America Online is a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange in the S&P 500. Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia, is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: America Online with more than 24 million members, and CompuServe, with more than 2.8 million members, the company's two worldwide Internet services; several leading Internet brands including AOL Instant Messenger and Digital City and Mapquest; the Netscape Navigator and AOL.com portals; AOL Movie phone the nation's #1 movie listing guide and ticketing service; and Spinner.com and Winamp, leaders in Internet music. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the company develops and offers enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. AOL's merger with Time Warner Inc. in the year 2000 will be a huge move on AOL's behalf and will allow it to become the largest!
             The Company's AOL service provides customers with a world-wide, interactive community offering a wide variety of content, features and tools. The AOL service also includes easy access to the Internet with search abilities through AOL NetFind. The AOL service includes online electronic mail services, public bulletin boards, the Buddy List feature (for members who are curious if their friends are on-line, though it has a blocking feature), the AOL Instant Messenger service, which allows members to communicate online y without having to check their mailbox all the time, an online community center, public or private "meeting rooms" and interactive conversations (chat). Members can personalize their AOL through a number of features and tools, including a reminder service that sends e-mail in advance of important events, stock portfolios that automatically update market prices, Mail Controls, which allow members to li
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