Rakuten was founded in 1997 by chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani. Rakuten is Japan's largest online retailer and a leading provider of Internet-based services. The company's business segments and subsidiaries include Rakuten Ichiba (an online shopping mall), Rakuten Auction (online auctions), Rakuten Books (online bookstore), Infoseek (Internet search, Web logs, and job boards), Rakuten Travel, and Rakuten Securities (online trading). The firm's entertainment activities include television broadcasting in Japan and ownership of a professional baseball team. Its financial services unit offers credit cards and consumer loans. Its Fusion Communications subsidiary (acquired in 2007) provides Internet phone service.

AOL Inc. operates as a Web services company that offers a suite of brands and offerings for the worldwide audience. Its business spans online content, products, and services for consumers, publishers, and advertisers. The company produces digital content and sells display advertising. AOL Inc. operates approximately 80 branded and content sites. Its content brands primarily include AOL.com, Moviefone, FanHouse, ParentDish, Asylum, Spinner, DailyFinance, BlackVoices, AOL Latino, PoliticsDaily, Engadget, WalletPop, MapQuest, and Patch. AOL company also provides various consumer applications comprising communications products and services, such as mail, instant messaging, and a suite of mobile offerings. In addition, AOL Inc. operates an advertising network in the United States, which focuses on building content for its consumers, as well as on providing products and services for its advertising and publishing partners. AOL provides its online advertising services on its owned and operated properties, as well as on third-party Web sites. It also offers Internet subscription access services, which serve as a distribution channel for the company's consumer offerings in the United States. In addition, AOL Inc. distributes its properties through agreements with original equipment manufacturers of computers, digital devices, and other consumer electronics, and broadband access providers and mobile carriers; toolbars, widgets, co-branded portals and Web sites, third-party Web sites, and social networks; and search engine marketing and search engine optimization distribution methods. AOL company was formerly known as America Online, Inc. and changed its name to AOL Inc. in 2006. AOL Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York. AOL Inc. operates independently of Time Warner Inc., as of December 04, 2009.

EarthLink, Inc. provides Internet access and related value-added services to individual and business customers in the United States. EarthLink company operates in two segments, Consumer Services and Business Services. The Consumer Services segment offers narrowband access comprising premium dial-up Internet access and value dial-up Internet access; broadband access that provides high speed Internet connection using a modem across an existing home phone line or cable connection; voice-over-Internet protocol that offers voicemail, call waiting, caller ID, call forwarding, and E911 service under various plans; and value-added services that include products for protection, communication, and performance, such as security products, email, home networking, email storage, and Internet call waiting. The Business Services segment provides secure IP-based networks, including virtual private networks (VPN) and CPE-based VPNs; high-speed and dial-up Internet access for business customers; and wholesale services comprising network services to communications carriers. This segment also leases server space and provides Web hosting services that enable customers to build and maintain an online presence, including domain names, storage, mailboxes, software tools to build Web sites, e-commerce applications, and 24/7 customer support. In addition, the Business Services segment offers other services, such as installation programs, managed network services, remote access, and disaster recovery services. EarthLink primarily sells its products and services to telecommunications carriers and network resellers through direct sales force, telephone, Web sales groups, search engine marketing, affinity marketing partners, resellers, sales agents, referral partners, and marketing alliances. EarthLink company has strategic marketing alliance with Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House Networks. EarthLink was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

GlobalSCAPE, Inc. develops, distributes, and maintains secure managed file transfer software that enables individuals and business users to exchange information over the Internet, as well as wide-area file system (WAFS) collaboration and continuous data protection (CDP) software. The company offers file transfer protocol (FTP) client programs, including CuteFTP, which permits a user to request a file from or send a file to an FTP server or host computer; and CuteFTP Pro, a program that incorporates various standards for encrypting data during transport and at rest, accelerating transfer of large files, and automating common file transfer tasks. It also provides file transfer servers programs, such as Enhanced File Transfer Server, which provides digital certificate management, remote management capability, and ability to manage user accounts with settings for security and control; and Enhanced File Transfer Server Enterprise, an enterprise file server that supports enterprise installations. In addition, the company offers data replication products, including Wide Area File Services, which delivers a file access system, instant file-sharing, and server-to-server mirroring; and continuous backup software that delivers real-time continuous data protection. Further, it provides Mail Express, a software add-in that redirects email attachments for delivery in accordance with administrator-defined policies; and CuteSendIt, a software-as-a-service managed file transfer solution, as well as resells BOUNCER, an enterprise application whitelisting solution. GlobalSCAPE serves finance, health care, energy, retail, manufacturing, and engineering markets worldwide. GlobalSCAPE, Inc. company was founded in 1996 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.

Support.com, Inc. provides Instant Technology Relief to consumers and small businesses via channel partners and its support.com site. It operates as a pure-play technology enabled services firm that addresses technology issues. The company’s technology platform enables its North American Solutions Engineers to provide technology support experience over the Internet and phone. It offers diagnose and fix services to remotely identify, diagnose, and resolve technical problems, including the removal of viruses and spyware; connect and secure services that help consumers to configure, connect, and establish secure connections between their PC and home wireless networks and certain attached devices; and install and setup services to help consumers install, set up, and use digital devices connected to their PC. Support.com, Inc. also provides consumer software for the do-it-yourself customers under the Sammsoft brand name. Its trademarks include Support.com, the SupportMan Logo, Sammsoft, and Advanced Registry Optimizer. Support.com was formerly known as SupportSoft, Inc. and changed its name to Support.com, Inc. in June 2009. Support.com, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Three of the UK's largest real estate agency chains, Countrywide, Halifax, and Connells, jointly founded Rightmove in 2000. The firm floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2006. Who in their right mind wants their next move to be wrong? Rightmove.co.uk is the largest property Web site in the UK, displaying some one million properties (houses and flats) for sale or rent. The site provides a showcase for estate and lettings agents as well as new home developers, and attracts some 40 million visits from active home hunters every month. Rightmove also publishes the House Price Index, the largest monthly sampling of residential listing prices.

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.

The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm that provides business information focused on corporate boards of directors and officers. It covers more than 5,400 companies, including the largest North American public companies along with many international businesses. The company also offers company reports and risk assessment tools. Nell Minow (chairman and editor) and Robert A.G. Monks founded The Corporate Library in 1999. The company expanded its overseas coverage with the acquisition of GovernanceMetrics International (GMI) in 2010. The Corporate Library and GMI are together owned by Governance Holdings Co.

Educational Directories Unlimited (EDU) provides a wide range of information on colleges and universities available through an online service, helping prospective students make educated decisions about where to continue their education. Educational Directories Unlimited owns and operates sites such as StudyAbroad.com, GradSchools.com, and CollegeAbroad.com. EDU can trace its roots to 1982, when president and founder Mark Shay began to offer campus marketing services while an engineering student at Syracuse.

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.

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