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).

GALA Incorporated is one of Japan's largest operators of online communities and services (bulletin boards, chat rooms) through a series of Web sites with topics ranging from travel to automobiles. GALA also provides online games, a segment that has grown to make up the bulk of the company's business. GALA Incorporated offers data mining and information analysis services for corporate clients through its e-mining and BUZZ Report subsidiaries. In addition to Japan, Toho operates in other Asian countries, as well as in Europe and the US. In Japan, surfing the Web is a GALA affair.

EasyStreet Online Services, Inc. was founded in 1995 by president Rich Bader. EasyStreet Online Services wants to make it easier than ever to manage your online presence. The company offers Internet access and other data services to small and midsized businesses in Oregon. It provides dial-up, dedicated, and DSL connections, as well as Web hosting, data center services, colocation, and network monitoring. EasyStreet pairs its core offerings with a variety of related services such as anti-spam, anti-virus, and digital backup offerings.

We at Bankrate, Inc. have over three decades' experience in financial publishing. Bankrate was born in 1976 as "Bank Rate Monitor," a print publisher for the banking industry. The "Bank Rate Monitor" newsletter we originally distributed contained much of the same rate research and information we're known for and respected for today. After two decades of conducting quality, trusted rate research, we took our product to the Web, expanded our offerings and made our online debut in 1996. Since then, we have increased our site traffic to over 7 million monthly unique visitors, expanded our distribution outlets, added new content channels and continually strive to provide a better, more comprehensive consumer experience. Today, Bankrate, Inc. is the Web's leading aggregator of financial rate information, offering an unparalleled depth and breadth of rate data and financial content. Bankrate continually surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide clear, objective, and unbiased rates to consumers. Our flagship Web site, Bankrate.com, provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.In addition to rate data, we publish original and objective personal finance stories to help consumers make informed financial decisions. Our staff of award winning reporters and editors provides expert advice on just about every major financial decision facing our readers: from purchasing their first home, to selecting a new car, to saving for retirement. Hundreds of print publications depend on Bankrate as the trusted source for financial rates and information, including 8 of the top 10 newspapers in the country. And we're in broadcast: "The Bankrate.com Personal Finance Minute" plays over 200 times per day on XM Satellite Radio and you will see our data frequently referenced on "CNN Headline News," "ABC News" and many other major broadcast news outlets.

Mark Oldman and brothers Samer and H. S. Hamadeh founded the company in 1997. Today it is owned by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Looking for career gold? You might find it in the Vault.com. The firm provides company and industry information to help job-seekers determine what it's really like inside Merrill Lynch, CNN, and other employers. Vault.com offers information on interviewing, pay, perks, and corporate culture at various companies. It also publishes 120 digital and print career guidebooks, such as Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms and Vault Guide to Biotech). Vault.com additionally offers employee message boards, a job listings board, and career services such as resume writing.

New Mexico Software was founded in 1995. Originally, the company ran out of a small office on Moon Street. New Mexico Software went public in 1999, amidst the dot com boom of the late nineties. In the same year we moved into a corporate office building in central Albuquerque. And we’re still here 8 years later. Things were moving fast at the end of the nineties, and optimism was high. It seemed like a new technological world was emerging, a world that would write its own business and economic laws. We, like many others, attempted to ride the economic wave that characterized the nineties. Unfortunately, we caught the wave as it crashed. And crash it did, taking many companies with it. However, New Mexico Software persevered through the dot com crash and managed to survive. New Mexico Software survived because we identified a serious problem area in Information Technology: how companies deal with digital information. We based our strategy on the belief that companies could save money and time by more efficiently managing their digital assets (a digital asset is any digital file deemed valuable by a person or organization). We believed that Digital Asset Management was a serious enough issue that our business could achieve success and longevity by solving this problem. We were proved right as New Mexico Software was able to ride out the storm while many Internet based companies crumbled and sank in 2000. Our business survived on the strength of Assetware- our first web-based Enterprise solution. It was our first stab at creating a web-based product that stored and indexed digital files at the Enterprise level. Assetware carried New Mexico Software through the difficult early years, but eventually it was time for the product to retire and be replaced by the next generation.

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.

NetDragon Websoft Inc. was established in 1999. Gamers looking to conjure magic, slay dragons, fight wars, and rule fantasy worlds online might turn to NetDragon Websoft. The company is a leading Chinese Internet game developer and operator with a portfolio of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or MMORPGs, in which a large number of players interact within a virtual game world. NetDragon's titles include Era of Faith, Eudemons Online, Heroes of Might and Magic Online, and Monster & Me. It also has several interactive, online games under development. To attract more players, its games are free to play online; revenues are generated from selling virtual items, such as performance-enhancing game upgrades.

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.

MyWire was founded in 2002 by chairman and CEO Louis Borders (who also founded Borders Books and WebVan). MyWire (formerly KeepMedia) lets you browse hundreds of magazine articles at the click of a mouse. The company's basic service provides free registration-based browsing and searching capabilities with links to Web content including articles, video, and images. Users can also build custom channels to track their interests and then share the work with friends. The company's online subscription-based service, MyWire Reference Collection, includes thousands of encyclopedic entries from publishers such as Oxford University Press.

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