At Amazon.com, we believe that innovation has the power to change the world. As we strive to become Earth's most customer-centric company, we constantly look for new ways to innovate on behalf of our different customers: individuals who shop our global websites, merchants who sell on our platform, developers who use our infrastructure to create their businesses, and creators of the books, music, films, games and other content we sell through our websites. We believe that our greatest contribution to the good of society comes directly from these core business activities.

Apple Inc. (previously Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity software; Aperture, a professional photography package; Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products; and Logic Studio, a suite of music production tools. As of January 2010, the company operates 284 retail stores[2] in ten countries,[6] and an online store where hardware and software products are sold.
Established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated January 3, 1977,[7] the company was previously named Apple Computer, Inc. for its first 30 years, but removed the word "Computer" on January 9, 2007,[8] to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers.[9] As of September 26, 2009, Apple had 34,300 full time employees and 2,500 temporary full time employees worldwide[10] and had worldwide annual sales of $42.91 billion in its fiscal year ending September 26, 2009.[4]

[source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.]

Founded in 1991, with corporate offices in Europe, the US and the UK, AVG is focused on providing home and business computer users with the most comprehensive and proactive protection against computer security threats.

With more than 110 million active users around the world, the AVG family of security software products is distributed globally through resellers and through the Web and supports all major operating systems and platforms.

Employing some of the world’s leading experts in software development, threat detection and prevention, and risk analysis. AVG is uniquely positioned to spearhead innovation in the industry. The company continues to invest in R&D, teaming with leading universities to maintain its technological edge.

AVG has experienced significant growth in the last few years, becoming the world’s fourth largest vendor of anti-virus software measured by installed user base. The company will continue to expand and address the needs of the global market through improved technology and broader language and platform support.

http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-company-profile

BitDefender®is the creator of one of the industry's fastest and most effective lines of internationally certified security software.

Since its inception in 2001, BitDefender® has continued to raise the bar to set new standards in proactive threat prevention.

BitDefender® made its entrance on the international market when opening its own offices in Germany, Spain, USA and the UK. The company’s global expansion plans are still underway as BitDefender® is strengthening its position based on a series of strategic partnerships. Moreover, BitDefender is also setting sail for Asia.

End of 2007, BitDefender® received an investment to support its global expansion and advance its leader position in the antivirus software and data security industry. The investment group is part Romanian, part American and it has substantial investment experience in the region and in the IT sector.

http://www.bitdefender.com/site/view/company.html

CA has been helping companies manage Information Technology (IT) in all kinds of environments for more than three decades. From the mainframe to distributed to virtualized and cloud, we have a history of developing and delivering powerful, integrated software to help customers improve performance and better compete, innovate and grow their businesses.

We have grown from a four-person operation in the mid-1970s to a global IT management software company that today serves the majority of the Forbes Global 2000. Following is a snapshot of the milestones that continue to shape our company

http://www.ca.com/us/about/content.aspx?cid=120941

DBS Group Holdings (DBS) is one of the largest financial services groups in Asia. Headquartered in Singapore, DBS is a well-capitalised bank with "AA-" and "Aa1" credit ratings that are among the highest in the Asia-Pacific region.

DBS was established in 1968 as the development bank of Singapore. It was the catalyst to Singapore's economic development during the nation's early years of independence. Since then, DBS has transformed into a successful financial services institution, offering a comprehensive range of innovative products and solutions to meet its clients' needs. With operations in 16 markets, the bank has a regional network spanning more than 200 branches and over 1,000 ATMs across 50 cities.

As one of the leading banks in Asia, DBS also acknowledges the passion, commitment and can-do spirit in each of its 14,000 staff, representing over 30 nationalities. We are committed to empowering, educating and engaging our staff so as to build a high performance organisation renowned for its good customer service and innovative business solutions.

With more than 90 million active users globally, eBay is the world's largest online marketplace, where practically anyone can buy and sell practically anything. Founded in 1995, eBay connects a diverse and passionate community of individual buyers and sellers, as well as small businesses. Their collective impact on e-commerce is staggering: In 2009, the total worth of goods sold on eBay was $60 billion -- $2,000 every second.

http://www.ebayinc.com/who

We started out with all our customer applications on our own fully managed infrastructure. This year, we introduced Engine Yard AppCloud, a Rails Application Cloud for web developers and web teams running on top of cloud computing infrastructure. It provides easy-to-use, automated Rails application deployment and management, with a design philosophy that allows easy migration of your existing applications.

Along the way, we’ve given back to the Rails community with several full time Ruby and Rails contributors and by providing early sponsorship for key community tools like GitHub, BeanStalk, New Relic and Lighthouse.

