The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products.Formerly known as the Apache Group, the Foundation has been incorporated as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation in order to ensure that the Apache projects continue to exist beyond the participation of individual volunteers. Individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to collaborative open-source software development, through sustained participation and contributions within the Foundation's projects, are eligible for membership in the ASF. An individual is awarded membership after nomination and approval by a majority of the existing ASF members. Thus, the ASF is governed by the community it most directly serves -- the people collaborating within its projects.

The Associated Press is the backbone of the world's information system serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television and online customers with coverage in all media and news in all formats. It is the largest and oldest news organization in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video.AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed. AP operates as a not-for-profit cooperative with more than 4,000 employees working in more than 240 worldwide bureaus. AP is owned by its 1,500 U.S. daily newspaper members. They elect a board of directors that directs the cooperative.

The company has more than 85,000 cartoons available for sale or licensing in its database (more than 20,000 of which are available on its Web site). The Cartoon Bank specializes in cartoons from The New Yorker magazine, offering every cartoon ever published in the magazine. The company also sells books and framed and matted prints of individual cartoons and New Yorker cover art. In addition, it offers custom cartoons and illustrations, as well as custom books, calendars, and journals for the promotional and executive markets.

The FeedRoom is an online media services firm that helps corporate and government clients distribute live video and other content using the Internet. Companies including Boeing, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Hewlett-Packard use the company's services to broadcast shareholder meetings, product launches, and customer events. The company also serves such government clients as the US Department of Defense. Its digital asset management product ActiveMedia allows advertising, print, and consumer product companies to create and share rich media files.

The H.W. Wilson Company publishes reference books and databases, such as the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, found mostly at libraries. Its print and electronic products include 25 full-text periodicals databases, 25 index databases, 5 collection development catalogs, and an art image database. The H.W. Wilson Company was founded in 1898 by Halsey William Wilson, and can trace its roots to 1889 when Wilson and his roommate Henry S. Morris, a fellow University of Minnesota student, invested $400 to create Morris & Wilson, a small bookselling business conducted from their dormitory room.

The NewsMarket is the global leader in digital video distribution services used by more than 25,000 media outlets in 190 countries. Medialink, a division of The NewsMarket, provides award-winning production of video and audio content for the Web, Television and Radio. Together, The NewsMarket and Medialink provide the most comprehensive and proven range of video-based services for corporations, PR firms and government agencies.

The company was founded in 1868 and, since that time, has been providing news agency services (today including text, photos, data, and video) to media industry clients throughout the UK and Ireland from a reporting network that stretches from the UK across Europe. Stories and images from The Press Association are published in newspapers, Web sites, and teletext pages, as well broadcast on television and radio. The company's 27 owners include such media companies as Daily Mail and General Trust, News International, Trinity Mirror, and United Business Media.

netTrekker is a leader in the delivery of digital K-12 educational content and is dedicated to enhancing the education of today's youth with highly effective technologies that deliver rich educational content to every child in a safe, relevant, easy-to-use format. With the mission to help every child learn and a belief that technology can transform education, netTrekker was first to market with a standards-based educational search tool.The netTrekker mission to enhance the education of youth with highly effective technologies flows directly from the company's Leadership Team, each of whom has a strong personal commitment to significantly impact and improve the educational process. The team's philosophy permeates all areas of the company and is a guidepost for all corporate decision making.

Thomson Scientific, a division of Thomson Reuters, provides scientific and technical information and services to researchers, scientists and information professionals in the academic, scientific, corporate and government marketplaces. It serves fields such as biotechnology, chemistry, engineering, healthcare, law, and financial services. Thomson Scientific encompasses a number of information brands, including Aureka (intellectual property management and analysis), Derwent World Patents Index (patent and scientific data), ISI Web of Knowledge (global research online), and Thomson Pharma (pharmaceutical information).

The company provides licensed and royalty-free moving stock images (in digital and HD formats) to TV programming and commercial advertising producers. It also provides research, clearances, and other digital asset management tools. Its online footage collections include National Geographic, Sony Pictures, HBO Archives, and NCAA, as well as exclusive content produced for the company. TEM has offices in several major US cities (along with a "digital refinery" in Laramie, Wyoming), and international offices in Tokyo and Sydney.

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