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YouTube - Stats
1	YouTube (pronunced /juːtuːb/ or /juːtjuːb/[1]) is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees.[2] The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.[3] Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Some videos are available only to users of age 18 or older (e.g. videos containing potentially offensive content). The uploading of pornography or videos containing nudity is generally not allowed. Related videos, determined by title and tags, appear onscreen to the right of a given video. In YouTube's second year, functions were added to enhance user ability to post video 'responses' and subscribe to content feeds. Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	98 Stars 20 Votes
		Average	4.9

Google - Stats
2	Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is an American public corporation, specializing in Internet search and online advertising. The company is based in Mountain View, California, and has 15,916 full-time employees (as of September 30, 2007).[3] Google's mission statement is, "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."[4] It is the largest American company (by market capitalization) that is not part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Google's corporate philosophy includes statements such as "Don't be evil" and "Work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun", illustrating a somewhat relaxed corporate culture. Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Google's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising $1.67 billion, making it worth $23 billion. Through a series of new product developments, acquisitions and partnerships, the company has expanded its initial search and advertising business into other areas, including web-based email, online mapping, office productivity, and video sharing, among others. Category: Web Services \| Movement:	Today	94 Stars 19 Votes
		Average	4.9473684210526

Myspace - Stats
3	MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, USA,[1] where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; in turn, the owner of Fox Interactive and therefore MySpace, News Corporation, is headquartered in New York City. According to Alexa Internet, MySpace is currently the world's sixth most popular English-language website and the sixth most popular website in any language,[2] and the third most popular website in the United States, though it has topped the chart on various weeks.[3] The service has gradually gained more popularity than similar websites to achieve nearly 80 percent of visits to online social networking websites.[3] It has become an increasingly influential part of contemporary popular culture, especially in English speaking countries.[citation needed] The company employs 300 staff[4] and does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. With the 100 millionth account being created on August 9, 2006,[5] in the Netherlands[6] and a news story claiming 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006,[7] the site reportedly attracts new registrations at a rate of 230,000 per day. As of September 7, 2007, there are over 200 million accounts. Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	83 Stars 17 Votes
		Average	4.8823529411765

Facebook - Stats
4	Facebook is a social networking website that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information. Launched on February 4, 2004, Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a former member of the Harvard class of 2006 and former Ardsley High School student. Initially the membership was restricted to students of Harvard College. It was subsequently expanded to all Ivy League schools within two months. Many individual universities were added in rapid succession over the next year. Eventually, people with a university (e.g .edu, .ac.uk, etc.) email address from institutions across the globe were eligible to join. Networks were then initiated for high schools and some large companies. Since September 11, 2006, it has been made available to users with any email address[2], if they are within a certain age range. Users can select to join one or more participating networks, such as a high school, place of employment, or geographic region. As of October 2007, the website had the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites, with 43 million active members worldwide,[3] with membership expected to surpass 60 million users by the end of the year (also from non-collegiate networks).[4] As of mid-November, active membership is quoted at 54 million.[5] From September 2006 to September 2007[6] it increased its ranking from 60th to 5th [7][8] The name of the site refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of the campus community that some U.S. colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus. Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	82 Stars 17 Votes
		Average	4.8235294117647

Friendster - Stats
5	social network service. The Friendster site was founded in Mountain View, California, United States by Jonathan Abrams in March 2002 [1] and is privately owned. Friendster is based on the Circle of Friends (social network) and Web of Friends techniques for networking individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon. It currently has 50 million users. Friendster was considered the top online social network service until around April 2004 when it was overtaken by MySpace in terms of page views, according to Nielsen Online. [2] Friendster has also received competition from all-in-one sites such as Windows Live Spaces, Bebo, Yahoo! 360, and Facebook. Of late, newer websites like hi5 are posing new competition for friendster.[3] Google offered $30,000,000 to buy out Friendster in 2003, but they were turned down. [4] Friendster was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital in October 2003 with a reported valuation of $53 million. In April 2004, John Abrams was removed as CEO and Tim Koogle took over as interim CEO. Koogle previously served as President and CEO at Yahoo!. Koogle was later replaced by Scott Sassa in June 2004. Sassa left in May 2005 and was replaced by Taek Kwon. Taek Kwon was then succeeded by Kent Lindstrom, following a recapitalization by Kleiner and Benchmark that valued Friendster at less than one-twentieth its 2003 valuation. Friendster's decision to remain private instead of selling to Google in 2003 is considered one of the biggest blunders of Silicon Valley, the Associated Press claims. Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	67 Stars 14 Votes
		Average	4.7857142857143

Apple - Stats
6	Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL, LSE: ACP, FWB: APC), formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and closely related software products. Established in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976, Apple develops, sells, and supports a series of personal computers, portable media players, mobile phones, computer software, and computer hardware and hardware accessories. As of September 2007, the company operates 194 retail stores in the United States, and more in the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Italy,[3] and online stores where hardware and software products are sold. The iTunes Store provides music, audiobooks, iPod games, music videos, episodes of television programs, and movies which can be downloaded using iTunes on Mac or Windows, and also on the iPod touch and the iPhone. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of personal computers, the iPod line of portable media players, and the iPhone. Apple's software products include the Mac OS X operating system, the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software, and Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio- and film-industry software products. The company, incorporated January 3, 1977,[4] was known as "Apple Computer, Inc." for its first 30 years. On January 9, 2007, the company dropped "Computer" from its corporate name.[5] The change followed Apple's announcement of its new iPhone smartphone and Apple TV digital video system and reflects the company's ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers.[6] Apple employs over 20,000 permanent and temporary workers worldwide[2] and had worldwide annual sales in its fiscal year 2007 (ending September 29, 2007) of US$24.01 billion.[1] For a variety of reasons, ranging from its philosophy of comprehensive aesthetic design to its countercultural, even indie roots, as well as their advertising campaigns, Apple has engendered a distinct reputation in the consumer electronics industry and has cultivated a customer base that is unusually devoted to the company and its brand, particularly in the United States.[7] Category: Production \| Movement:	Today	52 Stars 11 Votes
		Average	4.7272727272727

Digg - Stats
7	Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ. Digg started out as an experiment in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson. All currently play an active role in the management of the site. Digg, Version 1.6 Digg, Version 1.6 "We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet[1] "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004." Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast. The original design was free of advertisements, and was designed by Dan Ries. As Digg became more popular, Google AdSense was added to the website. In July 2005, the site was updated to "Version 2.0". The new "version" featured a friends list, the ability to "digg" a story without being redirected to a "success" page, and a new interface designed by web design company Silverorange [2]. The site developers have stated that in future versions a more minimalist design will likely be employed. On Monday June 26, 2006 version 3 of Digg was released with specific categories for Technology, Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment and Gaming as well as a View All section where all categories are merged. Digg has grown large enough that submissions sometimes create a sudden increase of traffic to the "dugg" website. This is referred to by some Digg users as the "Digg effect" and by some others as the site being "dugg to death". However, in many cases stories are linked simultaneously on several popular bookmarking sites. In such cases, the impact of the "digg effect" is difficult to isolate and assess. Wordpress is especially hated among diggers for its frequency to crash under the increased traffic. On August 27, 2007 Digg altered their main interface. Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	51 Stars 11 Votes
		Average	4.6363636363636

