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.

Online Resources Corporation provides outsource and Web-and phone-based financial technology services to financial institution, biller, card issuer, and creditor clients in the United States. The company offers an integrated suite of Web-based account presentation, payment, relationship management, and professional services. Its account presentation services enable in viewing transaction histories and account balances; reviewing and retrieving current and past statements; transferring funds and balances; initiating or scheduling either one-time or recurring payments; accessing and maintaining account information; and providing cash management services. The company’s payments services comprise Web-based bill payment services, remittance services, a suit of payment options, and real-time account debit services. Its relationship management services consist of customer care services; and professional services comprise customized software applications, such as account opening and lending for financial institution clients, which enable them to acquire consumers via the Web channel; implementation services that convert existing data and integrate with the client’s legacy host system or third party core processor; ongoing maintenance of client specific applications or interfaces; and customization of applications, training of client personnel, and information reporting and analysis. The company‘s third party services include bill payment and account retrieval, check ordering, inter-institution funds transfer and account aggregation, check imaging, and electronic statement services. Online Resources Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

EarthLink, Inc. provides Internet access and related value-added services to individual and business customers in the United States. EarthLink company operates in two segments, Consumer Services and Business Services. The Consumer Services segment offers narrowband access comprising premium dial-up Internet access and value dial-up Internet access; broadband access that provides high speed Internet connection using a modem across an existing home phone line or cable connection; voice-over-Internet protocol that offers voicemail, call waiting, caller ID, call forwarding, and E911 service under various plans; and value-added services that include products for protection, communication, and performance, such as security products, email, home networking, email storage, and Internet call waiting. The Business Services segment provides secure IP-based networks, including virtual private networks (VPN) and CPE-based VPNs; high-speed and dial-up Internet access for business customers; and wholesale services comprising network services to communications carriers. This segment also leases server space and provides Web hosting services that enable customers to build and maintain an online presence, including domain names, storage, mailboxes, software tools to build Web sites, e-commerce applications, and 24/7 customer support. In addition, the Business Services segment offers other services, such as installation programs, managed network services, remote access, and disaster recovery services. EarthLink primarily sells its products and services to telecommunications carriers and network resellers through direct sales force, telephone, Web sales groups, search engine marketing, affinity marketing partners, resellers, sales agents, referral partners, and marketing alliances. EarthLink company has strategic marketing alliance with Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House Networks. EarthLink was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Everybody needs a good buddy on the road. Road New Media, through its RoadCompanion.ca and Compagnonderoute.ca Internet sites, offers consumers vehicle pricing information, VIN investigation reports, used-car analyses, and more. Road New Media partners with non-profit consumer organizations, companies, and other information providers to give its users one-stop shopping when they are researching vehicles and insurance. Road New Media revenue comes from user fees; Road New Media Corporation also sells advertising on its sites.

LiveJournal, or LJ to those who love it, makes baring your soul to the world possible on a scale only new media can provide. The company owns and runs LiveJournal.com and affiliated "social networking" Web sites where users can post online journals (blogs) and interact with readers and each other. Its nearly 16 million registered users share photos, diary entries, and voice posts using LJ's open source coding that is supported by volunteers. The company's worldwide community includes about 6 million Russians, part of the reason Russian Internet startup SUP purchased LiveJournal in late 2007.

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.

BET Digital Media Group is a unit of Viacom subsidiary Black Entertainment Television. This company is hoping to create a cultural connection online. BET Digital Media Group operates the BET.com portal, a leading provider of Internet content and services targeted to African-Americans. Other digital assets include BET on Blast (broadband media player), BET on Demand (video on demand), and BET Mobile (a mobile content subscription service). BET.com offers information on such topics as news, health, music, and careers to an audience of more than 3 million registered users. It generates revenue from advertisements and sponsorships.

XS4ALL is more about access than excess, but XS4ALL Internet B.V. doesn't stop its subscribers from chatting online all night. XS4ALL provides dial-up and broadband Internet access to business and residential customers in the Netherlands. It offers a typical suite of related services, including domain name registration, Web site hosting, e-mail accounts, and voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone calling. XS4ALL Internet B.V. also serves small businesses with Internet access, data colocation, and managed network hosting services which it markets to enterprise clients under the Full Rack banner.

Fasthosts Internet is a division of Germany-based United Internet. Fasthosts Internet wants businesses to entertain customers fast. Fasthosts Internet Ltd. company offers Web hosting services and low-cost broadband Internet access to businesses, individuals, and resellers. Fasthosts automates its services using an online control panel that allows customers to set up and manage their accounts, including adding and managing domain names. Fasthosts Internet Ltd. company was founded in 1999 when schoolmates Andrew Michael and Alex Wilding could not find a suitable hosting service for a project Web site they were designing. Andrew Michael was succeeded as CEO in 2009 by Andy Burton, the former CEO of Centennial Software.

AOL (then called America Online) originally launched its UK service in 1996. AOL UK sold its broadband and dial-up Internet access business, complete with more than 2 million subscribers, to The Carphone Warehouse Group in 2007 for some $690 million. AOL UK knows that Americans aren't the only ones who think being online is better than AOK. The British subsidiary of American Web portal AOL is focused on providing content and managing online advertising. The site offers communication services such as free email and instant messaging, as well as news, shopping, and entertainment content.

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