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AOL

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AOL is a global advertising-supported Web company, with display advertising network in the U.S., a substantial worldwide audience, and a suite of popular Web brands and products.

The company’s strategy focuses on increasing the scale and sophistication of its advertising platform and growing the size and engagement of its global online audience through leading products and programming.

On March 13, 2008, AOL Internet division announced their plans to buy social network Bebo for $850 million in cash.

History of Aol:

AOL was founded in the early 1980’s as Control Video Corp, with an online service, Gameline, for the Atari 2600 console. In 1985 the company was re-named Quantum Computer Services and was the first online service launched for the Commodore 64 and 128 consoles. In 1988, the company created an online service for the PC and changed its name to AOL (America Online), becoming over the next decade the premier Online access subscription business, at one point having almost 25MM subscribers.

AOL originally went public in 1992 and grew to become the largest online access and portal company on the Web. In 2000, AOL acquired Time Warner for $160B+ in what was then considered to be the largest M&A transaction, and the company was re-named AOL Time Warner. Since then, AOL’s access business has deteriorated as more subscribers churned away from its core dial-up service for higher broadband ‘Net services.

Milestones

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  AOL added Richard Bloom as VP, Video.
  Posted 4/30/12 at 6:45am
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  AOL added Ned Desmond as GM of AOL Tech. (5/1/12)
  Posted 4/25/12 at 9:25am
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  AOL added Steve Savignano as SVP/GM iPlanet. (1/1/00)
  Posted 3/22/12 at 9:47am
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  AOL added Doug Ludlow as Director of Product Management. (3/16/12)
  Posted 3/16/12 at 7:23am
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  AOL added Fred McIntyre as SVP, Business Development. (3/1/09)
  Posted 2/17/12 at 7:52pm
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  AOL added Fred McIntyre as SVP, AOL Video. (11/1/06)
  Posted 2/17/12 at 7:51pm
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  AOL added Jacob Knobel as Principal Software Engineer, Mobile. (9/1/10)
  Posted 1/9/12 at 10:49am
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  AOL added Michael Smith as SVP, Corp Dev.
  Posted 12/19/11 at 5:53am
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  AOL added Christian Crumlish as Senior Director, AIM Product. (12/5/11)
  Posted 12/8/11 at 10:59am
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  AOL added Romy Macasieb as Sr. Product Manager.
  Posted 12/4/11 at 8:10am
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  AOL added Graham Blache as Developer. (1/10/11)
  Posted 11/11/11 at 1:46pm
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  AOL added Carl Showalter as Director, Product Management. (1/1/95)
  Posted 10/28/11 at 1:16pm
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  AOL added Jathan McCollum as Security Engineer. (9/11/00)
  Posted 9/8/11 at 2:31pm
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  AOL added Jen Wong as SVP/GM, Network Display Products, Lifestyle HPMG. (1/1/09)
  Posted 9/1/11 at 11:58am
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  AOL added Venky Someswaran as Principal Software Engineer . (1/1/07)
  Posted 8/27/11 at 7:34am
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  AOL added Alex Terry as Vice President, General Manager - Voice Services. (4/1/01)
  Posted 8/11/11 at 5:01pm