Yahoo - Stats
8	Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation and global Internet services company. It provides a range of products and services including a web portal, a search engine, the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting. It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Comscore, Alexa Internet and Netcraft), Yahoo! has been one of the most visited websites on the Internet,[3] with more than 130 million unique users.[4] The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2007, making it one of the most visited U.S. websites. Category: Web Services \| Movement:	Today	46 Stars 10 Votes
		Average	4.6

Blogger - Stats
9	Blogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. History * On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. * In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features that Pyra charged for to be free. About a year later, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google. * In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs. * On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features including CSS-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. * On 14 August 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed Invader, alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers, as well including some new features. * In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. * As of May 2007, Blogger has completely moved over to Google operated servers. [edit] Features Blogs can either be hosted internally by Blogger on the blogspot.com Internet domain, on a user's own domain, or externally on the user's own server (through FTP or SFTP). Once a blog name has been reserved, the name assignment and any contents are retained for an indefinite time—there is no need to login periodically or take any action to keep the blog active. Blogger's blogs also support HTML, so Youtube videos can be posted. The new Blogger logo The new Blogger logo [edit] Redesign As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account are located on Google servers. The service is now claimed to be more reliable, due to the quality of the servers.[1] Along with the migration to Google servers, several new features were introduced, including label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, reading permissions (to create private blogs) and new Web feed options. Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files. [edit] Integration * The Google Toolbar has a feature called "BlogThis!" which allows toolbar users with Blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs. * "Blogger for Word" is a free add-in for Microsoft Word. This add-in allows users to save a Microsoft Word Document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline. As of January 2007, Google says "Blogger for Word is not currently compatible with the new version of Blogger", and they state no decision has been made about supporting it with the new Blogger.[2] However, Microsoft Office 2007 adds native support for a variety of blogging systems, including Blogger. * Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a simple way of generating revenue from running a blog. * Blogger offers multiple author support, making it possible to establish group blogs. [edit] Criticisms In order to upgrade to the new Blogger service (which has new features and more reliability), a user would have to create a Google Account.[citation needed] There is also a petition to change the abandoned blog policy, which does not allow blogspot.com addresses to expire, preventing new users from taking abandoned addresses.[3] Even though Blogger is owned by Google, which is primarily a search engine, the contents of the blogs are mostly not indexed by the main search engine, but only by the more specialized "Blog Search" feature. Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	46 Stars 10 Votes
		Average	4.6

Wikipedia - Stats
10	Wikipedia (IPA: /ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə, ˌwiːkiˈpiːdiə/, or /ˌwiːkiˈpeɪdiə/) (Audio (U.S.) (help·info)) is a multilingual, web-based, encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Many language versions of Wikipedia are free content, while others, such as the English version, include non-free material.[citation needed] As of November 2007, Wikipedia had approximately 9.1 million articles in 252 languages, comprising a combined total of over 1.41 billion words for all Wikipedias. The English Wikipedia edition passed the 2,000,000 article mark on September 9, 2007, and as of November 20, 2007 it had over 2,095,000 articles consisting of over 902,000,000 words.[1] Wikipedia's articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world and the vast majority of them can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet. Steadily rising in popularity since its inception,[3] it currently ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide.[4] Wikipedia's name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Its main servers are in Tampa, Florida, with additional servers located in Amsterdam and Seoul. The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that it plans to move its headquarters from St. Petersburg, Florida to San Francisco, California in February 2008.[5] Critics have questioned Wikipedia's reliability and accuracy, citing its open nature.[6] The site has been criticized for its susceptibility to vandalism, such as the insertion of profanities or random letters into articles, and the addition of false or unverified information,[7] uneven quality, systemic bias and inconsistencies,[8] and for favoring consensus over credentials in its editorial process.[9] Wikipedia's content policies[10] and sub-projects set up by contributors seek to address these concerns.[11] Scholarly work suggests that vandalism is generally short-lived[12][13] and that Wikipedia is generally as accurate as other encyclopedias.[14] In addition to being an encyclopedic reference, Wikipedia has also received major media attention as an online source of breaking news as it is constantly updated,[15][16] having some 6.8 million registered users worldwide, although only a small part is consistently active. When "You" was awarded Time Person of the Year 2006, praising the accelerating success of on-line collaboration and interaction by millions of users around the world, Wikipedia was the first particular "Web 2.0" service mentioned, followed by YouTube and MySpace. Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	44 Stars 9 Votes
		Average	4.8888888888889

Ebay - Stats
11	eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide. In addition to its original U.S. website, eBay has established localized websites in several other countries. eBay Inc also owns PayPal, Skype, and other businesses. The online auction web site was founded in San Jose, California on September 3, 1995 by computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb,[1] part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus.[2] The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder and asked if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."[3] The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade PEZ Candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media. This was revealed in Adam Cohen's 2002 book[2] and confirmed by eBay. Chris Agarpao was hired as eBay's first employee and Jeffrey Skoll was hired as the first president of the company in 1996. In November 1996, eBay entered into its first third-party licensing deal, with a company called Electronic Travel Auction to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane tickets and other travel products. The company officially changed the name of its service from AuctionWeb to eBay in September 1997. Originally, the site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar's consulting firm. Omidyar had tried to register the domain name echobay.com(this company's slogan is now "What eBay could have been.") but found it already taken by the Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, so he shortened it to his second choice, eBay.com. [4] eBay went public in 1998, and both Omidyar and Skoll became instant billionaires.[3] The company purchased PayPal on October 14 2002. Category: Shopping \| Movement:	Today	41 Stars 9 Votes
		Average	4.5555555555556

MTV - Stats
12	Category: Television \| Movement:	Today	40 Stars 8 Votes
		Average	5

LoomTV - Stats
13	LoomTV gives you a slick combination of video entertainment and community. LoomTV was co-founded by Nadim Saoudi and Veith Semrau in August 2007. Vera Neuhaus and Saskia Löbner were hired as LoomTV's first employees. The Germany based site is essentially like YouTube, except that users are required to download a Mac and PC compatible player. Once all that's done, you can flip through user-generated content on various channels. To add your own videos simply type in the hosting site e.g. Google or YouTube and add them to your playlist. The video can be sized to fit your screen or minimized as you desire. Set up is easy, and it takes only moments to adjust the settings. You'll find a wide variety of videos, ranging from the educational to pure entertainment, cartoons, comedies and the like. The LoomTV player is free for everyone to download. Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	38 Stars 8 Votes
		Average	4.75

Audi - Stats
14	Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer with headquarters in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, and has been an almost wholly owned (99.7%) subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group since 1964. The company evolved from Auto Union, NSU, Horch and DKW, the former having incorporated the historic Audi company which was founded in 1910. Audi's German tagline is "Vorsprung durch Technik", meaning "Advancement Through Technology". The German language tagline is also used in other European countries, such as the UK, and in other markets, such as Latin America, Oceania and parts of Asia including Japan. The American and Canadian tagline is "Truth in Engineering". Pronunciation: The correct German and Latin form rhymes with "howdy" Category: Cars \| Movement:	Today	38 Stars 8 Votes
		Average	4.75

Mercedes - Stats
15	Category: Cars \| Movement:	Today	38 Stars 8 Votes
		Average	4.75

