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.

GALA Incorporated is one of Japan's largest operators of online communities and services (bulletin boards, chat rooms) through a series of Web sites with topics ranging from travel to automobiles. GALA also provides online games, a segment that has grown to make up the bulk of the company's business. GALA Incorporated offers data mining and information analysis services for corporate clients through its e-mining and BUZZ Report subsidiaries. In addition to Japan, Toho operates in other Asian countries, as well as in Europe and the US. In Japan, surfing the Web is a GALA affair.

Since everyone, including Dick and Harry, have Internet firms, TOM Group has moved beyond the Web. The company began with portal Web sites targeting audiences in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; but after the dot-com bust it expanded to also include publishing ("Business Weekly" and "PC Home"), outdoor advertising (billboards, street-level signs, bus bodies), and television (through Chinese satellite channel China Entertainment Television, CETV). The company operates its Web holdings through subsidiary TOM Online. Previously active in sports marketing, TOM Group exited that business in 2007 in order to focus its resources on its four other business groups.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides services for accelerating and improving the delivery of content and applications over the Internet in the United States and internationally. The company offers Application Performance solutions that improve the performance of dynamic applications used by enterprises to connect with their employees, suppliers, and customers. Its Application Performance solutions include Web Application Accelerator, which enables enterprises to run various applications; and IP Application Accelerator that is designed to address core Internet weaknesses to optimize the performance and real-time sensitivity associated with IP-enabled applications delivered over Internet-related protocols. It also provides Digital Asset solutions that enable enterprises to execute their large file management and distribution strategies. The company’s Digital Asset solutions include Akamai Media Delivery solution that delivers media content on behalf of its customers; and Electronic Software Delivery solution, which handles the distribution of software for its customers. In addition, it offers Dynamic Site solutions, which accelerate business-to-consumer Websites that integrate collaborative content and applications into their online architecture; Advertising Decision solutions that enable advertisers, agencies, publishers, and networks to buy and sell advertising; and custom solutions to commercial and government customers. Additionally, the company offers other solutions, such as EdgeControl tools that provide reporting and management capabilities; network data feeds and Website analytics, which provide customers with real time data about the performance of their content and applications over the Internet; and performance management services that help customers better understand their Web operations with tools that measure various aspects of an application’s performance. Akamai Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

OnRamp Access, Inc. company, which serves clients primarily in central Texas, got its start in 1994 as a mall kiosk staffed by husband-and-wife co-founders Chad and Elisa Kissinger. OnRamp Access encourages its customers to drop the hammer as they get their business technology up to speed. OnRamp Access company offers a number of broadband services, including dial-up, ISDN, and T-1 Internet access, as well as data colocation and server management at its Austin data center. OnRamp also has a Web development department that has provided design and programming for more than 700 Web sites for the likes of James Avery Craftsman and the Texas Railroad Commission. Other data services include disaster recovery and data backup.

GlobalSpec is the leading specialized vertical search, information services and e-publishing company serving the engineering, manufacturing and related scientific and technical market segments. The company provides its buy-side users with domain-expert search engines, a broad range of proprietary and aggregated Web-based content and over 60+ product and industry e-newsletters that help engineers and related professionals perform their key job tasks with the highest levels of accuracy and productivity. GlobalSpec provides its sell-side client base of companies seeking to reach the worldwide engineering audience with highly filtered sales leads, product promotion and brand advertising platforms and a wide range of e-media advertising and marketing services.GlobalSpec has BPA audited Web site traffic, and a global user base of more than 6,100,000 registered users; a user community that continues to grow by more than 80,000 new registrants each month. GlobalSpec is increasingly becoming "the place" where the engineering community gathers and conducts business.

Pipex Internet was a subsidiary of Tiscali, which sold the ISP business to The Carphone Warehouse Group in 2009. Pipex Internet Limited operates as part of Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk Group. If you live in the UK, Pipex Internet (doing business as Bulldog Broadband) has a dogged desire to be your broadband provider. Pipex Internet Limited provides DSL-based broadband Internet access to residential and business customers in the UK. Pipex Internet Limited also offers basic dial-up, computer telephony, and digital television services.

Tiscali has become one of the top independent ISPs in Italy. The company provides Internet access to about 3 million subscribers, of which about 2 million are broadband users. Various voice calling services are also offered, and it provides related broadband Internet services, virtual private networks (VPNs), and more to corporate customers. The company also offers digital broadband television services under the Tiscali TV brand and it sells Tiscali-branded wireless services in partnership with Telecom Italia. Tiscali exited the UK market in 2009 with the sale of its sizeable UK business to Carphone Warehouse for £230 million.

Kelley Blue Book Co., Inc. was established in 1926 by car buff Les Kelley. In 2010 online automotive advertising company AutoTrader.com agreed to buy Kelley Blue Book. Kelley Blue Book helps steer people away from something yellow -- a lemon. The company publishes information on vehicle pricing, including automobile trade-in values, as well as car ratings and reviews. While the company still publishes the traditional print Blue Book Official Guide, it has shifted its focus to the Web, offering all of its information online. In addition, Kelley Blue Book owns CDMdata, which provides hardware and software for the auto industry, and CDM Dealer Services, which offers inventory-management software.

PCTEL, Inc. provides propagation and optimization solutions for the wireless industry. The company designs and develops software-based radios for wireless network optimization; and develops and distributes antenna solutions. The company’s scanning receivers, receiver-based products, and interference management solutions are used to measure, monitor, and optimize cellular networks. Its antenna solutions address public safety, military, and government applications; Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), health care, energy, and smart grid and agricultural applications; and indoor wireless, wireless backhaul, and cellular applications. PCTEL offers a range of antennas for worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), land mobile radio (LMR) antennas, and global positioning system (GPS) antennas that serve applications in telemetry, radio frequency identification (RFID), Wi-Fi, fleet management, and mesh networks. It supplies its products to public and private carriers, wireless infrastructure providers, wireless equipment distributors, value added resellers, and original equipment manufacturers worldwide through direct and indirect channels. PCTEL, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Bloomingdale, Illinois.

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