Onvia was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. For more than 12 years Onvia (NASDAQ: ONVI), the gBusiness Innovator, has been successfully delivering the research, analytics and tools companies rely on to succeed in gBusiness – the intersection of business and government and a $5.5 trillion market. Onvia tracks, analyzes and reports the spending of more than 89,000 federal, state and local government agencies, giving companies a single source for conducting open, intelligent and efficient business with government. Along with providing an exclusive suite of integrated business tools for a wide variety of industries, Onvia offers DemandStar, the automated system that streamlines agency procurement processes, and Recovery.org, a free website that tracks Recovery Act-funded projects.

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.

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.

Since 1995, when it launched the first car-buying website, Autobytel Inc.'s (Nasdaq: ABTL) mission has been to empower automotive consumers with the best available tools and information they need to make smart, well-informed vehicle purchasing and ownership decisions. By providing a convenient and comprehensive online automotive experience for in-market car shoppers, and then connecting those shoppers with its nationwide network of automotive dealers, the company has helped millions of consumers find the vehicle they want and generated billions of dollars in car sales for dealers. Through its extensive marketing network, Autobytel provides dealers and manufacturers with advanced web-based advertising and marketing programs, as well as opportunities to build relationships with customers and programs to efficiently manage and convert online business.

OnRamp Access, Inc. company, which serves clients primarily in central Texas, got its start in 1994 as a mall kiosk staffed by husband-and-wife co-founders Chad and Elisa Kissinger. OnRamp Access encourages its customers to drop the hammer as they get their business technology up to speed. OnRamp Access company offers a number of broadband services, including dial-up, ISDN, and T-1 Internet access, as well as data colocation and server management at its Austin data center. OnRamp also has a Web development department that has provided design and programming for more than 700 Web sites for the likes of James Avery Craftsman and the Texas Railroad Commission. Other data services include disaster recovery and data backup.

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.

SciQuest, Inc. provides software-as-a-service procurement automation and supplier enablement solutions. It offers Sourcing Manager, an on-demand bid management solution; Eprocurement online, a suite of procurement automation solutions; Materials Management solution that manages on-site stockroom inventory; and Settlement Manager, an invoicing and settlement solution that automates and streamlines receiving, matching, and invoicing processes. SciQuest, Inc. also provides Spend Analytics, a spend management solution; supplier network and managed services; implementation services for procurement automation; and a Procurement Business Assessment service, which enables life sciences companies to measure, envision, and plan the roadmap for procurement operations. In addition, it offers HigherMarkets Express for Banner, a suite of eprocurement solution that enables schools to realize the benefits of a strategic approach to procurement while increasing the value of existing systems. SciQuest serves education, healthcare, life sciences, and government organizations. SciQuest, Inc. was formerly known as SciQuest.com, Inc. and changed its name to SciQuest, Inc. in 2001. SciQuest, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Cary, North Carolina.

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.

eDiets.com, Inc. engages in developing and marketing Internet-based diet and fitness programs to consumers and businesses primarily in North America. It offers various digital subscription-based diet plans according to an individual’s weight goals, food and cooking preferences, and related shopping lists and recipes; and subscription-based weight loss oriented meal delivery services, as well as interactive online information, communities, education, and telephone and online support services. The company also provides message boards on various topics of interest to subscribers, such as online meetings presented by licensed mental health counselors, registered dietitians, and certified fitness trainers. In addition, it offers private label online nutrition, fitness, and wellness programs to health insurance, pharmaceutical, and food industries; and operates a Web site, eDiets.com, which provides content in the areas of diet and nutrition, fitness, mind and body, health, and food and recipes, as well as plans, designs, and develops private-label nutrition Web sites. eDiets.com, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. provides Internet content and application delivery services to businesses, government agencies, and other enterprises in the People's of Republic of China. It offers Web page content services that allow Website operators to enhance the performance and reliability of Websites; file transfer services to download and upload content; rich media streaming services; guaranteed application services, which are designed for Websites that incorporate applications having dynamic features, such as online booking and ordering, real-time stock quotes, and online surveys; managed Internet data services to meet customers' needs for content and application delivery, network infrastructure, and network security; ChinaCache cloud services that are designed to meet customers’ needs for cloud computing and network storage; and content bridging services to bridge Internet content exchanges amongst networks, as well as technical consultation services. ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. company also provides various value-added services, such as geo-content acceleration service, performance evaluation module, scalable service routing service, link anti-hijack service, netstorage service, user behavior analysis service, and Website performance evaluation service. In addition, it offers customer-tailored integrated solutions, including online media, mobile Internet, online games, e-commerce, and Internet and software services. ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's of Republic of China.

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