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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 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> | + | '''AOL''' stands for "America OnLine", a leading commercial provider of email accounts and access to the [[internet]]. It has been known for conducting [[Deceit|deceitful]] billing operations. 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> |
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Revision as of 20:01, May 20, 2015
AOL stands for "America OnLine", a leading commercial provider of email accounts and access to the internet. It has been known for conducting deceitful billing operations. 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 Platform-A distribution system. It merged with New York City based conglomerate Time Warner in 2001[1]; in 2009 Time Warner bought out Google's minority stake, and then AOL was spun off into a separate, publicly-traded company, initially owned by Time Warner's shareholders.[2]
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External links
- AOL Website
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