To date, we’ve raised $37.5 million of funding with participation from Amazon.com, New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA), and Benchmark Capital.

[source - http://www.engineyard.com/company]

Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin named the search engine they built "Google," a play on the word "googol," the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the scope of Google's mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

source: http://www.google.com

Innovation is nothing new at Intuit. It's been our heartbeat for nearly a quarter century.
As the world evolves, so do we. Yet we remain driven by our passion for inventing solutions to solve important problems, perfecting those solutions and delighting our customers. We started small in 1983 with Quicken personal finance software, simplifying a common household dilemma: balancing the family checkbook. Little more than two decades later, our revenue tops $3 billion, we're publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market, and recognized as America's most-admired software company and one of the country's best places to work.
Our traditional flagship products – Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax – stand as testament to our commitment to revolutionize the way people manage their small businesses and personal finances. Our lineup of tax preparation products helps individuals and small business owners easily and accurately do their own taxes with confidence. And working with accountants, we've become a staple of American small business, with a widespread and deep-rooted presence that's second to none.

[source - http://about.intuit.com/about_intuit/profile/]

Some companies put on a big show, while others simply create great products. In any area of business only companies that are fully dedicated and remain focused on one thing achieve success. For us this means the battle against computer malware. In 2010 Kaspersky Lab celebrated its 13th anniversary.

Kaspersky Lab has always put all its resources and know-how into preventing these threats from spreading, and educating the community at large on best practices to ensure the greatest possible online security. The success of the Company's mission has resulted in Kaspersky Lab emerging as the world's largest privately held anti-malware company. Founded in 1997, the Company offers its products and technologies to industry and consumers in virtually every country around the globe. Today, more than 300 million users worldwide are protected by Kaspersky Lab's technologies. And every week, 150,000 new users are added. Today, Kaspersky Lab is firmly positioned as one of the world’s top four leading IT security software vendors for endpoint users.

http://usa.kaspersky.com/about-us/company-info.php

Welcome. Gnolia is a link sharing and saving community, that (re)launched on September 22, 2009. It is open by invitation only in order to encourage natural community growth through personal connections.

The previous incarnation of Gnolia was a public social bookmarking service that closed at the end of January, 2009. You can learn more about the history of what happened to Gnolia in the Citizen Garden podcast or Todd Sieling’s and Chris Messina’s blog posts.

[source - http://gnolia.com/about]

(mt) Media Temple, Inc. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, the company has provided businesses around the world with reliable, professional-class services to host websites, email, business applications, and other rich Internet content.

The team is comprised of 150+ incredibly smart and friendly employees who help create an award-winning culture. (mt) is an always-on company (24/7/365) with a U.S. based support department serving customers in over 60+ countries. The company offers support anytime by phone, email and also Twitter.

(mt) Media Temple’s infrastructure serves 85,000+ customers and more than 600,000 domains in top-tier datacenters on the east and west coasts of the United States. English is the company’s primary language, but the employees also occasionally speak Spanish, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Korean and Armenian.

[source: http://mediatemple.net/company/about.php]

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.[9] Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. As of the third quarter of 2009, Microsoft was ranked as the third largest company in the world, following PetroChina and ExxonMobil. It is also one of the largest technological corporations in the world.

The company was founded on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Windows line of operating systems. Many of its products have achieved near-ubiquity in the desktop computer market. One commentator notes that Microsoft's original mission was "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software."[10] Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network and the MSN Internet portal. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse and the Microsoft Natural keyboard, as well as home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV.[9] The company's initial public stock offering (IPO) was in 1986; the ensuing rise of the company's stock price has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.

Throughout its history the company has been the target of criticism, including monopolistic business practices and anti-competitive strategies including refusal to deal and tying. The U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, among others, have ruled against Microsoft for antitrust violations.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

Founded in 1998, NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N) is the leading provider of on-demand, integrated business management software for growing and mid-size businesses. Thousands of customers globally use NetSuite's online products and professional services to manage all key business operations—including customer relationship management (CRM), order fulfillment, inventory, accounting/ERP and finance, product assembly, ecommerce, website management and employee productivity—in a single web-based system.

NetSuite Mission Statement
To provide web-based integrated business systems with the power of traditional applications used by the world's largest companies, but at a fraction of the cost and complexity.

For over 35 years, Paychex has helped millions of business owners and managers focus on what they do best — run their companies. Today, our payroll, human resources, and benefits outsourcing solutions continue to meet the needs of any size business, from the corner store to large companies with complex requirements.

