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.

NetDragon Websoft Inc. was established in 1999. Gamers looking to conjure magic, slay dragons, fight wars, and rule fantasy worlds online might turn to NetDragon Websoft. The company is a leading Chinese Internet game developer and operator with a portfolio of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or MMORPGs, in which a large number of players interact within a virtual game world. NetDragon's titles include Era of Faith, Eudemons Online, Heroes of Might and Magic Online, and Monster & Me. It also has several interactive, online games under development. To attract more players, its games are free to play online; revenues are generated from selling virtual items, such as performance-enhancing game upgrades.

HSW International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSWI) develops and operates Internet businesses focused on providing consumers in the world's emerging digital economies with locally relevant, high quality information. HSW International, Inc., which is headquartered in Atlanta and incorporated in Delaware, currently operates businesses in China, Brazil and the United States. HSW International excels at deploying high-quality content tailored to the information needs of consumers in the regions where it operates. It seeks to achieve a consumer following in these fast-growing economies to make its sites compelling platforms for marketers in nearly every business category. Among the Company's advantages are experienced local management teams and strategic business relationships.HSW International's growth strategy is to pursue opportunities in economies where Internet usage and consumer demand are expanding at rates in excess of those in developed markets. HSW International's initial focus is online publishing in China and Brazil. HSW International is the exclusive licensee for the translation and publication in China and Brazil of certain content from HowStuffWorks, Inc., a leading digital publisher whose award-winning website, HowStuffWorks.com, provides in-depth, easy-to-understand explanations, expert product reviews, comprehensive buying guides and informational videos on health, science, travel, automotive, electronics and consumer products, as well as other topics.

Yahoo! Inc. provides online properties and services to users; and marketing services to advertisers worldwide. Its integrated consumer experiences offerings include the Yahoo! Home Page, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Toolbar, Yahoo! Local, and Connected TV over the Web, mobile, or TV; communications offerings comprise Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, which provide a range of communication services to users and small businesses across various devices and broadband Internet access partners; communities offerings consist of Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr that enable users to organize into groups and share knowledge, common interests, and photos; search offerings include Yahoo! Search, a search technology, which provides users with a search capability with search results ranked and sorted based on relevance to the users’ search query. Yahoo! Inc. also offers media products and solutions comprising online media properties, such as Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, and Yahoo! Entertainment & Lifestyles that are designed to engage users with the online content and services on the Web; and Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Autos, and Yahoo! Small Business that enable users to research specific topics, products, services, or areas of interest by reviewing and exchanging information, obtaining contact details, considering offers from providers of goods and services, or parties with similar interests. Its Internet marketing solutions for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers include display of graphical advertisements, the display of text-based links to an advertiser’s Website, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions. In addition, the company provides a range of tools for online display advertising, including rich media, video, and targeting. Yahoo! Inc. has a strategic alliance with Nokia Corporation. Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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.

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.

Zen Internet, founded in 1995 and one of the earliest commercial providers of Internet access in the UK, still gets high marks from customers. Zen Internet continues to provide dial-up, network, and broadband services to business and residential users. Zen Internet Ltd. company has more than 25,000 customers, including Balfour Beatty, LeapFrog Enterprises, and Umbro. Other offerings include Web-site hosting, domain name registration, search engine services, and Web design. Managing director Richard Tang owns the company.

Wall Street extends beyond Manhattan's financial district and into the ether through The Wall Street Journal Digital Network (WSJDN). The division operates WSJ.com, the online version of the leading business daily The Wall Street Journal. Launched in 1996, it is one of the first websites to be accessible only to paying users; with more than one million subscribers it is the largest paid subscription news site on the Internet. (It also sells advertising.) In addition to WSJ.com, WSJDN includes MarketWatch (business news); SmartMoney (personal finance); Barrons.com (investment information); and AllThingsD.com (new media). WSJDN is owned by Dow Jones & Company, itself a part of media conglomerate News Corp.

Xinhua Finance was founded in 1999 to meet the growing demand from global and Chinese investors for an open exchange of financial information and analysis. Xinhua Finance is betting that investing in China is more than a yuance-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The company is a leading financial information services provider that distributes news, stock market updates, and ratings services to investors and financial professionals in China. It has 15 regional news bureaus across Asia, Europe, and North America. In addition, the company offers investor relations services through subsidiary China Fortune Public Relations.

Buzz Media, Inc. was founded in 2005 as Buzznet by chief creative officer Anthony Batt. The buzz surrounding Buzz Media is that this company's Web sites are for diehard music fans. The company's Buzznet.com site differentiates itself from other online communities by having users create their own programming. Members vote (build "buzz") on the interactive content that appears on the front page. Buzz Media cultivates relationships with artists who act as guest bloggers and promote their own work. Launched as a music site, Buzz Media has expanded to include a collection of entertainment sites. It has received funding from Redpoint Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners, both early investors of MySpace.com.

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