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.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody needs a good buddy on the road. Road New Media, through its RoadCompanion.ca and Compagnonderoute.ca Internet sites, offers consumers vehicle pricing information, VIN investigation reports, used-car analyses, and more. Road New Media partners with non-profit consumer organizations, companies, and other information providers to give its users one-stop shopping when they are researching vehicles and insurance. Road New Media revenue comes from user fees; Road New Media Corporation also sells advertising on its sites.

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).

OnlineAuction.com formed in 1998 by Chris Fain, a former auctioneer and online auction seller. Looking to play David to eBay's Goliath, OnlineAuction.com offers an online auction marketplace for buyers and sellers of everything from collectibles to real estate. OnlineAuction, aka OLA, charges sellers a flat monthly or yearly fee to list items for sale; it hosts the usual online auction fare as well as cars, RVs, and residential and commercial properties. OLA's site also offers a chat room where buyers and sellers can share ideas, and what it says is a simplified fee structure, invoicing, and bidding system.

The Enta Group was founded in 1990 by chairman and managing director Jason Tsai and three other employees. Entanet provides business-class voice and data connectivity services such as broadband Internet access, Web hosting, colocation, and virtual private networks (VPNs). The company primarily serves corporate customers in the UK, relying on channel partners to sell it's proucts. Part of the Enta Group of firms, Entanet has sister companies that provide related services such as e-commerce services (Enta Online), interactive communications (Enta Media), and hardware and software distribution (Entatech). In 2006 the company merged with sister company Entacall to provide converged data and voice solutions.

TheStreet.com, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital financial media company in the United States. TheStreet.com provides various subscription-based and advertising-supported content and tools to its readers and advertisers through a range of online platforms, including Web sites, mobile devices, email services, widgets, blogs, podcasts, and online video channels. Its Web sites include TheStreet.com, RealMoney.com, Stockpickr.com, BankingMyWay.com, MainStreet.com, and TheStreet.com Ratings. TheStreet.com, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York.

Big Stick Media Corporation has made a business of serving the serious sports fan, sports bettor, and sports handicappers by providing fact-based information relating to scores, statistics, and opinion-oriented information (read: handicapping services). Information includes sports picks from professional handicappers, game stats, injury reports, scores, and lines from major sportsbooks. Catering to North American sports enthusiats, the company's portfolio of sites includes JimFeist.com, VegasOnlinesports.com, and ScoresLinesPick.com. Big Stick Media also engages the fantasy sports crowd with its rotoplay.com site. What are the odds? Big Stick Media has a slew of Web sites devoted to that very question.

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