The Gores Group, founded by Alec E. Gores in 1987, is a private equity firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses which can benefit from the firm’s operating experience and flexible capital. Since its inception, Gores has acquired 60 companies worldwide with combined revenues in excess of 15 billion dollars. Currently, Gores has 2.7 billion dollars in equity under active management. Gores’ offices in North America and Europe serve its active investment programs in these regions.

Riding the rapids of wireless communications, SkyRiver Communications provides wireless broadband services with a focus on multiple-user environments such as office buildings, hotels, and restaurants primarily in Southern California. SkyRiver offers such services as Wi-Fi and fixed wireless, as well as other Internet services such as Web hosting, network security, and email. SkyRiver Communications company's customers have included hotel chains such as Pacifica Host Hotels. SkyRiver's service area includes parts of Los Angeles, San Diego, Ventura, Oxnard, and Orange County.

UpMyStreet's services are available via the Web, wireless devices, and digital TV. uSwitch, which operates a Web site that offers consumers free comparisons of utility rates and fees, acquired UpMyStreet.com in 2003. Do you know what's going on up your street? If you live anywhere in the UK, the odds are good that UpMyStreet.com knows. The Web site offers neighborhood profiles, demographics, crime reports, property prices, job openings, classified advertisements, services availability and other local information for specific postal codes in the UK.

White Buffalo Ventures creates online dating services for third party customers consisting of common interest groups, primarily universities. White Buffalo Ventures has created singles sites for schools such as Ohio State University, Michigan State University, and The University of Wisconsin. Other properties include RunningSingles.com, TattooedSingles, and ASLSingles.com (for the American Sign Language community). White Buffalo Ventures offers its products and services as a turnkey solution, it can have customized branded Web site launched within two weeks of an agreement. White Buffalo was founded by CEO Brad Armstrong.

Glam Media was founded in 2005 by CEO Samir Arora, an entrepreneur who formerly worked at Apple. At Glam Media, every night (and day, for that matter) is ladies' night. The company is an online provider of content targeting women between the ages of 25 and 35. Flagship site Glam.com is an entry point for users to access the Glam Publisher Network, which is made up of women's interest websites from more than 1,000 publishers. The sites address topics such as entertainment, family, fashion, and health. Glam Media's Tinker.com micro blogging site lets users share information with one another. The firm also targets the men's market through Brash Media, which covers topics such as sports, technology, and cars.

iMergent, Inc., an e-services company, together with its subsidiaries, provides e-commerce technology, training, and various Web-based technologies and resources to entrepreneurs, and small, medium, and large enterprises. Imergent, Inc. offers search engine optimization and search engine management services. Its solutions enable its customers to market and sell their business products or ideas via the Internet. The company offers the StoresOnline software and Website development platform that enables customers to develop Internet Websites for commerce. It also provides site development, Web hosting, and search engine optimization services. iMergent sells and markets its products and services in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Imergent, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Salon Media Group, Inc. operates as an Internet media company. Salon Media Group operates salon.com, a content Web site with various subject-specific sections, which includes two online communities and a social network. It updates an array of news, features, interviews, columnists, and blogs, including news and politics, opinion, technology and business, arts and entertainment, movie page, life, books, comics, and environment and science. The company’s Web site also offers investigative stories and personal essays along with commentary and staff-written Weblogs about politics, technology, culture, and entertainment. Its online communities include The Well and Table Talk, which allow users to discuss Salon content and interact with other users. Salon Media Group, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Socket Holdings Corporation company, formed in 1994 by CEO George Pfeneger and CTO John Dupuy, serves more than 20,000 customers in 400 cities in Missouri. Socket Holdings helps customers in Missouri plug in to the Internet. Socket provides residential and business Internet access, data networking, and Web hosting services, as well as local and long-distance phone service for businesses.

China Finance Online Co. Limited provides online financial and listed company data and information in the People’s Republic of China. The company provides various subscription-based services on a single information platform that integrates data and information from multiple sources with features and functions, such as data and information search, retrieval, delivery, storage, and analysis. It collects, processes, and provides financial analysis tools, historical data, news, research reports, and online forums to its subscribers in one integrated information platform, which allows them to make informed investment decisions with respect to various listed company stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and stock index futures. The company’s Website content and research tools also offer various services consisting of attracting visitors and market its subscription based service offerings; storing content and serving as an integral part of its information platform; serving as download platforms for its service offerings; and displaying online advertisements. In addition, its financial analysis tools provide securities market data, technical analysis, and fundamental analysis. Further, the company offers various brokerage and online advertisement services. It serves individual investors managing their own money; professional investors, such as institutional investors managing money on behalf of their clients and high net worth individuals; and other financial professionals, including investment bankers, stock analysts and financial reporters, and middle class individuals. The company markets service offerings through its Websites, jrj.com and stockstar.com, as well as through customer support personnel at its telemarketing and customer service centers. It has strategic alliances with China Telecom and China Center for Financial Research of Tsinghua University. China Finance Online Co. Limited company was founded in 1998 and is based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

Zaio Corp. is the North American leader in developing and maintaining a site-verified database of photos, valuations and property information of virtually every residential property for entire cities, using a proprietary “GeoScore™” property rating system. Zaio and its network of premiere, local appraiser experts photograph and appraise entire cities, one building at a time from the street. Zaio is a public corporation that trades under the symbol "ZAO" on the TSX-V Exchange in Canada. Zaio was awarded “Venture-50” status by the stock exchange ranking it among the top 10 technology firms out of 2,000 public companies based on return on investment, revenues, market cap and trading volume. Additional information is available for US investors under the symbol "ZAOFF".

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