AOL Inc. (NYSE The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. It is the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$10.1 trillion as of October 2008: AOL), formerly known as America Online is an American The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the global Internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and services and media company In the United States, a company is a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on an industrial enterprise." Generally, a company may be a "corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, fund, or organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, and any receiver,. The company was based in Northern Virginia Northern Virginia consists of several counties and independent cities in the U.S. state of Virginia in a widespread region generally radiating southerly and westward from Washington, D.C. It is the most populous region of both Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area from its founding until 2007.[3][4] It is currently headquartered at 770 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square. Midtown Manhattan is home to the city's tallest and most famous buildings such as the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment. As host of the United Nations headquarters, it is.[5][6] Founded in 1983 as Quantum Computer Services, it has franchised Franchising is the practice of using another person's business model. The franchisor grants the independent operator the right to distribute its products, techniques, and trademarks for a percentage of gross monthly sales and a royalty fee. Various tangibles and intangibles such as national or international advertising, training, and other support its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international International or internationally most often describes interaction between nations, or encompassing two or more nations, constituting a group or association having members in two or more nations, or generally reaching beyond national boundaries. In American English, "International" is also commonly used as a euphemism for "foreign& versions Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software. Within a given version number category , these numbers are generally assigned in increasing order and correspond to new developments in the software. At a fine-grained level, revision control is often used of its services.[7]

AOL is best known for its online The terms online and offline have specific meanings with respect to computer technology and telecommunication. In general, "online" indicates a state of connectivity, while "offline" indicates a disconnected state. In common usage, "online" often refers to the Internet or the World Wide Web software suite A software suite or application suite is a collection of computer programs, usually application software and programming software of related functionality, often sharing a more-or-less common user interface and some ability to smoothly exchange data with each other, also called AOL, that allowed millions of customers around the world to access the world's largest "walled garden A walled garden, is an analogy used in the telecommunications and media industries when referring to carrier or service provider control over applications and content/media on platforms and restricting convenient access to non-approved applications or content. For example, in telecommunications, the services and applications accessible on any" online community An online community is a virtual community that exists online whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership rituals . An online community can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content, such as a Bulletin board system or one where only a restricted number of people can initiate posts, such as and eventually reach out to the internet as a whole. At its zenith, AOL's membership was over 30 million members worldwide,[8] most of whom accessed the AOL service through the AOL software suite.

It was announced on May 28, 2009 that Time Warner would spin off The common definition of spin out is when a division of a company or organization becomes an independent business. The "spin out" company takes assets, intellectual property, technology, and/or existing products from the parent organization AOL into a separate public company, which occurred on December 9, 2009,[9] ending the 8 year relationship between the two companies.[10]

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