| Status | Public (twx) |
| Website | www.aol.com |
| Blog | portalblog.aol.com |
| Category | Web |
| Phone | +1-703-265-1000 |
| Address |
22000 AOL Way Dulles, VA, 20166 USA |
| Employees | 8,000 |
| Total | $1.31B |
| Sphere, 4/08 1 | $25M |
| Bebo, 3/08 2 | $850M |
| Goowy, 2/08 3 | N/A |
| buy.at, 2/08 4 | N/A |
| Yedda, 11/07 5 | N/A |
| Quigo, 11/07 6 | N/A |
| Tacoda, 7/07 7 | N/A |
| ADTECH, 5/07 8 | N/A |
| Third Screen Media, 5/07 9 | N/A |
| Userplane, 8/06 10 | N/A |
| Lightningcast, 5/06 11 | N/A |
| Truveo, 12/05 12 | N/A |
| Weblogs, Inc., 10/05 13 | N/A |
| Advertising.com, 8/04 14 | $435M |
| Brightcove 15 | 1/07 |
| Brightcove 16 | 11/05 |
| Kayak 17 | 12/04 |
| Mozilla 18 | 7/03 |
| Ancestry.com 19 | 9/99 |
| The Knot 20 | 1996 |
| Kayak 21 | N/A |
“AOL is a leading global advertising-supported Web company, with the most comprehensive 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. Bebo has a global membership of about 40 million users and is one of the top social networks in the United Kingdom. It is No. 3 in the United States behind News Corp’s MySpace and Facebook. (Source: AOL)
| Website | www.propeller.com |
| Blog | www.propellerblog.com |
| Stage | Live |
Propeller is Netscape’s social media experiment. The site is very similar in concept to Digg.
| Website | www.xdrive.com/home.jsp |
| Stage | Live |
Xdrive is an online file storage provided by AOL. For each user, AOL provides 5 GB of free online storage. Xdrive also offers 50 GB storage for $9.95/month. Users can sign in by using their AOL screen names.
Xdrive provides Xdrive Desktop Lite client to access Xdrive. Xdrive Desktop Lite utilizes Adobe AIR technology, which allows users to upload files and folders right from their hard drive, desktop, USB devices, or removable storage drives directly into their Xdrive web storage.
