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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.

Milestones

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• Karen Dykstra, Board of Directors added. (10/26/09)
  Posted 11/3/09 at 2:34pm
• Jim Wiatt, Board of Directors added. (10/26/09)
  Posted 11/3/09 at 2:34pm
• Jim Stengel, Board of Directors added. (10/26/09)
  Posted 11/3/09 at 2:34pm
• Fred Reynolds, Board of Directors added. (10/26/09)
  Posted 11/3/09 at 2:34pm
• Richard Dalzell, Board of Directors added. (10/26/09)
  Posted 11/3/09 at 2:34pm
• Patricia Mitchell, Board of Directors added. (10/26/09)
  Posted 11/3/09 at 2:34pm
• Bill Hambrecht, Board of Directors added. (10/26/09)
  Posted 11/3/09 at 2:34pm
• Michael Powell, Board of Directors added. (10/26/09)
  Posted 11/3/09 at 2:34pm
• Acquired MMAFighting.com. (7/15/09)
  Posted 7/15/09 at 5:40pm
• Acquired Patch for $7M. (6/11/09)
  Posted 6/11/09 at 8:57am
• Acquired Going for $10M. (6/11/09)
  Posted 6/11/09 at 8:59am
• Acquired Emurse. (4/19/09)
  Posted 10/14/09 at 8:09am
• Acquired Socialthing. (8/21/08)
  Posted 8/1/08 at 12:48pm
• Acquired Fleaflicker. (4/25/08)
  Posted 5/16/08 at 12:45pm
• Acquired Sphere for $25M. (4/08)
  Posted 4/14/08 at 8:14pm
• Acquired Bebo for $850M. (3/13/08)
  Posted 3/13/08 at 5:15am
• Acquired Goowy. (2/3/08)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 8:34am
• Acquired buy.at for $125M. (2/08)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 6:14pm
• Acquired Yedda. (11/11/07)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 8:34am
• Acquired Quigo for $363M. (11/7/07)
  Posted 11/7/07 at 2:37am
• Acquired Tacoda for $275M. (7/24/07)
  Posted 9/3/07 at 8:33am
• Acquired ADTECH. (5/16/07)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 8:56am
• Acquired Third Screen Media. (5/07)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 8:41am
• Anne Bentley, SVP, Corporate Communications added. (2/07)
  Posted 11/4/09 at 5:44pm
• Invested in Brightcove. (1/1/07)
  Posted 8/2/07 at 9:28pm
• Acquired Relegence. (11/6/06)
  Posted 10/27/08 at 1:58pm
• Acquired GameDaily. (8/16/06)
  Posted 10/27/08 at 2:16pm
• Acquired Userplane for $40M. (8/14/06)
  Posted 8/7/07 at 9:53pm
• Acquired Lightningcast. (5/06)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 9:46am
• Acquired Truveo. (1/10/06)
  Posted 12/31/07 at 11:45pm
• Received $1B in Unattributed funding. (12/05)
  Posted 9/30/08 at 10:19am
• Acquired MusicNow. (11/3/05)
  Posted 10/27/08 at 2:47pm
• Invested in Brightcove. (11/1/05)
  Posted 8/2/07 at 8:08am
• Acquired Weblogs, Inc.. (10/05)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 9:04am
• Acquired WildSeed. (8/7/05)
  Posted 10/27/08 at 3:07pm
• Acquired MailBlocks. (8/4/05)
  Posted 10/27/08 at 3:27pm
• Acquired Xdrive for $30M. (8/4/05)
  Posted 7/24/08 at 11:15pm
• Invested in Kayak. (12/1/04)
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:45am
• Acquired Advertising.com for $435M. (8/1/04)
  Posted 8/24/07 at 4:55am
• Invested in Kayak. (2004)
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:45am
• Acquired Singing Fish. (11/19/03)
  Posted 10/27/08 at 4:11pm
• Invested in Mozilla. (7/15/03)
  Posted 3/27/08 at 2:10pm
• Acquired eVoice. (7/01)
  Posted 10/29/08 at 1:31pm
• Acquired InfoInterActive for $28.2M. (5/19/01)
  Posted 10/29/08 at 1:50pm
• Acquired iAmaze. (9/5/00)
  Posted 10/29/08 at 2:04pm
• Acquired Mapquest for $1.1B. (12/22/99)
  Posted 10/31/08 at 11:54am
• Invested in Ancestry.com. (9/1/99)
  Posted 10/16/07 at 6:11am
• Acquired Spinner.com for $320M. (6/1/99)
  Posted 10/31/08 at 12:13pm
• Acquired Nullsoft for $80M. (6/1/99)
  Posted 10/31/08 at 12:25pm
• Acquired MovieFone for $525M. (5/99)
  Posted 10/31/08 at 12:35pm
• Acquired Netscape for $4.2B. (11/28/98)
  Posted 10/31/08 at 1:01pm
• Acquired Mirabilis for $287M. (6/8/98)
  Posted 10/31/08 at 1:25pm
• Invested in The Knot. (1996)
  Posted 2/28/08 at 4:38pm
• Sarah Bernard, VP, General Manager added.
