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America Online, Inc., a division of Time Warner, is the world's leader in interactive services--providing consumers with the most valuable, convenient, relevant, and enjoyable online experience available through its flagship AOL® service. With an unmatched focus on consumers, AOL seeks to become an essential part of the way people live by connecting, informing, and entertaining our members - anywhere, anyhow.
Founded in 1985, AOL initially offered limited online services for what was then a tiny market of personal-computer users. But with its hallmark focus on convenience, ease-of-use and community--and pioneering features such as instant messaging and parental controls--it has grown into the world's leading online brand offering its unique service across all bands and platforms. Today, AOL's membership has grown to more than 30 million around the world--with average usage in the U.S. at about 70 minutes per day and total system usage of more than 1 billion hours per month.
Microsoft is motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.
Microsoft is committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Microsoft constantly update and improve our products, wants to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.
Yahoo! was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It began as a hobby and has evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, conduct transactions and access, share, and create information. Today, Yahoo! Inc. has become the world's largest global online network of integrated services. Yahoo! is a leading Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide.
Yahoo!'s top priority is to provide users with the information they want, when they want it, how they want it and on any device. To ensure this, Yahoo! offers a broad and deep array of products and services that provide our users with the power to connect, communicate, and create, access, and share information online.
Yahoo! has the largest global mobile audience and the greatest breadth of wireless products and services of any online network. Working with partners like OZ, Yahoo! extends its IM and mail services from the desktop PC to the mobile phone, allowing its consumers to stay connected with they are on the go.
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