Lelong Malaysia is a website that provides easy malaysian auction and online shopping which includes trading of computers, cars, houses, electronics, sports, antique, software and handphone. The website also offers online payment transaction.
Website Outlook Price: $293k
The website is unique because the auctioned items are rare and awesome such as these weird stuff and spy camera detector pen, which allows users to detect any spy devices around on a certain location.
The website also auctions popular products from other website including MaxAudio Online, which is a premier Car Audio, Video, Accessories & Performance Online Store.
Lelong offers each merchant member a page where they can sell their products such as Shinoz's Online Store which is powered by Lelong.
The Lelong Forum allows members to interact with each other and ask questions. Other members could provide a answers and recommendations about issues related to Lelong and transportation of bought materials which have problems with the courier service.
Members at Webmaster Malaysia Forum even featured the lelong's service. The free auction, free membership, free bidding, free banner advertisement and free trading. Sylok.com's Forum also featured Lelong's Bank Auctioning and Photomalaysia Community.
As more and more small and medium business "go online" using e-commerce website such as lelong. People have provided guides such as Lelong Malaysia Auction Online Guide that are listed on lelongmalaysia.com.
The Star Online is a property of Star Publications (Malaysia) Berhad who regularly pubish The Star since 1971. The website's article provides breaking news and updates through SMS Services accessible using Maxis, Celcom and DiGi.
Website Outlook Price: $1.13 million
The Star OnlineMalaysia News provides up-to-date news about national issues and events. They tackle issues about allegations, disease scare, economy, landslides, new laws, accidents, terrorism and other related issues.
The Star Online Classifieds is an electronic version of The Star's Classified Ads Section. It offers convenience to its more than 1 million website visitors and advertisers in searching and bookmarking ads. It also allows Advertisers to pay for the ads space using their Mastercard and VISA credit cards online.
The Star Online TechCentral - Malaysia Technology provides recent news in the world of technologies. It conduct polls about a certain technology topic such as mobile phone issues. The section offers highlights about technology that are used in the gaming industry, cyber security news, Corporate based-technologies and features new products and gadgets.
The Star Online eCentral - Malaysia Entertainment is the entertainment section of the website. It provides news highlights and features about malaysian and international artists, movies, television shows, albums and singers. It is also the hub for articles and blog posts from Galaxie Blog.
TheStarOnline.tv allows streaming of The Star Online Youtube videos. Video Channels range from News and Business to Technology and Entertainment.
The Star Online Business Unit Trust provides information about investment fund, progress fund, tactical fund, bond fund and other related information.
PBEBank.com is the official website of Public Bank Berhad providing customized banking services and products.
Website Outlook Price: $171,141
Public Bank Berhad was founded by Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Dr. Teh Hong Piow in August 1966.
It is the 5th largest company by market capitalization and 3rd largest banking group by asset size in Malaysia.
It has 241 full service branches across Malaysia and a total of 83 branches in Hong Kong, The People's Republic of China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Sri Lanka.
It offers FPX (Financial Process Exchange) allowing online payments from customers of online shopping stores which is supported by Bank Islam, Hong Leong Bank, Bumiputra Commerce Bank, AirAsia Bhd, Allianz Life Insurance Msia Bhd, Amway, Dragonback Media Interactive Sdn Bhd, Exertainment MSB, ING Funds Bhd, iSentric Sdn Bhd, Jaring, LHDN, Maybank2u.com, MOL Access Portal, MYCNX Holdings (M) Sdn Bhd, Pan Malaysian Pools (PMP) and Takaful Nasional Sdn Bhd.
It provides other services such as Personal Internet Banking, credit cards like Visa, Classic, & PB Mastercard Standard, Maxis Communication payment option, and paypal withdrawal using public bank debit card.
It was awarded with Best Domestic Bank in Malaysia 2007, Bank of the year for Malaysia 2008, and Best Retail Bank in Malaysia for 2007.
It is headquartered in Menara Public Bank 146 Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
In December of Fiscal Year 2008, Public Bank posted a record net profit increase of 22%.
During the US Subprime crisis, it was deemed untouched or unaffected.
Sendspace.com, founded in July 2005, is a website that allows users to send big file easily when files are too large for email attachment. It can be used to transfer send files, that can't be attached on emails, to anyone across the internet.
Website Outlook Price: $9.09 million
Users can attach their OpenID accounts to their sendspace accounts and use OpenID to login at sendspace.com.
Users could upload and download large files from the website. Sendspace was used by major artists, to distribute free music, which includes the Grammy-award winning Chamillionaire according to wikipedia.
Uploading files on the website is easy through their flash-based Uploader which accepts multiple files uploading. The uploading of files needs your email address and the recipients email address. The maximum file size is 300MB and upload frequency is 5 files at a time.