Porsche - Stats
16	Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, often shortened to Porsche AG, or just Porsche, is a German manufacturer of automobiles. It was founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, the Austro-Hungarian engineer, born in Maffersdorf (Vratislavice), Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic) who also created the first Volkswagen. The company is located in Zuffenhausen, a city district of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. They currently produce sports cars and sport utility vehicles. Category: Cars \| Movement:	Today	37 Stars 8 Votes
		Average	4.625

Gucci - Stats
17	The House of Gucci, better known as simply Gucci, is an Italian iconic fashion and leather goods label. It was founded by Guccio Gucci (b.1881 – d.1953) in Florence in 1906.[1] Gucci is considered one of the most famous, prestigious, and easily recognizable fashion brands in the world.[2] Gucci generated over US$7 billion worldwide of revenue in 2006 according to BusinessWeek magazine and was ranked 46th in the magazine's annual chart "Top 100 Brands".[3] For this reason Gucci is the second biggest selling fashion brand after LVMH. Most importantly Gucci is the biggest selling Italian brand in the world.[4] The House of Gucci belongs to the French conglomerate company Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR). Gucci operates about 425 stores worldwide and it wholesales its products through franchisees and upscale department stores. Category: Fashion \| Movement:	Today	37 Stars 8 Votes
		Average	4.625

Esprit - Stats
18	Esprit Holdings Limited is a publicly owned manufacturer of apparel, footwear, accessories, jewellery, and housewares, under the ESPRIT label. The company is headquartered and managed from Kowloon, Hong Kong and Ratingen, Germany. The company has stores in more than forty countries. The ESPRIT brand name is also licensed to other manufacturers. In addition, the Group owns the Red Earth cosmetics brand. The brand was particularly popular in the 1980s (Especially with suburban teenagers). It still remains quite popular with people of the middle income classes, due to its purified and classy image, especially in Germany, which is the biggest single market for the brand. The company was started in San Francisco in the 1960s by Susie Russell (now Susie Tompkins Buell) and her then-husband, Douglas Tompkins, the founder of The North Face. They were joined in 1971 by Michael Ying. The couple divorced in 1989, and Mr. Tompkins sold his shares in 1990. Later, the Esprit Far East Group bought the other divisions and formed Esprit Holdings Limited in Hong Kong. The company acquired Red Earth in 2001. Ex-president Michael Ying stepped down Executive director in 2002 and subsequently resigned as the Chairman in 2006.[1] The company is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is a component of the Hang Seng Index. It has been a listed company in Hong Kong since 1993 and has had a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange since December 1998. Category: Fashion \| Movement:	Today	36 Stars 8 Votes
		Average	4.5

Ferrari - Stats
19	Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello and Modena, Italy. Founded by Bamse the bearin 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A.. Ferrari's cars are among the most desirable of vehicles to own and drive, and are one of the ultimate status symbols of wealth in the world. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has largely enjoyed great success, especially during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, late 1990s, and 2000s. Finally, after years of financial struggles, Enzo Ferrari sold the company's sports car division to the Fiat group in 1969 in order to help ensure continued financial backing for the foreseeable future. Enzo Ferrari himself retained control of the racing division until his death in 1988 at the age of 90. Ferrari also has an internally managed merchandising line that licenses a wide range of products bearing the Ferrari brand, including eyewear, pens, pencils, perfume, clothing, high-tech bicycles, cell phones, and even laptop computers. Financial Times named Ferrari number one on its 2007 list of the 100 Best Workplaces in Europe. Category: Cars \| Movement:	Today	35 Stars 7 Votes
		Average	5

Adidas - Stats
20	Adidas ltd AG (ISIN: DE0005003404) is a major German sports apparel manufacturer, part of the Adidas Group, consisting of Reebok sportswear company, Taylormade golf company, Maxfli golf balls, and Adidas golf and is the second largest sportswear manufacturer in the world. The company was named after its founder, Adolf (Adi) Dassler, in 1948. Dassler had been producing shoes starting in 1920 in Herzogenaurach, near Nuremberg, with the help of his brother, Rudolf Dassler, who later formed the other shoe company Puma. The company registered as adidas AG (with lower-case lettering) on 18 August 1949. The company's clothing and shoe designs typically feature three parallel stripes, and this same motif is incorporated into Adidas's current official logo. The company revenue for 2005 was listed at 6.6 billion euro, or about 8.4 billion U.S. dollars. Adidas revenue for 2006 was listed at 10.084 billion euro, or about 13.625 billion U.S. dollars. Adidas perfumery and personal care products are manufactured by Coty, Inc. under license worldwide. Category: Fashion \| Movement:	Today	35 Stars 7 Votes
		Average	5

BMW - Stats
21	Category: Cars \| Movement:	Today	34 Stars 8 Votes
		Average	4.25

Volkswagen - Stats
22	DE0007664005), or VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany. It forms the core of Volkswagen Group and is the world's fourth largest car producer after Toyota, GM, and Ford, respectively. The name means "people's car" in German, in which it is pronounced [ˈfolksvagən]. Its old German tagline is "Aus Liebe zum Automobil", which is translated as "Out of love for the car" - or, "For Love of the Automobile", as translated by VW in other languages. The new tagline is "Volkswagen - Das Auto" or "Volkswagen - The Car". Category: Cars \| Movement:	Today	34 Stars 7 Votes
		Average	4.8571428571429

Puma - Stats
23	PUMA AG Rudolf Dassler Sport (PUMA) (FWB: PUMG) is a large German-based multinational company that produces high-end athletic shoes and other sportswear. The company is perhaps best known for its soccer shoes and has sponsored such international soccer stars as Pelé, Johan Cruijff, Enzo Francescoli, Diego Maradona and Lothar Matthäus. In the United States, the company is probably best-known for the suede basketball shoe it introduced in 1968, which eventually bore the name of New York Knicks basketball star Walt "Clyde" Frazier. In Australia, Puma is best known as the official apparel and footwear supplier of 5 clubs within the AFL (Australian rules Football League), the West Coast Eagles, Hawthorn Hawks, Sydney Swans, Brisbane Lions, and the Essendon Bombers. In Ireland, Puma is an extremely popular football boot of GAA sport and in particular, Gaelic Football and is worn by many of the most well-known county gaelic footballers. Puma is the third largest sportswear manufacturer in the world behind Nike and Adidas. The company also offers lines shoes and sports clothing, designed by Lamine Kouyate, Amy Garbers, and others. Since 1996 Puma has intensified its activities in the United States. Puma owns 25 percent of American brand sports clothing maker Logo Athletic, which is licensed by American professional basketball and football leagues. The American entertainment group Monarchy/Regency owns 32 percent of Puma. Category: Fashion \| Movement:	Today	34 Stars 7 Votes
		Average	4.8571428571429

