Big Stick Media Corporation has made a business of serving the serious sports fan, sports bettor, and sports handicappers by providing fact-based information relating to scores, statistics, and opinion-oriented information (read: handicapping services). Information includes sports picks from professional handicappers, game stats, injury reports, scores, and lines from major sportsbooks. Catering to North American sports enthusiats, the company's portfolio of sites includes JimFeist.com, VegasOnlinesports.com, and ScoresLinesPick.com. Big Stick Media also engages the fantasy sports crowd with its rotoplay.com site. What are the odds? Big Stick Media has a slew of Web sites devoted to that very question.

Leisure Arts is a subsidiary of Liberty Capital Group. For those who have lost the art of leisure (or need a refresher course on how to sew a cross stitch) look no further than Leisure Arts. Leisure Arts publishes how-to information on creative lifestyle topics such as needlework, crafts, and decorating. Its collection of Web sites includes TheLeisureBotique.com, LeisureArtsLibrary.com, and TwoPeasInABucket. Leisure Arts also produces books and DVDs. In addition to publishing, Leisure Arts conducts manufacturing, distribution, and shipping activities from its 150,000 square foot warehouse facility in Little Rock, Arkansas. It creates its material in house, and works with third-party publishers and manufacturers.

CBSSports.com operates as part of CBS Interactive, the new media operations unit of CBS Corporation. You might say this Internet company has its eye on sports. CBSSports.com operates a leading sports news and information Web site. In addition to providing headline news and analysis on all four major professional sports (from the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL), as well as college sports, golf, tennis, and auto racing, CBSSports.com publishes the official sports site of the NCAA. Registered users and subscribers can also take part in a variety of fantasy sports leagues.

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.

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.

Prime Companies, Inc. provides telecommunications services to both commercial and consumer customers throughout the United States, with its primary focus in the California market. It offers various services, including prepaid telecommunications services, interconnect services, and paging and voicemail services. Prime Companies provides interconnect, voicemail, and paging services to approximately 1,000 customers, primarily in northern California. Prime Companies was founded in 1970 and is based in Anthem, Arizona.

Internap Network Services Corporation, an Internet solutions and data center company, provides a suite of network optimization, and delivery services and products that manage, deliver, and distribute applications and content. Its services and products enable customers to migrate business-critical applications from private to public networks. The company operates in two segments, IP Services and Data Center Services. The IP Services segment offers high-performance Internet connectivity services; and flow control platform, a premise-based intelligent routing hardware product for customers who run their own multiple network architectures, known as multi-homing. This segment also provides content delivery network (CDN) services that enable customers to stream and distribute rich media and content, such as video, audio software, and applications to audiences through data points of presences (POPs); and capacity-on-demand services to handle events and unanticipated traffic spikes. The Data Center Services segment offers physical space for hosting customers’ network and other equipment; and associated services, such as redundant power and network connectivity, environmental controls, and security. Internap Network Services Corporation provides its services and products through 73 Internet Protocol service points, which include 20 CDN POPs and 47 data centers across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific, as well as through 2 international standalone CDN POPs and 2 domestic standalone data center locations. It serves entertainment and media, financial services, healthcare, travel, e-commerce, retail, and technology industries. Internap Network Services Corporation was founded in 1996 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

DailyMe, Inc. was founded in 2005 by CEO Eduardo Hauser and is based in Florida. Paperboys everywhere can sleep in late today -- DailyMe.com has already delivered the news electronically. The online news source compiles news from about 500 sources, including local and national newspapers, trade journals, and wire services, and allows registered users to decide how and when they will receive their news. Users can also customize the selection of news (business, technology, world news, etc.), leave comments for other DailyMe users, and share stories via e-mail and social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.

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.

Yahoo! Inc. provides online properties and services to users; and marketing services to advertisers worldwide. Its integrated consumer experiences offerings include the Yahoo! Home Page, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Toolbar, Yahoo! Local, and Connected TV over the Web, mobile, or TV; communications offerings comprise Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, which provide a range of communication services to users and small businesses across various devices and broadband Internet access partners; communities offerings consist of Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr that enable users to organize into groups and share knowledge, common interests, and photos; search offerings include Yahoo! Search, a search technology, which provides users with a search capability with search results ranked and sorted based on relevance to the users’ search query. Yahoo! Inc. also offers media products and solutions comprising online media properties, such as Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, and Yahoo! Entertainment & Lifestyles that are designed to engage users with the online content and services on the Web; and Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Autos, and Yahoo! Small Business that enable users to research specific topics, products, services, or areas of interest by reviewing and exchanging information, obtaining contact details, considering offers from providers of goods and services, or parties with similar interests. Its Internet marketing solutions for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers include display of graphical advertisements, the display of text-based links to an advertiser’s Website, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions. In addition, the company provides a range of tools for online display advertising, including rich media, video, and targeting. Yahoo! Inc. has a strategic alliance with Nokia Corporation. Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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