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.

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.

Alternet Systems, Inc. provides telecom services; education/healthcare application software and content solutions; and mobile transaction services to customers primarily in Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean. It designs and sells proprietary software and hardware systems, known as ‘SchoolWeb’ and ‘CommunityWeb’, which provide high speed Internet access to schools and rural communities; and provides Voice over Internet Protocol services. The company offers a portfolio of solutions for government, business, schools, hospitals, and residents. It also focuses on its electronic transaction products, targeting various industries, such as telecom, financial, utilities, and transportation sectors. Alternet Systems was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Internet Capital Group Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in mid and late venture public and private companies. The firm prefers to invest in businesses involves in SaaS, automating a complex workflow process, provide business process outsourcing capabilities to customers, delivering comprehensive solution, on-demand Internet software and services, online marketing or e-commerce, and service businesses including Web-enabled software platform. It invests in business to business segment of the Internet industry. The firm typically invests between $10 million and $30 million in companies with revenues between $5 million and $50 million. It seeks to acquire a controlling stake between 35 percent and 100 percent in its portfolio companies. Internet Capital Group Inc. was founded in March, 1996 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Claimsnet.com, Inc., an electronic commerce company, owns, operates, and licenses software used for processing medical insurance claims on the Internet. Its proprietary software enables the communication of data between healthcare payers and their provider networks, and trading partners, such as claims clearinghouses, third party administrators, preferred provider organizations, health maintenance organizations, claim re-pricing organizations, independent physician associations, and managed service organizations for conducting administrative transactions to effect financial reimbursement for healthcare services. The company’s software provides real-time editing of the claims data for compliance with format and content requirements of payers for specific processing requirements. Its software also enables editing and checking of data accuracy in medical claims without the need for changes to customers information technology systems in data exchange. Claimsnet primarily serves medical and dental industries. Claimsnet.com, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Pipex Internet was a subsidiary of Tiscali, which sold the ISP business to The Carphone Warehouse Group in 2009. Pipex Internet Limited operates as part of Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk Group. If you live in the UK, Pipex Internet (doing business as Bulldog Broadband) has a dogged desire to be your broadband provider. Pipex Internet Limited provides DSL-based broadband Internet access to residential and business customers in the UK. Pipex Internet Limited also offers basic dial-up, computer telephony, and digital television services.

AOL (then called America Online) originally launched its UK service in 1996. AOL UK sold its broadband and dial-up Internet access business, complete with more than 2 million subscribers, to The Carphone Warehouse Group in 2007 for some $690 million. AOL UK knows that Americans aren't the only ones who think being online is better than AOK. The British subsidiary of American Web portal AOL is focused on providing content and managing online advertising. The site offers communication services such as free email and instant messaging, as well as news, shopping, and entertainment content.

Salary.com is a subsidiary of human resources firm Kenexa Corporation. Think you're grossly underpaid? Check out Salary.com to find out for sure. (Just refrain from doing so while you're at work.) The company's website provides the Salary Wizard, which offers employee compensation data and analysis geared toward individuals, managers, and businesses. Salary.com's flagship CompAnalyst product is a software application that manages compensation programs for employees, integrating the company's data, third-party survey data, and a customer's own pay data. The company's TalentManager software tracks performance goals, linking each employee's pay to performance. The firm has offices in the US, the UK, and China.

SciQuest, Inc. provides software-as-a-service procurement automation and supplier enablement solutions. It offers Sourcing Manager, an on-demand bid management solution; Eprocurement online, a suite of procurement automation solutions; Materials Management solution that manages on-site stockroom inventory; and Settlement Manager, an invoicing and settlement solution that automates and streamlines receiving, matching, and invoicing processes. SciQuest, Inc. also provides Spend Analytics, a spend management solution; supplier network and managed services; implementation services for procurement automation; and a Procurement Business Assessment service, which enables life sciences companies to measure, envision, and plan the roadmap for procurement operations. In addition, it offers HigherMarkets Express for Banner, a suite of eprocurement solution that enables schools to realize the benefits of a strategic approach to procurement while increasing the value of existing systems. SciQuest serves education, healthcare, life sciences, and government organizations. SciQuest, Inc. was formerly known as SciQuest.com, Inc. and changed its name to SciQuest, Inc. in 2001. SciQuest, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Cary, North Carolina.

Uniserve Communications provides Internet services to more than 250,000 customers in Canada. Uniserve Communications offers both dial-up and broadband connections and VoIP telephone service, as well as other related services such as Web hosting, domain registration, and server colocation. Customers include residential, home office, and small-to-medium size businesses, as well as other Internet service providers who purchase wholesale Internet services from Uniserve. Uniserve Communications company's Kinzin subsidiary offers online social networking services tailored for individuals and organizations including schools and sports teams. Uniserve started out as a computer retail store and dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) in 1988.

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