Nike - Stats
24	Nike, Inc. (IPA: /ˈnaɪki/) (NYSE: NKE), headquartered in the United States near Beaverton, Oregon, is the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes, apparel and sports equipment. The company takes its name from Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Nike markets its products under its own brand as well as Nike Golf, Nike Pro, Air Jordan, Team Starter, and subsidiaries including Bauer, Cole Haan, Hurley International and Converse. Nike originally known as Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS), was founded by University of Oregon track athlete Phil Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman in January 1964. The company initially operated as a distributor for Japanese shoe maker Onitsuka Tiger, making most sales at track meets out of Knight's car. Many top Oregon runners began wearing the shoes, and the shoe's popularity grew quickly. The company's first self-designed product was based on Bowerman's "waffle" design in which the sole of the shoe was inspired by the pattern of a waffle iron. The company's profits grew quickly, and in 1966, BRS opened its first retail store, located on Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica, Calif. In 1971, with the relationship between BRS and Onitsuka Tiger nearing an end, BRS prepared to launch its own line of footwear, which would bear the newly designed "Swoosh." [Sources: 'Swoosh' by J.B. Strasser and 'Just Do It' by Donald Katz.] The first shoe to carry this design was a soccer/football cleat named "Nike," which was released in the summer of 1971. In February 1972, BRS introduced its first line of Nike shoes, with the name Nike derived from the Greek goddess of victory. In 1978, BRS, Inc. officially renamed itself to Nike, Inc. Beginning with Ilie Nastase, the first professional athlete to sign with BRS/Nike, the sponsorship of athletes became a key marketing tool for the rapidly growing company. By 1980, Nike had reached a 50% market share in the United States athletic shoe market, and the company went public in December of that year. Its growth was due largely to 'word-of-foot' advertising (to quote a Nike print ad from the late 1970s), rather than television ads. Nike's first national television commercials ran in October of 1982 during the broadcast of the New York Marathon. The ads were created by Portland-based advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy, which had formed several months earlier in April 1982. Together, Nike and Wieden+Kennedy have created many indelible print and television ads and the agency continues to be Nike's primary today. It was agency co-founder Dan Wieden who coined the now-famous slogan "Just Do It" for a 1988 Nike ad campaign, which was chosen by Advertising Age as one of the top five ad slogans of the 20th Century, and the campaign has been enshrined in the Smithsonian Institution. Throughout the 1980s, Nike expanded its product line to include many other sports and regions throughout the world.[3] On 23rd October 2007, it was announced that the sports apparel supplier Umbro, known as the manufacturers of the England national football team's kits, had agreed to be bought by Nike in a deal said to be worth £285 million. Category: Fashion \| Movement:	Today	34 Stars 8 Votes
		Average	4.25

Rapidshare - Stats
25	RapidShare is a German owned one-click hosting site that operates from Switzerland and is financed by the subscriptions of paying users. It operates as both a pay and free service (with limitations), allowing any user to upload files of up to 100 MB. The user is then supplied with a unique download URL, which enables anyone with whom the uploader shares it to download the file. Non-paying users are required to wait a time period between downloads (depending on the size of the last downloaded file). Their homepage states they have 170 gigabit/s of Internet connectivity and 4 petabytes of storage for users. Registration and payment allow benefits such as download of several files simultaneously, queue-skipping, and the facility to interrupt and re-start downloads. No user is allowed to search the server for content; all files have to be downloaded by following a given URL. On October 19, 2006, RapidShare announced that "Unfortunately all drives of RapidShare.de are full right now".[1] A new website, RapidShare.com has been set up in an attempt to transfer usage from RapidShare.de to RapidShare.com.[citation needed] Premium accounts for RapidShare.de were not lost as a code could be used to transfer the account between servers. However, this code was only good for as long as the account did not expire, and the promotion did not finish. It is not possible, however, to use a RapidShare.com account on the German site. Despite the one-way compatibility with paid accounts, both sites claim to be entirely different organisations and entities. The new site originally did not impose any download limits, but on October 27, the "Happy Hours" came to an end, bringing back the download limits. The file size limit was also reduced from 300 MB to its current 100 MB. Category: Web Services \| Movement:	Today	33 Stars 7 Votes
		Average	4.7142857142857

Amazon - Stats
26	Category: Shopping \| Movement:	Today	30 Stars 6 Votes
		Average	5

Flickr - Stats
27	Category: Cars \| Movement:	Today	30 Stars 6 Votes
		Average	5

Kentucky Fried Chicken - Stats
28	KFC, also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, known mainly for its fried chicken. KFC has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. since 2002. The company was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952, with the abbreviated form of its name adopted in 1991.[1] Starting in April 2007, the company began using its original appellation of Kentucky Fried Chicken again[2] for its signage, packaging and advertisements in the United States as part of a new corporate re-branding program;[3] newer and remodeled restaurants will have the new logo and name while older stores will continue to use the 1991 signage. Additionally, the company continues to use the abbreviation KFC freely in its advertising. Internationally the company is still known as KFC. The popularity and novelty of KFC has led to the general formula of the fried chicken fast-food restaurant being copied by restaurant owners worldwide. Contents [hide] * 1 History * 2 Products o 2.1 Packaging o 2.2 Chicken o 2.3 Other products o 2.4 Sides o 2.5 Discontinued products o 2.6 Nutritional value o 2.7 Secret recipe * 3 Controversies o 3.1 Environmental concerns o 3.2 Trademark disputes o 3.3 Wages and working conditions o 3.4 Animal rights o 3.5 Urban legends * 4 Advertising * 5 International operations o 5.1 Canada o 5.2 China o 5.3 Japan o 5.4 Islamic countries o 5.5 Global locations * 6 See also * 7 References * 8 External links History The restaurant in North Corbin, KY where Colonel Sanders developed Kentucky Fried Chicken The restaurant in North Corbin, KY where Colonel Sanders developed Kentucky Fried Chicken World's first KFC in South Salt Lake, Utah, since replaced by a new KFC on the same site World's first KFC in South Salt Lake, Utah, since replaced by a new KFC on the same site Born and raised in Henryville, Indiana, Sanders passed through several professions in his lifetime.[4] Sanders first served his fried chicken in 1930 in the midst of the Great Depression at a gas station he owned in North Corbin, Kentucky. The dining area was named "Sanders Court & Café" and was so successful that in 1936 Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon granted Sanders the title of honorary Kentucky Colonel, in recognition of his contribution to the state's cuisine. The following year Sanders expanded his restaurant to 142 seats, and added a motel he bought across the street.[5] When Sanders prepared his chicken in his original restaurant in North Corbin, he prepared the chicken in an iron skillet, which took about 30 minutes to do, too long for a restaurant operation. In 1939, Sanders altered the cooking process for his fried chicken to use a pressure fryer, resulting in a greatly reduced cooking time comparable to that of deep frying.[6] In 1940 Sanders devised what came to be known as his Original Recipe.[7] The Sanders Court & Café generally served travelers, often those headed to Florida, so when the route planned in the 1950s for what would become Interstate 75 bypassed Corbin, he sold his properties and traveled the U.S. to sell his chicken to restaurant owners. Sanders entered into franchise agreements paying him five cents for each piece of chicken sold.[citation needed] The first to take him up on the offer was Pete Harman in South Salt Lake, Utah; together, they opened the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" outlet in 1952.[8] By the early 1960's Kentucky Fried Chicken was sold in over 600 franchised outlets in both the United States and Canada. One of the longest-lived franchisees of the older Col. Sanders' chicken concept, as opposed to the KFC chain, was the Kenny Kings chain. The company owned many Northern Ohio diner-style restaurants, the last of which closed in 2004. Sanders sold the entire KFC franchising operation in 1964 for $2 million USD ($10.2 million adjusted for inflation).[citation needed] Since that time, the chain has been sold three more times, most recently to PepsiCo, which made it part of its Tricon Global Restaurants division, which in turn was spun off in 1997, and has now been renamed to Yum! Brands. Additionally, Colonel Sanders' nephew, Lee Cummings, took his own Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises (and a chicken recipe of his own) and converted them to his own "spin-off" restaurant chain, Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken. Today, some of the older KFC restaurants have become famous in their own right. One such restaurant is located in Marietta, Georgia. This store is notable for a 56-foot tall sign that looks like a chicken. The sign, known locally as the Big Chicken, was built for an earlier fast-food restaurant on the site called Johnny Reb's Chick, Chuck and Shake. It is often used as a travel reference point in the Atlanta area by locals and pilots.[9] Products Please help improve this article by expanding this section. See talk page for details. Please remove this message once the section has been expanded. Globe icon The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article or discuss the issue on the talk page. KFC's Original Recipe fried chicken and French fries KFC's Original Recipe fried chicken and French fries Packaging Wendy's restaurants founder Dave Thomas operated several Kentucky Fried Chicken His reasoning behind using the paper packaging was that it helped keep the chicken crispy by wicking away excess moisture. Additionally he invented the rotating-bucket-of-chicken sign that at one time was outside nearly every KFC. Chicken KFC's specialty is fried chicken served in various forms. KFC's primary product is pressure-fried pieces of chicken made with one of two types of breading: original recipe or extra crispy. KFC has two lines of sandwiches: its "regular" chicken sandwiches and its Snackers line. The regular sandwiches are served on either a sesame seed or corn dusted roll and are made from either whole breast fillets (fried or roasted), chopped chicken in a sauce or fried chicken strips. The Snackers line are value priced items that consist of chicken strips and various toppings. They also sell several types of wraps. A variety of smaller finger food products are available at KFC including chicken strips, chicken wings and popcorn chicken. These products can be ordered plain or with various sauces, including several types of barbecue sauces and buffalo sauce. Several pies have been made available from KFC. The Pot Pie is a savory pie made with chicken, gravy and vegetables. In the second quarter of 2006, KFC introduced its variation on Shepherd's pie called the Famous Bowl. Served in a plastic bowl, it is layered with mashed potatoes or rice, gravy, corn, popcorn chicken, and cheese. The bowl had been available at KFC's special test market store in Louisville since the third quarter of 2005. Other products A KFC franchise in Kuwait A KFC franchise in Kuwait In some international locations, KFC may sell hamburgers, pork ribs or fish. In the US, KFC began offering the Fish Snacker sandwich during Lent in 2006. The Fish Snacker consists of a rectangular patty of Alaskan Pollock on a small bun, and is the fifth KFC menu item in the Snacker category.[10] Three types of salads are available at KFC, topped with roasted or fried chicken. Sides Other than fried chicken, many KFC restaurants serve side dishes like coleslaw, various potato-based items (including potato wedges, french fries and mashed potatoes with gravy), biscuits, baked beans, macaroni and cheese, rice, steamed vegetables and corn on the cob. Some menu items are innovations in regional stores. The Singaporean management, for example, introduced the Colonel Burger in 1977, the Hot & Crispy Chicken in 1990, and the Zinger burger in 1993. Category: Food \| Movement:	Today	29 Stars 6 Votes
		Average	4.8333333333333

