iVillage was founded in 1995. NBCU acquired the business for $600 million in 2006. iVillage offers a cyber retreat for the female Web surfer. The NBC Universal (NBCU)-owned network of websites aims to be the leading online destination for women. The iVillage Network blends expert opinion on a variety of topics (pregnancy and parenting, beauty and style, home and garden, entertainment, and food) with community features (message boards and blogs). In addition to its flagship portal, iVillage operates sites such as iVillage UK, the Health Video Network, GardenWeb, and Astrology.com. A majority of revenue comes from online 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.

Socket Holdings Corporation company, formed in 1994 by CEO George Pfeneger and CTO John Dupuy, serves more than 20,000 customers in 400 cities in Missouri. Socket Holdings helps customers in Missouri plug in to the Internet. Socket provides residential and business Internet access, data networking, and Web hosting services, as well as local and long-distance phone service for businesses.

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.

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.

Bandwidth.com has the capacity to carry on. Bandwidth.com, Inc. is a provider of business communications services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), broadband Internet access, conferencing, and managed networks. It acts as an online broker between small and midsized businesses needing broadband access and carriers (like Sprint Nextel or Verizon) selling it. Bandwidth.com also facilitates installation and servicing of the connection following the sale.

Claimsnet.com, Inc., an electronic commerce company, owns, operates, and licenses software used for processing medical insurance claims on the Internet. Its proprietary software enables the communication of data between healthcare payers and their provider networks, and trading partners, such as claims clearinghouses, third party administrators, preferred provider organizations, health maintenance organizations, claim re-pricing organizations, independent physician associations, and managed service organizations for conducting administrative transactions to effect financial reimbursement for healthcare services. The company’s software provides real-time editing of the claims data for compliance with format and content requirements of payers for specific processing requirements. Its software also enables editing and checking of data accuracy in medical claims without the need for changes to customers information technology systems in data exchange. Claimsnet primarily serves medical and dental industries. Claimsnet.com, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Looksmart, Ltd. operates as an online search advertising network solution company that provides solutions for search advertisers and publishers. LookSmart offers advertisers targeted, pay-per-click search advertising and contextual search advertising via its Advertiser Networks; and an Ad Center platform for customizable private-label advertiser solutions for online publishers. Looksmart’s customers include intermediaries, who purchase clicks to sell into the affiliate networks of search engine providers; direct advertisers and their agencies; and self-service advertisers. LookSmart, Ltd. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

NetDragon Websoft Inc. was established in 1999. Gamers looking to conjure magic, slay dragons, fight wars, and rule fantasy worlds online might turn to NetDragon Websoft. The company is a leading Chinese Internet game developer and operator with a portfolio of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or MMORPGs, in which a large number of players interact within a virtual game world. NetDragon's titles include Era of Faith, Eudemons Online, Heroes of Might and Magic Online, and Monster & Me. It also has several interactive, online games under development. To attract more players, its games are free to play online; revenues are generated from selling virtual items, such as performance-enhancing game upgrades.

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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