Send big files the easy way by uploading files using Sendspace Wizard. It is a free desktop tool that allows multiple files into your sendspace account. The tool offers drag/drop of files, resume file upload, send file links by email, adding of file description, file management and folder creation and Automatic update notifications.
To extend the capabilities of Sendspace Wizard in sending files too large for email attachments, users can join Sendspace Max to acquire new features such as multiple file downloads, resume broken downloads and download accelerator. Sendspace Wizard is available on various platforms including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X (Universal binary, 10.4 and above) and Linux.
iPhone owners could download iShare v2.01 beta. iShare is an iPhone application that allows uploading, sharing, dowloading and sending big files of files via sendspace.
Finding files at sendspace is not that easy. Shareminer.com files search is a search engines that index files uploaded at sendspace.
According to alexa as of January 2009, Sendspace ranks in the top 252 most visited website on the internet.
TM.com.my is Telekom Malaysia's official website. Telekom Malaysia (formerly Jabatan Telekom Malaysia later changed to Syarikat Telekom Malaysia Berhad (1984)) is the leading provider of integrated information and communications technology in Malaysia. It is also the second largest telecommunications company in Southeast Asia.
TM Online is a Telekom Malaysia service that allows TM customers to manage their account and pay bills online.
Telekom Malaysia (TM) Berhad acquired several start-up competitor companies such as TMNet. TM has various subsidiaries including VADS, Multimedia University, Multimedia College, TMR&D and Telekom Applied Business. Internationally, they have presence in Celcom (Malaysia), Dialog Telekom (Sri Lanka), Aktel (Bangladesh), Excelcomindo (Indonesia), MobileOne (Singapore), Hello (Cambodia), MTCE (Iran), Spice Telecom (India) and Multinet Pakistan Ltd (Pakistan).
Telekom Malaysia helped build the Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology in 1994. After being recognized as the first private university in Malaysia, the name was later changed to the University of Telekom. Finally, it changed its name to Telekom Multimedia University which became a member of the LAOTSE, an international network of leading university in Asia and Europe.
Telekom Malaysia have 7 earth sattelites and "teleports" namely Kuantan Satellite Earth Station, Cyberjaya Satellite Earth Station, Wangsa Maju Teleport, Melaka Teleport, Labuan Teleport, Sabah Teleport and Sarawak Teleport according to wikipedia.org.
Telekom Malaysia created several landmarks which includes the famous Hijjas Kasturi designed Menara Telekom. The other landmarks are Menara Kuala Lumpur and Menara Alor Star.
According to wikipedia, Telekom Malaysia changed its global brand, in April 2005, from Telekom Malaysia to TM.
Telekom Malaysia (TM) was awarded with the prestigious 2008 STAR-BIZ ICRM Corporate Responsibility Award in the workplace category.
In February 2007, The Star Online reported that Telekom Malaysia is switching to wireless in some areas of coverage to fight cable theft.
In April 2007, Telekom Malaysia lead the group of 17 Asian Phone companies to build an underwater fiber-optic cable connecting southeast asia and the United States. The project was worth $500 million and awarded to Alcatel Submarine Network and Japan's NEC.
In October 2007, A multi-billion project was awarded to Telekom Malaysia. The project was to provide homes in Malaysia with High Speed Broadband.
Telekom Malaysia have acquired Tekad Mercu Berhad and Rebung Utama Sdn Bhd and dissolved its subsidiaries, Telesafe, Mobitel and Telekom Payphone in October and December 2007 respectively.
In March 2008, the company acquired TM ESOS Management.
In July 2008, Greenplum announced that Telekom Malaysia and other companies are using Greenplum Database to power a range of applications, from security compliance and customer acquisition to call detail record analysis. [from The Telecom Data Explosion have fueled the growth of Greenplum].
Telekom Malaysia's high speed broadband (HSBB) project is slated to be launched at the end of this year. The company will be initially spending RM2.2 billion for the first phase of the project which is expected to last for 3 years.
Check this article by "Wan" about her experience being a customer of Telekom Malaysia.
PremierLeague.com is the official website of the English Premier League (EPL) (sponsored by Barclay's), world's most popular and successful soccer (or football) tournament.
Website Outlook Price: $1.89 million
It was founded in February 20, 1992 as FA Premier League.
The current active teams in the English Premier League are: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bolton, Burnley, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Hull City, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Portsmouth, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham, West Ham Utd, Wigan Athletic and Wolves.
Prominent managers includes Arsene Wenger, David Moyes, Rafael Benitez and Sir Alexander Chapman "Alex" Ferguson.
Popular players are Nicolas Anelka, Steven Gerrard, Robinho, Fernando Torres, Robin Van Persie, Cesc Fabregas, Dimitar Berbatov, Ryan Giggs, Edwin Van der Sar, Glen Johnson, Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Ashley Young and Frank Lampard.
PremierLeague.com was registered on July 16, 1997 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. and has a Google PageRank of 7.
