ServiceMagic helps you hire residential contractors with the click of a mouse -- presto! The company operates an online marketplace where homeowners can find information about qualified contractors and service professionals in their area and post projects and service requests for contractors to bid on. The company fields requests for services in more than 700 categories, including bathroom remodeling, locksmiths, and handymen. It has more than 70,000 pre-screened businesses, many of which are rated by customers, that pay fees for leads received as a result of the service. Co-Chairmen and former CEOs Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice started ServiceMagic in 1998. It was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2004.

Evite, LLC was launched in 1998 by Adam Lieb and Selina Tobaccowala. Today it is part of John Malone's Internet retail firm Liberty Interactive. An invite from Evite gets you in with the cyber in-crowd. Evite, LLC offers registered users online tools for planning parties, activities, and other social events, both private and public. Services include e-mail invitations, calendars, photo sharing, and address books. Customized Web invitations allow guests to RSVP, post comments, view the names of other invitees, and get additional information (such as a map to the event or items to bring). Revenues primarily come from advertising and sponsorships.

Buzz Media, Inc. was founded in 2005 as Buzznet by chief creative officer Anthony Batt. The buzz surrounding Buzz Media is that this company's Web sites are for diehard music fans. The company's Buzznet.com site differentiates itself from other online communities by having users create their own programming. Members vote (build "buzz") on the interactive content that appears on the front page. Buzz Media cultivates relationships with artists who act as guest bloggers and promote their own work. Launched as a music site, Buzz Media has expanded to include a collection of entertainment sites. It has received funding from Redpoint Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners, both early investors of MySpace.com.

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.

Knobias, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides financial information and data services. The company’s products include Knobias+Plus, a desktop platform that offers users with financial data, news, and a suite of due diligence tools. Knobias+Plus contains RAIDAR, a real-time news delivery product sourced from 80+ feeds, screeners, fundamental, calendars, technical’s, sort, search and filter information based on portfolio, sector, industry, and set up email alerts among other tools and characteristics. It also provides Morning+Plus, a daily email service designed to give an institution’s clients a white-labeled information product. In addition, it offers PipeTRAC that provides transaction details, participant profiles, rankings, analysis tools, and placements in public companies specific alerts. Knobias company’s products also include SmallCap Sleepers, which delivers timely independent small cap information to professional investors; Issuer Services that offers Web site, data and conference call hosting, press release distribution, and market awareness programs to public companies and their investor relations professionals; and Data for integration into client’s institutional platforms and Web sites. It develops and compiles financial databases, information systems, tools, and products, which track approximately 16,000 U.S. securities. Knobias, Inc. markets its products to individual investors, day-traders, financial oriented Websites, public issuers, brokers, professional traders, and institutional investors. Knobias, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Pleasantville, New York.

Onyx stays (in the) black by helping other businesses keep moving. Onyx Internet is an Internet services provider and IT support firm serving businesses in North East England. Its Onyx Group does the ISP work while DataBanx offers data hosting, Aksaris network security, and Onyx Consult helps businesses sort out their information technology problems related to regulatory compliance, supply chain management, and network security. In addition to its clients in the UK, Onyx also works as a consultant for companies in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Clients have included Aberdeen Football Club, Bausch & Lomb, and Reg Vardy.

Bebo is a popular social network in the UK, and has versions of the site in about a dozen countries in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The site allows users (who are predominantly ages 16-24) to set up profiles through which they can share photos and interests in movies, music, and sports. Bebo users can find content based on what members of their social network are consuming. Bebo counts about 25 million users. Programmer Michael Birch co-founded Bebo with wife Xochi in 2005. Unable to attract more users in the US, in 2010 former parent company AOL sold Bebo to turnaround specialist Criterion Capital Partners. MySpace. Facebook. Bebo? Call it the triad of free online social networking sites.

The website, which operates in the US and Canada, was founded in 1995. Classmates Online is a subsidiary of Classmates Media Corporation, which is controlled by Internet service provider United Online (UOL). Maybe you didn't care much for your classmates while you were in school, but now that you've long since graduated, aren't you curious? Classmates Online hopes so. Classmates Online operates Classmates.com, a website that reunites classmates, friends and family, teachers, co-workers, and military personnel. Its database contains some 60 million people from schools, places of work, and the military.

Index Holdings keeps its finger on the pulse of cutting-edge media technology in Japan. The holding company owns a number of businesses that develop technology for cell phone content. It also produces and distributes multimedia products, such as Web sites, games, video, and advertising. Other subsidiaries (including Atlus U.S.A.) publish video games, animation, films, books, and magazines, and Index Communications operates mail order and brick-and-mortar stores to sell its tangible products. Index Holdings also offers its mobile content in China (through China Mobile) and in France (through Index Multimedia, which is traded on the Euronext Paris). The company even owns a French soccer team, Grenoble Foot 38.

Sohu.com Inc., an Internet company, provides news, information, video content, entertainment, and communication services in the People’s Republic of China. It offers brand advertising services that provide advertisements on its portal Websites to companies that expect to build up their brand awareness online; sponsored search services, which offer placements in search directory, as well as pay-for-click services for small and medium-size enterprises; online games, including massively multi-player online role-playing games; and wireless value-added services, such as news, weather forecast, chatting, entertainment information, ring tones, and logo downloads subscribed over mobile phones. Sohu.com company’s products and services include aggregated content on various topics, including news, entertainment, sports, business and finance, information technology, automobile, and women; online video content; streaming online content; and communication and community tools, such as alumni clubs, blogs, email, message boards, and Web messenger. Its Web properties include sohu.com, a mass portal and online media destination; 17173.com, a games information portal; focus.cn, a real estate Website; chinaren.com, an online alumni club; and sogou.com, an interactive proprietary search engine. Sohu.com Inc. was formerly known as Internet Technologies China Incorporated and changed its name to Sohu.com Inc. in September 1999. Sohu.com Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

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