OnlineAuction.com formed in 1998 by Chris Fain, a former auctioneer and online auction seller. Looking to play David to eBay's Goliath, OnlineAuction.com offers an online auction marketplace for buyers and sellers of everything from collectibles to real estate. OnlineAuction, aka OLA, charges sellers a flat monthly or yearly fee to list items for sale; it hosts the usual online auction fare as well as cars, RVs, and residential and commercial properties. OLA's site also offers a chat room where buyers and sellers can share ideas, and what it says is a simplified fee structure, invoicing, and bidding system.

ServiceMagic helps you hire residential contractors with the click of a mouse -- presto! The company operates an online marketplace where homeowners can find information about qualified contractors and service professionals in their area and post projects and service requests for contractors to bid on. The company fields requests for services in more than 700 categories, including bathroom remodeling, locksmiths, and handymen. It has more than 70,000 pre-screened businesses, many of which are rated by customers, that pay fees for leads received as a result of the service. Co-Chairmen and former CEOs Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice started ServiceMagic in 1998. It was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2004.

Knobias, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides financial information and data services. The company’s products include Knobias+Plus, a desktop platform that offers users with financial data, news, and a suite of due diligence tools. Knobias+Plus contains RAIDAR, a real-time news delivery product sourced from 80+ feeds, screeners, fundamental, calendars, technical’s, sort, search and filter information based on portfolio, sector, industry, and set up email alerts among other tools and characteristics. It also provides Morning+Plus, a daily email service designed to give an institution’s clients a white-labeled information product. In addition, it offers PipeTRAC that provides transaction details, participant profiles, rankings, analysis tools, and placements in public companies specific alerts. Knobias company’s products also include SmallCap Sleepers, which delivers timely independent small cap information to professional investors; Issuer Services that offers Web site, data and conference call hosting, press release distribution, and market awareness programs to public companies and their investor relations professionals; and Data for integration into client’s institutional platforms and Web sites. It develops and compiles financial databases, information systems, tools, and products, which track approximately 16,000 U.S. securities. Knobias, Inc. markets its products to individual investors, day-traders, financial oriented Websites, public issuers, brokers, professional traders, and institutional investors. Knobias, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Pleasantville, New York.

Salon Media Group, Inc. operates as an Internet media company. Salon Media Group operates salon.com, a content Web site with various subject-specific sections, which includes two online communities and a social network. It updates an array of news, features, interviews, columnists, and blogs, including news and politics, opinion, technology and business, arts and entertainment, movie page, life, books, comics, and environment and science. The company’s Web site also offers investigative stories and personal essays along with commentary and staff-written Weblogs about politics, technology, culture, and entertainment. Its online communities include The Well and Table Talk, which allow users to discuss Salon content and interact with other users. Salon Media Group, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pronto was developed by IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC) and launched in 2006. Pronto is a comparison shopping web site that uses tools from the social networking world to connect shoppers. Pronto crawls the Internet for more than 70 million products such as apparel, books, electronics, sports equipment, and home decor from about 65,000 retailers and e-tailers. The site allows members to build personal profiles, rate products, make recommendations, and add favorites to shopping lists.

ClickHome operates a Web site that provides real estate services in Santa Clara, California and the surrounding Bay Area. ClickHome serves buyer and sellers of residential, commercial, and investment property. ClickHome's offerings include an online mortgage calculator, searches for available properties, and refinancing and home-selling services.

The internet has changed the way organizations communicate. Today, fewer and fewer people rely on a single source for all their news. The internet continues to complement and even replace traditional outlets such as broadcast television and newspapers. Blogs have allowed a much broader group of "citizen journalists" to play a significant role in the news life cycle. The emergence and viral nature of social media means that an organization's reputation can be made or destroyed in an afternoon.Founded in 1991, Vocus has changed the way communications professionals do their jobs. Vocus provides the ability to leverage the ubiquity of the internet to interact with the media, publish their news online where it can be found by millions, monitor news and social media conversations from virtually any source and track their results to compare them with key competitors.

Atrinsic, Inc. operates as a direct to consumer Internet marketing company. The company sells entertainment and lifestyle subscription products direct to consumers through the Internet. It offers Kazaa, a subscription-based digital music service that enables users to download music files and ringtones; GatorArcade, a casual game subscription service that provides access to digital games, arcade games, strategy games, puzzles, and mobile entertainment; and subscription-based lifestyle services and clubs, which offer consumers an access to shopping and entertainment coupons and other services that could be redeemed online. The company also develops and manages search engine marketing campaigns for third party advertising clients, as well as offers online marketing services, including a display media platform, online and business intelligence, and brand protection. In addition, it enables advertisers to use its affiliate network to create partnerships with publishers to drive Website traffic, customer acquisitions, and online sales. Further, the company provides lead generation services. It serves corporate clients, advertisers, and end user consumers. Atrinsic was formerly known as New Motion, Inc. and changed its name to Atrinsic, Inc. in June 2009. Atrinsic, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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.

BroadVision, Inc. develops, markets, and supports enterprise portal applications. Its applications enable companies to unify their e-business infrastructure and conduct both interactions and transactions with employees, partners, and customers through a personalized self-service model. The company’s solutions include business agility suite, which enables interaction with visitors through personalized views of information, resources, and business processes stored in diverse internal and external legacy information systems. It also offers commerce agility suite that allows businesses to manage business-to-business and business-to-consumer channels through a single solution; OnDemand solution that provides visibility and agility for various members of organizations to collaborate; Clearvale, an integrated Enterprise 2.0 platform; and QuickSilver, which provides features for creation and publishing of documents supporting multiple output formats. In addition, BroadVision offers application services, including commerce services to display product offerings and transact business on Web sites; portal services to provide end users with a personalized and intuitive navigation as they interact with business; process services that extend Web capabilities, and transforms processes and collaborations into Web-based self-service applications; and content services to manage Web content. Further, the company provides staging services to simplify the process of moving content from multiple systems to the production environment; eMerchandising to create, manage, and implement sales discounts while maintaining oversight over profitability; and search solution that provides text and field searching of online content. BroadVision serves financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications industries in the Americas, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. BroadVision, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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