It offers in-depth coverage of the tournament by providing latest news, fixtures, results and activities in the tournament including transfer deals and profiles of teams, managers and players.
Other services and features are Live Score Centre, Form Guide, Fair Play Table, League Table, Stadium Information, Fantasy Premier League, Tickets Availability and Special Offers.
It is popular in the UK, Ireland, India, US, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Africa.
Other popular soccer leagues includes FiFa World Cup, FA Cup, Serie A, Champion's League and La Liga.
Manchester United Champions 2009 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
Megaclick.com is an internet advertising company owned by developers of Megaupload and MegaFlirt.
Website Outlook Price: $12.61 million
Megaclick engage in online adverts that will reach target audience through a large global network of publishers.
It provides easy ad placement feature and state-of-the-art optimization algorithm.
It offers webmasters to fully exhaust content monetization capabilities of their websites.
It is owned and operated by MegaUpload Ltd. located at Room 1204, 12/F, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Megaclick.com was registered on January 4, 2004 through DotRegistrar, llc and has a google pagerank of 5.
It is popular in the US, Japan, Spain, Russia, Brazil, France, Mexico, Italy, India, UK, Poland, Taiwan, Germany, China, Argentina, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Iran, Colombia, Belgium, Australia, and Philippines.
Maxis.com.my is the online portal of the leading mobile phone service provider in Malaysia, Maxis Communications Berhad founded in 1993, that offers customers general information, online billing, shopping and customer services.
Website Outlook Price: $143k
Maxis Customer Service is both offered for personal and business customers. Personal customer service offers individual customers the power to manage various Maxis-related services. Business Customer Service offers online account management facilities exclusively tailored for business and large corporate customers.
Personal Customer Service offers e-Billing, Unlocking of Sim Cards, Updating of Personal Info and Value Added Services.
Maxis Broadband offers 3 options: Wireless Broadband, Wired Broadband and Voice2go. Wireless Broadband offers internet access and exploration anywhere. Wired Broadband offers high-speed internet access from home. Voice2go offers management of calls through advanced Maxis VOIP service.
Maxis Phone Settings provides information about configuration procedure for mobile settings. Configure mobile phones for internet access, sending of SMS, e-mails and video streaming.
myMaxis Phone deal offers mobile phone products through Maxis from different mobile manufacturers and brands such as Sony Ericson, Nokia, HTC, LG, Blackberry and other mobile phones.
Maxis3G provides mobile internet, MMS Services and Video Calls. It also allows anyone to monitor their home through their innovative 3G Camera.
Maxis offers several MMS Services such as MMS Photo Print, MBlog (Mobile Blogging), MGreetz and MMS Morphing.
Maxis Communications Berhad provides quarterly reports such as their March 2005 Maxis 1Q05 report.
The company is headquartered in Level 18, Menara Maxis, Off Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with 2,700 employees. According to kwx, Maxis is also involved in Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor(MSC) offering Jobs in Malaysia.
In 2002, Maxis Communications first appeared on Malaysian Stock Exchange but went private again in June 2007 when Binariang GMS Bhd (now known as MEASAT Satellite System), a company owned by Malaysian Tycoon Ananda Krishnan, bought the company for $4.5 billion. [based on Hoover's United Kingdom Maxis Information]
The key people from Maxis Communications are COO for Internation Operations Edward Y. S. Heng, CFO and Head Finance and Administration Rossana Rashidi and Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director Megat Zaharuddin bin Megat Mohd. Nor.
Maxis Communication doesn't have any relationship with Maxis, a software delevoper company who released the city-building game Simcity 2000. [article from Highbeam Research Press Releases]
ResearchAndMarkets.com is selling Maxis Communication SWOT Analysis and Reports at a price of EUR 134. It provides detailed data and information about the company including the business structure and operations. MarketReasearch.com also sells a copy of the Maxis SWOT Analysis for $125.00 and ReportBuyer.com sold the Maxis SWOT Analysis for 66 pound.
For Enquiries and feedback, contact Maxis directly through the internet or by email and phone.
The New Straits Times (previously known as The Strait Times), established in July 15, 1845, is the oldest English language powered Newspaper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with nst.com.my as its online edition. It derived its name from the Straits of Malacca, a busy shipping lane in the late century.
Website Outlook Price: $220k
The New Straits Time Press (Malaysia) Berhad (4485 H) is the official publisher and parent company of The New Straits Times Online.
The New Straits Times Resource Center is available for public use with a fee of RM 20.00 per hour whereas photocopy of certain documents range from RM 2.00 to RM 10.00 per copy with another RM 10.00 per document for certification fee. For request of documents, anyone could contact them by sending post to 31, Jalan Riong 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
NST provides national, sports and business news. Includes letters, features, columns, picture gallery, and news archives and ranks at the top 10 thousand global most visited websites according to alexa site information.
NSTP Market Watch, powered by Zoom Finance, provide up-to-date status, condition and stock qoute of the Malaysian Stock Market.