  Posted 8/14/08 at 8:28am
• Tom Drapeau, General Manager, Propeller added.
  Posted 7/22/08 at 1:27am
• Jonathan Miller, CEO added.
  Posted 7/21/08 at 7:51am
• Ajaipal S. Virdy, Senior Tech Manager added.
  Posted 7/15/08 at 2:34am
• Ryan Block, Editor, Engadget added.
  Posted 7/1/08 at 8:52am
• Brent Harrison, Executive Director added.
  Posted 5/24/08 at 12:29pm
• Barry Schuler, Chairman and CEO added.
  Posted 5/14/08 at 11:20am
• Sab Kanaujia, Principal (Director), AOL Audience Corporate Development & Strategy added.
  Posted 5/7/08 at 10:34am
• Jim Bankoff, EVP, Programming and Products added.
  Posted 5/5/08 at 4:25pm
• Jeremy Liew, General Manager of Netscape added.
  Posted 4/25/08 at 7:35am
• Bill Wilson, Executive Vice President of Programming added.
  Posted 4/14/08 at 6:02pm
• Laurence Hooper, Executive Director added.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 6:45pm
• Kimberley Partoll, Executive Vice President of Customer Management and Paid Services added.
  Posted 3/24/08 at 8:58am
• Ted Cahall, Executive Vice President of Platforms and Technologies added.
  Posted 3/24/08 at 8:54am
• Kevin Conroy, Executive Vice President, Products and Marketing added.
  Posted 3/24/08 at 8:49am
• Maneesh Dhir, Executive Vice President of International added.
  Posted 3/24/08 at 8:44am
• Lynda Clarizio, Executive Vice President, AOL, and President, Platform-A added.
  Posted 3/15/08 at 8:25am
• Ira Parker, Vice President of Business Development added.
  Posted 3/15/08 at 7:59am
• Nisha Kumar, Vice President & CFO added.
  Posted 3/13/08 at 4:41pm
• Yaniv Golan, CTO of Yedda added.
  Posted 3/9/08 at 5:32pm
• Mike Jones, SVP added.
  Posted 2/22/08 at 12:20am
• Joanna Shields, Executive Vice President, AOL, and President, People Networks added.
  Posted 7/24/08 at 2:34pm
• Peter Rojas, Editor, Engadget added.
  Posted 7/22/08 at 8:28am
• Eric Bosco, VP, Community and Communications Products added.
  Posted 8/15/08 at 8:52am
• Matt Galligan, Product Manager, Socialthing added.
  Posted 8/24/08 at 6:14am
• Bruce Stewart, SVP added.
  Posted 8/27/08 at 10:03pm
• Dave Naffis, Developer added.
  Posted 6/16/09 at 5:01am
• David Cautin, VP, Strategy & Business Development added.
  Posted 9/24/08 at 6:24pm
• Went public with stock symbol TWX.
  Posted 4/12/08 at 1:25pm
• Ramin Naimi, Director Engineering added.
  Posted 10/14/08 at 3:08pm
• Michael Barrett, EVP, Sales & Partnerships added.
  Posted 6/22/09 at 3:41pm
• Andrew Cohen, Director, Search and Navigation added.
  Posted 6/29/09 at 2:26pm
• Werner Bogula, Editor in Chief added.
  Posted 7/2/09 at 12:52am
• Mike Macadaan, VP User Experience Design added.
  Posted 7/10/09 at 2:03pm
• Larry Allen, SVP, Network Development added.
  Posted 11/18/08 at 1:02pm
• David Phillips, President & Managing Director, AOL UK added.
  Posted 12/23/08 at 3:03pm
• David Phillips, General Counsel, Europe added.
  Posted 12/23/08 at 3:03pm
• David Phillips, Associate General Counsel added.
  Posted 12/23/08 at 3:03pm
• Bill Wilson, President, MediaGlow added.
  Posted 1/12/09 at 12:18am
• Brian Tomasette, Director of Strategy Development added.
  Posted 2/6/09 at 3:49pm
• Ted Cahall, President Products & Technologies added.
  Posted 2/8/09 at 7:45am
• John Kannapell, SVP, AOL Search and Local added.
  Posted 2/23/09 at 12:46pm
• Tim Armstrong, Chairman & CEO added.
  Posted 3/12/09 at 2:10pm
• Jim Riesenbach, SVP & GM, Search Division added.
  Posted 4/22/09 at 12:54pm
• David Liu, Senior Vice President, AIM added.
  Posted 4/23/09 at 11:18am
• Martin Moe, Senior Vice President, MediaGlow added.
