Started by Michael Kinsley in 1996, Slate Magazine is owned by The Washington Post. In 2008 the magazine became part of The Washington Post's newly created Slate Group. If you find mainstream journalism a dull, cold world, you might try this online publication. Slate Magazine operates a popular Web site offering news and commentary slightly skewed for hip and erudite readers. The Internet magazine covers the arts, business, politics, sports, travel, and technology and attracts an audience of about 5 million people. The Web site is supported through advertising and sponsorships.

Mark Oldman and brothers Samer and H. S. Hamadeh founded the company in 1997. Today it is owned by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Looking for career gold? You might find it in the Vault.com. The firm provides company and industry information to help job-seekers determine what it's really like inside Merrill Lynch, CNN, and other employers. Vault.com offers information on interviewing, pay, perks, and corporate culture at various companies. It also publishes 120 digital and print career guidebooks, such as Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms and Vault Guide to Biotech). Vault.com additionally offers employee message boards, a job listings board, and career services such as resume writing.

FullNet Communications, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides integrated communications, Internet connectivity, and data storage solutions to individuals, businesses, organizations, educational institutions, and governmental agencies. Its services include dial-up and direct high-speed connectivity to the Internet through the FullNet brand name; backbone services to private label Internet services providers and businesses; carrier-neutral telecommunications premise co-location; Web page hosting; equipment co-location; and traditional telephone services. The company also provides Internet access services to individual and small business subscribers located in Oklahoma on a retail and wholesale basis, private label retail and business direct dial-up connectivity to the Internet, and secure private networks through its backbone network. In addition, it provides leased line Internet connections; and sells Internet access to other Internet service providers. The company provides branded and private label Internet access services in 232 communities in Oklahoma. It markets its carrier neutral co-location solutions in its network operations center to other competitive local exchange carriers, Internet service providers, and Web-hosting companies. As of December 31, 2009, the company had approximately 1,200 subscribers. It was formerly known as CEN-COM of Oklahoma, Inc. and changed its name to FullNet Communications, Inc. in December 1995. FullNet Communications, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Sohu.com Inc., an Internet company, provides news, information, video content, entertainment, and communication services in the People’s Republic of China. It offers brand advertising services that provide advertisements on its portal Websites to companies that expect to build up their brand awareness online; sponsored search services, which offer placements in search directory, as well as pay-for-click services for small and medium-size enterprises; online games, including massively multi-player online role-playing games; and wireless value-added services, such as news, weather forecast, chatting, entertainment information, ring tones, and logo downloads subscribed over mobile phones. Sohu.com company’s products and services include aggregated content on various topics, including news, entertainment, sports, business and finance, information technology, automobile, and women; online video content; streaming online content; and communication and community tools, such as alumni clubs, blogs, email, message boards, and Web messenger. Its Web properties include sohu.com, a mass portal and online media destination; 17173.com, a games information portal; focus.cn, a real estate Website; chinaren.com, an online alumni club; and sogou.com, an interactive proprietary search engine. Sohu.com Inc. was formerly known as Internet Technologies China Incorporated and changed its name to Sohu.com Inc. in September 1999. Sohu.com Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

Online Resources Corporation provides outsource and Web-and phone-based financial technology services to financial institution, biller, card issuer, and creditor clients in the United States. The company offers an integrated suite of Web-based account presentation, payment, relationship management, and professional services. Its account presentation services enable in viewing transaction histories and account balances; reviewing and retrieving current and past statements; transferring funds and balances; initiating or scheduling either one-time or recurring payments; accessing and maintaining account information; and providing cash management services. The company’s payments services comprise Web-based bill payment services, remittance services, a suit of payment options, and real-time account debit services. Its relationship management services consist of customer care services; and professional services comprise customized software applications, such as account opening and lending for financial institution clients, which enable them to acquire consumers via the Web channel; implementation services that convert existing data and integrate with the client’s legacy host system or third party core processor; ongoing maintenance of client specific applications or interfaces; and customization of applications, training of client personnel, and information reporting and analysis. The company‘s third party services include bill payment and account retrieval, check ordering, inter-institution funds transfer and account aggregation, check imaging, and electronic statement services. Online Resources Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Daum Communications is the leading operator of Korean-language websites, including flagship news and information portal Daum.net, Hanmail.net (Web-based e-mail), and Daum Cafe (online community). Other brands include TV Pot (online video), Media Daum (news updates), and Congnamul (online maps). Its properties boast nearly 40 million registered users. It also offers search marketing services through its Namu Communications subsidiary. In 2010 it sold the US-based Web portal Lycos. (Daum had acquired Lycos, a pioneering force in the US Internet build out of the dot com era, from Telefenica in 2004.) You might say this company has added a little Seoul to the Internet.

Onvia was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. For more than 12 years Onvia (NASDAQ: ONVI), the gBusiness Innovator, has been successfully delivering the research, analytics and tools companies rely on to succeed in gBusiness – the intersection of business and government and a $5.5 trillion market. Onvia tracks, analyzes and reports the spending of more than 89,000 federal, state and local government agencies, giving companies a single source for conducting open, intelligent and efficient business with government. Along with providing an exclusive suite of integrated business tools for a wide variety of industries, Onvia offers DemandStar, the automated system that streamlines agency procurement processes, and Recovery.org, a free website that tracks Recovery Act-funded projects.

Founded in 1996, Claranet has evolved from being a pioneering ISP (Internet Service Provider) into an MSP (Managed Services Provider) with annual revenues of around €100 million. We have 520 employees with an international footprint in six countries and although Claranet has grown internationally, the focus has always been on local service, out of local offices, using local data centres. Claranet brings together the best people, process and technology to provide flexible, secure and cost-effective managed services that guarantee network and application performance. We allow customers to focus on their core business, not IT management.

The Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily through donations and grants, and was founded by Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales in 2003. Want free access to the sum of all human knowledge? Wikimedia Foundation can give it to you. The not-for-profit organization has produced a plethora of free-content wiki projects, including one of the most visited sites on the Internet, online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia (the foundation's first project). The term wiki (a Hawaiian word for "fast") describes a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone with Internet access to contribute or modify content. Wikimedia has a paid staff of about 30, while hundreds of thousands of volunteers contribute content.

Baidu, Inc. provides Chinese and Japanese language Internet search services. Its search services enable users to find relevant information online, including Web pages, news, images, multimedia files, and blogs through the links provided on its Websites. Baidu also offers online community-based products and entertainment platforms; an instant messaging service; and a consumer-oriented e-commerce platform. In addition, it designs and delivers online marketing services and auction-based P4P services that enable its customers to reach users who search for information related to their products or services. Baidu serves online marketing customers consisting of small and medium sized enterprises, large domestic corporations, and Chinese divisions or subsidiaries of multinational corporations primarily operating in the medical, machinery, education, franchising, electronic products, e-commerce, ticketing, tourism, information technology, consumer products, real estate, entertainment, and financial services industries. It sells its online marketing services directly, as well as through its distribution network. Baidu was formerly known as Baidu.com, Inc. and changed its name to Baidu, Inc. in December 2008. Baidu, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

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