The Onion was first published in 1988 by then University of Wisconsin students Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson. Tears from this Onion are most likely induced from fits of laughter. Onion, Inc. publishes the popular satirical weekly newspaper "The Onion", which is available in both online and print editions. Sister Web site The Onion A.V. Club features interviews, reviews, and columns focusing on music and movies. Other operations include book publishing (including the best-seller Our Dumb Century), radio programming (Onion Radio News), online video clips (The Onion News Network), and consumer items such as calendars, mugs, and T-shirts. Onion company earns revenue through advertising and subscription fees.

Primex Internet Group primarily provides Internet access and related services to businesses in the UK. Primex Internet Group offers both dial-up and broadband Internet access. The ISP's other Web services include domain name registration, Web hosting, e-commerce, and Web site design. Primex Internet Group's communications offerings include the resale of telephone services (including toll free numbers for businesses) and it enables computer telephony services via voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) lines.

The SCO Group, Inc. engages in the sale and service of UNIX software products to small-to-medium sized businesses, and franchisees or branch offices of businesses worldwide. The company offers UNIX software technology for distributed, embedded, and network-based systems. Its principal products include OpenServer used by small-to-medium businesses to run multi user, transaction, and business applications; communications gateways; and mail and messaging servers in both host and client/server environments; and UnixWare, an advanced deployment platform for industry standard Intel processor systems used by medium-size businesses and enterprise customers. The SCO Group also offers product maintenance and additional UNIX-related products, such as SCOoffice Server, a UNIX-based e-mail and collaboration system, and other UNIX system add-ons; and provides technical support services to its partners, including resellers, hardware and software vendors, and solution providers. In addition, it offers Mobility Server product that provides a connection point between handheld devices and corporate infrastructure applications and servers; HipCheck Service, which enables pro-active mobile administration for UNIX and Windows servers; Shout product that enables users to communicate multimedia messaging to groups of various sizes via a mobile smart phone or rich media Web landing page; and a Shout Postcard product, which allows users to send virtual postcards from their smart phone; and Me Inc. Mobile, a collaborative time and task management tool allowing users to set appointments, connect with others, create tasks, track goals, and blog with associates using their mobile phones. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Lindon, Utah. On September 14, 2007, The SCO Group, Inc., along with its affiliate, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Digital River, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides outsourced e-commerce solutions worldwide. Its services assist in establishing an online sales channel capability and to manage online sales. The company offers design, development, and hosting of online stores and shopping carts; store merchandising and optimization; order management; fraud prevention screening; online payment methods; export controls and management; denied parties screening; tax compliance and management; digital product delivery through download; physical product fulfillment; multilingual customer service; subscription management; online marketing, including email marketing; management of paid search programs; payment processing services; Web site optimization; Web analytics and reporting; and CD production and delivery solutions. Digital River also provides paid search advertising, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, multi-variant testing, and email optimization services. It serves software, consumer electronics, and computer and video game product manufacturers, as well as online channel partners, including retailers and affiliates through the Internet. Digital River, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

PeoplePC might want to consider changing names to PeopleISP. PeoplePC first made a name for itself giving PCs away for "free" with the purchase of a multiyear membership to its Internet access service. In 2004 PeoplePC changed tack and began to focus on providing straightforward ISP service. It has dropped the PCs and now provides value-priced, narrowband Internet access to more than 1 million subscribers as a subsidiary of Internet service provider EarthLink. PeoplePC also offers a fee-based acceleration service to augment its dial-up speeds and a fee-based spam-blocking service.

Rediff.com India Limited provides online Internet based services with a focus on India and the global Indian community. Its Web sites consist of interest specific channels relevant to Indian interests, including cricket; astrology; matchmaker and movies; content on various matters, such as news and finance; search facilities; a range of community features comprising e-mail, chat, messenger, and e-commerce; and broadband wireless content, as well as short messaging services for the mobile phone subscribers in India. Rediff.com India Limited company also publishes two weekly newspapers, including ‘India Abroad’ and ‘India in New York’ for the Indian-American community in the United States and Canada. As of March 31, 2009, it had 77.9 million online registered users. Rediff.com India Limited company was formerly known as Rediff Communication Private Limited and changed its name to Rediff.com India Limited in February 2000. Rediff.com India Limited was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

CBSSports.com operates as part of CBS Interactive, the new media operations unit of CBS Corporation. You might say this Internet company has its eye on sports. CBSSports.com operates a leading sports news and information Web site. In addition to providing headline news and analysis on all four major professional sports (from the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL), as well as college sports, golf, tennis, and auto racing, CBSSports.com publishes the official sports site of the NCAA. Registered users and subscribers can also take part in a variety of fantasy sports leagues.

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.

LiveJournal, or LJ to those who love it, makes baring your soul to the world possible on a scale only new media can provide. The company owns and runs LiveJournal.com and affiliated "social networking" Web sites where users can post online journals (blogs) and interact with readers and each other. Its nearly 16 million registered users share photos, diary entries, and voice posts using LJ's open source coding that is supported by volunteers. The company's worldwide community includes about 6 million Russians, part of the reason Russian Internet startup SUP purchased LiveJournal in late 2007.

Weather Decision Technologies (WDT) offers weather data and related technologies to local news stations, online weather sites, and other weather services organizations that provide information to consumers. Its offerings include iMap Weather, a customizable weather map designed for integration into customer Web sites; iWatch, a severe weather monitoring and alert system; as well as forecasting technologies, real-time lightening tracking systems, and other products. Operating in the US and abroad, WDT has served CNN, ABC, The Weather Channel, and Bonnier, among other customers. CEO Michael Eiltsa co-founded the company in 1999.

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