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.

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.

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.

ServiceMagic helps you hire residential contractors with the click of a mouse -- presto! The company operates an online marketplace where homeowners can find information about qualified contractors and service professionals in their area and post projects and service requests for contractors to bid on. The company fields requests for services in more than 700 categories, including bathroom remodeling, locksmiths, and handymen. It has more than 70,000 pre-screened businesses, many of which are rated by customers, that pay fees for leads received as a result of the service. Co-Chairmen and former CEOs Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice started ServiceMagic in 1998. It was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2004.

DIYonline.com, Inc. provides user generated content in addition to it's how-to guides, helpful articles, and design tools. Its Designer Series Software provides a personalized Specification Kit that includes an installation guide, a suggested materials list, fulfillment services, contractor locators and referrals, and financing sources. From front door to back porch Do-It-Yourself-ers can find a little help at DIYOnline.com. The company's Web site offers home improvement project ideas, design tools, and other information and services that aid in home improvement.

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.

Weather Decision Technologies (WDT) offers weather data and related technologies to local news stations, online weather sites, and other weather services organizations that provide information to consumers. Its offerings include iMap Weather, a customizable weather map designed for integration into customer Web sites; iWatch, a severe weather monitoring and alert system; as well as forecasting technologies, real-time lightening tracking systems, and other products. Operating in the US and abroad, WDT has served CNN, ABC, The Weather Channel, and Bonnier, among other customers. CEO Michael Eiltsa co-founded the company in 1999.

TechTarget, Inc. provides specialized online content that brings together buyers and sellers of corporate information technology (IT) products. TechTarget company sells customized marketing programs that enable IT vendors to reach corporate IT decision makers who are researching specific IT purchases. As of October 19, 2010, it operated a network of approximately 80 Web sites, which focus on a specific IT sector, such as storage, security, or networking. The company’s online offerings include in-person events and specialized IT magazines, which enable advertisers to engage buyers in their decision-making process for IT purchases. Its registered members also conduct pre-purchase research by accessing vendor content, such as white papers, Web casts, video casts, virtual events, and pod casts. In addition, TechTarget’s network of Web sites allows users to interact and contribute content during their research process. TechTarget, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Knobias, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides financial information and data services. The company’s products include Knobias+Plus, a desktop platform that offers users with financial data, news, and a suite of due diligence tools. Knobias+Plus contains RAIDAR, a real-time news delivery product sourced from 80+ feeds, screeners, fundamental, calendars, technical’s, sort, search and filter information based on portfolio, sector, industry, and set up email alerts among other tools and characteristics. It also provides Morning+Plus, a daily email service designed to give an institution’s clients a white-labeled information product. In addition, it offers PipeTRAC that provides transaction details, participant profiles, rankings, analysis tools, and placements in public companies specific alerts. Knobias company’s products also include SmallCap Sleepers, which delivers timely independent small cap information to professional investors; Issuer Services that offers Web site, data and conference call hosting, press release distribution, and market awareness programs to public companies and their investor relations professionals; and Data for integration into client’s institutional platforms and Web sites. It develops and compiles financial databases, information systems, tools, and products, which track approximately 16,000 U.S. securities. Knobias, Inc. markets its products to individual investors, day-traders, financial oriented Websites, public issuers, brokers, professional traders, and institutional investors. Knobias, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Pleasantville, New York.

Zix Corporation provides Internet-based applications in a Software-as-a-Service model to connect, protect, and deliver information, enabling the use of the Internet for applications requiring security in the healthcare, finance, insurance, and government sectors primarily in the United States. It operates in two segments, Email Encryption and e-Prescribing. The Email Encryption segment provides secure messaging services, which allow an enterprise to use policy-driven rules to determine which emails should be sent securely to comply with regulations or corporate policy. This segment also provides a solution that analyzes and encrypts email communications. Its services provide users the ability to deliver encrypted email to any email user at any email address by using the ZixCorp Best Method of Delivery protocol that automatically determines the means of delivery, based on the sender’s and recipient’s communications environment and preferences. The e-Prescribing segment offers PocketScript, an electronic prescribing service that allows physicians to use a handheld device to prescribe drugs and transmit the prescription electronically to pharmacies. This segment distributes its e-Prescribing solution directly to physicians and healthcare institutions. Zix Corporation was formerly known as ZixIt Corporation and changed its name to Zix Corporation in 2002. Zix Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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