Daniel E. Caul

IAC Search & Media, Inc. provides search technology and interface design services. It delivers information retrieval products through a portfolio of web sites, portals, and downloadable applications. The company's search based portal brands include Ask.com, Ask for Kids, Bloglines, Evite, Excite, iWon, and MyWay. The company was founded in 1996 and is located in Oakland, CA.

Ask Jeeves, Inc. provides consumers and advertisers with information retrieval products across a diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals and desktop search applications. Ask Jeeves' search and search-based portal brands include: Ask Jeeves (Ask.com and Ask.co.uk); Ask Jeeves Japan (Ask.jp, a joint venture); Ask Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com); Bloglines (Bloglines.com); Excite (excite.com); iWon (iwon.com); My Search (mysearch.com); My Way (myway.com); My Web Search (mywebsearch.com) and Teoma (teoma.com). Ask Jeeves also owns the search technology Teoma, proprietary natural language processing technology, as well as portal and ad serving technologies.

Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin provides legal services. It offers services in the areas of anti-counterfeiting, antitrust, appellate practice, bankruptcy, commercial financing, commercial litigation, consumer law, corporate finance and securities. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Slam Dunk Networks, Inc. specialized in communications services. The company was headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Critical Path, Inc. provided consumer messaging solutions. It offered messaging software and services to service providers and enterprises. The firm's portfolio of applications and services enabled people to communicate, connect, share and organize. The company was founded by David C. Hayden in 1997 and was headquartered in San Mateo, CA.