Shares of the India-based Internet services provider Sify are trading sharply higher after the company reported financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31.
These fast-growing, adroit and well-managed companies help set the benchmarks for their respective industries. (Full methodology can be found here.) Just five Canadian companies make this elite group of 130: Brookfield Asset Management, Manulife, metals producer Teck Cominco, Calgary-based TV and internet services provider Shaw Communications and Suncor Energy.
These fast-growing, adroit and well-managed companies help set the benchmarks for their respective industries. (Full methodology can be found here.) Just five Canadian companies make this elite group of 130: Brookfield Asset Management, Manulife, metals producer Teck Cominco (nyse: TCK - news - people ), Calgary-based TV and internet services provider Shaw Communications (nyse: SJR - news - people ) and Suncor Energy.
Brilliant also ran a prepaid calling card business, a Wi-Fi provider and Internet services company called Cometa and an unsuccessful conferencing software firm called Neti Technologies.
It also expanded its footprint in China by acquiring a controlling interest in HiChina Web Solutions, a provider of Internet services such as domain registration and Web hosting.
Thanks to more than 40 such deals in the past five years, WorldCom has transformed itself into the world's largest provider of Internet services, and a big force in local, long-distance and international telephony.
According to Akamai, a global provider of Internet services, the United States ranked ninth in average connection speeds (7.7 Mbps) in the third quarter of 2012, and seventh in percent of Internet connections with speeds above 10 Mbps (18 percent).
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The Company is a provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.
One example: Exodus Communications (nasdaq: EXDS - news - people), a provider of Internet hosting services.
Motricity shares appear poised for an extremely ugly fall this morning after the provider of mobile Internet services late Tuesday reported disappointing Q2 results.
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RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - Nov 30, 2012) - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced the U.S. Department of Commerce approved the renewal of Verisign's agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to serve as the authoritative registry operator for the .com registry (the "2012 .com Registry Agreement") for the term commencing on Dec. 1, 2012 through Nov. 30, 2018 with certain new terms and conditions.
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Founded in 1985, AOL has transformed itself from an online service to a provider of interactive services, Internet technologies and e-commerce services.
Now that Wi-Fi on planes is relatively common, the leading in-flight Internet provider is branching into a broad array of entertainment services.
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As Brazil's largest pay-TV provider and a big hitter in phone services and Internet access, NETC is a play on Brazil's growing middle class.
In addition, France Telecom is majority owner of Wanadoo, Europe' second-biggest Internet service provider, and controls Equant, which provides international data and voice services to business customers.
Comcast Cable is the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone provider to residential customers under the XFINITY brand and also provides these services to businesses.
StarHub Internet is owned by the StarHub consortium, which will become Singapore s second basic telecommunications services provider in April next year.
Dell Inc. is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures.
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Ofcom has proposed reductions in the prices BT can charge internet service providers (ISPs) in parts of the country where BT is the sole provider of wholesale broadband services.
There have been a flurry of announcements about legitimate services in recent months, including Sky's SkyTunes service and tie-ups between the likes of internet service provider CarphoneWarehouse and music service Napster.
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