierecipe.com. Allrecipes.com is a subsidiary of The Reader's Digest Association. Got Cravings? Allrecipes.com can help you satisfy them with one of their 40,000 recipes. The community-driven Web site not only offers recipes, but also meal- and diet-planning, and newsletters. Its advice section offers articles, cooking tips, step-by-step photo tutorials, glossaries, and reference charts. Users can search for recipes by ingredient, keyword, type of dish, or brand name. In addition, Allrecipes.com publishes cookbooks such as Allrecipes Cookbook, Dinner Tonight, and Best Brands.

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.

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.

SINA is an online media company and MVAS provider in the People’s Republic of China and the global Chinese communities. With a branded network of localized websites targeting Greater China and overseas Chinese, SINA Corporation provides services through five major business lines including SINA.com (online news and content), SINA Mobile (MVAS), SINA Community (Web 2.0-based services and games), SINA.net (search and enterprise services) and SINA E-Commerce (online shopping). Together these business lines provide an array of services including region-focused online portals, MVAS, search and directory, interest-based and community-building channels, free and premium email, blog services, audio and video streaming, game community services, classified listings, fee-based services, e-commerce and enterprise e-solutions. SINA Corporation generates the majority of its revenues from online advertising and MVAS offerings and, to a lesser extent, from search and fee-based services.

SciQuest, Inc. provides software-as-a-service procurement automation and supplier enablement solutions. It offers Sourcing Manager, an on-demand bid management solution; Eprocurement online, a suite of procurement automation solutions; Materials Management solution that manages on-site stockroom inventory; and Settlement Manager, an invoicing and settlement solution that automates and streamlines receiving, matching, and invoicing processes. SciQuest, Inc. also provides Spend Analytics, a spend management solution; supplier network and managed services; implementation services for procurement automation; and a Procurement Business Assessment service, which enables life sciences companies to measure, envision, and plan the roadmap for procurement operations. In addition, it offers HigherMarkets Express for Banner, a suite of eprocurement solution that enables schools to realize the benefits of a strategic approach to procurement while increasing the value of existing systems. SciQuest serves education, healthcare, life sciences, and government organizations. SciQuest, Inc. was formerly known as SciQuest.com, Inc. and changed its name to SciQuest, Inc. in 2001. SciQuest, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Cary, North Carolina.

Zen Internet, founded in 1995 and one of the earliest commercial providers of Internet access in the UK, still gets high marks from customers. Zen Internet continues to provide dial-up, network, and broadband services to business and residential users. Zen Internet Ltd. company has more than 25,000 customers, including Balfour Beatty, LeapFrog Enterprises, and Umbro. Other offerings include Web-site hosting, domain name registration, search engine services, and Web design. Managing director Richard Tang owns the company.

Brandow Company, Inc. was established in 1990 by president and owner Jon Brandow. The Brandow Company publishes BizMiner, an online database of business information in the form of industry analysis and marketing research profiles. BizMiner covers more than 17 million US business facilities in some 300 national and local market sectors. Users can find industry reports through searching by industry and by market area. BizMiner provides financial information through its BizStats subsidiary, which was acquired in 2007.

GlobalMedia Design is an independent digital media firm that focuses on software development, online content production, Web design, and online marketing, Internet publishing and other content production. Doing business as GMD Studios, the company's operations also include indieWIRE (independent film news) and movie production (Nothing So Strange). CEO Brian Clark co-founded GMD Studios in 1995.

WebMD Health Corp. provides health information services to consumers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, employers, and health plans through its public and private online portals, mobile applications, and health-focused publications in the United States. The company’s public portals enable consumers to obtain health and wellness information, including information on specific diseases or conditions; check symptoms; locate physicians; store individual healthcare information; receive periodic e-newsletters on topics of individual interest; and participate in online communities with peers and experts. Its public portals for physicians and healthcare professionals provide access to clinical reference sources; stay abreast of the latest clinical information; learn about new treatment options; earn continuing medical education (CME) credit; and communicate with peers. WebMD Health Corp. also provides mobile health information applications for use by consumers and physicians. In addition, WebMD Health Corp. provides e-detailing promotion and physician recruitment services, and information services, as well as print services, including the publication of WebMD the Magazine, a consumer magazine distributed to physician office waiting rooms. The public portals’ sponsors and advertisers include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and consumer products companies. The company’s private portals enable employers and health plans to provide their employees and members with access to personalized health and benefit information and decision support technology that helps them to make more informed benefit, treatment, and provider decisions. Further, it offers telephonic health coaching services on a per participant basis across an employee or plan population for clients of its private portals. WebMD Health Corp. is headquartered in New York, New York.

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