Vertro, Inc., an Internet company that owns and operates the ALOT product portfolio primarily in the United States. The company offers ALOT toolbar, homepage, and desktop applications, which are designed to make the Internet easy for consumers by providing direct access to affinity content and search results. It markets its products under the ALOT brand name. The company was formerly known as MIVA, Inc. and changed its name to Vertro, Inc. in June 2009. Vertro, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in New York, New York.

Tencent Holdings Limited was founded in 1999. This company puts its pennies into Internet services. Tencent is a provider of Internet and instant messaging (IM) services to consumers in China. Users of its QC IM platform can communicate by text, images, audio, video, and email, and also partake in Tencent's mobile games, personals, content downloads, and other value-added services. More than 480 million QC users currently have active accounts. Tencent also operates Internet portal QQ.com, the QQ Game portal, multi-media social networking service Qzone, and PaiPai.com, a Chinese Internet shopping site.

SupplyOn is a joint venture that provides an electronic marketplace for several European automotive suppliers. SupplyOn company, with its several thousand customers in 70 countries, provides services that improve efficiency in purchasing, sales, logistics, product development, and quality processes. Its expertise is in supply chain management. SupplyOn's joint venture partners have included tier one automotive suppliers, such as Georg Fischer, Hella, L&L Products Europe, MANN+HUMMEL, Schindler, BMW, and Bosch, among others.

TechTarget, Inc. provides specialized online content that brings together buyers and sellers of corporate information technology (IT) products. TechTarget company sells customized marketing programs that enable IT vendors to reach corporate IT decision makers who are researching specific IT purchases. As of October 19, 2010, it operated a network of approximately 80 Web sites, which focus on a specific IT sector, such as storage, security, or networking. The company’s online offerings include in-person events and specialized IT magazines, which enable advertisers to engage buyers in their decision-making process for IT purchases. Its registered members also conduct pre-purchase research by accessing vendor content, such as white papers, Web casts, video casts, virtual events, and pod casts. In addition, TechTarget’s network of Web sites allows users to interact and contribute content during their research process. TechTarget, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Eclipse Internet (Eclipse Networking's trading name) sells broadband Internet access via DSL to about 40,000 business and residential customers in the UK. Eclipse Networking company also offers managed network services to corporate clients that include Hamleys and the City of York Council. Founded in 1995, Eclipse started out focusing on customers in the southwest of England, but Eclipse Networking company has since expanded its service areas. Eclipse Networking Limited company was acquired by Kingston Communications in 2004 for £12.5 million.

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.

Great Works Internet was founded in 1994 as Biddeford Internet. Great Works Internet feels that connecting to the Web is no small matter. The company, known as GWI, provides Internet services to customers in Maine and areas of New Hampshire. The company serves more than 60,000 residential and business customers with dial-up and broadband connection services. GWI offers other residential services including Internet telephony, while providing such business-oriented services as Web site, email, and data server hosting, as well as online access for local cable operators.

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.

Commtouch Software Ltd., together with its subsidiary, Commtouch Inc., develops and provides messaging and Web security solutions to original equipment manufacturer partners and enterprises. The company through its Recurrent Pattern Detection technology analyzes messages associated with mass email outbreaks and directs the blocking of such emails without the need to analyze individual messages. It offers real-time anti-spam, Zero-Hour virus outbreak protection, and Global View Mail Reputation services, as well as Globalview URL filtering solution that analyzes various feeds from worldwide sources pertaining to URLs. The company provides its solutions through third party distribution channels to network and security vendors offering content security gateways, unified threat management solutions, network routers and appliances, and anti-virus solutions, as well as to service providers, such as software-as-a-service vendors, Web hosting providers, and Internet service providers. It has operations in Israel, North America, Europe, and Asia. Commtouch Software Ltd. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Netanya, Israel.

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.

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