America Online
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| Type: | Public |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 1983 |
| Founder(s): | William Von Meister |
| Headquarters: | New York |
| Country: | USA |
| Employees: | 5860 [1] |
| Revenue: | $2.417 billion as of 2010 [2] |
| Website: | www.aol.com |
| Blog: | Aol Blog |
| Facebook: | AOL |
| Twitter: |  @AOL
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| Key People | |
| Tim Armstrong, Chairman & CEO | |
America Online (AOL) provides global web services, tools, platforms and maintains content sites in different niche. The company also offers online advertising services for websites owned and operated websites by AOL as well as to third-party websites. AOL also provides subscription-based access service for consumers in the U.S.[3]
History
AOL started as an online gaming company known as Control Video Corporation (, which was founded by William Von Meister in 1983.