LinkedIn Corporation is backed by venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as individuals such as Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Netscape and chairman of Opsware), Joe Kraus (co-founder of Excite), and Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal). Feeling a bit disconnected? LinkedIn wants to help. LinkedIn Corporation is an online business network designed to help professionals find jobs, people, and service providers. It is also offers career management tools. LinkedIn Corporation has grown to reach approximately 80 million users in some 200 countries since its founding in 2003. LinkedIn is free to join; it also offers a paid premium membership with additional tools, and sells advertising.

Shopzilla was founded in 1996 by entrepreneurs Farhad Mohit and Henri Asseily, and David Reibstein, former vice dean of The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. Shopzilla is a subsidiary of Scripps Network Interactive. No need to fear Shopzilla. It's not a monster, but a shopping search engine that lists more than 80 million products from tens of thousands of retailers. Shopzilla offers clothes, electronics, and other consumer items to more than 40 million shoppers through a variety of websites and brands, including bizrate, Shopzilla, and beso in the US; Shopzilla.co.uk and bizrate.co.uk in the UK; Shopzilla.fr and PrixMoinsCher.fr in France; and Shopzilla.de and SparDeinGeld.de in Germany.

Vertro, Inc., an Internet company that owns and operates the ALOT product portfolio primarily in the United States. The company offers ALOT toolbar, homepage, and desktop applications, which are designed to make the Internet easy for consumers by providing direct access to affinity content and search results. It markets its products under the ALOT brand name. The company was formerly known as MIVA, Inc. and changed its name to Vertro, Inc. in June 2009. Vertro, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in New York, New York.

Axia NetMedia wants to reach out to small-town citizens. Axia NetMedia Corporation designs, develops, and operates broadband networks for clients in both urban and rural areas. Its Real Broadband Services unit builds and operates high-speed computer networks for voice, video, and data. Axia NetMedia also offers Intelligence Online, a partnership with Galileo Educational Network that helps K-12 teachers use technology to enhance their teaching abilities. Having set up a broadband network in the Canadian province of Alberta, Axia NetMedia Corporation is developing a similar network for Labrador and Newfoundland, and is pursuing overseas opportunities. Axia NetMedia gets about 80% of its revenues in North America.

Ultima Networks, Inc. is a local Internet Service Provider that has been serving the Salinas Valley since February of 1996. Ultima Networks, Inc. acquired SalinasNet, Inc. and Ultima Tool of San Francisco in July, 1998. Ultima Networks is locally owned and operated, and is a family run business. Scott Nelson founded the company in November of 1995 (as SalinasNet, Inc.) with partners, Tom Nelson, Mary Nelson and Timothy Ryan. Ultima Networks strives to provide the highest quality Internet services to its customers. Our mission is to provide you with the attention and support that a smaller, local company can provide. If there is any way in which we can serve you better, please do not hesitate to let us know.

GALA Incorporated is one of Japan's largest operators of online communities and services (bulletin boards, chat rooms) through a series of Web sites with topics ranging from travel to automobiles. GALA also provides online games, a segment that has grown to make up the bulk of the company's business. GALA Incorporated offers data mining and information analysis services for corporate clients through its e-mining and BUZZ Report subsidiaries. In addition to Japan, Toho operates in other Asian countries, as well as in Europe and the US. In Japan, surfing the Web is a GALA affair.

Tucows Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides Internet services worldwide. The company offers reseller services, including domain services, email services, personal names service, SSL digital certificates, and platypus ISP billing solutions. It also provides domain names through YummyNames, a portfolio of various classes of domain names, such as gems, premium names, direct navigation names, and surname. In addition, it offers various retail services, such as domain registration, email, and other Internet services through Hover.com. Further, Tucows company provides content services through tucows.com, a directory site offering reviews of and links to approximately 40,000 shareware, freeware, and demo software packages; and butterscotch.com that provides television-like shows and video tutorials designed to visually teach users about technology and the Internet. Tucows Inc. provides domain name registration, security, and identity products through digital certificates; and email through its global Internet-based distribution network of Internet service providers, Web hosting companies, and other providers of Internet services. Tucows company was formerly known as Infonautics, Inc. and changed its name to Tucows Inc. in August 2001. Tucows was founded in 1992 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

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.

WGSN was founded in 1998 by former British textile entrepreneurs, brothers Julian and Marc Worth, and is owned by UK trade publisher Emap. Fashion buyers and designers don't need to leave their desks to see the latest collections -- they can do it right from their PCs through the Worth Global Style Network (WGSN). WGSN offers subscription access to apparel, style, design, and retail industry news, as well as reviews, trend reports, and market analysis. The service is targeted at buyers, designers, retailers, marketers, and industry analysts; it has some 36,000 customers. Sister site WGSN-edu.com offers a time-delayed version of the service to fashion and design students for free.

Founded in 1996, Claranet has evolved from being a pioneering ISP (Internet Service Provider) into an MSP (Managed Services Provider) with annual revenues of around €100 million. We have 520 employees with an international footprint in six countries and although Claranet has grown internationally, the focus has always been on local service, out of local offices, using local data centres. Claranet brings together the best people, process and technology to provide flexible, secure and cost-effective managed services that guarantee network and application performance. We allow customers to focus on their core business, not IT management.

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