NSTP Local News provides articles about the current events in Malaysia.
The New Straits Time has great employees such as Dato Muhammad Nor Khalid (a.k.a. LAT), best selling author of the Kampung Boy, who joined in 1974 as Editorial Cartoonist.
The New Straits Time covered the launch of THE `A Brazilian Affair' art exhibition held in Hilton Kuala Lumpur.
Emedia News is the newspaper's online archive for the New Straits Times Press Group, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Major Online Brand Competitors are The Straits Time (straitstime.com) who recently in 2007 digitalized all their edition and latest issues, National Sales Training Online (NSTOnline.com) and New Services and Trusted Provider Information (NSTPi.com.my).
BBC.co.uk, introduced in May 6 2004, is the online portal for the world's most popular news network, British Broadcasting Corporation. They provide up-to-the-minute news, breaking news and feature stories in both video and audio. They also delve into entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.
Website Outlook Price: $51.26 million
The website was first launched as bbcnc.co.uk in April 13, 1994 where nc stands for "network club".
Today, The BBC Homepage is a customizable page where users can remove sections of the online service. Users could also add more sections on the page. There are 16 sections that could be added which includes Blogs, Business and Money, Children, Entertainment, Travel, Food, History, Music, More Top Stories, Radio, Science and Nature, Sport, TV Channels, Teens, Weather, Weird & Wonderful and World Service. Users can also set primary color that will be used on the page.
BBC Blog Network provides articles from bloggers that talk about the topics from BBC. The Blogs includes Dot.Life, BBC Internet, The Editors, Mark Mardell's EuroBlog, Justin Webb, Nick Bryant, BBC Sports Editors and Test Match Special. One of these blogs will be feature on your bbc homepage blog widget.
TheMalaysianInsider.com is an online newspaper established by ntv7 ex-COO Sreedhar Subramaniam ang Png Hong Kwang that offers "unvarnished" take on events and personalities in Malaysia. They aimed to help build and transform the country into a nation with Unity, Security and Prosperity.
Website Outlook Price: $134k
The Malaysian Insider provides information and news article about Malaysia, Business, World, Showbiz, Sports, Feature and Opinions. The online newspaper took part in the inauguration of United States president by providing up-to-date news about the event.
The Malaysian Insider Mobile is the mobile version of the online newspaper used for accessing the website through mobile phones such as iPhone and Blackberry.
The Malaysian Insider at Facebook is an open group that allows freedom of speech and invitation. The group boast more than 1,000 members actively participating in the groups activities.
Website Developers and owners of blogs and website can use the The Malaysian Insider widget available for use on the widgetbox.
At flickr, there is an uploaded image of The Malaysian Insider which presents the look of a page when it is in stripped down version during their transfer of servers.
An article in malaysia-instinct.com said that The Malaysian Insider is like Hitler's chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels. The article said the the online newspaper is funded by pro-Khairy Jamaluddin's people.
MalaysiaAirlines.com is the Malaysia Airlines Website, an airline company with the "World's Best Cabin Staff" and airline code, MH meaning Malaysian Hospitality.
Website Outlook Price: $300,413
Malaysia Airlines, founded in 1947 by Malayan Airways, started its operation on 1987 after the airline changed its name from Malaysian Airline System.
It transformed to Malaysian Airways due to Malaysia gaining its independence.
Later, it changes its name to Malaysia-Singapore Airlines and thereafter ceased its operation.
Further, It was then divided into Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines.
In May 2007, Malaysia Airlines and MERCY malaysia renewed its partnership and signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) confirming the partnertship renewal for disaster relief initiatives.
Malaysia was considered as World's Best Cabin Crew for 4 years from 2001 until 2004, 5-star airline in 2005 and Economy Class Onboard Excellence in 2006 by Skytrax UK.
The company flies over 227,552 seats internationally per week with 2,762 flights each week worldwide.
The longest flight on Malaysia Airlines is 13 hours and 45 minutes from Los Angeles to Taipei while the shortest flight is 20 minutes from Miri to Marudi.
Malaysia Airlines was the official carrier of the 16th Commonwealth Games in Kuala, Lumpur, Malaysia.
It is considered as one of the best brands of the world at BrandsOfTheWord.com.
MalaysiaAirlines.com was registered on October 1, 1996 through Network Solutions, LLc. and has a Google PageRank of 7.
Users from across the globe can book a flight to different destinations accessible by the airlines company including Australia.
It supports major languages namely: Bahasa and English.
They allow online check-in service for passengers and business travelers to give more time for passengers to do last minute activities.
This would allow passengers to arrive 10 minutes before departure or 1 hour if they have extra baggages.
Other sister sites includes MASkargo, the official website of Malaysia Airlines Cargo Sdn Bhd., that allows easy monitoring of shipments and online booking of Malaysia Airlines cargo wing.
