FriendFinder Networks (formerly Penthouse Media Group) owns and operates a variety of social networking websites, including FriendFinder.com, AdultFriendFinder.com, Amigos.com, and AsiaFriendFinder.com. All total, its sites are offered to some 245 million members in some 170 countries. The company also publishes the venerable adult magazine PENTHOUSE, and produces adult video content and images. It began focusing on the Web when it acquired Various (doing business as FriendFinder) in 2007. The following year the company changed its name from Penthouse Media Group to FriendFinder Networks. In 2010 it postponed plans to go public.

The Enta Group was founded in 1990 by chairman and managing director Jason Tsai and three other employees. Entanet provides business-class voice and data connectivity services such as broadband Internet access, Web hosting, colocation, and virtual private networks (VPNs). The company primarily serves corporate customers in the UK, relying on channel partners to sell it's proucts. Part of the Enta Group of firms, Entanet has sister companies that provide related services such as e-commerce services (Enta Online), interactive communications (Enta Media), and hardware and software distribution (Entatech). In 2006 the company merged with sister company Entacall to provide converged data and voice solutions.

Tencent Holdings Limited was founded in 1999. This company puts its pennies into Internet services. Tencent is a provider of Internet and instant messaging (IM) services to consumers in China. Users of its QC IM platform can communicate by text, images, audio, video, and email, and also partake in Tencent's mobile games, personals, content downloads, and other value-added services. More than 480 million QC users currently have active accounts. Tencent also operates Internet portal QQ.com, the QQ Game portal, multi-media social networking service Qzone, and PaiPai.com, a Chinese Internet shopping site.

China Real Estate Information Corporation (or "CRIC") is a leading provider of real estate information, consulting and online services in China. We began operations in 2006 as E-House (China) Holdings Limited's real estate information and consulting business unit, and in October 2009, merged with SINA Corporation's online real estate business following the completion of our initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "CRIC".Initially created as an internal resource to support E-House's real estate services, the CRIC system is an advanced and comprehensive real estate information database and analysis system that we have been operating in-house since 2001. As of June 30, 2010, we provide real estate data through CRIC system that cover more than 80 cities and over 46,200 developments or buildings and over 49,600 parcels of land for development throughout China.

Founded in 1992 by chairman Dick Green, Briefing.com operates offices in London, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco. Let's face it: Nobody likes market analysis to be long-winded. Briefing.com offers live, objective market analysis of US and international equity markets. Briefing.com company's services, which are primarily offered via a subscription fee, target traders and individual and professional investors, and include stock tracking, news summaries, and market commentary. Each trading day Briefing.com delivers real-time analysis to nearly one million visitors from more than 20 different countries. Briefing.com provides content to partners such as Charles Schwab, Reuters, MSN, Forbes, and Yahoo! Finance.

Index Holdings keeps its finger on the pulse of cutting-edge media technology in Japan. The holding company owns a number of businesses that develop technology for cell phone content. It also produces and distributes multimedia products, such as Web sites, games, video, and advertising. Other subsidiaries (including Atlus U.S.A.) publish video games, animation, films, books, and magazines, and Index Communications operates mail order and brick-and-mortar stores to sell its tangible products. Index Holdings also offers its mobile content in China (through China Mobile) and in France (through Index Multimedia, which is traded on the Euronext Paris). The company even owns a French soccer team, Grenoble Foot 38.

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.

Global NAPs Networks provides Internet access, leased line transport, and network colocation services to companies nationwide. The company, which acts as a "middle man" between local and national carriers and the smaller phone companies and ISPs that connect to them via the Global NAPS network, offers service in 17 mostly eastern US states. Global NAPS is embroiled in ongoing legal disputes (some dating back to 2003) in several states with industry leaders AT&T and Verizon, as well as smaller regional players like FairPoint, over tens of millions in connection fees allegedly owed by the company. Global NAPS has disputed the charges, but the court battles have resulted in termination of its services in some areas.

The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm that provides business information focused on corporate boards of directors and officers. It covers more than 5,400 companies, including the largest North American public companies along with many international businesses. The company also offers company reports and risk assessment tools. Nell Minow (chairman and editor) and Robert A.G. Monks founded The Corporate Library in 1999. The company expanded its overseas coverage with the acquisition of GovernanceMetrics International (GMI) in 2010. The Corporate Library and GMI are together owned by Governance Holdings Co.

Access US provides dial-up, DSL, and dedicated Internet access to consumers and businesses in the Midwest. The ISP also provides Web site development, email, and Web hosting services, as well as managed firewall services. Its managed services for business clients include data and network hosting, disaster recovery, network security management, and co-location. Access US serves residential and small-business subscribers primarily in communities around St. Louis. President and chairman Victor Mattison and CEO Rob Semaan, who met as students at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Business, founded Access US company in 1995.

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