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'''AOL''' stands for "America OnLine", a leading commercial provider of email accounts and access to the [[internet]]. In the past few years, its business model has increasing shifted to an advertising-supported one, serving ads both on their own sites and to third-party sites via their [http://www.platform-a.com/ Platform-A] distribution system. It is a division of [[liberal]] [[New York City]] based conglomerate AOL Time Warner. It has been known for conducting [[Deceit|deceitful]] billing operations.

'''AOL''' stands for "America OnLine", a leading commercial provider of email accounts and access to the [[internet]]. In the past few years, its business model has increasing shifted to an advertising-supported one, serving ads both on their own sites and to third-party sites via their [http://www.platform-a.com/ Platform-A] distribution system. It merged with [[New York City]] based conglomerate [[Time Warner]] in 2001<ref>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/28/technology/timewarner_aol/</ref>; in 2009 Time Warner bought out [[Google]]'s minority stake, and then AOL was [[spin-off|spun off]] into a separate, publicly-traded company, initially owned by Time Warner's shareholders.<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7696469</ref>  It has been known for conducting [[Deceit|deceitful]] billing operations.

==External links==

==External links==

* [http://www.aol.com AOL Website]

* [http://www.aol.com AOL Website]