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24/7 RealMedia (WPP)

Provider of multiplatform marketing solutions, including ad-serving and search engine optimization, analytics, web ad campaigns
24/7 Real Media

Acosta

Full-service sales and marketing agency providing outsourced sales, merchandising, marketing and promotional services to consumer packaged goods companies
Acosta

Acxiom

Global provider of data and services
Acxiom

Advantage Insight

Delivers "best of breed" marketing information services and solutions via a selected network of service providers and consultants
Advantage Insight LLC

Affinion

Global leader in affinity marketing, providing metrics, modeling, data, and marketing services
Affinion

Affinity Group

One of the nation's largest providers of outdoor recreation media and clubs, all of which serve America's recreation vehicle and outdoor recreation enthusiasts
Affinity Group

AOL

The largest provider of ISP services
AOL

ARGI

Provides subscription, fulfillment, and database marketing services
argi

AT&T

Large telecommunications provider
AT&T

Athletic IQ

Developed and offers a standardized evaluation for student-athletes (athletic equivalent of the SAT), an electronic measure of factors such as body composition, flexibility, speed, power, agility, and reaction time.
Athletic IQ

Atrinsic

Digital advertising and entertainment network deploying Internet and mobile technologies alongside traditional marketing/advertising methods to create an integrated vehicle for both entertainment content (digital music, casual games, sweepstakes and communities) and brand-based and performance advertising.
Athletic IQ

Catalina Marketing

Global leader in behavior-based marketing solutions, providing brand manufacturers, retailers and healthcare providers with marketing solutions based on in-store buyer purchasing data
Catalina Marketing

Comdata

Pioneer in stored value cards and fleet management services
Comdata, Inc.

Conclusive

Develops data-based solutions that drive marketing programs
Conclusive

Convergys

Large teleservices firm
Convergys

Cortera

Leading provider of online software for credit and collections professionals
Cortera

Customer Solutions Group

Provides call center consulting services that deconstruct all components of a program, optimize them, and then reassemble them. Offers ongoing teleservices program administration services and telecom expense audit and optimization service.
Customer Solutions Group

Dex

Large Yellow Pages media firm (formerly part of Qwest)

Dice

The major job board for recruiting technical professionals
Dice

eBureau

Provides predictive scoring and information services that improve the outcomes of marketing & lead generation, credit risk management, fraud prevention and receivables application screening management efforts.
eBureau

Edvisors

Provider of education marketing and financial services to students, educators, and parents worldwide. Provides a portfolio of student loan products and education-related information and services through its Student Loan Network, Edvisors Student Services, and the Edvisors Foundation.
Edvisors

eForce Media

Provides lead generation solutions
eForce Media

Fidelity Ventures

Invests funds raised from affiliates of parent company's mutual fund (Fidelity Investments) in high-tech and information services and Internet start-ups that connect buyers and sellers of everything from loans to receivables to airplane parts. Part of Devonshire Investors, the private-equity division of Fidelity Investments' parent company FMR LLC.
Fidelity Ventures

Geoscape

Provides cultural assessment services at the household level via a wide range of parameters including ethnicity, language preference and predominance, country of origin, generational level, and media preference.
FirmaGraphix

Glenbrook Networks

Specialist in web crawling, deep web fact extraction,
and maximization of search relevance
Glendor

Harte-Hanks

Large information and mail services provider
Harte-Hanks

Healthcare Data Solutions

Comprehensive provider of healthcare data (doctors, dentists, other prescribers, their practices, clinics, hospitals, etc.)
Healthcare Data Solutions

Innography

Enables companies with the ability to fully manage, protect, and exploit their patent and other IP portfolios via a correlation, visualization, and collaboration analytics software platform.
Innograph

InterActiveCorp

Holding company for several Internet brands
InterActiveCorp

Internet Capital Group

Acquires and builds on-demand Internet software companies
Internet Capital Group

ISO

Major provider of data services to the insurance industry
ISO

IXI

Provider of consumer segmentation and analysis services based on wealth, income, and spending data
IXI

Jigsaw

Online directory of business contact data
Jigsaw

Kintera

Provides software as a service to help fund-raising organizations reach more people, raise more money, and run more efficiently
Kintera

LexisNexis

Law enforcement, collections information
Lexis Nexis

LSSi

Largest provider of data services for directory assistance
LSSi

MFG.com

Largest online marketplace serving the global manufacturing community. Brings buyers anD sellers together to successfully aligning billions of dollars of manufacturing services and industrial components with buyers' needs each year.
MFG.com

Naviant

e-mail marketing and services company

NetFactor

Internet lead generation, search engine marketing, optimization, and website conversion
NetFactor

Passage Events

Leader in providing personal, one-to-one, experiential marketing programs
Passage Events

Prio

Provides search, discovery, and hosting solutions for the online and mobile worlds
Prio, Inc.

R.H. Donnelley

Largest publisher of Yellow Pages

RapLeaf

Provides services that find information about people using social networks, on behalf of businesses and consumers. Business users gain insight about their consumers and improve their consumers' experience. Consumer users discover, manage, and control their online information.
RapLeaf

Reunion.com

Subscription-based supplier of search capability that facilitates identification and location of individuals and is a social networking platform.
reunion

Sageworks

Developer of financial analysis tools that interpret financial statement data and renders an interpretative text summary. Also provides private-company financial information.
Sageworks

Samba

Provides subscription-based driver-record monitoring services (data, summaries, alerts, analysis) to corporate fleets and governments.
Samba

SBC

Large regional/national telecommunications firm
AT&T

Sentinel

Leader in on-line identity verification
Sentinel

Sprint

Large telecommunications firm
Sprint

Teknicks

Interactive agency offering search optimization, web design, and web application development.
Teknicks

Tranzact

Provider of pay-for-performance marketing services

Triton

Specialized provider of inbound telesales for long-form B-to-C infomercials
Triton

V12

Provides multi-channel direct marketing data solutions to increase customer acquisition, retention, and loyalty
V12

ValueClick

Helps advertisers cost-effectively acquire new customers, assist publishers to maximize their revenue
Value Click

VNU

Large publisher and information firm
VNU

Yahoo!

Large, pioneering Internet services firm
Yahoo

Zubican

Free, online business community devoted to connecting business-to-business buyers and sellers. Offers a database of profiles for U.S. businesses that tell the world who they are and what they offer so buyers can find them. Companies manage their profiles to maximize their attractiveness to buyers looking for the solutions they offer.
Zeta Interactive