Subway - Stats
29	SUBWAY is the name of a franchise fast food restaurant that mainly sells sandwiches and salads. It was founded in 1965 by Fred De Luca and Mark Fudge. The corporation that owns the trademarked name of Subway is Doctor's Associates, Inc. (DAI). The company has over 28,400 franchised units in 87 countries as of September 2007 and is the fastest growing franchise in the world.[1] Currently, Subway is the third largest largest fast food chain globally after Yum! Brands (34,000 locations) and McDonald's (31,000 locations).[1][2][3] Subway's main operations office is in Milford, Connecticut, and five regional centers support Subway's growing international operations. The regional office for Europe's 1,000 stores is in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Australia and New Zealand, with over 2,100 outlets, is supported from Brisbane, Australia. The 300 Middle Eastern locations are supported from Beirut, Lebanon. Singapore supports the 300+ Asian locations. The Latin American Support Center in Miami assists over 1,100 restaurants. In the UK and Ireland the company hopes to have 2,010 restaurants by the year 2010[4]. Many restaurant analysts attribute Subway's fast growth to the growing concern on health by restaurant customers, a trend that Subway has taken advantage of in its marketing. In 1999, an Indiana University student named Jared Fogle lost 245 pounds (110 kg) with a diet made up mostly of Subway sandwiches combined with exercise. The story is used by Subway as a large part of their marketing campaign to this day. Jared has emerged as a spokesman for Subway, furthering their image as a health-conscious restaurant chain. Contents [hide] * 1 History * 2 Operations * 3 The Subway menu * 4 Subway Rewards Programs o 4.1 Sub Club o 4.2 The Subway Rewards Card Program * 5 Criticism * 6 Ranking * 7 See also * 8 References * 9 Further reading * 10 External links [edit] History Fred DeLuca borrowed $1,000 from family friend Dr. Peter Buck to start his first sandwich shop in 1965, when only 17 years old. He was trying to raise money to pay for college. He chose a mediocre location for his shop, but by noon on the first day of the opening, customers were pouring in. On the radio advertisement they had promoted the name as "Pete's Submarines", which sounded like Pizza Marines, so they changed the name to "Pete's Subway"; eventually it was shortened to "Subway", as it is known to this day. As of 2006, the company counts with over 25,000 franchised locations in 84 countries and produces US$ 9.05 billion sales every year. In 2007, Forbes magazine named DeLuca number 242 of the 400 richest Americans with a net worth of 1.5 billion dollars. When the company was founded, Dr. Peter Buck, co-founder, was a scientist with a doctoral degree, and Fred DeLuca had aspirations of becoming a medical doctor. Hence the name Doctor’s Associates, Inc. [edit] Operations Locations of Subway stores Locations of Subway stores A former Subway logo used until 2003 and still seen at many locations. A former Subway logo used until 2003 and still seen at many locations. Subway uses the advertising slogan "Eat Fresh" to explain how every sandwich is made on freshly baked bread, using fresh ingredients, in front of the customer to their exact specification, by employees who Subway terms "Subway Sandwich Artists®". In 2000, Subway added seasoned breads and a line of specialty items to its menu. In 2003 Doctor's Associates Inc. (DAI) signed an exclusive contract to offer Coca-Cola products. Coca-Cola helped pay for the initial rollout of toaster ovens to existing restaurants. Subway gave customers the option to have their sandwiches toasted in response to increased competition from rival sandwich chain Quiznos Sub, which popularized toasted sandwiches. In Australia, the introduction of Fresh Toasting enabled the Subway Franchise to prevent Quiznos from gaining market share. The Turbo Chef toaster is a microwave and convection oven hybrid. In addition to traditional restaurants, Subway operates in many non-traditional locations. For instance, there are over 900 Subway locations inside of Wal-Mart stores and 200 on military bases, including several in Iraq, in addition to three located inside The Pentagon - as well as an increasing number on college and university campuses. There is at least one adults-only Subway, located at Foxwoods Resort & Casino. It is accessible only after entering a gaming area which is restricted to guests 21 and over, but it also has a drive thru. Exterior of a typical Subway restaurant in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Exterior of a typical Subway restaurant in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico In 2006, the first kosher Subway restaurant opened in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Jared Fogle, who is Jewish, was in attendance at the opening. "With slight modifications, such as no pork-based products such as bacon or ham, and the use of soy-based cheese, the menu is virtually identical to that of any other Subway restaurant." [1]. Around 15 further locations are planned for 2007, in places including Baltimore, Brooklyn, Kansas City and Los Angeles.[2]. All Subway restaurants in Muslim countries serve Halal menu, There are also at least two Subway restaurants in the United States that do the same, and 3 in the United Kingdom. Local franchisees have plans to open seven more Halal operating Subway restaurants in the United Kingdom later in the year.[5] In addition to its corporate positioning as a more health-conscious restaurant, much of Subway's rapid growth can be attributed to its somewhat unique business model. Unlike most franchisors, the parent company does not operate any restaurants. Local franchisees operate the stores, and in most markets Subway enters into a contract with a franchisee to be its Development Agent for that market. The Development Agent is then responsible for developing new locations, evaluating stores on a monthly basis, and assisting franchisees with whatever needs they may have. 8% of sales at each location go to royalties to Doctors associates (they give third back to the local DA), while 4.5% (as of 1 January 2008) of sales go into a fund, the Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, also known as SFAFT which is operated by a board of directors voted on by Subway Franchisees. SFAFT is in legal battles with Subway over their excessive spending of advertising funds on things other than advertising. Among lawyers, Subway has become well-known for its aggressiveness in enforcing the arbitration clauses in its franchise agreements. One case even went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (and the company won). See Doctor's Associates, Inc. v. Casarotto, 517 U.S. 681 (1996). Subway is the corporate sponsor for two NASCAR Nextel Cup series stock car races: the Subway Fresh Fit 500, held at Phoenix International Raceway; and the Subway 500, held at Martinsville Speedway. In addition, Subway has been the primary sponsor of the NASCAR Nextel Cup number 16 car, driven by Greg Biffle. Biffle has appeared in advertising for Subway along with his Crew Chief Doug Richert. In 2007, Tony Stewart has appeared with Jared Fogel in ads, and it is likely that he will drive his #20 Home Depot Chevrolet with Subway primary sponsorship in the two Subway sponsored races. Previously, Subway had sponsored Jeff Purvis' #51 car in at least one race in 2001. They also sponsor a pro-cycling team. Category: Food \| Movement:	Today	29 Stars 6 Votes
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Boss - Stats
30	Hugo Boss AG is a fashion house based in Metzingen, Germany, which specializes in high-end apparel. It is named after its founder, Hugo Boss. Today In 1987, Boss Orange for men was launched described as sporty and casual separating itself from the trendy Hugo brand and the sophisticated Boss Black brand. Boss Green is a completely sporty brand selling items designed for sport or a sporty look. The company's products, divided over three brands, are available throughout the world in 103 countries and more than 5,002 retail stores. These brands are Boss, Hugo, and since 2004, Baldessarini. The latter, Baldessarini GmbH, is a more independent business unit which focuses on a more prestigious image than its two sister brands. It sells, like the other Hugo Boss brands, clothing, shoes, fragrances and accessories but will leave Hugo Boss after the Spring/Summer 2007 collection has been sent to boutiques. This is due to the newly launched premium Boss line, Boss Black Selection, outselling Baldessarini. Baldessarini fashion recently sold for up to €9m (Aug 2006) to Ahlers AG--a fashion brand holding company. Werner Baldessarini will continue to design the collections; he will also be in charge of marketing. Today's sub-brands for men include: Boss Black/Boss Black Selection, Boss Green, Boss Orange, Hugo, and Baldessarini. For women: Boss Black, Boss Orange (announced in July 2005 for Spring/Summer 2006 launch) and Hugo. Also part of the brand are Lifestyle Accessories. All fragrance brands (Hugo, Hugo Boss and Baldessarini) are owned by Procter & Gamble. By 2007, Hugo Boss had stores (in the U.S.) in Boston, New York, Beverly Hills, Chicago, San Francisco, Costa Mesa, Dallas, Houston, King of Prussia, Bal Harbour, Orlando, Palm Beach, Buffalo, Washington D.C., Tyson's Galleria, Waikiki, Honolulu, San Diego, Natick, and Manhasset. [edit] History The all-black uniform of the Nazi Schutzstaffel paramilitary force from 1932 until 1945 was designed by SS-Oberführer Prof. Dr. Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck (graphic designer) and made by the Hugo Boss company, some workers being prisoners of war forced into labor Category: Fashion \| Movement:	Today	28 Stars 6 Votes
		Average	4.6666666666667

