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.

RealNetworks, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. RealNetworks, Inc. provides network- delivered digital media products and services worldwide. It develops and markets software products and services that enable the creation, distribution, and consumption of digital media, including audio and video. The company operates in four segments: Technology Products and Solutions (TPS), Media Software and Services (MSS), Games, and Music. The TPS segment primarily offers software-as-a-service offerings, which include ringback tones, music-on-demand, video-on-demand, and messaging services, as well as system software license sales and intellectual property licensing. This segment also licenses Helix server software that allows companies to broadcast live and on-demand audio, video, and other multimedia programming to users over the Internet. The MSS segment offers RealPlayer, a media player software, which includes features and services that enable consumers to discover, play, download, manage, and edit digital video. The Games segment offers various casual games available through digital downloads or online portals, social networks, and mobile devices. This segment also involves in game development, publishing, licensing, and distribution. It distributes games principally in North America, Europe, and Latin America through the company’s own Web sites, which are operated under the GameHouse, RealArcade, Zylom, and Atrativa brands, and through Web sites owned or managed by third parties. In addition, this segment develops and distributes games for other platforms, including mobile phones, other handheld devices, and videogame consoles. The Music segment offers Rhapsody, a subscription and advertising-supported music service; Rhapsody.com, a free Web-based limited version digital music service; and Rhapsody MP3 music store, where consumers purchase and download individual digital music tracks.

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.

OnlineAuction.com formed in 1998 by Chris Fain, a former auctioneer and online auction seller. Looking to play David to eBay's Goliath, OnlineAuction.com offers an online auction marketplace for buyers and sellers of everything from collectibles to real estate. OnlineAuction, aka OLA, charges sellers a flat monthly or yearly fee to list items for sale; it hosts the usual online auction fare as well as cars, RVs, and residential and commercial properties. OLA's site also offers a chat room where buyers and sellers can share ideas, and what it says is a simplified fee structure, invoicing, and bidding system.

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.

Looksmart, Ltd. operates as an online search advertising network solution company that provides solutions for search advertisers and publishers. LookSmart offers advertisers targeted, pay-per-click search advertising and contextual search advertising via its Advertiser Networks; and an Ad Center platform for customizable private-label advertiser solutions for online publishers. Looksmart’s customers include intermediaries, who purchase clicks to sell into the affiliate networks of search engine providers; direct advertisers and their agencies; and self-service advertisers. LookSmart, Ltd. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

IGN Entertainment may not stand for International Geek Network, but the company does court video gamers and science fiction fans. IGN Entertainment is a network of video game-related Web sites that offer free, subscription-based, and pay-per-download content. IGN Entertainment operates flagship site IGN.com, as well as additional game-related sites such as GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, and Direct2Drive. The company also owns male lifestyle site AskMen.com. Together, the IGN and AskMen sites are targeted at males aged 18-34, and attract more than 40 million unique monthly visitors worldwide. IGN Entertainment is a subsidiary of News Corp. and operates as part of its News Corp. Digital Media division.

Prime Companies, Inc. provides telecommunications services to both commercial and consumer customers throughout the United States, with its primary focus in the California market. It offers various services, including prepaid telecommunications services, interconnect services, and paging and voicemail services. Prime Companies provides interconnect, voicemail, and paging services to approximately 1,000 customers, primarily in northern California. Prime Companies was founded in 1970 and is based in Anthem, Arizona.

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.

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.

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