List of acquisitions by AOL

This is a list of acquisitions by AOL. AOL is an internet company founded in 1985 as Quantum Computing Services. [cite web|accessdate=2008-04-15|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/597479.stm|title=AOL: The internet company that grew up|publisher=BBC News|date=2000-10-11] Each acquisition is for the respective company in its entirety. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between AOL and the subject of the acquisition. The value of each acquisition is listed in US dollars because AOL is headquartered in the United States. If the value of an acquisition is not listed, then it is undisclosed.

AOL's largest acquisition as of April 2008 is the purchase of Netscape, a web browser company, for US$4.2 billion. Netscape's browser was dominant in terms of market share, but it has lost most of its share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. By the end of 2007, the usage share of Netscape's browsers had fallen from over 90% in the 1990s, to less than 1%. [cite web|accessdate=2008-04-15|url=http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp|title=Browser Statistics |publisher=W3Schools ] Its second-largest acquisition is the purchase of MapQuest, a web mapping company. Even with increased competition from Google Maps and Microsoft's Live Search Maps, MapQuest still has the greatest market share among mapping websites. [cite web|accessdate=2008-04-15|url=http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2006/05/mapquest_google_and_yahoo_maps.html|title=Mapquest, Google and Yahoo! Maps: The Brand Issue |publisher=Hitwise|date=2006-05-22 ] The majority of the companies acquired by AOL are based in the United States. A total of 41 companies have been acquired as of April 2008. Most of the acquired companies are related to the internet, including several internet service providers and web browsers.

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Acquisitions

References

External links

* [http://www.aol.com/ Official website] of AOL