Altavista - Stats
31	AltaVista was started by Digital Equipment Corporation by employee volunteers who were trying to provide services to make finding files on the public network easier.[citation needed] The idea of applying the algorithm to the internet was born during a lunch conversation between the two main engineers. The name AltaVista was chosen in relation to the surroundings of their company at Palo Alto. AltaVista was publicly launched as an internet search engine on 15 December 1995 at http://altavista.digital.com.[1][2] At launch, the service had two innovations which set it ahead of the other search engines. It used a fast, multi-threaded crawler (Scooter) which could cover a lot more Web pages than were believed to exist and an efficient search back-end running on advanced hardware. As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC’s Alpha processor. Each machine had 130 GB of RAM, 500 GB of hard disk space and received 13 million queries per day.[3] This made AltaVista the first searchable, full-text database of a large part of the World Wide Web. The distinguishing feature of AltaVista was its minimalistic interface compared with other search engines of the time; a feature which was lost when it became a portal, but was regained when it refocused its efforts on its search function. [edit] Business Transactions AltaVista in its “portal” time, 1999. AltaVista in its “portal” time, 1999. In 1996, AltaVista became the exclusive provider of search results for Yahoo!. In 1998, Digital was sold to Compaq and in 1999, Compaq relaunched AltaVista as a web portal, hoping to compete with Yahoo!. Under CEO Rod Schrock, AltaVista abandoned its streamlined search page and focused on features like shopping and free email.[4] In June of the same year, Compaq paid AltaVista Technology Incorporated (“ATI”) US$ 3.3 million for the domain name altavista.com — Jack Marshall, cofounder of ATI, had registered the name in 1994. In June of 1999, Compaq sold a majority stake in AltaVista to CMGI, an internet investment company.[5] CMGI filed for an initial public offering for AltaVista to take place in April 2000, but as the internet bubble collapsed, the IPO was cancelled.[6] Meanwhile, it became clear that AltaVista’s portal strategy was unsuccessful, and the search service began losing market share, especially to Google. After a series of layoffs and several management changes, AltaVista gradually shed its portal features and refocused on search. By 2002, AltaVista had improved the quality and freshness of its results and redesigned its user interface.[7] In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc.[8] In October 2003, Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo!. In Aug. 2004, shortly after Yahoo!’s acquisition, the AltaVista site started using the Yahoo! Search technology. Category: Web Services \| Movement:	Today	27 Stars 6 Votes
		Average	4.5

