Allrecipes.com started out in 1997 with the site Cookierecipe.com. Allrecipes.com is a subsidiary of The Reader's Digest Association. Got Cravings? Allrecipes.com can help you satisfy them with one of their 40,000 recipes. The community-driven Web site not only offers recipes, but also meal- and diet-planning, and newsletters. Its advice section offers articles, cooking tips, step-by-step photo tutorials, glossaries, and reference charts. Users can search for recipes by ingredient, keyword, type of dish, or brand name. In addition, Allrecipes.com publishes cookbooks such as Allrecipes Cookbook, Dinner Tonight, and Best Brands.

PeoplePC might want to consider changing names to PeopleISP. PeoplePC first made a name for itself giving PCs away for "free" with the purchase of a multiyear membership to its Internet access service. In 2004 PeoplePC changed tack and began to focus on providing straightforward ISP service. It has dropped the PCs and now provides value-priced, narrowband Internet access to more than 1 million subscribers as a subsidiary of Internet service provider EarthLink. PeoplePC also offers a fee-based acceleration service to augment its dial-up speeds and a fee-based spam-blocking service.

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.

Yahoo! Inc. provides online properties and services to users; and marketing services to advertisers worldwide. Its integrated consumer experiences offerings include the Yahoo! Home Page, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Toolbar, Yahoo! Local, and Connected TV over the Web, mobile, or TV; communications offerings comprise Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, which provide a range of communication services to users and small businesses across various devices and broadband Internet access partners; communities offerings consist of Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr that enable users to organize into groups and share knowledge, common interests, and photos; search offerings include Yahoo! Search, a search technology, which provides users with a search capability with search results ranked and sorted based on relevance to the users’ search query. Yahoo! Inc. also offers media products and solutions comprising online media properties, such as Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, and Yahoo! Entertainment & Lifestyles that are designed to engage users with the online content and services on the Web; and Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Autos, and Yahoo! Small Business that enable users to research specific topics, products, services, or areas of interest by reviewing and exchanging information, obtaining contact details, considering offers from providers of goods and services, or parties with similar interests. Its Internet marketing solutions for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers include display of graphical advertisements, the display of text-based links to an advertiser’s Website, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions. In addition, the company provides a range of tools for online display advertising, including rich media, video, and targeting. Yahoo! Inc. has a strategic alliance with Nokia Corporation. Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Vertro, Inc., an Internet company that owns and operates the ALOT product portfolio primarily in the United States. The company offers ALOT toolbar, homepage, and desktop applications, which are designed to make the Internet easy for consumers by providing direct access to affinity content and search results. It markets its products under the ALOT brand name. The company was formerly known as MIVA, Inc. and changed its name to Vertro, Inc. in June 2009. Vertro, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in New York, New York.

InfoSpace, Inc. develops search tools and technologies that assist consumers with finding content and information on the Internet. It offers search services that enable Internet users to locate and view content, information, merchants, individuals, and products online. The company provides search services through its Web sites, such as Dogpile.com, WebCrawler.com, MetaCrawler.com, and WebFetch.com, as well as through the Web sites of distribution partners. It serves primarily search content providers. InfoSpace was founded in 1996 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Digital River, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides outsourced e-commerce solutions worldwide. Its services assist in establishing an online sales channel capability and to manage online sales. The company offers design, development, and hosting of online stores and shopping carts; store merchandising and optimization; order management; fraud prevention screening; online payment methods; export controls and management; denied parties screening; tax compliance and management; digital product delivery through download; physical product fulfillment; multilingual customer service; subscription management; online marketing, including email marketing; management of paid search programs; payment processing services; Web site optimization; Web analytics and reporting; and CD production and delivery solutions. Digital River also provides paid search advertising, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, multi-variant testing, and email optimization services. It serves software, consumer electronics, and computer and video game product manufacturers, as well as online channel partners, including retailers and affiliates through the Internet. Digital River, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

China Mobility Solutions, Inc., through its subsidiary, Windsor Education Academy, Inc., offers English as a second language and related courses for foreign students. Peopleline Telecom company provides these services through its campus located in Richmond, British Columbia in Canada. China Mobility Solutions was founded in 1996. It was formerly known as Placer Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Xin Net Corp. in 1998. Further, Peopleline Telecom company changed its name to China Mobility Solutions, Inc. in 2004. China Mobility Solutions is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Daum Communications is the leading operator of Korean-language websites, including flagship news and information portal Daum.net, Hanmail.net (Web-based e-mail), and Daum Cafe (online community). Other brands include TV Pot (online video), Media Daum (news updates), and Congnamul (online maps). Its properties boast nearly 40 million registered users. It also offers search marketing services through its Namu Communications subsidiary. In 2010 it sold the US-based Web portal Lycos. (Daum had acquired Lycos, a pioneering force in the US Internet build out of the dot com era, from Telefenica in 2004.) You might say this company has added a little Seoul to the Internet.

Zen Internet, founded in 1995 and one of the earliest commercial providers of Internet access in the UK, still gets high marks from customers. Zen Internet continues to provide dial-up, network, and broadband services to business and residential users. Zen Internet Ltd. company has more than 25,000 customers, including Balfour Beatty, LeapFrog Enterprises, and Umbro. Other offerings include Web-site hosting, domain name registration, search engine services, and Web design. Managing director Richard Tang owns the company.

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