Universo Online
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| Industry | Online service provider |
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| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | São Paulo, Brazil |
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Key people
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Luiz Frias, (Chairman & CEO) |
| Products | Online media |
| Revenue |
 $ 488.9 million (2010)
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 US$ 58.2 million (2010)
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Number of employees
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1001-5000 |
| Parent | Grupo Folha |
| Website | uol.com.br |
Universo Online (known by the acronym UOL) is a web content, products and services Brazilian firm. It belongs to Grupo Folha enterprise. As of January 2015, UOL (Universo Online)'s website is rank 73 on SimilarWeb and rank 108 on Alexa Internet globally.
In 2012, UOL was ranked by Alexa as the fifth most visited website in Brazil, losing only to Google portals (Google Brasil, Google EUA, YouTube) and Facebook. According to Ibope Nielsen Online, UOL is Brazil’s largest internet portal with more than 50 million unique visitors and 6.7 billion page views every month.
UOL is the world’s largest Portuguese speaking portal, which is organized in 42 thematic stations with more than 1,000 news sources and 7 million pages. The portal provides website hosting, date storage, publicity dealing, online payments and security systems. It also holds more than 300 thousand online shops, 23 million buyers and 4 million people selling goods and services in its portals
UOL includes:
UOL was established by Grupo Folha on April 28, 1996. After 7 months, UOL joined portal Brasil Online (BOL) from Editora Abril. However Editora Abril does not own shares in BOL anymore. Portugal Telecom had 29% of UOL, but sold its shares to Folhapar, a company controlled by businessman João Alves de Queiroz Filho of Hypermarcas holding in 2010. Grupo Folha and Folhapar are UOL’s main shareholders. UOL won more than 100 awards as one of Brazil’s largest online portal since 1996.
On April 28, 1996, UOL went online. In July 1996 it put online an operation with a 2 megabit per second base connection. In August, UOL launched a web provider in the cities of Greater São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro coupled with e-mail accounts and the setup of browser Netscape version 2.2 in Portuguese.
In 1997, UOL created a series of forums, focus groups and surveys, as well as the online version of ”Nova Enciclopédia Ilustrada Folha’’ encyclopedia. UOL also launched TV UOL (their Video Sharing Platform), with content based on music videos, interviews and movie trailers, and AcessoNet, a company that provides larger Internet access in Brazil’s major cities. UOL also expanded its connection capability to 20 megabits and received the award of best web provider and Internet users favorite’s website of Informática Exame magazine in 1997.
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