YouTube was founded in 2005 by Steve Chen (former CTO) and Chad Hurley (former CEO). Today it is a subsidiary of Internet search giant Google. YouTube is definitely not your father's method of sharing video footage. The company has amassed a collection of more than 100 million video clips, many of which feature user generated content, which it broadcasts online via its Web site at YouTube.com. With about 70 million unique visitors a month in the US (and the sixth-largest audience on the Web), it has become the clear leader in online video sharing. YouTube earns revenue by selling advertising, and has partnership deals with content providers such as CBS, Warner Music Group, and the NBA.

Salon Media Group, Inc. operates as an Internet media company. Salon Media Group operates salon.com, a content Web site with various subject-specific sections, which includes two online communities and a social network. It updates an array of news, features, interviews, columnists, and blogs, including news and politics, opinion, technology and business, arts and entertainment, movie page, life, books, comics, and environment and science. The company’s Web site also offers investigative stories and personal essays along with commentary and staff-written Weblogs about politics, technology, culture, and entertainment. Its online communities include The Well and Table Talk, which allow users to discuss Salon content and interact with other users. Salon Media Group, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Strategic Forecasting, Inc. was founded in 1996 by national security and intelligence expert Dr. George Friedman. Strategic Forecasting, which does business as Stratfor, publishes global intelligence information through its subscription-based Web site, Stratfor.com. The site's content (geopolitical analysis, industry and country forecasts, terrorism intelligence, and real-time situation reports) is designed to help businesses, trade associations, government agencies, and individuals reduce risk and identify business opportunities. Stratfor offerings include online subscriptions to content, as well as custom-tailored consulting projects. It also provides weekly intelligence reports via e-mails based on geopolitics and security.

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).

Media Corporation plc is one of the UK’s leading companies in internet media, focused on website publishing and online advertising. Founded in March 2000 and listed on the London Stock Exchange, Media Corp’s vision is to create a technology focused internet media group. This goal will be realised through a combination of sustained organic growth and strategic acquisitions. The Group has two principal divisions: website publishing and online advertising. Following is information regarding these two divisions.

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.

CGI Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides information technology services (IT) and business process services in Canada, the United States, India, Europe, and Asia Pacific. CGI Group provides systems integration and consulting services in the areas of business intelligence and data warehousing, business transformation, change management, collaborative technologies, compliance process and reporting, customer relationship management, data management services, enterprise content management, enterprise resource planning, enterprise risk management, management consulting, spend management, service oriented architecture, and supply chain management. It also offers application-specific services, including application development, application transformation and modernization, enterprise application integration, and enterprise testing and quality services. In addition, CGI provides managed application services covering service planning and monitoring, service management and support, service delivery, and contract administration areas; and technology management services principally comprising server consolidation and virtualization, storage and archiving solutions, remote access solutions, data center management and assessment, technology modernization, Web hosting, IT service management, managed security, regulatory management, policy and governance, and business continuity services, as well as various cost management solutions. Further, it offers business process services, which primarily include document management, payroll processing and human resources management, trade services, housing contract administration, and finance and administration, as well as billing, enrollment, and member services. CGI serves banking, healthcare, government, insurance, manufacturing, oil and gas, retail, telecommunications, utilities, wealth management, and distribution sectors, as well as credit unions. CGI Group Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Fasthosts Internet is a division of Germany-based United Internet. Fasthosts Internet wants businesses to entertain customers fast. Fasthosts Internet Ltd. company offers Web hosting services and low-cost broadband Internet access to businesses, individuals, and resellers. Fasthosts automates its services using an online control panel that allows customers to set up and manage their accounts, including adding and managing domain names. Fasthosts Internet Ltd. company was founded in 1999 when schoolmates Andrew Michael and Alex Wilding could not find a suitable hosting service for a project Web site they were designing. Andrew Michael was succeeded as CEO in 2009 by Andy Burton, the former CEO of Centennial Software.

Unlike the Dada anti-culture movement of the early 20th century, DADA embraces culture, particularly Internet culture. A media and technology company, DADA operates through two divisions: Dada.net, which runs music-sharing and downloading, blogging, and social networking sites; and Dada.pro, which provides domain registration, Web-hosting, online advertising platforms, and other services. Some of the company's assets include Italian blogging site Blogo, UK Web-hosting site Namesco, and Simply, an advertising firm that caters to small and midsized businesses. Most of DADA's operations are in Italy, but it does operate in Europe and the US as well. It was founded in 1995 by Paolo Barberis and other executives.

The Gallery of History was incorporated in 1981. Founder, chairman, and CEO Todd Axelrod owns about 90% of the company. Those who don't know the Gallery of History are doomed to buy their memorabilia from another auction house. Gallery of History auctions autographs, memorabilia, and manuscripts from artists, authors, athletes, entertainers, politicians, and scientists, among other notable figures. Its inventory of about 190,000 items have included baseballs autographed by Hank Aaron, letters written by Albert Einstein, and signed photos from Cecil B. De Mille. Although the Internet is its primary sales channel, the Gallery of History also offers autographs and manuscripts through a retail gallery, located at its headquarters.

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