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Johnson & Johnson owns BabyCenter, which was founded in 1997 by Matt Glickman and Mark Selcow. BabyCenter company was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2001. If the parenting information you're getting from other sources is a bit too infantile, turn to BabyCenter. BabyCenter company operates Web sites for parents of infants and young children. Its BabyCenter.com, Baby.com, and Pregnancy.com sites contain content for parents of offspring from pre-conception through age eight. The sites also include the BabyCenter Community feature for interactive communication, advice, and support. BabyCenter additionally has several international sites, and a retail partnership with Diapers.com to sell clothing and baby products online.

Jacada (NASDAQ: JCDAD) is a leading provider of unified desktop and process optimization software solutions for the customer service and support market. Our products and services are focused on two of the most important issues facing companies in today's uncertain marketplace – customer retention and cost reduction. Jacada projects often deploy in less than six months, and our customers can realize a complete return on investment within 12 months of deployment.Jacada unified service desktop solutions simplify and automate customer service processes – bridging disconnected systems into a single, intelligent workspace, without requiring modification or replacement of existing systems. Contact centers worldwide are using award-winning Jacada unified desktop solutions to automate complex processes, improve customer satisfaction and loyalty, reduce operational costs, and enforce and monitor compliance with regulatory policies and procedures. Our solutions empower customer services operations to "deliver the perfect interaction." Founded in 1990, Jacada operates globally with offices in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East.

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.

We at Bankrate, Inc. have over three decades' experience in financial publishing. Bankrate was born in 1976 as "Bank Rate Monitor," a print publisher for the banking industry. The "Bank Rate Monitor" newsletter we originally distributed contained much of the same rate research and information we're known for and respected for today. After two decades of conducting quality, trusted rate research, we took our product to the Web, expanded our offerings and made our online debut in 1996. Since then, we have increased our site traffic to over 7 million monthly unique visitors, expanded our distribution outlets, added new content channels and continually strive to provide a better, more comprehensive consumer experience. Today, Bankrate, Inc. is the Web's leading aggregator of financial rate information, offering an unparalleled depth and breadth of rate data and financial content. Bankrate continually surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide clear, objective, and unbiased rates to consumers. Our flagship Web site, Bankrate.com, provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.In addition to rate data, we publish original and objective personal finance stories to help consumers make informed financial decisions. Our staff of award winning reporters and editors provides expert advice on just about every major financial decision facing our readers: from purchasing their first home, to selecting a new car, to saving for retirement. Hundreds of print publications depend on Bankrate as the trusted source for financial rates and information, including 8 of the top 10 newspapers in the country. And we're in broadcast: "The Bankrate.com Personal Finance Minute" plays over 200 times per day on XM Satellite Radio and you will see our data frequently referenced on "CNN Headline News," "ABC News" and many other major broadcast news outlets.

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.

Yahoo! Inc. provides online properties and services to users; and marketing services to advertisers worldwide. Its integrated consumer experiences offerings include the Yahoo! Home Page, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Toolbar, Yahoo! Local, and Connected TV over the Web, mobile, or TV; communications offerings comprise Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, which provide a range of communication services to users and small businesses across various devices and broadband Internet access partners; communities offerings consist of Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr that enable users to organize into groups and share knowledge, common interests, and photos; search offerings include Yahoo! Search, a search technology, which provides users with a search capability with search results ranked and sorted based on relevance to the users’ search query. Yahoo! Inc. also offers media products and solutions comprising online media properties, such as Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, and Yahoo! Entertainment & Lifestyles that are designed to engage users with the online content and services on the Web; and Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Autos, and Yahoo! Small Business that enable users to research specific topics, products, services, or areas of interest by reviewing and exchanging information, obtaining contact details, considering offers from providers of goods and services, or parties with similar interests. Its Internet marketing solutions for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers include display of graphical advertisements, the display of text-based links to an advertiser’s Website, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions. In addition, the company provides a range of tools for online display advertising, including rich media, video, and targeting. Yahoo! Inc. has a strategic alliance with Nokia Corporation. Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Great Works Internet was founded in 1994 as Biddeford Internet. Great Works Internet feels that connecting to the Web is no small matter. The company, known as GWI, provides Internet services to customers in Maine and areas of New Hampshire. The company serves more than 60,000 residential and business customers with dial-up and broadband connection services. GWI offers other residential services including Internet telephony, while providing such business-oriented services as Web site, email, and data server hosting, as well as online access for local cable operators.

CariNet shoulders some of the load for businesses with heavy data requirements. A "cloud" (or Internet-based) computing provider, the company provides managed data and hosting services for business and Internet service providers from its five data centers. CariNet also provides e-commerce services, as well as colocation and broadband Internet access to customers in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Southern California businesses through its Complex Drive division. Additional services and products include backup, firewalls and security, IP addresses, and switches.

Formed in 1995, the company traces its roots to director of meteorology Jeff Masters' PhD work at the University of Michigan and takes its name from a Bob Dylan song. Want to know the weather for your upcoming ski vacation or how volcanoes effect climate change? The Weather Underground's wunderground.com Web site won't rain on your parade. The company draws climate data from more than 13,000 personal weather stations worldwide. Features of the site include zip code searches, radar and satellite images, historical weather data, and Webcams showing more than 2,000 locations globally. The Weather Underground also provides updates to newspapers and TV stations and offers weather packages for other Web sites.

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