- Facebook - An online social networking service. They way in which they generate income is from advertisements. Also, virtual gift shops and other sidelines.
- Skype - A freemium voice-over-IP service and instant messaging client. The way in which they generate income is through it's premium service offerings such as making and receiving calls to and from land line and mobile phones, as well as voicemail and call forwarding.
- E-mail - A method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. The way they generate income is from advertisements companies.
Shopping
- Amazon - An American international electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. The way in which they generate income is by taking a small percentage of the sale price of each item sold through its website.
- eBay - An American multinational Internet consumer-to-consumer corporation, headquartered in San Jose, California. The way in which they generate income is by varied fees. There are fees to list a product and fee when the product sells.
- iTunes - A media player, media library, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. The way in which they generate income is by selling music, movies, and apps.
Searching
- Google - A web search engine owned by Google Inc. They have three ways in which they generate income, in addition to private investments and selling stock shares, Google partners with advertisers and merchants through Google Checkout, Google AdWords, and Google AdSense.
- Bing - A web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine"]) from Microsoft. They way in which they generate income in by advertisements.
- Yahoo - A web search engine, owned by Yahoo Inc. The way in which they generate income is also by advertisements on their site.
Education
- ABCmouse.com - an educational website for young children that provides online learning activities for 2-6 year olds at preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten levels. They in which they generate income is by charging consumers a monthly or yearly subscription fee.
- Wikipedia - a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia that is supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. They way in which they generate income is simply by the donations to the Wikipedia Foundation and other benefactors. The site had no ads to pay for there service.
- Google Translate - a free, multilingual statistical machine-translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate written text from one language into another. It's free but it is a sever-side service, to the company (being Google) generates income from advertisements which then pays for side sites like this one.
Entertainment
- YouTube - A video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos. The way in which they generate income is by using AdSense, which allows the up-loader of the video to share the revenue produced by advertising on the site.
- Netflix - An American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media. They way in which they generate income is with a monthly subscription fee.
- Pandora Radio - a music streaming and automated music recommendation service that serves as "custodian" of the Music Genome Project. There are two way in which they generate income, A free subscription supported by advertisements, and a fee based subscription without ads.
