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.

PlusNet is looking for people who want to add more data to their lives. Founded in 1996, PlusNet company provides Internet access services to more than 200,000 residential and business customers in the UK, with about half of those signed up for broadband service. Other services include voice-over IP telephony and wireless broadband. Sales are made through various brands including PlusNet, Force9, and Free-Online. PlusNet plc is a subsidiary of BT Group.

Everybody needs a good buddy on the road. Road New Media, through its RoadCompanion.ca and Compagnonderoute.ca Internet sites, offers consumers vehicle pricing information, VIN investigation reports, used-car analyses, and more. Road New Media partners with non-profit consumer organizations, companies, and other information providers to give its users one-stop shopping when they are researching vehicles and insurance. Road New Media revenue comes from user fees; Road New Media Corporation also sells advertising on its sites.

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.

Online Resources Corporation provides outsource and Web-and phone-based financial technology services to financial institution, biller, card issuer, and creditor clients in the United States. The company offers an integrated suite of Web-based account presentation, payment, relationship management, and professional services. Its account presentation services enable in viewing transaction histories and account balances; reviewing and retrieving current and past statements; transferring funds and balances; initiating or scheduling either one-time or recurring payments; accessing and maintaining account information; and providing cash management services. The company’s payments services comprise Web-based bill payment services, remittance services, a suit of payment options, and real-time account debit services. Its relationship management services consist of customer care services; and professional services comprise customized software applications, such as account opening and lending for financial institution clients, which enable them to acquire consumers via the Web channel; implementation services that convert existing data and integrate with the client’s legacy host system or third party core processor; ongoing maintenance of client specific applications or interfaces; and customization of applications, training of client personnel, and information reporting and analysis. The company‘s third party services include bill payment and account retrieval, check ordering, inter-institution funds transfer and account aggregation, check imaging, and electronic statement services. Online Resources Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Alternet Systems, Inc. provides telecom services; education/healthcare application software and content solutions; and mobile transaction services to customers primarily in Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean. It designs and sells proprietary software and hardware systems, known as ‘SchoolWeb’ and ‘CommunityWeb’, which provide high speed Internet access to schools and rural communities; and provides Voice over Internet Protocol services. The company offers a portfolio of solutions for government, business, schools, hospitals, and residents. It also focuses on its electronic transaction products, targeting various industries, such as telecom, financial, utilities, and transportation sectors. Alternet Systems was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

HSW International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSWI) develops and operates Internet businesses focused on providing consumers in the world's emerging digital economies with locally relevant, high quality information. HSW International, Inc., which is headquartered in Atlanta and incorporated in Delaware, currently operates businesses in China, Brazil and the United States. HSW International excels at deploying high-quality content tailored to the information needs of consumers in the regions where it operates. It seeks to achieve a consumer following in these fast-growing economies to make its sites compelling platforms for marketers in nearly every business category. Among the Company's advantages are experienced local management teams and strategic business relationships.HSW International's growth strategy is to pursue opportunities in economies where Internet usage and consumer demand are expanding at rates in excess of those in developed markets. HSW International's initial focus is online publishing in China and Brazil. HSW International is the exclusive licensee for the translation and publication in China and Brazil of certain content from HowStuffWorks, Inc., a leading digital publisher whose award-winning website, HowStuffWorks.com, provides in-depth, easy-to-understand explanations, expert product reviews, comprehensive buying guides and informational videos on health, science, travel, automotive, electronics and consumer products, as well as other topics.

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.

United Internet is a federation of Web-related products and services that focuses on the communications needs of consumers and small to midsized businesses. The company serves more than 9 million paid Internet customers, and an additional 26 million ad-supported free users, through the GMX, 1&1, and WEB.DE brands, which comprise its access business. Its applications division provides a variety of hosted and managed services including Web hosting (1&1 and Sclund+Partner), online marketing (Sedo and Affilinet), outsourcing for corporate customer relationship management (CRM) functions, and other domain and shared and dedicated hosting services (InterNetX). Founder and CEO Ralph Dommermuth owns 38% of United.

SouFun Holdings Ltd. provides marketing, listing, technology, and information consultancy services to real estate and home furnishing industries in the People’s Republic of China. It offers marketing services primarily through advertisements on its soufun.com Website to real estate developers in the marketing phase of new property developments, as well as to real estate agencies, and home furnishing and improvement vendors who wish to promote their products and services, including home furnishing and improvement products, furniture, electronics, and other products. The company also intends to integrate paid priority placement of customer links in keyword search results into its current search and search ranking services; and provides GEO Monitor Lite, an online global IPO tracking service that provides institutional users with deal information on various IPOs with proceeds $50mn. In addition, it offers basic listing services primarily to real estate agents, brokers, property developers, property owners and managers, and home furnishing and improvement products providers, as well as allows them to post information on properties, home furnishing and improvement, and other related products and services on its Website; and special listings consist of a customized marketing program involving the coordination and promotion of offline themed events. Further, SouFun Holdings Limited company provides subscription-based access to its information database, research reports, and Web solution services, which integrate the company’s customers’ services and products into its Website. SouFun Holdings Ltd. was formerly known as SouFun.com Limited and changed its name to SouFun Holdings Ltd. in June 2004. SouFun Holdings Limited company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China. SouFun Holdings Ltd. is a subsidiary of Telstra International Holdings Limited.

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