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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|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> In 2011, it acquired<ref>http://corp.aol.com/about-aol/overview</ref> the liberal<ref>http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192975/The-Huffington-Post</ref> [[Huffington Post]].  In 2015 [[Verizon]] announced that it would acquire AOL for $50 per share, or approximately $4.4 [[billion]].<ref>
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'''AOL''' stands for "America OnLine", a leading commercial provider of email accounts and access to the [[internet]].   It merged with [[New York City]] based conglomerate [[Time Warner]] in 2001<ref>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/28/technology/timewarner_aol/</ref>, and 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.
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In 2009, Time Warner bought out [[Google|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> In 2011, it acquired<ref>http://corp.aol.com/about-aol/overview</ref> the liberal<ref>http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192975/The-Huffington-Post</ref> [[Huffington Post]].  In 2015 [[Verizon]] announced that it would acquire AOL for $50 per share, or approximately $4.4 [[billion]].<ref>
 
http://ir.aol.com/mobile.view?c=147895&v=203&d=1&id=2047040</ref>
 
http://ir.aol.com/mobile.view?c=147895&v=203&d=1&id=2047040</ref>
  

Revision as of 20:33, May 20, 2015

AOL stands for "America OnLine", a leading commercial provider of email accounts and access to the internet. It merged with New York City based conglomerate Time Warner in 2001[1], and 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.

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] In 2011, it acquired[3] the liberal[4] Huffington Post. In 2015 Verizon announced that it would acquire AOL for $50 per share, or approximately $4.4 billion.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/28/technology/timewarner_aol/
  2. ↑ http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7696469
  3. ↑ http://corp.aol.com/about-aol/overview
  4. ↑ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192975/The-Huffington-Post
  5. ↑ http://ir.aol.com/mobile.view?c=147895&v=203&d=1&id=2047040

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