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Uploaded: 12/18/10

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1. Aol Snaps Up Hyper-Local Photosharing App Hipster (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Confirmed: AOL’s Patch Buys Hyperlocal News Site Outside.In (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. We Have A New Uber Boss, And She’s Greek: Aol Buys HuffPo For $315 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. techcrunch.com [edit]
5. AOL Acquires Pictela (freshnews.com) [edit]
6. AOL Acquires Email Prioritization App Unblab To Boost Project Phoenix (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Confirmed: AOL Buys Video Syndication Company 5min (For $65 Million) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. techcrunch.com [edit]
9. Our New Parent, AOL, Confirms Our Scoop On Them Buying Thing Labs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. techcrunch.com [edit]
11. AOL Acquires StudioNow For $36.5M, Confirms Departure Of CTO Ted Cahall (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. AOL Tries M&A Jujitsu, Buys Martial Arts Site MMAFighting (paidcontent.org) [edit]
13. AOL Buys Two Local Startups, Including One Backed By CEO Armstrong (paidcontent.org) [edit]
14. AOL Buys Two Local Startups, Including One Backed By CEO Armstrong (paidcontent.org) [edit]
15. blog.emurse.com [edit]
16. Suddenly, AOL Loves Lifestreaming; Buys Socialthing! (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. AOL Buys Sphere (redherring.com) [edit]
18. techcrunch.com [edit]
19. AOL Buys Bebo For $850 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Amid Yahoo Turmoil, AOL Makes An Acquisition (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. techcrunch.com [edit]
22. AOL Gets Into Q&A Business, Acquires Israel’s Yedda (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. JMP Securities [edit]
24. AOL Buys Tacoda for $275 Million (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
25. ADTECH (adtech.info) [edit]
26. ClickZ (clickz.com) [edit]
27. AOL Acquires Relegence Corporation (relegence.com) [edit]
28. AOL expands video games with GameDaily acquisition (itwire.com) [edit]
29. techcrunch.com [edit]
30. news.com [edit]
31. Citation Needed [add]
32. AOL Announces Acquisition of MusicNow (corp.aol.com) [edit]
33. TimeWarner (timewarner.com) [edit]
34. AOL acquires skins-maker Wildseed (telephonyonline.com) [edit]
35. America Online, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Xdrive, Inc. (timewarner.com) [edit]
36. America Online, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Mailblocks, Inc. (timewarner.com) [edit]
37. Citation Needed [add]
38. AOL acquires multimedia search provider (news.zdnet.com) [edit]
39. Citation Needed [add]
40. COMPANY NEWS; AOL TIME WARNER AGREES TO ACQUIRE INFOINTERACTIVE (query.nytimes.com) [edit]
41. AOL Acquires iAmaze (internetnews.com) [edit]
42. AOL Acquires Voice Portal Quack.com (computerworld.com.au) [edit]
43. AOL buys MapQuest in Billion Dollar Deal (ecommercetimes.com) [edit]
44. AOL buys Spinner, Nullsoft for $400 million (news.cnet.com) [edit]
45. AOL buys Spinner, Nullsoft for $400 million (news.cnet.com) [edit]
46. Short Take: AOL acquires MovieFone (news.cnet.com) [edit]
47. AOL buys Netscape for $4.2 billion (news.cnet.com) [edit]
48. AOL Buys Israel's Mirabilis (internetnews.com) [edit]
49. AOL Acquires Personal Library Software (newsbreaks.infotoday.com) [edit]
50. AOL-CompuServe deal cleared (news.cnet.com) [edit]
51. Acquisition Agreement - America Online Inc., Global Network Navigator Inc. (contracts.corporate.findlaw.com) [edit]
52. America Online Acquires Imagination Network (timewarner.com) [edit]
53. AMERICA ONLINE, INC. ACQUIRES JOHNSON-GRACE (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
54. AOL Plans To Buy 2 Bay Firms (articles.sfgate.com) [edit]
55. America Online to acquire two Internet companies.(BookLink Technologies Inc., NaviSoft Inc.) (highbeam.com) [edit]
56. America Online to acquire two Internet companies.(BookLink Technologies Inc., NaviSoft Inc.) (highbeam.com) [edit]
57. paidcontent.org [edit]
58. techcrunch.com [edit]
59. wp.kayak.com [edit]
60. wp.kayak.com [edit]
61. AOL (aol.com) [edit]
62. findarticles.com [edit]
63. The Knot Milestones (xogroupinc.com) [edit]
64. Time Warner's AOL and Google to Expand Strategic Alliance (google.com) [edit]
AOL Previews New Brand Identity for its Future as an Independent Content-Driven Company (corp.aol.com) [edit]
businessinsider.com [edit]
OUCH: AOL Sold Buy.at For Just $17 Million -- A $108 Million Loss (businessinsider.com) [edit]
AOL Sells Instant Messaging Service ICQ To DST For $187.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
AOL To Sell Bebo For Around $10 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
AOL Will Launch A Groupon Clone (businessinsider.com) [edit]
Updated: Ex-ABCNews.com Head Dube Joins AOL As SVP-GM AOL News & Info (paidcontent.org) [edit]
AOL's Finance Officer Just Bagged A $2.25 Million Bonus (businessinsider.com) [edit]
AOL Announces Launch of AOL Government (freshnews.com) [edit]