Started by Michael Kinsley in 1996, Slate Magazine is owned by The Washington Post. In 2008 the magazine became part of The Washington Post's newly created Slate Group. If you find mainstream journalism a dull, cold world, you might try this online publication. Slate Magazine operates a popular Web site offering news and commentary slightly skewed for hip and erudite readers. The Internet magazine covers the arts, business, politics, sports, travel, and technology and attracts an audience of about 5 million people. The Web site is supported through advertising and sponsorships.

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.

New Mexico Software was founded in 1995. Originally, the company ran out of a small office on Moon Street. New Mexico Software went public in 1999, amidst the dot com boom of the late nineties. In the same year we moved into a corporate office building in central Albuquerque. And we’re still here 8 years later. Things were moving fast at the end of the nineties, and optimism was high. It seemed like a new technological world was emerging, a world that would write its own business and economic laws. We, like many others, attempted to ride the economic wave that characterized the nineties. Unfortunately, we caught the wave as it crashed. And crash it did, taking many companies with it. However, New Mexico Software persevered through the dot com crash and managed to survive. New Mexico Software survived because we identified a serious problem area in Information Technology: how companies deal with digital information. We based our strategy on the belief that companies could save money and time by more efficiently managing their digital assets (a digital asset is any digital file deemed valuable by a person or organization). We believed that Digital Asset Management was a serious enough issue that our business could achieve success and longevity by solving this problem. We were proved right as New Mexico Software was able to ride out the storm while many Internet based companies crumbled and sank in 2000. Our business survived on the strength of Assetware- our first web-based Enterprise solution. It was our first stab at creating a web-based product that stored and indexed digital files at the Enterprise level. Assetware carried New Mexico Software through the difficult early years, but eventually it was time for the product to retire and be replaced by the next generation.

PCTEL, Inc. provides propagation and optimization solutions for the wireless industry. The company designs and develops software-based radios for wireless network optimization; and develops and distributes antenna solutions. The company’s scanning receivers, receiver-based products, and interference management solutions are used to measure, monitor, and optimize cellular networks. Its antenna solutions address public safety, military, and government applications; Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), health care, energy, and smart grid and agricultural applications; and indoor wireless, wireless backhaul, and cellular applications. PCTEL offers a range of antennas for worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), land mobile radio (LMR) antennas, and global positioning system (GPS) antennas that serve applications in telemetry, radio frequency identification (RFID), Wi-Fi, fleet management, and mesh networks. It supplies its products to public and private carriers, wireless infrastructure providers, wireless equipment distributors, value added resellers, and original equipment manufacturers worldwide through direct and indirect channels. PCTEL, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Bloomingdale, Illinois.

Ziff Davis, Inc. is a leading digital media company specializing in the technology market. One of the first tech media publishing companies to build and grow dedicated, digital businesses, Ziff Davis, Inc. is a name trusted by an ever-growing population of unique online visitors. In the United States, we are most recognized by our award-winning online technology network. Ziff Davis, Inc. also has a strong international presence, with brands represented in 45 countries and in 17 languages.We distinguish ourselves from our competitors through comprehensive evaluations of the newest and hottest products in The PCMag Labs, as well as through our relationships with recognized industry experts and the thought-provoking reviews, opinions and insights of our editors. Ziff Davis, Inc's sites are the first stop for many consumers and imminent buyers searching for trusted buying advice. We provide our well-educated, influential buying audience with the information they need to make important purchasing decisions. Reaching more than 30 million tech buyers, visitors and attendees, Ziff Davis, Inc. provides total market coverage of SMB/consumer technology enthusiasts through our portfolio of award-winning brands. At the same time, our advanced online contextual marketing solutions enable marketers to more easily target imminent technology buyers and achieve significantly higher response. Ziff Davis, Inc. has offices in New York City and San Francisco.

Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Flixster, publisher of a social networking Web site that lets users share movie reviews, ratings, and related content with one another. Hollywood movies might stink, but reading critical opinions about them can be fresh. Rotten Tomatoes is an online publisher of movie reviews; the company's Web site provides a capsule summary of the writings of various professional film critics. Its content is governed by its Tomatometer rating system, which denotes the percentage of critics who recommend a certain movie -- or the number of good reviews divided by the total number of reviews. Critics come from accredited publications in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia.

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.

Leisure Arts is a subsidiary of Liberty Capital Group. For those who have lost the art of leisure (or need a refresher course on how to sew a cross stitch) look no further than Leisure Arts. Leisure Arts publishes how-to information on creative lifestyle topics such as needlework, crafts, and decorating. Its collection of Web sites includes TheLeisureBotique.com, LeisureArtsLibrary.com, and TwoPeasInABucket. Leisure Arts also produces books and DVDs. In addition to publishing, Leisure Arts conducts manufacturing, distribution, and shipping activities from its 150,000 square foot warehouse facility in Little Rock, Arkansas. It creates its material in house, and works with third-party publishers and manufacturers.

Rakuten was founded in 1997 by chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani. Rakuten is Japan's largest online retailer and a leading provider of Internet-based services. The company's business segments and subsidiaries include Rakuten Ichiba (an online shopping mall), Rakuten Auction (online auctions), Rakuten Books (online bookstore), Infoseek (Internet search, Web logs, and job boards), Rakuten Travel, and Rakuten Securities (online trading). The firm's entertainment activities include television broadcasting in Japan and ownership of a professional baseball team. Its financial services unit offers credit cards and consumer loans. Its Fusion Communications subsidiary (acquired in 2007) provides Internet phone service.

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.

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