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.

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.

OnRamp Access, Inc. company, which serves clients primarily in central Texas, got its start in 1994 as a mall kiosk staffed by husband-and-wife co-founders Chad and Elisa Kissinger. OnRamp Access encourages its customers to drop the hammer as they get their business technology up to speed. OnRamp Access company offers a number of broadband services, including dial-up, ISDN, and T-1 Internet access, as well as data colocation and server management at its Austin data center. OnRamp also has a Web development department that has provided design and programming for more than 700 Web sites for the likes of James Avery Craftsman and the Texas Railroad Commission. Other data services include disaster recovery and data backup.

Glam Media was founded in 2005 by CEO Samir Arora, an entrepreneur who formerly worked at Apple. At Glam Media, every night (and day, for that matter) is ladies' night. The company is an online provider of content targeting women between the ages of 25 and 35. Flagship site Glam.com is an entry point for users to access the Glam Publisher Network, which is made up of women's interest websites from more than 1,000 publishers. The sites address topics such as entertainment, family, fashion, and health. Glam Media's Tinker.com micro blogging site lets users share information with one another. The firm also targets the men's market through Brash Media, which covers topics such as sports, technology, and cars.

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.

This company lives in a (young) man's world, and it would be nothing without games, gadgets, and girls. UGO Entertainment (pronounced "Yu-Ji-Oh") is an online publisher that targets 18- to 34-year-old men with content for video game fans. The site covers topics of interest for the "gamer lifestyle", such as technology, movies, and sports. Flagship sites UGO.com and 1UP.com and their network of related sites, which draw an audience of about 42 million monthly users, also offers streaming media entertainment and features on comics, TV shows, and music. Launched in 1997 as Unified Gamers Online, UGO Entertainment was acquired by publisher Hearst Corporation in 2007; it operates as part of Hearst Interactive Media.

XS4ALL is more about access than excess, but XS4ALL Internet B.V. doesn't stop its subscribers from chatting online all night. XS4ALL provides dial-up and broadband Internet access to business and residential customers in the Netherlands. It offers a typical suite of related services, including domain name registration, Web site hosting, e-mail accounts, and voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone calling. XS4ALL Internet B.V. also serves small businesses with Internet access, data colocation, and managed network hosting services which it markets to enterprise clients under the Full Rack banner.

Access US provides dial-up, DSL, and dedicated Internet access to consumers and businesses in the Midwest. The ISP also provides Web site development, email, and Web hosting services, as well as managed firewall services. Its managed services for business clients include data and network hosting, disaster recovery, network security management, and co-location. Access US serves residential and small-business subscribers primarily in communities around St. Louis. President and chairman Victor Mattison and CEO Rob Semaan, who met as students at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Business, founded Access US company in 1995.

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.

Snapfish was founded in 1999 by entrepreneur Raj Kapoor and was previously sold to the owners of photo-printing company District Photo. Hewlett-Packard acquired Snapfish in 2005. It operates as part of the HP Imaging and Printing Group. Managing your sea of digital photos online is a snap. Snapfish is an online photo service that lets Internet users share, store, and edit digital photo albums through the company's website. In addition, the service offers 9¢ digital prints, and more than 100 personalized custom photo gift products such as calendars, mugs, and mouse pads. The service is one of the largest players in the digital photo market, with more than 85 million registered users in some 20 countries.

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