Altnet distributes digital content such as music, video, games, software, and other digital files to PC users through a subscription-based download service. Brilliant Digital also owns the Kazaa subscription-based digital music service, which it jointly operates through a partnership with Internet marketing firm Atrinsic. Kazaa allows users to download an unlimited amount of music files for one monthly fee. In 2010 Atrinsic announced plans to acquire Brilliant Digital's Kazaa assets. Not sure how brilliant digital entertainment gets to your PC? Brilliant Digital Entertainment operates a peer-to-peer network through its Altnet subsidiary (jointly owned with technology firm Joltid).

Tech Wire Media Group takes a low-tech approach to high-tech news. The group publishes e-newsletters, Web sites, and hosts trade shows and conferences for the technology industry. Its five free, regional daily e-newsletters offer headlines, job listings, and event postings in a straightforward, text-only style. The group has three news Web sites: Capital Beat, which covers public policy and financial news in Washington D.C.; Silicon Valley Wire, for tech news in Northern California; and Digital Media Wire, a news service for the music, entertainment, and high-tech industries. Finally, it hosts annual conferences and events such as the Digital Media Conference and the Venture Capital Outlook.

iVillage was founded in 1995. NBCU acquired the business for $600 million in 2006. iVillage offers a cyber retreat for the female Web surfer. The NBC Universal (NBCU)-owned network of websites aims to be the leading online destination for women. The iVillage Network blends expert opinion on a variety of topics (pregnancy and parenting, beauty and style, home and garden, entertainment, and food) with community features (message boards and blogs). In addition to its flagship portal, iVillage operates sites such as iVillage UK, the Health Video Network, GardenWeb, and Astrology.com. A majority of revenue comes from online advertising.

EasyStreet Online Services, Inc. was founded in 1995 by president Rich Bader. EasyStreet Online Services wants to make it easier than ever to manage your online presence. The company offers Internet access and other data services to small and midsized businesses in Oregon. It provides dial-up, dedicated, and DSL connections, as well as Web hosting, data center services, colocation, and network monitoring. EasyStreet pairs its core offerings with a variety of related services such as anti-spam, anti-virus, and digital backup offerings.

The Hoover's website features a database of information on more than 65 million corporations and organizations, and more than 85 million people. Offering both free and for-pay content, the firm focuses on selling subscriptions (the majority of its revenues) to marketing, sales, and business development professionals. Hoover's also publishes its information in reference books. The company is a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). If you're reading this sentence, you know where to go for company data. Hoover's, the publisher of this profile, offers proprietary business information through the Internet, data feeds, wireless devices, and co-branding agreements with other online services.

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.

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.

Riding the rapids of wireless communications, SkyRiver Communications provides wireless broadband services with a focus on multiple-user environments such as office buildings, hotels, and restaurants primarily in Southern California. SkyRiver offers such services as Wi-Fi and fixed wireless, as well as other Internet services such as Web hosting, network security, and email. SkyRiver Communications company's customers have included hotel chains such as Pacifica Host Hotels. SkyRiver's service area includes parts of Los Angeles, San Diego, Ventura, Oxnard, and Orange County.

MyWire was founded in 2002 by chairman and CEO Louis Borders (who also founded Borders Books and WebVan). MyWire (formerly KeepMedia) lets you browse hundreds of magazine articles at the click of a mouse. The company's basic service provides free registration-based browsing and searching capabilities with links to Web content including articles, video, and images. Users can also build custom channels to track their interests and then share the work with friends. The company's online subscription-based service, MyWire Reference Collection, includes thousands of encyclopedic entries from publishers such as Oxford University Press.

NetDragon Websoft Inc. was established in 1999. Gamers looking to conjure magic, slay dragons, fight wars, and rule fantasy worlds online might turn to NetDragon Websoft. The company is a leading Chinese Internet game developer and operator with a portfolio of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or MMORPGs, in which a large number of players interact within a virtual game world. NetDragon's titles include Era of Faith, Eudemons Online, Heroes of Might and Magic Online, and Monster & Me. It also has several interactive, online games under development. To attract more players, its games are free to play online; revenues are generated from selling virtual items, such as performance-enhancing game upgrades.

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