The Fireflyz, wholly owned subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines System Bhd, is Malaysia's first online airline community.
It is popular in Malaysia, India, Australia, Indonesia, UK, and US.
Competitors are AirAsia, CathayPacific, Emirates, Lufthansa, PhilippineAirlines, ChinaAirlines, and SingaporeAir.
Scribd.com, launched in March 2007, is a San Francisco-based online reader of original writings and documents published. It was founded by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman and Tikhon Bernstam.
Website Outlook Price: $9.72 million
Scribd reports that the website generates approximately more than 50 million readers monthly, 50,000 uploaded documents every day and more than 5 million iPaper embeds. The website is available on 90 languages for users across the globe.
According to their about us page, the United States of America president elect-Barack obama reads the documents uploaded on Scribd. Other popular individuals and organization that read documents on Scribd are David Hewson and FoxBusiness.com.
The registration on the website is totally free and available for everyone's consumption. Registered users can avail the features on the website including uploading of their original document.
Scribd allows download of files in .pdf, .doc and .txt file format. One of the great feature is the download of files in .mp3 format powered by a text-to-speech package (..British accent) from Nuance.
Scribd was initially powered by Ruby on Rails and considered one of the success Rails powered websites.
In March 2007, scribd received a $300k Angel investment Angel on top of their original Y Combinator nest egg of $12,000 according to Techcrunch.
In July 2008, Lulu.com has teamed up with Scribd to Offer Most Popular Free Content via iPaper according to examiner.
In December 2008, Scribd raised $9 million worth of investment from Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group. The company hired George Consagra, the former COO of Bebo, as President and Bill Tai of Charles River Ventures will be part of Scribd board.
Scribd was considered as one of the top social media sites of 2008 by Comscore published by Techcrunch.
Myspace.com, owned by Fox Interactive Media (under News Corporation), is a Beverly Hills, California-based interactive online social network and media that offers users free email, music and video streaming, forum, communities, and blog creation with approximately 800 employees. It was launched in January 2004 by a group of programmers from eUniverse.
Many artists uploaded their songs at myspace music and placed the widget on their profiles to provide their audience and fans with free streaming of their song at myspace such as Gun n' Roses.
Myspace videos is a video hosting section where users could upload any videos to the website including movie trailers, music videos, full-length anime and funny clips.
Myspace Mobile was created for users who can access the internet through their mobile gadgets such as the apple iPhone. Other mobiles like Blackberry Smartphones uses a special downloadable app they call Myspace for Blackberry.
Myspace Australia is a special international myspace version for the Asia-Pacific region.
Myspace Developer Platform offers freelance and professional creators of myspace applications, a chance to promote their products and services.
Myspace Jobs was created to provide job applicants the easy way to find job hirings from big companies including AT&T, The Home Depot, McDonalds and Starbucks Coffee.
Myspace Forums offers interaction between myspace users and allows everyone to speak out their views on certain topics on different categories.
Myspace was targeted by a worm they call "Samy Worm" or "JS.Spacehero Worm" which was discovered and became unsuccessful.
Pete Cashmore explained how myspace helped the exponential growth of youtube.
MySpace.com domain was originally planned as a web hosting site and was owned by YourZ.com, a leading online storage until 2002.
In June 2006, Myspace was considered as the number 1 social networking website in the United States.
In August 2006, 100 millionth account from Netherlands was created according to wikipedia.
In September 2006, Myspace announced that it had reached approximately 106 million accounts.
In October 2007, Myspace released its own platform which contains APIs and new mark up language that allows developers create applications that will run on myspace. [Techcrunch]
In April 2008, Facebook has overtaken Myspace in terms monthly unique visitors. [comscore]
During the 2008 US Presidential Elections, Myspace have played a very big role in the success of President-elect Barack Obama. Obama had more myspace followers than his competitor Sen. Mccain which was a very big lead in terms of network and presence online. [techpresident]
In April 2009, Myspace announced that its new CEO Owen Van Natta and Jonathan Miller as CEO of Digital Media for News Corp.
thepiratebay.org, established by in November 2003 by a Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån ("The Piracy Bureau"), is currently the world's largest online bittorent tracker that allows free browse and download of music, movies, games and software. It was founded by Gottfrid Svartholm Warg ("anakata"), Fredrik Neij ("TiAMO"), Carl Lundstorm and Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi("brokep").
Website Outlook Price: $20.59 million
The Pirate Bay was bombarded by email messages from affected companies such as EA, Microsoft, Dreamworks, SEGA, Apple and Warner Bros for copyright claims and the pirate Bay provides lists of companies that sent them email messages in The Pirate Bay publicly through Legal Threats. Traces of humorous replies can still be found at TristanCafe.
The Pirate Bay's ViO Video Mobile Converter was developed to provide internet users a tool to convert downloaded videos into a file that can be played on mobile gadgets such as iPhone and PDAs.