  Posted 4/26/09 at 5:34pm
• Jason Bitensky, Account Executive, AOL Media Networks added.
  Posted 4/28/09 at 11:39am
• David Robinson, Design Director added.
  Posted 7/26/09 at 10:43am
• Jen Consalvo, Director of Personalization added.
  Posted 8/26/09 at 1:18pm
• Frank Gruber, Product Development & Evangelist added.
  Posted 8/26/09 at 1:24pm
• Jeff Levick, Global Advertising and Strategy added.
  Posted 4/30/09 at 11:55am
• Brad Garlinghouse, President, Internet and Mobile Communications added.
  Posted 9/7/09 at 8:52pm
• Jeanine LeFlore, AOL Media Properties added.
  Posted 9/9/09 at 1:19pm
• Jeremy Rephlo, Director, Product Management added.
  Posted 9/15/09 at 10:56am
• Gregory Coleman, President, Platform-A added.
  Posted 4/30/09 at 12:16pm
• Jay Ridgeway, Architect added.
  Posted 6/12/09 at 12:19pm
• Jean-Paul Cozzatti, Technical Director added.
  Posted 9/15/09 at 10:56am
• Jim Lane, Principal UI Design Manager added.
  Posted 9/18/09 at 2:16am
• Joshua Auerbach, Vice President added.
  Posted 9/23/09 at 4:30am
• Bill Raduchel, CTO added.
  Posted 10/8/09 at 1:09pm
• Mike Lewis, Corporate Technology added.
  Posted 10/12/09 at 2:03pm
• Nathan Folkman, System Architect added.
  Posted 6/1/09 at 6:57am
• Dirk Freytag, SVP added.
  Posted 10/25/09 at 12:56pm
• Tricia Primrose Wallace, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications added.
  Posted 11/3/09 at 11:33am
• Randy Dryburgh, Developer, Manager, etc. added.
  Posted 6/4/09 at 9:12pm
• Michael Bloom, VP & GM, Digital Media Products added.
  Posted 5/13/09 at 5:44pm

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1. AOL Tries M&A Jujitsu, Buys Martial Arts Site MMAFighting (paidcontent.org) [edit]
2. AOL Buys Two Local Startups, Including One Backed By CEO Armstrong (paidcontent.org) [edit]
3. AOL Buys Two Local Startups, Including One Backed By CEO Armstrong (paidcontent.org) [edit]
4. blog.emurse.com [edit]
5. Suddenly, AOL Loves Lifestreaming; Buys Socialthing! (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. techcrunch.com [edit]
7. techcrunch.com [edit]
8. AOL Buys Bebo For $850 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Amid Yahoo Turmoil, AOL Makes An Acquisition (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. techcrunch.com [edit]
11. AOL Gets Into Q&A Business, Acquires Israel’s Yedda (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. JMP Securities [edit]
13. AOL Buys Tacoda for $275 Million (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
14. ADTECH (adtech.info) [edit]
15. ClickZ (clickz.com) [edit]
16. AOL Acquires Relegence Corporation (relegence.com) [edit]
17. AOL expands video games with GameDaily acquisition (itwire.com) [edit]
18. techcrunch.com [edit]
19. news.com [edit]
20. Citation Needed [add]
21. AOL Announces Acquisition of MusicNow (corp.aol.com) [edit]
22. TimeWarner (timewarner.com) [edit]
23. AOL acquires skins-maker Wildseed (telephonyonline.com) [edit]
24. America Online, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Mailblocks, Inc. (timewarner.com) [edit]
25. America Online, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Xdrive, Inc. (timewarner.com) [edit]
26. Citation Needed [add]
27. AOL acquires multimedia search provider (news.zdnet.com) [edit]
28. Citation Needed [add]
29. COMPANY NEWS; AOL TIME WARNER AGREES TO ACQUIRE INFOINTERACTIVE (query.nytimes.com) [edit]
30. AOL Acquires iAmaze (internetnews.com) [edit]
31. AOL buys MapQuest in Billion Dollar Deal (ecommercetimes.com) [edit]
32. AOL buys Spinner, Nullsoft for $400 million (news.cnet.com) [edit]
33. AOL buys Spinner, Nullsoft for $400 million (news.cnet.com) [edit]
34. Short Take: AOL acquires MovieFone (news.cnet.com) [edit]
35. AOL buys Netscape for $4.2 billion (news.cnet.com) [edit]
36. AOL Buys Israel's Mirabilis (internetnews.com) [edit]
37. paidcontent.org [edit]
38. techcrunch.com [edit]
39. wp.kayak.com [edit]
40. wp.kayak.com [edit]
41. AOL (aol.com) [edit]
42. findarticles.com [edit]
43. en.wikipedia.org [edit]
44. Time Warner's AOL and Google to Expand Strategic Alliance (google.com) [edit]