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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.

MapQuest reaches more than 40 million visitors per month. MapQuest is a subsidiary of AOL, which spun off from media giant Time Warner in 2009. Where are we? MapQuest's products and services are geared for people who are going places. MapQuest, Inc. supplies maps and proximity information to consumers through its Web site, and also offers services to businesses and to travel guides and map publishers. It also publishes road atlases, books, and laminated street maps. MapQuest's content can be downloaded to wireless devices made by such providers as Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T.

GlobalMedia Design is an independent digital media firm that focuses on software development, online content production, Web design, and online marketing, Internet publishing and other content production. Doing business as GMD Studios, the company's operations also include indieWIRE (independent film news) and movie production (Nothing So Strange). CEO Brian Clark co-founded GMD Studios in 1995.

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.

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.

We at Bankrate, Inc. have over three decades' experience in financial publishing. Bankrate was born in 1976 as "Bank Rate Monitor," a print publisher for the banking industry. The "Bank Rate Monitor" newsletter we originally distributed contained much of the same rate research and information we're known for and respected for today. After two decades of conducting quality, trusted rate research, we took our product to the Web, expanded our offerings and made our online debut in 1996. Since then, we have increased our site traffic to over 7 million monthly unique visitors, expanded our distribution outlets, added new content channels and continually strive to provide a better, more comprehensive consumer experience. Today, Bankrate, Inc. is the Web's leading aggregator of financial rate information, offering an unparalleled depth and breadth of rate data and financial content. Bankrate continually surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide clear, objective, and unbiased rates to consumers. Our flagship Web site, Bankrate.com, provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.In addition to rate data, we publish original and objective personal finance stories to help consumers make informed financial decisions. Our staff of award winning reporters and editors provides expert advice on just about every major financial decision facing our readers: from purchasing their first home, to selecting a new car, to saving for retirement. Hundreds of print publications depend on Bankrate as the trusted source for financial rates and information, including 8 of the top 10 newspapers in the country. And we're in broadcast: "The Bankrate.com Personal Finance Minute" plays over 200 times per day on XM Satellite Radio and you will see our data frequently referenced on "CNN Headline News," "ABC News" and many other major broadcast news outlets.

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.

Shopzilla was founded in 1996 by entrepreneurs Farhad Mohit and Henri Asseily, and David Reibstein, former vice dean of The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. Shopzilla is a subsidiary of Scripps Network Interactive. No need to fear Shopzilla. It's not a monster, but a shopping search engine that lists more than 80 million products from tens of thousands of retailers. Shopzilla offers clothes, electronics, and other consumer items to more than 40 million shoppers through a variety of websites and brands, including bizrate, Shopzilla, and beso in the US; Shopzilla.co.uk and bizrate.co.uk in the UK; Shopzilla.fr and PrixMoinsCher.fr in France; and Shopzilla.de and SparDeinGeld.de in Germany.

SciQuest, Inc. provides software-as-a-service procurement automation and supplier enablement solutions. It offers Sourcing Manager, an on-demand bid management solution; Eprocurement online, a suite of procurement automation solutions; Materials Management solution that manages on-site stockroom inventory; and Settlement Manager, an invoicing and settlement solution that automates and streamlines receiving, matching, and invoicing processes. SciQuest, Inc. also provides Spend Analytics, a spend management solution; supplier network and managed services; implementation services for procurement automation; and a Procurement Business Assessment service, which enables life sciences companies to measure, envision, and plan the roadmap for procurement operations. In addition, it offers HigherMarkets Express for Banner, a suite of eprocurement solution that enables schools to realize the benefits of a strategic approach to procurement while increasing the value of existing systems. SciQuest serves education, healthcare, life sciences, and government organizations. SciQuest, Inc. was formerly known as SciQuest.com, Inc. and changed its name to SciQuest, Inc. in 2001. SciQuest, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Cary, North Carolina.

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