Users could find the top 100 downloaded torrents on pirate bay ranging from file size of 700Mb to a few Gigabytes (Gb).
At an article on Wired.com, the website can't be take down because the servers are placed in different countries by friends of the founders of the company according to Peter Sunder Kolmisoppi.
According to donny's blog, the music industry is losing about $11 trillion each month of piracy downloads based on the gathered data from The Pirate Bay and the cost per infringement set by RIAA in 2006. That's why some organizations are pressuring torrents site such as Demonoid.
In April 2005, the pirate bay posted messages (as a prank) that pirate bay was unavailable due to a raid conducted by Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
In June 2005, the pirate bay website was updated and modified to reduce the bandwidth consumption which was reported to be about 2000 HTTP requests per second on each of their four Linux servers.
In May 2006, the pirate bay located in Stockholm was raided by Swedish police due to several lawsuits filed against them by media companies and allegations of copyright violations according to torrentfreak. A 27-page document about the raid from United States Department of State Review Authority was uploaded on Picasa Web Albums.
The raid had helped its major competitor mininova.org's traffic which skyrocketed during the raid. Judas_I of The Pirate Bay created a video about the questioning that was done to him and the statement is available at Pinoy Spy Reporter.
In June 2006, the pirate bay generated about $75,000 from advertisements according to Svenska Dagbladet.
In January 2007, The Pirate Bbay tried to buy the micronation of Sealand, a man-made platform in Sealand owned by Prince Michael. The platform was valued at around $504 million according to The Local.
In April 2007, a confirmation, on the Swedish talk show Bert, about the financial support received by the pirate bay from entrepreneur Carl Lundström.
In May 2007, The Pirate Bay was attacked by a group of hackers and copied the user database of 1.5 million users.
In July 2007, Brokep posted an article in his brokep blog about the Swedish Police blocking the Pirate Bay site due to child pornography. ZeroPaid, acting on a tip from The Pirate Bay, found MiiVi.com to be registered to Media Defender using a whois search according to Blorge.com.
In September 2007, an anonymous hacker leaked internal emails, from anti-piracy company MediaDefender, containing discussions about hiring hackers to perform DoS attacks on the pirate bay servers and trackers.
In October 2007, the expired domain of International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) was squatted by an unanimous person gave it to The Pirate Bay staff. The domain then presented an image that says: "International Federation of Pirates Interests.. Coming Soon.." according to arstechnica.com.
In November 2007, British anti-piracy firm Web Sheriff intended to file law suits in the United States and Sweden against The Pirate Bay on behalf of Prince, the Village People, Van Morrison and the estate of Chet Baker, according to CNET News.
In December 2007, the pirate bay changed its bittorent tracking software from Hypercube to Opentracker.
In January 2008, the pirate bay operators Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström were charged with "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws". The four, if proved true, should pay 1.2 million Kronor according to BBC.co.uk.
In the same month, The Pirate Bay broke into 10 million users and 1 million managed torrents according to Slyck.com.
In February 2008, The Pirate Bay changed its logo to a pirate bus to announce the partaking in an art project which Piratbyrån has been commissioned to do for the international art biennial event, Manifesta.
In July 2008, The Pirate Bay was connected to the case of TorrentSpy against Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) on an article at CNET News. NewTeevee.com reported that The Pirate Bay is developing a new breed of encryption technology.
In August 2008, The Pirate Bay distributed a notice that the website and its IP addresses were blocked in Italy after a court ruling. The Pirate Bay was one of the 5 alternative ways to watch olympics online article at newteevee.
In September 2008, a confidential torrent was made available at the pirate bay. The torrent contains the public preliminary investigation protocols concerning a child murder case known as the Arboga case. At Web TV Wire, rumors about the release of thepiratecity.org was clarified by Brokep, alledgedly connected to the new video streaming site, that he doesn't have anything to do with the said website.
In November 2008, the pirate bay reached over 25 million unique users.
In December 2008, a firefox add-on "download 4 free" was made available. The button links to merchandise searched on amazon and redirect to The Pirate Bay if available for free download according to Wired.com's Threat Level.
In January 2009, the new version of the Windows 7 beta has made its way to The Pirate Bay according to theregister.co.uk. The Pirate Bay bought a bus to support the longest trial in Sweden's history and the bus was considered as the Press Center for the trial.
In February 2009, 50% of the charges against piratebay was dropped due to problems with the presented evidence which does not prove any connection with the piratebay tracker.
A dot-com version similar to The Pirate Bay allows unlimited downloads of files.
For more information, check Piratebay at Wikipedia.org.
College Humor was founded by Jakob Lodwick, Josh Abramson, and Ricky Van Veen in 1999.
They provide articles written by notable comedians such as Christian Finnegan, David Wain, Paul Scheer, and Judah Friedlander.
CollegeHumor.com generates over 4,000,000 monthly users and ranks among the top 1,000 most visited website on alexa.com global rankings.