Recognized as a top national provider of business solutions, Paychex is differentiated by the personal attention and commitment we give our clients. By listening to you, and understanding your challenges, we can provide the right products and services to meet your business goals — from hire to retire.

Research In Motion (RIM) is the designer and manufacturer of the award-winning BlackBerry® smartphone, used by millions of people around the world. The company also creates solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market, including the software that allows the BlackBerry smartphone to provide mobile access to email, applications, media and the Internet.

[http://www.rim.com/company/]

Salesforce.com was founded in March 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez as a company specializing in SaaS software.[3] Harris, Moellenhoff and Dominguez, three software developers at Clarify, wrote the initial sales automation software.
In June 2004, the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol CRM. Initial investors in salesforce.com were Marc Benioff, Mark Iscaro, Larry Ellison, Halsey Minor, Magdalena Yesil and Igor Sill,[4] Geneva Venture Partners.

[source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce ]

Skype was founded in 2003. It’s based in Luxembourg, with offices in Europe, the US and Asia. It’s owned by an investor group led by Silver Lake and which includes eBay Inc, Joltid Limited and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz.

Responsible for 12% of global international calling minutes, and with its users making 3.1 billion minutes of calls to landlines and mobiles in the third quarter of 2009, Skype is a leading global internet communications company. And of course, Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls are completely free. In the fourth quarter of 2009, Skype users made 36.1 billion minutes of Skype-to-Skype calls, and over a third of these were video calls.

Skype’s buzzing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, worldwide. At peak times, there are up to 23 million people online. What’s most important, however, is what Skype can do. Voice and video calling, IM and SMS are now available on a wide range of operating systems and mobile devices. They connect business colleagues, saving them time and money and allowing them to stay ahead of the competition. And they help keep friends and families together, wherever they are in the world.

[source - http://about.skype.com/]

Our vision is simple: we believe security solutions should be "smart" enough to adapt as organizations evolve and as threats evolve, dynamically, globally. We believe customers around the world should have the ability to control, manage and protect their global network easily and automatically. We believe our customers should be able to receive and share threat and defense data around the world so they can anticipate and stop attacks before they happen. We want our customers to be able to secure any user, any device, using any application from anywhere so they can collaborate securely across different networks. All this needs to be achieved with maximum ease of deployment and at the best economic value and in a compliant framework.

http://www.sonicwall.com/us/Company.html

Trusted by 100 million users and endorsed by industry analysts as a leader, Sophos provides a full range of endpoint, encryption, email, web and NAC solutions that are simple to deploy, manage and use.

Security that frees you to focus on your business
The nature of information security has changed forever. The old approach to security—identifying code known to be bad and preventing it from breaching the organization's network perimeter—no longer works.

In addition to firewalls, anti-virus and anti-spam, organizations need security across a number of fronts that cover the entire infrastructure. A comprehensive security strategy requires more than just malware blocking—encryption, email, web and network access control solutions are strategic necessities.

http://www.sophos.com/companyinfo/

Terremark Worldwide (NASDAQ:TMRK) is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry's most robust and advanced operations platform. Leveraging purpose-built datacenters in the United States, Europe and Latin America and access to massive and diverse network connectivity from more than 160 global carriers, Terremark delivers government, enterprise and Web 2.0 customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, network and security services.

Terremark's acclaimed Infinistructure utility computing architecture has redefined industry standards for scalable and flexible computing infrastructure and its digitalOps service delivery platform combines end-to-end systems management workflow with a comprehensive customer portal.

[source - http://www.terremark.com/about/terremark-information.aspx]

The Treasury Department and the Treasury building have a rich history. From the 1789 Act of Congress that established the department to the construction of its first Washington building, this section will give you a valuable insight into Treasury's development and history.

[source - http://www.ustreas.gov/education/history/]

Whether it’s breaking news, a local traffic jam, a deal at your favorite shop or a funny pick-me-up from a friend, Twitter keeps you informed with what matters most to you today and helps you discover what might matter to you most tomorrow.
The timely bits of information that spread through Twitter can help you make better choices and decisions and, should you so desire, creates a platform for you to influence what’s being talked about around the world. Search results spread across Twitter and in other ways across the Web so you can discover what’s happening on and off of Twitter.com, wherever you prefer.
Twitter can give a voice to even the weakest signals because of its simplicity. Users can access Twitter on powerful broadband connections via a video game console or through faint connections in rural areas via SMS on a simple mobile phone. You can also access Twitter through more than 50,000 third-party Internet and mobile applications.

[source - http://twitter.com/about]

The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.

[source - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia:About]