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.

Easynet simplifies the way businesses connect to the 'net. With its own network infrastructure, the company provides Internet connectivity and hosting services, including DSL access, routed ISDN lines, and facility-managed servers and network operations. It also offers VPN and wholesale broadband services, providing direct access in European countries and through partners worldwide. Easynet has six international data centers and more than 50 co-location facilities across Europe. Clients include Ford and Kohler Mira. In 2010 BSkyB sold Easynet to Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) for £100 million (around $150 million), in a going private transaction.

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.

Shopzilla was founded in 1996 by entrepreneurs Farhad Mohit and Henri Asseily, and David Reibstein, former vice dean of The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. Shopzilla is a subsidiary of Scripps Network Interactive. No need to fear Shopzilla. It's not a monster, but a shopping search engine that lists more than 80 million products from tens of thousands of retailers. Shopzilla offers clothes, electronics, and other consumer items to more than 40 million shoppers through a variety of websites and brands, including bizrate, Shopzilla, and beso in the US; Shopzilla.co.uk and bizrate.co.uk in the UK; Shopzilla.fr and PrixMoinsCher.fr in France; and Shopzilla.de and SparDeinGeld.de in Germany.

BroadVision, Inc. develops, markets, and supports enterprise portal applications. Its applications enable companies to unify their e-business infrastructure and conduct both interactions and transactions with employees, partners, and customers through a personalized self-service model. The company’s solutions include business agility suite, which enables interaction with visitors through personalized views of information, resources, and business processes stored in diverse internal and external legacy information systems. It also offers commerce agility suite that allows businesses to manage business-to-business and business-to-consumer channels through a single solution; OnDemand solution that provides visibility and agility for various members of organizations to collaborate; Clearvale, an integrated Enterprise 2.0 platform; and QuickSilver, which provides features for creation and publishing of documents supporting multiple output formats. In addition, BroadVision offers application services, including commerce services to display product offerings and transact business on Web sites; portal services to provide end users with a personalized and intuitive navigation as they interact with business; process services that extend Web capabilities, and transforms processes and collaborations into Web-based self-service applications; and content services to manage Web content. Further, the company provides staging services to simplify the process of moving content from multiple systems to the production environment; eMerchandising to create, manage, and implement sales discounts while maintaining oversight over profitability; and search solution that provides text and field searching of online content. BroadVision serves financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications industries in the Americas, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. BroadVision, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Primex Internet Group primarily provides Internet access and related services to businesses in the UK. Primex Internet Group offers both dial-up and broadband Internet access. The ISP's other Web services include domain name registration, Web hosting, e-commerce, and Web site design. Primex Internet Group's communications offerings include the resale of telephone services (including toll free numbers for businesses) and it enables computer telephony services via voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) lines.

Group NBT was founded in 1995. Easily is not only how but what Group NBT can offer to help a company get a good Web site. Group NBT, formerly NetBenefit, provides Web-hosting services and domain-name management in the US, the UK, and continental Europe. Group NBT operates through three companies: NetBenefit, which provides Web-hosting services to small and midsized businesses; NetNames (acquired 2000), offering domain-name management to large businesses; and Easily (purchased 2004), offering Web-hosting and domain-name services to businesses and consumers in the UK. Group NBT company acquired brand protection services firm Envisional in 2007.

SouFun Holdings Ltd. provides marketing, listing, technology, and information consultancy services to real estate and home furnishing industries in the People’s Republic of China. It offers marketing services primarily through advertisements on its soufun.com Website to real estate developers in the marketing phase of new property developments, as well as to real estate agencies, and home furnishing and improvement vendors who wish to promote their products and services, including home furnishing and improvement products, furniture, electronics, and other products. The company also intends to integrate paid priority placement of customer links in keyword search results into its current search and search ranking services; and provides GEO Monitor Lite, an online global IPO tracking service that provides institutional users with deal information on various IPOs with proceeds $50mn. In addition, it offers basic listing services primarily to real estate agents, brokers, property developers, property owners and managers, and home furnishing and improvement products providers, as well as allows them to post information on properties, home furnishing and improvement, and other related products and services on its Website; and special listings consist of a customized marketing program involving the coordination and promotion of offline themed events. Further, SouFun Holdings Limited company provides subscription-based access to its information database, research reports, and Web solution services, which integrate the company’s customers’ services and products into its Website. SouFun Holdings Ltd. was formerly known as SouFun.com Limited and changed its name to SouFun Holdings Ltd. in June 2004. SouFun Holdings Limited company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China. SouFun Holdings Ltd. is a subsidiary of Telstra International Holdings Limited.

Pronto was developed by IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC) and launched in 2006. Pronto is a comparison shopping web site that uses tools from the social networking world to connect shoppers. Pronto crawls the Internet for more than 70 million products such as apparel, books, electronics, sports equipment, and home decor from about 65,000 retailers and e-tailers. The site allows members to build personal profiles, rate products, make recommendations, and add favorites to shopping lists.

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.

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