'''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 is a division of [[liberal]] [[New York City]] based conglomerate AOL Time Warner. It has been known for conducting [[Deceit|deceitful]] billing operations. |