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.

Strategic Forecasting, Inc. was founded in 1996 by national security and intelligence expert Dr. George Friedman. Strategic Forecasting, which does business as Stratfor, publishes global intelligence information through its subscription-based Web site, Stratfor.com. The site's content (geopolitical analysis, industry and country forecasts, terrorism intelligence, and real-time situation reports) is designed to help businesses, trade associations, government agencies, and individuals reduce risk and identify business opportunities. Stratfor offerings include online subscriptions to content, as well as custom-tailored consulting projects. It also provides weekly intelligence reports via e-mails based on geopolitics and security.

iPass was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. iPass Inc. provides enterprise mobility services that facilitate network access from mobile devices. Its enterprise mobility services include iPass Mobile Office service, which delivers 3G mobile data, Wi-Fi hotspot, wired broadband, and dial-up access services; and network services that provide customers with a dial-up network coverage and broadband coverage. The company also offers iPass Mobile Connect, a service that collects and transmits usage data and statistics from the mobile device; iPass Mobile Insight to report and analyze mobile usage across networks, connections, and devices; iPass Mobile Control, a policy enforcement service; and iPass Mobile Network, a virtual network that offers broadband access. In addition, it provides site-to-site managed network services to enterprises through its iPass Branch Office that offers a managed wide-area network to connect small offices with corporate data centers; and iPass Retail Office, which provides wide-area networking for distributed retail locations to connect to a corporate data center. Further, the company offers iPass Virtual Office that provides managed fixed broadband for teleworkers, as well as offers professional services. iPass Inc. offers its services worldwide directly through its sales force, as well as through network service providers, telecommunications carriers, systems integrators, and value added resellers.

Onyx stays (in the) black by helping other businesses keep moving. Onyx Internet is an Internet services provider and IT support firm serving businesses in North East England. Its Onyx Group does the ISP work while DataBanx offers data hosting, Aksaris network security, and Onyx Consult helps businesses sort out their information technology problems related to regulatory compliance, supply chain management, and network security. In addition to its clients in the UK, Onyx also works as a consultant for companies in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Clients have included Aberdeen Football Club, Bausch & Lomb, and Reg Vardy.

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.

AOL Inc. operates as a Web services company that offers a suite of brands and offerings for the worldwide audience. Its business spans online content, products, and services for consumers, publishers, and advertisers. The company produces digital content and sells display advertising. AOL Inc. operates approximately 80 branded and content sites. Its content brands primarily include AOL.com, Moviefone, FanHouse, ParentDish, Asylum, Spinner, DailyFinance, BlackVoices, AOL Latino, PoliticsDaily, Engadget, WalletPop, MapQuest, and Patch. AOL company also provides various consumer applications comprising communications products and services, such as mail, instant messaging, and a suite of mobile offerings. In addition, AOL Inc. operates an advertising network in the United States, which focuses on building content for its consumers, as well as on providing products and services for its advertising and publishing partners. AOL provides its online advertising services on its owned and operated properties, as well as on third-party Web sites. It also offers Internet subscription access services, which serve as a distribution channel for the company's consumer offerings in the United States. In addition, AOL Inc. distributes its properties through agreements with original equipment manufacturers of computers, digital devices, and other consumer electronics, and broadband access providers and mobile carriers; toolbars, widgets, co-branded portals and Web sites, third-party Web sites, and social networks; and search engine marketing and search engine optimization distribution methods. AOL company was formerly known as America Online, Inc. and changed its name to AOL Inc. in 2006. AOL Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York. AOL Inc. operates independently of Time Warner Inc., as of December 04, 2009.

PlusNet is looking for people who want to add more data to their lives. Founded in 1996, PlusNet company provides Internet access services to more than 200,000 residential and business customers in the UK, with about half of those signed up for broadband service. Other services include voice-over IP telephony and wireless broadband. Sales are made through various brands including PlusNet, Force9, and Free-Online. PlusNet plc is a subsidiary of BT Group.

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.

The internet has changed the way organizations communicate. Today, fewer and fewer people rely on a single source for all their news. The internet continues to complement and even replace traditional outlets such as broadcast television and newspapers. Blogs have allowed a much broader group of "citizen journalists" to play a significant role in the news life cycle. The emergence and viral nature of social media means that an organization's reputation can be made or destroyed in an afternoon.Founded in 1991, Vocus has changed the way communications professionals do their jobs. Vocus provides the ability to leverage the ubiquity of the internet to interact with the media, publish their news online where it can be found by millions, monitor news and social media conversations from virtually any source and track their results to compare them with key competitors.

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.

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