SAPO (company)

SAPO (company)
PT.COM Comunicações Interactivas SA
Type Subsidiary
Industry Internet
Founded Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (1997)
Headquarters Lisbon, Portugal
Key people Henrique Granadeiro, Chairman
Zeinal Bava, CEO
Products ISP, Search Engine, SAPO Anúncios (pay per click advertising)
Revenue (See Portugal Telecom)
Operating income (See Portugal Telecom)
Employees >95
Website www.sapo.pt
www.sapo.cv
www.sapo.ao
www.sapo.mz
www.sapo.tl

SAPO (Portuguese for toad), Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses, is a brand and subsidiary company of the Portugal Telecom Group. It is a Portuguese internet service provider that started as a search engine when founded in 1995.

History

SAPO was created on September 4, 1995 at the Agrupamento de Escolas de Montemor-o-Velho by seven members of the Computer Science Center of the University of Aveiro. The name was derived from the acronym of the service, S.A.P.O (Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses Online). This acronym corresponds to the Portuguese word for frog.

Later, in September 1998, Saber & Lazer - Informática e Comunicação S.A. bought SAPO from Navegante. With Saber & Lazer, SAPO launched new services; free e-mail, a virtual shopping and some new features for the search engine.

Still in that year, due to increasing traffic SAPO and Telepac signed an agreement, with 'Telepac' becoming their new internet service provider.

In September 1999, PT Multimédia acquired 74,9% of Saber e Lazer. And in March 2000, SAPO was assigned to PTM.com, with the objective of joining all internet projects under only one company.

After some improvements in infrastructures and accesses, finally in June 2002 the ADSL access service was launched, starting the era of new contents for the portal.

On March 28, 2006, Sapo XL was launched: a project for broadband content, in which the main content is videos, on-line television transmission and real-time transmission of events.

On September 15, 2010, Sapo launched its website in East Timor.

See also

External links


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