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.

GlobalSpec is the leading specialized vertical search, information services and e-publishing company serving the engineering, manufacturing and related scientific and technical market segments. The company provides its buy-side users with domain-expert search engines, a broad range of proprietary and aggregated Web-based content and over 60+ product and industry e-newsletters that help engineers and related professionals perform their key job tasks with the highest levels of accuracy and productivity. GlobalSpec provides its sell-side client base of companies seeking to reach the worldwide engineering audience with highly filtered sales leads, product promotion and brand advertising platforms and a wide range of e-media advertising and marketing services.GlobalSpec has BPA audited Web site traffic, and a global user base of more than 6,100,000 registered users; a user community that continues to grow by more than 80,000 new registrants each month. GlobalSpec is increasingly becoming "the place" where the engineering community gathers and conducts business.

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.

PlusNet is looking for people who want to add more data to their lives. Founded in 1996, PlusNet company provides Internet access services to more than 200,000 residential and business customers in the UK, with about half of those signed up for broadband service. Other services include voice-over IP telephony and wireless broadband. Sales are made through various brands including PlusNet, Force9, and Free-Online. PlusNet plc is a subsidiary of BT Group.

Fasthosts Internet is a division of Germany-based United Internet. Fasthosts Internet wants businesses to entertain customers fast. Fasthosts Internet Ltd. company offers Web hosting services and low-cost broadband Internet access to businesses, individuals, and resellers. Fasthosts automates its services using an online control panel that allows customers to set up and manage their accounts, including adding and managing domain names. Fasthosts Internet Ltd. company was founded in 1999 when schoolmates Andrew Michael and Alex Wilding could not find a suitable hosting service for a project Web site they were designing. Andrew Michael was succeeded as CEO in 2009 by Andy Burton, the former CEO of Centennial Software.

NetDragon Websoft Inc. was established in 1999. Gamers looking to conjure magic, slay dragons, fight wars, and rule fantasy worlds online might turn to NetDragon Websoft. The company is a leading Chinese Internet game developer and operator with a portfolio of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or MMORPGs, in which a large number of players interact within a virtual game world. NetDragon's titles include Era of Faith, Eudemons Online, Heroes of Might and Magic Online, and Monster & Me. It also has several interactive, online games under development. To attract more players, its games are free to play online; revenues are generated from selling virtual items, such as performance-enhancing game upgrades.

Healthline Networks, Inc. was formed in 1999 as YourDoctor.com; it floundered during the dot com bust and eventually resurfaced as Healthline Networks in 2005 with funding from companies such as VantagePoint and Reed Elsevier. Healthline Networks wants to give you a direct connection to health information. The company's Web site uses proprietary semantic taxonomy to match everyday language with medical terms for a more complete look at interconnected topics from diseases and conditions to causes and treatments. In addition to operating its own ad-supported consumer Web site, Healthline powers search, advertising, and content services to a network of publishers, advertisers, health Web sites, and health plans.

Bebo is a popular social network in the UK, and has versions of the site in about a dozen countries in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The site allows users (who are predominantly ages 16-24) to set up profiles through which they can share photos and interests in movies, music, and sports. Bebo users can find content based on what members of their social network are consuming. Bebo counts about 25 million users. Programmer Michael Birch co-founded Bebo with wife Xochi in 2005. Unable to attract more users in the US, in 2010 former parent company AOL sold Bebo to turnaround specialist Criterion Capital Partners. MySpace. Facebook. Bebo? Call it the triad of free online social networking sites.

365 Media Group, formerly ukbetting, offers online sports wagering and other sports-related content through Sport365.com. The collection of websites includes sportinglife.com, TEAMtalk.com, and sportal.com. In addition to sport sites, the company also offers casino games online (Sky Poker and Sky Bingo) and shopping sites (Sports.co.uk and TShirts365.com). Founded in 2001 as a collection of betting sites, the company has diversified into advertising, affiliate, and content syndication revenue streams. Banking powerhouses Goldman Sachs and UBS previously owned more than a third of 365 Media Group, which was acquired by British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) in 2007.

Eclipse Internet (Eclipse Networking's trading name) sells broadband Internet access via DSL to about 40,000 business and residential customers in the UK. Eclipse Networking company also offers managed network services to corporate clients that include Hamleys and the City of York Council. Founded in 1995, Eclipse started out focusing on customers in the southwest of England, but Eclipse Networking company has since expanded its service areas. Eclipse Networking Limited company was acquired by Kingston Communications in 2004 for £12.5 million.

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