It has a revenue of over $2 million from advertising and t-shirt sales to its young viewer demographics.
They created a book entitled: "The CollegeHumor Guide to College: Selling Kidneys for Beer Money, Sleeping with Professors, Majoring in Communications and Other Really Good Ideas".
In 2001, Jakob Lodwick and Zach Klein joined the team as programmers.
In 2003, they graduated from college except for Zach Klein which had one year left at school.
In August 2006, College Humor was acquired by InterActiveCorp of Barry Diller.
In September 2007, College Humor signed with one of the leading talent agencies in Hollywood, the United Talent Agency who produced major stars such as Harrison Ford, Ben Stiller and Johnny Depp.
In November 2007, Jakob Lodwick left the company following the news that co-founder Zach Klein had also left the company.
In May 2008, CollegeHumor staff decided to stay up all night to create, edit and broadcast 10 original content videos for their Hardly Working series.
In August 2008, mobile site developer and ad network Quattro Wireless has partnered with Greystripe to provide online gaming and in-game advertising across select publisher sites including CollegeHumor.com.
In December 2008, Collegehumor announced that a scheduled College Humor TV Show will be shown on February 8, 2009 on MTV.
A teacher from florida made a petition to ban collegehumor due to its bad influence to christian children of america.
Collegehumor.com was accidentally got the same name with a 1993 movie titled: "College Humor".
Check out College Humor Live (the whateva' whateva' blog) hosted by Dan Levy.
co-Founder Ricky Van Veen has his own website GET EXCITED at RickyVanVeen.com.
College Humor had accounts on social media websites such as Facebook and Myspace.
Mefeedia.com is a Burbank, California-based resource website for media aggregator, search and discovery website such as video, music and podcasts of trusted and professional websites. According to Crunchbase, Mefeedia have 6 employees with Frank Sinton as CEO.
Website Outlook Price: $1.33 million
Users could add videos to Mefeedia from big video hosting websites including youtube, dailymotion, hulu and Vimeo through their username. Another option is to add an MRSS Feed or Podcast Feed through the URL of the feed.
Users could use the Feed Mefeedia Bookmarlet to easily add feeds to Mefeedia from any site across the web through drag and drop of the link. Mefeedia allows addition of rss feeds which might result into an increase in subscribers and website traffic.
In September 2005, Mefeedia was chosen as part of Busineweek's Best of the Web which was chosen by editors of the magazine.
In March 2008, Mefeedia raised $250k worth of investment from unnamed angel investors according to newteevee.com. The investment resulted to the launch of mefeedia search engine which indexes 15,000 sources of video.
In the first week of September 2008, they added 6 high-profile sources which includes Revision3, Next New Networks, 60 frames, On Networks, Hulu and ABC according to mashable.com.
In November 2008, ReadWriteWeb reported that Mefeedia will have a relaunch its websites including the services offered to support approximately 4.9 million unique visitors in September and 6 million users in October. They added Mefeedia movies for full-length and free streaming of movies.
Mefeedia's website design received complaints from various people across the web including Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb.
Mefeedia's twitter account is available for follow but their are no confirmation from mefeedia management if the account is owned and managed by mefeedia. Mefeedia provides updates and news links about the company through the account.
Mefeedia Yahoo!Group is an online community for loyal mefeedia users and other mefeedia users who wanted to know more about mefeedia or express their thoughts about the website.
Chikka.com (Chikka Asia Inc.), founded by Dennis Mendiola, is the online resource and portal for the web-based messenger that allows users to send free messages to mobile phone users across the globe. It also allows users to connect to other free online messenger such as Yahoo!, Gtalk, AIM, ICQ and MSN messenger.
In India, Chikka Messenger can be used to send SMS to subscribers of Airtel (Express Yourself), RIM, Reliance Telecom, BSNL, Vodafone, Tata Indicom, BPL Mobile, Spice, idea, Aircel and MTNL.
Users could download the chikka messenger for free at chikka corporate section. Today, chikka.com is conducting a contest where users could win iPod Gadgets. But before using the service, users should read their Terms of Service to avoid illegal usage of the messenger.
Chikka.com bags the 2008 DigitalFilipino Web Award in Services Category. Chikka.com's founder was considered as 2006 Ernst and Young Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Entrepreneur of the Year.
Answerbag.com, founded by Joel Downs in 2003, is a Santa Monica, California-based online database of question and answer that is totally free. It was acquired by Infosearch Media in 2006 but announced that it would join Demand Media. Today, it has become a social media community of experts, genius and people who needs answer to their questions. Answerbag ranks in the top 1,300 websites of the world on Alexa Rankings.
Answerbag Relationship Advice provides answers and resolutions to relationship issues such as abuse, addiction, breaking up, dating, rejections, divorce, friends, interracial marriages, parenting and family.
