Knight Ridder Digital develops, operates, and manages Real Cities, a network of regional searchable hubs in the United States. Its regional hubs provide local content and information, including news, restaurants and entertainment guides, and tickets for local events, as well as classified services for real estate, employment, and automotive. The company’s interactive businesses include city resource Web sites, online newspapers, vertical channels, directories, online shopping, entertainment and recreation sources, merchant storefront building, classified services and archives, and special interest Web sites. The company also offers advertising solutions, such as banner advertising, text links, sponsorship opportunities, and special promotions for the advertisers; multimedia solutions that include newspaper, on- and offline radio, and wireless advertising solutions; and channel programs, which include travel and personal finance. Knight Ridder Digital was formerly known as KnightRidder.com and changed its name in 2000. Prior to that, Knight Ridder Digital was known as Knight Ridder New Media. The company is based in San Jose, California. Knight Ridder Digital operates as a subsidiary of Knight-Ridder, Inc.