The phrase "a firm that hosts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a company or organization that provides hosting services, such as web hosting or event hosting.
Example: "We are looking for a firm that hosts virtual conferences to help us reach a wider audience."
Alternatives: "a company that provides hosting" or "an organization that offers hosting services".
Yelp, a firm that hosts online reviews and makes money from local ads, has already put itself up for sale.Yet the next big deal is likely to be the acquisition of HERE, the digital-map division of Nokia, a Finnish telecoms-equipment maker.
Yelp, a firm that hosts online reviews and makes money from local ads, is "one of the most obvious take-out candidates," says Mark Mahaney of RBC Capital Markets, an investment bank.Yahoo, a darling of the late 1990s internet bubble, is a constant subject of takeover speculation.
"This represents a dramatic and permanent upgrade in people's ability to communicate with one another," says Marc Andreessen, a Silicon Valley veteran who has invested in Facebook, Twitter and Ning, an American firm that hosts almost 2m social networks for clients.And people are making copious use of that ability.
That vision of networking as selling is outdated, said networking expert Julia Hobsbawm, who runs Editorial Intelligence, a London-based firm that hosts events to introduce interesting people to one another.
"In case they need to shut you down for some subversive content, they need to know how to find you," said an executive with one Beijing firm that hosts Web sites.
Facebook was the firm that hosted a conversation by one of Fusilier Lee Rigby's killers five months ahead of the attack, the BBC has learned.
Cyberbunker bills itself as a firm that will host anything but child pornography and terrorism material.
The episode highlights the tension between Airbnb's "sharing economy" ethos of regular people renting out spare rooms, and the professional operators who are attracted to it, said Ian McHenry, president of Beyond Pricing, a firm that provides market data to Airbnb hosts.
But online-video firms that host episodes of the show seem not to have been given the same instruction.Around five years ago Chinese online-video firms started competing directly with television by making their own programmes, and this year they will spend a combined 1 billion yuan ($164m) on shows like "The Goddess Office", according to Jiong Shao of Macquarie Securities, an advisory firm.
"We basically help companies figure out how to offshore I.T. [information technology] and B.P. [business process functions]," said Atul Vashistha, the chief executive of NeoIT, a California consulting firm that co-hosted the conference.
