Baidu, Inc. provides Chinese and Japanese language Internet search services. Its search services enable users to find relevant information online, including Web pages, news, images, multimedia files, and blogs through the links provided on its Websites. Baidu also offers online community-based products and entertainment platforms; an instant messaging service; and a consumer-oriented e-commerce platform. In addition, it designs and delivers online marketing services and auction-based P4P services that enable its customers to reach users who search for information related to their products or services. Baidu serves online marketing customers consisting of small and medium sized enterprises, large domestic corporations, and Chinese divisions or subsidiaries of multinational corporations primarily operating in the medical, machinery, education, franchising, electronic products, e-commerce, ticketing, tourism, information technology, consumer products, real estate, entertainment, and financial services industries. It sells its online marketing services directly, as well as through its distribution network. Baidu was formerly known as Baidu.com, Inc. and changed its name to Baidu, Inc. in December 2008. Baidu, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

NetEase.com, Inc., an Internet technology company, engages in the development of applications, services, and other technologies for the Internet in China. It provides online game services to Internet users through the in-house development or licensing of massively multi-player online role-playing games, including Fantasy Westward Journey, Westward Journey Online II, Westward Journey Online III, Tianxia II, Heroes of Tang Dynasty, and Datang, as well as the licensed game, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft. The company also offers online advertising on its Web sites. In addition, NetEase has paid listings on its search engine and Web directory, and classified advertising services, as well as an online mall, which provides opportunities for e-commerce and traditional businesses to establish their own storefront on the Internet. Further, it provides wireless value-added services, such as news and information content, matchmaking services, music, and photos from the Web over SMS, MMS, WAP, IVR, and Color Ring-back Tone technologies. Additionally, the company offers community services, including instant messaging, online personal advertisements, matchmaking, alumni clubs, and community forums; and aggregates news content on world events, sports, science and technology, and financial markets, as well as entertainment content, such as cartoons, games, astrology, and jokes from over 100 international and domestic content providers. NetEase.com, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

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.

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.

Educational Directories Unlimited (EDU) provides a wide range of information on colleges and universities available through an online service, helping prospective students make educated decisions about where to continue their education. Educational Directories Unlimited owns and operates sites such as StudyAbroad.com, GradSchools.com, and CollegeAbroad.com. EDU can trace its roots to 1982, when president and founder Mark Shay began to offer campus marketing services while an engineering student at Syracuse.

Local.com Corporation provides local search services on the Internet. It operates Local.com, a local business directory site that provides information on approximately 14 million local businesses. Local.com Corporation also provides local search services on its local syndication network of regional media sites for which it offers business directories and associated services, as well as provides sales and advertiser services. Local.com Corporation offers proprietary search results using its patented technologies, as well as monetizes those search results by placing sponsored listings on the search results page. Its sponsored listings comprise subscription, cost-per-click, cost-per-call, and display ads from its own direct advertisers and third-party advertiser sources. Local.com Corporation was formerly known as Interchange Corporation and changed its name to Local.com Corporation in November 2006. Local.com Corporation was founded in 1999 and is based in Irvine, California.

The Durable Data Corporation, which does business as DDC, provides Internet connections and a range of more advanced data hosting and management services primarily to business clients in Texas. Durable Data Corporation offers dynamic and dedicated Internet access, domain registration, e-mail scanning, spam blocking, Web Hosting, and data and server colocation services. Digital Design also provides a variety of information technology services such as systems integration and installation.

Tencent Holdings Limited was founded in 1999. This company puts its pennies into Internet services. Tencent is a provider of Internet and instant messaging (IM) services to consumers in China. Users of its QC IM platform can communicate by text, images, audio, video, and email, and also partake in Tencent's mobile games, personals, content downloads, and other value-added services. More than 480 million QC users currently have active accounts. Tencent also operates Internet portal QQ.com, the QQ Game portal, multi-media social networking service Qzone, and PaiPai.com, a Chinese Internet shopping site.

Socket Holdings Corporation company, formed in 1994 by CEO George Pfeneger and CTO John Dupuy, serves more than 20,000 customers in 400 cities in Missouri. Socket Holdings helps customers in Missouri plug in to the Internet. Socket provides residential and business Internet access, data networking, and Web hosting services, as well as local and long-distance phone service for businesses.

Online Resources Corporation provides outsource and Web-and phone-based financial technology services to financial institution, biller, card issuer, and creditor clients in the United States. The company offers an integrated suite of Web-based account presentation, payment, relationship management, and professional services. Its account presentation services enable in viewing transaction histories and account balances; reviewing and retrieving current and past statements; transferring funds and balances; initiating or scheduling either one-time or recurring payments; accessing and maintaining account information; and providing cash management services. The company’s payments services comprise Web-based bill payment services, remittance services, a suit of payment options, and real-time account debit services. Its relationship management services consist of customer care services; and professional services comprise customized software applications, such as account opening and lending for financial institution clients, which enable them to acquire consumers via the Web channel; implementation services that convert existing data and integrate with the client’s legacy host system or third party core processor; ongoing maintenance of client specific applications or interfaces; and customization of applications, training of client personnel, and information reporting and analysis. The company‘s third party services include bill payment and account retrieval, check ordering, inter-institution funds transfer and account aggregation, check imaging, and electronic statement services. Online Resources Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

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