GMX - Stats
32	GMX (Global Message eXchange) wurde im April 1997 gegründet und ist vor allem als Freemail-Anbieter bekannt. Unternehmensgründer sind Karsten Schramm, Eric Dolatre, Peter Köhnkow und Raoul Haagen. Im April 1998 entstand die GMX GmbH. Im Sommer 2000 war der Börsengang geplant, wofür die GMX GmbH in GMX AG umfirmiert wurde. Nach dem Platzen der Dotcom-Blase wurde der Börsengang jedoch kurzfristig abgesagt. United Internet vergrößerte im Anschluss seinen Anteil am Unternehmen auf 70,1 % (Januar 2001), später auf 100 % (November 2001), und ließ den Dienst zum Internetportal ausbauen.. Das Unternehmen hat seinen Stammsitz im Münchener Stadtteil Schwabing-Freimann. Neben Freemailing bietet GMX zusätzlich Portaldienste und Mail-Hosting an. Seit Oktober 2002 war GMX auch im DSL- und Schmalband-Access-Geschäft aktiv, was aber Ende 2006 für Neukunden eingestellt wurde. DSL-Neukunden werden seither auf die 1&1-DSL-Angebote verwiesen, das Schmalbandgeschäft wurde auf eine provisionsbasierte Vermarktung fremder Internet-by-Call-Tarife über eine United-Internet-eigene, ursprünglich von web.de bereitgestellte Einwahlsoftware (SoftLCR) umgestellt. Seit Oktober 2004 ist GMX VoIP-Provider, seit Frühjahr 2007 wird eine Jabber-kompatible Instant-Messaging-Software bereitgestellt und das Portal sowie das Webmail-Interface wurde einem Relaunch unterzogen, außerdem wird wie bereits zuvor von 1&1 mobilfunkbasierte Internetnutzung über ein mobiles Endgerät (Ogo) angeboten. Category: Consulting \| Movement:	Today	24 Stars 5 Votes
		Average	4.8

Burger King - Stats
33	Burger King (NYSE: BKC), often abbreviated to BK, is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. It was founded in 1954 in Miami, Florida by James McLamore and David Edgerton, and has since used a franchise model to expand to just over 11,200 stores in 65 nations around the globe.[1] One of its largest franchisees is Hungry Jack's, which owns, operates and sub-licenses over 300 restaurants in Australia.[2] Burger King Holdings is the parent company of Burger King, in the US it operates under the Burger King Brands title while internationally it operates under the Burger King Corporation banner. It is a publicly traded company with investment firms of TPG Capital, L.P., Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs each owning about 25% of the company. At the end of its fiscal year 2006, Burger King reported that there are more than 11,220 outlets in 61 countries; 66% of the restaurants are in the United States and 90% of the restaurants privately owned and operated. The company has more than 340,000 employees who serve approximately 11.4 million customers daily.[3] The Burger King menu has evolved from a simple offering of burgers, fries, sodas and milkshakes in 1954 to a larger, more diverse set of offerings that includes several variations of chicken, fish, salads and breakfast. The Whopper was the first major addition to the menu by Mr. McLamore in 1957, a sandwich that has since become Burger King's signature product.[4] Not all introductions have had the success of the Whopper; BK has introduced many products which failed to catch hold in the marketplace.[5][6][7] Some products that have failed in the US have seen success in foreign markets, where BK has also tailored its menu for regional tastes .[8][9] Burger King's "Golden Age" of advertising was during the 1970s when the introduced its mascot the Magical Burger King, a memorable jingle, and several well known and parodied slogans. Beginning in the early 1980s, its advertising began to lose focus; a series of less successful ad campaigns created by various agencies continued for the next two decades.[10][11] In 2003, Burger King set about resuscitating its moribund advertising with the hiring of the Miami-based advertising agency of Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B). CP+B completely reorganized Burger King's advertising with a series of new ads centering around a resuscitated Magical Burger King character.[12][7] Contents [hide] * 1 Corporate profile o 1.1 History o 1.2 Key dates * 2 Hungry Jack's * 3 Controversies, disputes and legal issues o 3.1 Trademark disputes o 3.2 Controversies + 3.2.1 Nutrition + 3.2.2 Islam + 3.2.3 Labor * 4 Charitable contributions and services * 5 Products * 6 Advertising * 7 Logos * 8 Global locations * 9 See also * 10 References * 11 External links o 11.1 Other sites [edit] Corporate profile [edit] History Burger King's first restaurant, originally called Insta Burger King, was opened on December 4, 1954 in a suburb of Miami, Florida by James McLamore and David Edgerton who were both alumni of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. McLamore had visited the original McDonald's hamburger stand belonging to Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California; sensing potential in their innovative assembly line-based production system, he decided to create a version of his own. By 1959, BK had grown to five regional stores in and around the metropolitan Miami area. About this time, McLamore and Edgerton decided to expand BK nationally by using a franchising system that had become a popular method for expansion due to its low capital cost for the parent company. They formed Burger King Corporation as the parent and began selling territorial franchise licenses to private owners across the US.[13] A Burger King restaurant in Redwood City, California A Burger King restaurant in Redwood City, California In 1967, after eight years of private operation, the Pillsbury Company acquired Burger King and its parent company Burger King Corporation. At the time of the purchase, BK had grown to 274 restaurants in the United States. While BK began its foray in to locations outside of the continental United States in 1963 with a store in San Juan, Puerto Rico, it did not have a large international presence. This situation changed shortly after the acquisition when Pillsbury opened its first international restaurant in Canada in 1969. Other international locations followed soon after: Oceania in 1971 with Hungry Jack's and in Europe in 1975 with a restaurant in Madrid, Spain. Beginning in 1982, BK and its franchisees began operating stores in several East Asian countries, including Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea.[13] Due to high competition, many of the Japanese locations closed by the end of 2001. BK reentered the Japanese market in mid-2007.[14] BK's Central and South American operations began in Mexico in the late 1970s.[13] Since the time that Pillsbury bought Burger King, BK has been the object of a series of failed and successful acquisitions and divestitures. In 1973, Chart House, owner of 350 BK restaurants at the time and one of BK's largest franchise groups, attempted to purchase the chain from Pillsbury for $100 million (USD). When Chart House's bid failed, its owners, Billy and Jimmy Trotter, suggested that Pillsbury and Chart House spin off their respective Burger King holdings and merge the two entities into a separate company, an offer Pillsbury also declined. After the failed attempts to acquire BK, the relationship with Chart House and the Trotters began to sour; in 1979 BK successfully sued Chart House for improperly acquiring locations in Boston and Houston.[13] In 1984, Pillsbury purchased Chart House's successor DiversiFoods for $390 million (USD) after a separate, independent $525 million DiversiFoods management-backed leveraged buy-out of the company failed.[15][16] BK, and former corporate siblings, Bennigan's, Steak and Ale, Godfather's Pizza (part of the DiversiFoods acquisition[17]), Quik Wok and Häagen Dazs ice cream shops, remained under the Pillsbury corporate umbrella until Pillsbury divested its restaurant holdings in 1989 and sold Burger King to British alcoholic beverage manufacturer and distributor Grand Metropolitan PLC. In 1989, under the ownership of Grand Met, Burger King acquired many locations of its major UK rival Wimpy when the parent company bought the Wimpy's brand from its previous owner United Biscuits and re-branded them as Burger King, giving it an even greater presence in that country. While other "Wimpy" locations are still in operation presently, they are now independent from BK and no longer have the presence they once did.[13] In 1997, Grand Metropolitan merged with Guinness to form a company called Diageo. Diageo maintained ownership of BKC until 2001 when Diageo decided to focus solely on their beverage products and divest itself of the chain. By the time of the sale, Burger King's revenues and market share had declined significantly, Burger King had fallen to a near tie for second place with rival Wendy's in the US market for hamburger chain restaurants.[18] For many years leading into the early 2000s Burger King and its various owners plus many of its larger franchises closed many under-performing stores.[19] Several of its largest franchises entered bankruptcy due to the issues surrounding the performance of the brand.[20][21] In 2002, a troika of private equity firms led by Texas Pacific Group with associates Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners agreed to purchase BK from Diageo for $1.5 billion (USD),[13] with the sale becoming complete in December of that year.[22] The new owners, through several new CEOs, have moved to revitalize and reorganize the company, the first major move was to re-name the BK parent as Burger King Brands.[23] The investment group initially planned to take BK public within the two years of the acquisition, this was delayed until 2006. On February 1, 2006, CEO Greg Brenneman announced TPG's plans to turn Burger King into a publicly traded company by issuing an Initial Public Offering (IPO). On February 16, the company announced it had filed its registration for the IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission. On May 18, 2006, Burger King began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BKC and generated $425 million in revenue, the largest IPO of a US-based restaurant chain on record.[24] The TPGroup has continued BK's international expansion by announcing plans to open new franchise locations in Eastern Europe, 180 stores in the Africa and the Middle East, Brazil, and over 250 stores in new Asian territories such as Macao and China by the end of 2012.[25][26][27][28][29] Today, Burger King is the second largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants in the world behind industry bellwether McDonald's (31,000 locations) and the fourth largest chain overall after Yum! Brands (34,000 locations), McDonald's and Subway (28,400 locations). Category: Food \| Movement:	Today	23 Stars 5 Votes
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MSN - Stats
34	Category: Web Services \| Movement:	Today	22 Stars 6 Votes
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Lamborghini - Stats
35	Category: Cars \| Movement:	Today	18 Stars 4 Votes
		Average	4.5

