iVillage was founded in 1995. NBCU acquired the business for $600 million in 2006. iVillage offers a cyber retreat for the female Web surfer. The NBC Universal (NBCU)-owned network of websites aims to be the leading online destination for women. The iVillage Network blends expert opinion on a variety of topics (pregnancy and parenting, beauty and style, home and garden, entertainment, and food) with community features (message boards and blogs). In addition to its flagship portal, iVillage operates sites such as iVillage UK, the Health Video Network, GardenWeb, and Astrology.com. A majority of revenue comes from online advertising.

ARTISTdirect is a part of The Rogue Network, which also includes digital media assets such as IMROGUE.COM (entertainment website and social network) and The Movie Network (movie-related content). The Rogue Network is itself owned by media and entertainment company Relativity Media. Are you an artist with no direction home, like a complete unknown? Head for ARTISTdirect. The company's ARTISTdirect Network is a collection of websites featuring music-related news and information and an online database covering more than 700,000 artists. The ARTISTdirect Network earns money through online advertising and marketing fees. The firm also has e-commerce operations offering music recordings and related merchandise. maslak escort tuzla escort sex shop isitme cihazi sex shop sex shop sex shop sex shop sex shop sex shop sex shop cekmekoy escort esenler escort bahcesehir escort capa escort topkapi escort merter escort aksaray escort halkali escort

Neopets is owned by Viacom's MTV and was launched in 1999. A quick trip to the Neopian hospital for some sporkle syrup should hopefully cure your Neopet of the dreaded ugga-ugga disease. Online virtual pet community Neopets allows its more than 50 million members to create their own cyberpets and guide them through the ever-growing world of Neopia. The Web site also hosts offers games and messaging; joining the virtual community is free while the interactive world of Neopia is sprinkled with the company's consumer and entertainment clients' interactive marketing campaigns. Users can eat at McDonald's then visit the Disney theater to peruse the new releases, or play a video game with General Mills' Trix Rabbit.

The Motley Fool, Inc. operates in England through its Fool UK site (www.fool.co.uk). To some, this Fool is the king of personal investing tips. The Motley Fool distributes investment information and advice through its Fool.com website. It also publishes about a dozen books (in partnership with Simon & Schuster), a syndicated newspaper column (appearing in more than 200 newspapers), and a handful of subscription-based investment newsletters. Its website offers Fool followers stock quotes, company research reports, personal finance information, news, online seminars, and message boards. In addition, the company's CAPS stock-rating service covers more than 5,000 stocks.

iBAHN drives communications on the Internet superhighway. iBAHN Corporation provides high-speed Internet access to the hospitality industry primarily in 40 countries. Over wired and wireless broadband connections, it provides digital entertainment and information services to hotel guests, small group meetings, and large industry events at about 2,000 hotels, conference centers, and meeting rooms. Its secure broadband service also enables videoconferencing for corporations and associations hosting meetings and training sessions. iBAHN's Speed Solution service lets hotels charge a higher rate for speedier Internet service. Clients have included Accor, Marriott, and Hilton. Privately held, iBAHN was founded in 1998.

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.

The internet has changed the way organizations communicate. Today, fewer and fewer people rely on a single source for all their news. The internet continues to complement and even replace traditional outlets such as broadcast television and newspapers. Blogs have allowed a much broader group of "citizen journalists" to play a significant role in the news life cycle. The emergence and viral nature of social media means that an organization's reputation can be made or destroyed in an afternoon.Founded in 1991, Vocus has changed the way communications professionals do their jobs. Vocus provides the ability to leverage the ubiquity of the internet to interact with the media, publish their news online where it can be found by millions, monitor news and social media conversations from virtually any source and track their results to compare them with key competitors.

Brandow Company, Inc. was established in 1990 by president and owner Jon Brandow. The Brandow Company publishes BizMiner, an online database of business information in the form of industry analysis and marketing research profiles. BizMiner covers more than 17 million US business facilities in some 300 national and local market sectors. Users can find industry reports through searching by industry and by market area. BizMiner provides financial information through its BizStats subsidiary, which was acquired in 2007.

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.

Onvia was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. For more than 12 years Onvia (NASDAQ: ONVI), the gBusiness Innovator, has been successfully delivering the research, analytics and tools companies rely on to succeed in gBusiness – the intersection of business and government and a $5.5 trillion market. Onvia tracks, analyzes and reports the spending of more than 89,000 federal, state and local government agencies, giving companies a single source for conducting open, intelligent and efficient business with government. Along with providing an exclusive suite of integrated business tools for a wide variety of industries, Onvia offers DemandStar, the automated system that streamlines agency procurement processes, and Recovery.org, a free website that tracks Recovery Act-funded projects.

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