Started by Michael Kinsley in 1996, Slate Magazine is owned by The Washington Post. In 2008 the magazine became part of The Washington Post's newly created Slate Group. If you find mainstream journalism a dull, cold world, you might try this online publication. Slate Magazine operates a popular Web site offering news and commentary slightly skewed for hip and erudite readers. The Internet magazine covers the arts, business, politics, sports, travel, and technology and attracts an audience of about 5 million people. The Web site is supported through advertising and sponsorships.

ClickHome operates a Web site that provides real estate services in Santa Clara, California and the surrounding Bay Area. ClickHome serves buyer and sellers of residential, commercial, and investment property. ClickHome's offerings include an online mortgage calculator, searches for available properties, and refinancing and home-selling services.

iPass was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. iPass Inc. provides enterprise mobility services that facilitate network access from mobile devices. Its enterprise mobility services include iPass Mobile Office service, which delivers 3G mobile data, Wi-Fi hotspot, wired broadband, and dial-up access services; and network services that provide customers with a dial-up network coverage and broadband coverage. The company also offers iPass Mobile Connect, a service that collects and transmits usage data and statistics from the mobile device; iPass Mobile Insight to report and analyze mobile usage across networks, connections, and devices; iPass Mobile Control, a policy enforcement service; and iPass Mobile Network, a virtual network that offers broadband access. In addition, it provides site-to-site managed network services to enterprises through its iPass Branch Office that offers a managed wide-area network to connect small offices with corporate data centers; and iPass Retail Office, which provides wide-area networking for distributed retail locations to connect to a corporate data center. Further, the company offers iPass Virtual Office that provides managed fixed broadband for teleworkers, as well as offers professional services. iPass Inc. offers its services worldwide directly through its sales force, as well as through network service providers, telecommunications carriers, systems integrators, and value added resellers.

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.

PlusNet is looking for people who want to add more data to their lives. Founded in 1996, PlusNet company provides Internet access services to more than 200,000 residential and business customers in the UK, with about half of those signed up for broadband service. Other services include voice-over IP telephony and wireless broadband. Sales are made through various brands including PlusNet, Force9, and Free-Online. PlusNet plc is a subsidiary of BT Group.

Demand Media knows that Web branding is in demand. Attracting more than 85 million visitors each month, the company operates through a variety of Web-related enterprises that exist to help drive Web traffic to its clients' sites. Subsidiaries include domain-name wholesaler eNom and Pluck, a blog syndicator and provider of social media tools used for integrating websites. Other Demand Media websites include niche Web content provider eHow, humor site Cracked.com, and Trails.com, a site catering to outdoor enthusiasts. It also produces online video and written articles through its Demand Studios business, which employs freelancers to provide content for its websites. Demand Media filed for an IPO in mid-2010.

SINA is an online media company and MVAS provider in the People’s Republic of China and the global Chinese communities. With a branded network of localized websites targeting Greater China and overseas Chinese, SINA Corporation provides services through five major business lines including SINA.com (online news and content), SINA Mobile (MVAS), SINA Community (Web 2.0-based services and games), SINA.net (search and enterprise services) and SINA E-Commerce (online shopping). Together these business lines provide an array of services including region-focused online portals, MVAS, search and directory, interest-based and community-building channels, free and premium email, blog services, audio and video streaming, game community services, classified listings, fee-based services, e-commerce and enterprise e-solutions. SINA Corporation generates the majority of its revenues from online advertising and MVAS offerings and, to a lesser extent, from search and fee-based services.

Ziff Davis, Inc. is a leading digital media company specializing in the technology market. One of the first tech media publishing companies to build and grow dedicated, digital businesses, Ziff Davis, Inc. is a name trusted by an ever-growing population of unique online visitors. In the United States, we are most recognized by our award-winning online technology network. Ziff Davis, Inc. also has a strong international presence, with brands represented in 45 countries and in 17 languages.We distinguish ourselves from our competitors through comprehensive evaluations of the newest and hottest products in The PCMag Labs, as well as through our relationships with recognized industry experts and the thought-provoking reviews, opinions and insights of our editors. Ziff Davis, Inc's sites are the first stop for many consumers and imminent buyers searching for trusted buying advice. We provide our well-educated, influential buying audience with the information they need to make important purchasing decisions. Reaching more than 30 million tech buyers, visitors and attendees, Ziff Davis, Inc. provides total market coverage of SMB/consumer technology enthusiasts through our portfolio of award-winning brands. At the same time, our advanced online contextual marketing solutions enable marketers to more easily target imminent technology buyers and achieve significantly higher response. Ziff Davis, Inc. has offices in New York City and San Francisco.

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.

Since everyone, including Dick and Harry, have Internet firms, TOM Group has moved beyond the Web. The company began with portal Web sites targeting audiences in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; but after the dot-com bust it expanded to also include publishing ("Business Weekly" and "PC Home"), outdoor advertising (billboards, street-level signs, bus bodies), and television (through Chinese satellite channel China Entertainment Television, CETV). The company operates its Web holdings through subsidiary TOM Online. Previously active in sports marketing, TOM Group exited that business in 2007 in order to focus its resources on its four other business groups.

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