AOL

Who owns AOL?

·         New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

Does AOL own any traditional media business?

·         Little, Brown and Company Adult Trade Books 

·         Warner Books 

·         Little, Brown and Company Children's Publishing 

·         Bulfinch Press 

·         Warner Faith 

·         Time Warner Audio Books 

·         Time Warner Books UK 

What other internet sites does AOL own?

·         TechCrunch bought for $30 million

·         The Huffington Post bought for $315 million

·         Bebo

AOL revenue                                                                  

·         Down 17% to $551.4 million

How much is AOL worth?

·         $4.2 billion

Key facts about AOL

·         breaking news stories

·         Sports

·         Entertainment

·         Weather

·         provides timely and informative articles

·          picture galleries

·         in-depth video and engaging polls

·         benefits from live TV news broadcasting provided by BBC News, BBC Parliament, ITN News, Al Jazeera, Euronews and France 24

3 quotes referred to AOL

·         ‘’AOL said that quarterly revenue from online display advertising grew 4 percent after more than three years of declines’’

·         ‘’In 2011, it announced plans to lay off 1,000. The cuts, representing 20 percent of AOL’s work force, also included reductions in its operations in India’’

·         ‘’AOL is losing 19,000 paying customers a week. Many of those who remain are either stuck in the habit of paying, do not need a faster connection or live beyond the reach of broadband’’

AOL is

·         An American global Internet services and media company

·         1983 as Control Video Corporation (CVC), 1991 as America Online, Vienna, Virginia, U.S, 2006 as AOL

·         AOL into a separated with Time Warner and became a public company on December 9, 2009

·         on December 20, 2005  Google purchased a 5% share of AOL for $1 billion

·         AOL was rated both one of the best and worst Internet suppliers in the UK, according to a poll by BBC Watchdog

·         AOL included online games in its mix of products; many classic and casual games were included in the original Play Net software system

• Graphical chat environments Habitat (1986–1988) and Club Caribe (1988) from LucasArts.
• The first online interactive fiction series QuantumLink Serial by Tracy Reed (1988).
• Quantum Space, the first fully automated Play by email game (1989–1991).
• The original Dungeons & Dragons title Never winter Nights from Stormfront Studios (1991–1997), the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) to depict the adventure with graphics instead of text (1991).
• The first chat room-based text role-playing game Black Bayou (1996–2004), a horror role-playing game from Hecklers Online and Antagonist, Inc

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• AOL offers the latest breaking news, gossip, sports, business and stock quotes on the web. Get free email, AIM access, viral videos, horoscopes and more!