Promoting the goods and services of others by means of operating an on-line shopping mall with links to the retail web sites of others and operating on-line marketplaces for sellers of goods and/or services; Providing business advertising information; Internet-based service operating as direct-to-consumer portal and Internet based business-to-business service that helps businesses get presented to consumers who are seeking their goods or services; Internet based service for generating business information updates, events, schedules, and alerts that are sent to the consumer on any communications device such as personal computer, mobile handset, or set-top box, namely, Updates to products, services and articles offered by businesses, for consumption by consumers; Providing Internet productivity tools, namely, providing business information updates, commercial transactions data, and business community coordination, collaboration and sharing information, providing specific business information as requested by customers via the Internet, namely, Updates to products, services and articles offered by businesses, for consumption by consumers