j2 Global Communications provides a variety of business-critical communications and storage messaging services through its global communications/telephony/messaging network. With offices in eight cities worldwide, j2 Global Communications' network spans more than 4,200 cities in 49 countries on six continents, serving more than 11 million subscribers and providing value-added applications and local presence on a global scale. j2 Global Communications offers billing in twelve currencies with multiple payment methods and customer support in more than seven languages. j2 Global Communications offers a complete array of unified-messaging and communications services, including faxing and voicemail solutions, Web-initiated conference calling, storage messaging services, online backup, and virtual office solutions. j2 Global Communications also provides a full suite of unified communications services that include fax, Web-based voicemail, conference calling and a comprehensive set of outsourced virtual phone services.

XAP Corporation operates XAP.com, an online resource for college-bound students. The site offers information and services for high school counselors, college recruiting officers, and students and their families. It provides students with tools for college planning and the college application process, as well as SAT and ACT test preparation services. Offerings for college administrators include online applications and transcripts and prospect management systems. XAP Corporation also helps counselors organize and monitor the status of their students.

Media Corporation plc is one of the UK’s leading companies in internet media, focused on website publishing and online advertising. Founded in March 2000 and listed on the London Stock Exchange, Media Corp’s vision is to create a technology focused internet media group. This goal will be realised through a combination of sustained organic growth and strategic acquisitions. The Group has two principal divisions: website publishing and online advertising. Following is information regarding these two divisions.

eAccess Ltd. was founded in 1999 and merged with Japanese ISP ACCA Networks Co., Ltd. in 2009. eAccess Ltd. (not to be confused with Cubic Corp.'s eAccess LLC) provides wholesale ADSL services to other Internet service providers in Japan. The company leases NTT phone lines (ADSL relies on copper wire phone lines to transmit data) and partners with about 30 ISPs, including AOL, KDDI, and SOFTBANK, for broadband services. Its device business unit develops fixed mobile convergence (FMC) applications to allow cell phones to switch between mobile and fixed-line telecommunications. Subsidiary EMOBILE, which launched service in 2008, provides broadband cell phone service.

IronPlanet is the world's leading online auction company for used construction and agricultural equipment. Our sellers achieve more profitable sales through low transaction costs and better price realizations through a global audience of buyers. Our guaranteed inspection reports and exclusive IronClad Assurance enable buyers to bid with a high degree of confidence. IronPlanet is backed by Accel Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Caterpillar, Komatsu and Volvo.

We at Bankrate, Inc. have over three decades' experience in financial publishing. Bankrate was born in 1976 as "Bank Rate Monitor," a print publisher for the banking industry. The "Bank Rate Monitor" newsletter we originally distributed contained much of the same rate research and information we're known for and respected for today. After two decades of conducting quality, trusted rate research, we took our product to the Web, expanded our offerings and made our online debut in 1996. Since then, we have increased our site traffic to over 7 million monthly unique visitors, expanded our distribution outlets, added new content channels and continually strive to provide a better, more comprehensive consumer experience. Today, Bankrate, Inc. is the Web's leading aggregator of financial rate information, offering an unparalleled depth and breadth of rate data and financial content. Bankrate continually surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide clear, objective, and unbiased rates to consumers. Our flagship Web site, Bankrate.com, provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.In addition to rate data, we publish original and objective personal finance stories to help consumers make informed financial decisions. Our staff of award winning reporters and editors provides expert advice on just about every major financial decision facing our readers: from purchasing their first home, to selecting a new car, to saving for retirement. Hundreds of print publications depend on Bankrate as the trusted source for financial rates and information, including 8 of the top 10 newspapers in the country. And we're in broadcast: "The Bankrate.com Personal Finance Minute" plays over 200 times per day on XM Satellite Radio and you will see our data frequently referenced on "CNN Headline News," "ABC News" and many other major broadcast news outlets.

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.

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.

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. provides language, development, and testing services. Its Global Language and Content segment provides product localization services, such as creating foreign language versions of its clients’ products and software applications, including the user interface, online help systems, and documentation; and content translation services, such as translating and maintaining clients’ Web-based content, eLearning courseware and training materials, technical support, and sales and marketing information. It also offers content development solutions, including technical authoring, eLearning courseware development, and production and integration of content within a technology platform; and global language and content services delivery. The company’s Global Development and Testing segment provides application development and maintenance solutions comprising custom software development, application maintenance, and code modernization. This segment also offers testing and certification services under the VeriTest brand name. Its services include performance testing, quality assurance, usability testing, globalization testing, certification, and competitive analysis. In addition, it provides multilingual search relevance and optimization services. Its Interpretation segment offers interpretation services for government business and healthcare organizations that require experienced linguists to facilitate communication. It provides interpretation communication services, such as onsite interpretation, over-the-phone interpretation and interpreter testing, training, and assessment services in approximately 360 languages and dialects. The company serves the technology, mobile and electronics, life sciences, consumer, publishing, manufacturing, automotive, and government industries in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Since everyone, including Dick and Harry, have Internet firms, TOM Group has moved beyond the Web. The company began with portal Web sites targeting audiences in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; but after the dot-com bust it expanded to also include publishing ("Business Weekly" and "PC Home"), outdoor advertising (billboards, street-level signs, bus bodies), and television (through Chinese satellite channel China Entertainment Television, CETV). The company operates its Web holdings through subsidiary TOM Online. Previously active in sports marketing, TOM Group exited that business in 2007 in order to focus its resources on its four other business groups.

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