Toyota - Stats
36	Category: Cars \| Movement:	Today	18 Stars 4 Votes
		Average	4.5

Google Mail - Stats
37	Category: E-Mail Services \| Movement:	Today	18 Stars 4 Votes
		Average	4.5

Veoh - Stats
38	Veoh is a San Diego, California-based company that has created a peercasting network for video clip distribution. Unlike other video distribution networks such as YouTube, the company distributes video clip content in its original format, rather than transcoding to a lower bandwidth and lower quality version. Due to this technology, a software download is required to download videos, or view some videos in full quality. The website also offers a YouTube-style Adobe Flash video player that can be run from within a web browser. The company received media attention[1] after Michael Eisner (ex-Disney chairman) joined the board. In April 2006, he was one of the investors (along with AOL Time-Warner) in the $12.5 million second round of financing for Veoh. The company has received further media attention recently by filing a lawsuit against Universal Music Group seeking an advisory judgment from the Court pertaining to allegations that Veoh is a massive copyright infringer.[1] In turn, Universal Music Group sued Veoh in Los Angeles in September 2007, claiming that the service infringes the copyrights of its artists by inducing users to post unlicensed copyrighted material such as music videos. Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	17 Stars 5 Votes
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Joost - Stats
39	Joost (IPA pronunciation: [dʒuːst] "jew-st") is a system for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer TV technology, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). Joost began development in 2006. Working under the code name "The Venice Project", Zennström and Friis assembled teams of some 150 software developers in about six cities around the world, including New York, London, Leiden and Toulouse. Joost's CTO is Dirk-Willem van Gulik.[1] According to Zennström at a 25 July 2007 press conference about Skype held in Tallinn, Estonia, Joost has signed up more than a million beta testers and is on track for an end-of-year launch.[2] The teams are currently in negotiations with FOX networks. It has signed up with Warner Music, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Productions (Indianapolis 500, IndyCar Series) and production company Endemol for the beta.[3] In February 2007, Viacom entered into a deal with the company to distribute content from its media properties, including MTV Networks, BET and film studio Paramount Pictures. Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	17 Stars 5 Votes
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Peugeot - Stats
40	Category: Cars \| Movement:	Today	16 Stars 4 Votes
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Baidu - Stats
41	Category: Search Engines \| Movement:	Today	15 Stars 3 Votes
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Hi5 - Stats
42	Category: Web 2.0 \| Movement:	Today	15 Stars 3 Votes
		Average	5

Pizzahut - Stats
43	Pizza Hut Inc. is a restaurant chain and international franchise based in Addison, Texas, USA (a northern suburb of Dallas) specializing in American-style pizza along with side dishes including (depending on location): buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread. Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant chain and is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., whose restaurants total approximately 34,000 restaurants, delivery-carry out units, and kiosks in 100 countries.[1][2] The chain was founded as a pizzeria in 1958 by the Carney brothers - Dan and Frank.Borrowing $600 from their mother, the brothers purchased some second-hand equipment. The then Wichita State University students took a family pizza recipe, rented a small building, and opened the first restaurant at a busy intersection in Wichita, Kansas[3]. Additional restaurants were opened, with the first franchise unit opening in 1959 in Topeka, Kansas. At the same time Pizza Hut was growing in and around Kansas, Shakey's Pizza was developing a stronghold along the West Coast. The competition provided Pizza Hut the impetus to evaluate its mission and direction. Dan and Frank Carney saw Shakey's expanding into their territory and realized that they needed to determine if Pizza Hut should be in the entertainment business or if it should be a neighborhood pizza restaurant. They decided to stick with the neighborhood business and realized that they needed to have a good standard image. The Carney brothers began to systematize operations and building designs to counter the competition from Shakey's. The franchise network continued to grow through friends and business associates, and by 1964 a unique standardized building appearance and layout was established for franchised and company-owned stores, creating a universal look that customers easily recognized. By 1970, with 310 stores nationwide, Pizza Hut went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock ticker symbol PIZ. In 1977, Pizza Hut was acquired by Pepsico, along with KFC and Taco Bell. In 1997, the three restaurant chains were spun off into Tricon, and in 2002 joined with Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants to become YUM! Brands. The oldest continuously-operating Pizza Hut in the world is in Manhattan, Kansas, in a shopping and tavern district known as Aggieville.[4] Contents [hide] * 1 Products * 2 International operations o 2.1 Andorra o 2.2 Bangladesh o 2.3 Bulgaria o 2.4 China o 2.5 Costa Rica o 2.6 Egypt o 2.7 Germany o 2.8 Greece o 2.9 India o 2.10 Israel o 2.11 Japan o 2.12 Luxembourg o 2.13 Malaysia o 2.14 Mexico o 2.15 Netherlands o 2.16 New Zealand o 2.17 Pakistan o 2.18 Philippines o 2.19 Romania o 2.20 Russia o 2.21 Serbia o 2.22 Singapore o 2.23 Spain o 2.24 Sri Lanka o 2.25 UK & Ireland * 3 Advertising o 3.1 Sponsorship + 3.1.1 Book It! * 4 Unions * 5 See also * 6 References * 7 External links [edit] Products First Pizza Hut First Pizza Hut The most commonly sold food at the restaurants is the "Pan Pizza", which usually comes in four different sizes including Personal Pan (which is an individual serving), Small, Medium and Large, although most stores have done away with the small size. They come in a variety of toppings, including "specialty" styles, which consists of Meat Lovers, Pepperoni Lovers, Cheese Lovers, Veggie Lovers, Double Cheeseburger, Supreme, and Super Supreme, which is Pizza Hut's most expensive pizza. Pan Pizza has a thicker crust than most other commercially available