TechTarget, Inc. provides specialized online content that brings together buyers and sellers of corporate information technology (IT) products. TechTarget company sells customized marketing programs that enable IT vendors to reach corporate IT decision makers who are researching specific IT purchases. As of October 19, 2010, it operated a network of approximately 80 Web sites, which focus on a specific IT sector, such as storage, security, or networking. The company’s online offerings include in-person events and specialized IT magazines, which enable advertisers to engage buyers in their decision-making process for IT purchases. Its registered members also conduct pre-purchase research by accessing vendor content, such as white papers, Web casts, video casts, virtual events, and pod casts. In addition, TechTarget’s network of Web sites allows users to interact and contribute content during their research process. TechTarget, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

CDC Corporation is a China-based value-added operator of, and growth investor in, hybrid (on premise and SaaS) enterprise software, IT, and new media businesses. CDC company pursues two value-added investment strategies. The first strategy includes actively managing majority interests in its core portfolio of hybrid enterprise software, IT services and New Media businesses, adding value by driving operational excellence, top-line growth and overall profitability. The second strategy includes identifying and executing on opportunities to co-invest with leading venture capital and private equity funds through minority interests in fast growth companies in emerging markets related to CDC Corporation’s core assets. This second strategy, which complements the first, helps to mitigate risk and enhance deal flow for CDC company. CDC Corporation expects to deliver superior returns and additional value for its shareholders through these strategies, as well as through its plans to declare and pay regular dividends in the form of registered shares of its publicly listed subsidiaries and other assets.

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.

Formed in 1995, the company traces its roots to director of meteorology Jeff Masters' PhD work at the University of Michigan and takes its name from a Bob Dylan song. Want to know the weather for your upcoming ski vacation or how volcanoes effect climate change? The Weather Underground's wunderground.com Web site won't rain on your parade. The company draws climate data from more than 13,000 personal weather stations worldwide. Features of the site include zip code searches, radar and satellite images, historical weather data, and Webcams showing more than 2,000 locations globally. The Weather Underground also provides updates to newspapers and TV stations and offers weather packages for other Web sites.

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.

OmniComm provides pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies with web-based applications that integrate the significant elements of the clinical trial process – data collection, data validation and reporting – into a seamless process that is faster, more cost effective and more accurate than the conventional "paper-intensive" method of conducting clinical research. OmniComm Systems, Inc. is a full-service, global eClinical and EDC software and services company dedicated to helping the world’s pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CROs, research and medical device organizations maximize the value of their clinical research investments through the use of innovative and progressive technologies. OmniComm Offers Solutions for: Electronic Data Capture (EDC), Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), Clinical Data Management System (CDMS), TrialOne Patient Scheduling and Data Acquisition, Serious Adverse Event Reporting, Medical Coding, Data Extraction, Reporting, and eLearning.OmniComm Services include hosting, study design and development, training, consulting services, technology transfer and transition, and 24 x 7 global customer care. OmniComm Systems, Inc. has U.S. headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, FL and European headquarters in Bonn, Germany, with satellite offices in New Jersey and the United Kingdom, as well as sales offices throughout the U.S. and Europe.

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.

AllBusiness.com is the world's largest online resource for small businesses, providing essential tools and resources to start, grow, and manage your business. AllBusiness.com brings you real-world expertise and practical advice from some of the best minds in small business: Our unique corp of 50 world-class bloggers bring you in-depth subject-matter knowledge in key topics from sales and marketing to human resources and technology. Our large and growing library of how-to articles offers quick, insightful tips to improve your business. Special Reports and weekly coverage on important trends and business leaders keep you up-to-date on the latest, most important news and events. Videos and podcasts bring business to life, adding important voices to your network of experts. The AllBusiness AllStar Franchise List ranks the country’s best new business pportunities.

Index Holdings keeps its finger on the pulse of cutting-edge media technology in Japan. The holding company owns a number of businesses that develop technology for cell phone content. It also produces and distributes multimedia products, such as Web sites, games, video, and advertising. Other subsidiaries (including Atlus U.S.A.) publish video games, animation, films, books, and magazines, and Index Communications operates mail order and brick-and-mortar stores to sell its tangible products. Index Holdings also offers its mobile content in China (through China Mobile) and in France (through Index Multimedia, which is traded on the Euronext Paris). The company even owns a French soccer team, Grenoble Foot 38.

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.

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