Answerbag Social Questions provides answers and opinions to people who just wanted to socialize or chat with everyone.
Health Enthusiasts could access the Answerbag Health and Fitness. Users could learn how to stay fit and healthy and other issues including Aging, Beauty, Skincare and Mental Health.
Answerbag Home and Garden provides tips related to home maintenance, cleaning, gardening and pet management. Food Experts could learn more about food, dining and appliances management.
Movie Goers, Entertainment-based workers, artists and showbiz audiences could acquire knowledge in Answerbag Entertainment. They can find answers to issues about the music, movie, television and gaming industry.
Car Buyers and Sellers could find answers and questions at Answerbag Buying and Selling Cars. Information ranges from dealers and used cars to financing.
Answerbag API was the driving force of the media service and the reason for its success making it the second largest questions and answer service next to Yahoo! Answers. The API was a major topic on websites such as TheFreeLibrary. Users could access the API's Profile at ProgrammableWeb. More Answerbag widgets are available at widgetbox.
Users at Askville.com tried to compare Amazon's Askville and Answerbag but one of them said that: "Askville probably isn't any better anymore" which is partly true.
Answerbag Blog includes messages from the staff such as Goodbye message from founder Joel or greetings for the holidays. Further information about certain Answerbag events will be presented on the blog.
In 2006, Answerbag introduced the answers via images and video to further express answers in a new way, according to Search Engine Journal and redOrbit.
In February 2008, Answerbag had reached 236,000 registered users with approximately half a million questions raised. Answers have also reached 2.1 million due to the 10,000 answers per day rate on Answerbag.
Photobucket, founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, is a free online resource for image and video hosting and sharing. It was funded by Trinity Ventures and was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.
Website Outlook Price: $66.92 million
Login Interface requires username and password before users could use the features of photobucket. But users need to Register which is totally free.
The popularity of the novel and movie "Twilight" had driven the growth of twilight category. Many users upload images or photos of twilight on photobucket's twilight category. Other popular categories are Myspace icons and Love.
Photobucket Forums is powered by vBulletin and allows discussion on topics related to photobucket such as how to upload and questions about photobucket.
Mobile Photobucket is the mobile version of the social media image hosting site where users could access using their mobile phones and gadgets.
It was reported at CNET News that photobucket deleted babies in diapers because of nudity which they restored afterwards.
In February 2007, Photobucket was a debut spot for one of the newest flash tools which was first made available to Photobucket Premium users. It was confirmed by Geoff Baum of Adobe that the new tool is only available at Photobucket.
In January 2008, artists raised concerns about the two elements on Photobucket service. The image printing service powered by Qoop and takedown system.
In June 2008, The Register reported that Photobucket was hacked by a Turkish guy who redirected to a greeting from NetDeliz and a message in Turkish. It also spread across websites such as ZDNET.
Imeem.com is an online media service provider that allows posting of user-generated media content like photos, video, profile and song playlist.
Website Outlook Price: $2.56 million
Imeem was founded by Dalton Caldwell and Jan Jannink supported by investors like Sequoia Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures, Warner Music Group and DAG Ventures.
They provide music streaming of songs in various genres including hip hop, soul, reggae and classical.
Imeem partnered several music labels such as EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, MTV Networks, Universal Music, and Warner Music.
Other music industry-related partners are Project Playlist, Kia Motors, and Mcdonald's.
Its tagline is "What's on your playlist?".
Imeem was considered as one of the fastest growing online community in 2008 after reaching the 20 million mark or an increase of 200% from previous year.
Imeem's popularity have driven the growth of free imeem downloader developed by "free music zilla" and Freezer.
It is also an innovative and highly technological website powered by the industries latest web development technology namely: Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex, PHP and Adobe Flash.
Imeem have approximately 95 employees based in San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles but 20 staff were layed off in October 2008.
It was later reported that hired the investment banker, Montgomery and Co., to lead the sale of imeem.
Imeem, Inc. is headquartered in 139 Townsend St Ste 400, San Francisco, California, USA.
Imeem.com was registered on December 26, 2003 through MarkMonitor, Inc. and has a google pagerank of 8.
It is popular in Japan, US, Thailand, South Korea, Iran, India, Russia, Canada, Turkey, and Philippines.
Wikipedia.org is a non profit and free online encyclopedia that provides articles collaboratively updated by experts and enthusiast worldwide.
Website Outlook Price: $301 million
Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
It had received donations from multiple sources including the $3 million gift from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in March 2008.
It is considered as one of the most scraped website on the internet.
It allows anyone to edit any article about topics such as personal biography and word definition.
Wikipedia enthusiasts, organizations, fans and companies have created visualization for wikipedia such as the VisualWikipedia and WikiExplorer.
It is available in multiple languages including english, spanish and German. Other language versions are Pocetna Strana, Houptsyte, Die Wikipedia, Prota frandza, Simple English and Thau-iah.
