FriendFinder Networks (formerly Penthouse Media Group) owns and operates a variety of social networking websites, including FriendFinder.com, AdultFriendFinder.com, Amigos.com, and AsiaFriendFinder.com. All total, its sites are offered to some 245 million members in some 170 countries. The company also publishes the venerable adult magazine PENTHOUSE, and produces adult video content and images. It began focusing on the Web when it acquired Various (doing business as FriendFinder) in 2007. The following year the company changed its name from Penthouse Media Group to FriendFinder Networks. In 2010 it postponed plans to go public.

Diveo Broadband Networks is diving into the deregulated telecommunications markets of Latin America. Diveo company provides broadband Internet access and data services to corporate clients, using fixed wireless technology in some areas. Targeting large and midsized businesses in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, Diveo Broadband also provides enhanced services such as dedicated Web hosting, data colocation, and outsourced backup and database administration. Diveo company was founded in 1996 by Jonathan Gunter and Scott Puritz; investors include the Goldman Sachs Group and Norwest Venture Partners.

Everyday Health wants to be your virtual apple a day. The online health information provider operates a couple dozen websites that give free and subscription-based advice regarding fitness, nutrition, and treatment options to millions of monthly visitors. Its websites -- including EverydayHealth.com, JillianMichaels.com, and SouthBeachDiet.com -- allow consumers to search health topics (including symptoms) and join online communities. Everyday Health generates its revenues primarily from advertising fees, sponsorships, and subscriptions. Everyday Health, Inc. partners with health websites such as Drugstore.com to provide additional audiences for its advertisers. Everyday Health withdrew plans to go public in 2010.

Uniserve Communications provides Internet services to more than 250,000 customers in Canada. Uniserve Communications offers both dial-up and broadband connections and VoIP telephone service, as well as other related services such as Web hosting, domain registration, and server colocation. Customers include residential, home office, and small-to-medium size businesses, as well as other Internet service providers who purchase wholesale Internet services from Uniserve. Uniserve Communications company's Kinzin subsidiary offers online social networking services tailored for individuals and organizations including schools and sports teams. Uniserve started out as a computer retail store and dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) in 1988.

Global NAPs Networks provides Internet access, leased line transport, and network colocation services to companies nationwide. The company, which acts as a "middle man" between local and national carriers and the smaller phone companies and ISPs that connect to them via the Global NAPS network, offers service in 17 mostly eastern US states. Global NAPS is embroiled in ongoing legal disputes (some dating back to 2003) in several states with industry leaders AT&T and Verizon, as well as smaller regional players like FairPoint, over tens of millions in connection fees allegedly owed by the company. Global NAPS has disputed the charges, but the court battles have resulted in termination of its services in some areas.

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.

MediaTel Group, founded in 1981, developed and manages J-ET, an online trading network for radio advertising; J-ET handles approximately 7 million radio spots annually. Looking for media information? Do tell! MediaTel Group develops and markets Web-based information databases, including MediaTel.co.uk (media intelligence and research) and MediaTel INSIGHT (media analysis and forecasting). The company's services are used primarily by media planners, buyers, and others interested in researching such organizations as advertising agencies, media outlets, and investment banks. MediaTel's products and services also include Web-based campaign management systems, application development, and Web development.

Zix Corporation provides Internet-based applications in a Software-as-a-Service model to connect, protect, and deliver information, enabling the use of the Internet for applications requiring security in the healthcare, finance, insurance, and government sectors primarily in the United States. It operates in two segments, Email Encryption and e-Prescribing. The Email Encryption segment provides secure messaging services, which allow an enterprise to use policy-driven rules to determine which emails should be sent securely to comply with regulations or corporate policy. This segment also provides a solution that analyzes and encrypts email communications. Its services provide users the ability to deliver encrypted email to any email user at any email address by using the ZixCorp Best Method of Delivery protocol that automatically determines the means of delivery, based on the sender’s and recipient’s communications environment and preferences. The e-Prescribing segment offers PocketScript, an electronic prescribing service that allows physicians to use a handheld device to prescribe drugs and transmit the prescription electronically to pharmacies. This segment distributes its e-Prescribing solution directly to physicians and healthcare institutions. Zix Corporation was formerly known as ZixIt Corporation and changed its name to Zix Corporation in 2002. Zix Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

eDiets.com, Inc. engages in developing and marketing Internet-based diet and fitness programs to consumers and businesses primarily in North America. It offers various digital subscription-based diet plans according to an individual’s weight goals, food and cooking preferences, and related shopping lists and recipes; and subscription-based weight loss oriented meal delivery services, as well as interactive online information, communities, education, and telephone and online support services. The company also provides message boards on various topics of interest to subscribers, such as online meetings presented by licensed mental health counselors, registered dietitians, and certified fitness trainers. In addition, it offers private label online nutrition, fitness, and wellness programs to health insurance, pharmaceutical, and food industries; and operates a Web site, eDiets.com, which provides content in the areas of diet and nutrition, fitness, mind and body, health, and food and recipes, as well as plans, designs, and develops private-label nutrition Web sites. eDiets.com, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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.

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