United Online

United Online, Inc.
legal form	Corporation
founding	2001
Seat	Woodland Hills , United States
management	Francis Lobo (President and CEO )
Number of employees	approx. 900 (2007)
sales	148 219 000 US dollars (2007)
Branch	Internet services, commerce
Website	www.unitedonline.net

United Online is an American Internet company based in Woodland Hills (borough of Los Angeles). It was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange from September 2001 .

structure

United Online's activities are divided into three main business areas:

• Classmates Media : For this particular subsidiary is one Classmates Online, Inc. , which the networking Social - site Classmates.com operates, which further sub-companies in Germany under the name StayFriends.de (StayFriends GmbH), in Austria StayFriends.at , in Sweden under StayFriends.se (Klassträffen Sweden AB) and in France under the name Trombi . Together, these sites have over 50 million registered accounts , including 3.2 million paid accounts (as of late 2007). Classmates.com is the market leader in the US and Canada. Furthermore, part of this business, another social networking site, The Names Database (as of the end July 2007 on 33 million users), and based on Internet use customer loyalty - bonus card system MyPoints.com .
• Communications : Comprises the Internet access and webmail providers NetZero , Juno , 50megs.com , BlueLight Internet Services , freeservers , BizHosting.com , GlobalServers and MySite.com via the subsidiary United Online Web Services . Photosite is an amateur photo web hosting site . Another subsidiary, CyberTarget , conducts "real-time online market research". The early search engine Simpli , which joined the group with NetZero , no longer exists; their technology is used today in Google Adsense . The online payment system RocketCash, which is aimed at a young target group, is also no longer part of the company.
• E-Commerce and Retail : this latest division consists of the FTD Group (Florists' Transworld Delivery), the parent company of the world's largest flower mediation service Interflora, Inc. , whose continental European subsidiary is Fleurop .

United Online has offices in New York City , Fort Lee (New Jersey) , Renton (Washington) , San Francisco , Schaumburg (Illinois) , Erlangen (Germany) and an offshore development center (Juno Online Services Development Pvt. Ltd ) in Hyderabad (India) . Chairman , President and CEO is Mark R. Goldston.

The group of companies achieved an EBITDA of US $ 148.219 million in 2007 (as of December 31) , of which the Communications division posted US $ 113.013 million. In 2007 the group employed around 900 people.

history

The company was formed in June 2001 from the merger of the Internet service providers NetZero and Juno Online Services . The IPO took place in the same year. In November 2002 United Online acquired the Internet access and e-mail service provider Bluelight.com from the retail chain Kmart . In April 2004, About.com acquired the web hosting business . In August 2004 the company moved its original headquarters from Westlake Village to Woodland Hills. Classmates.com was bought in November 2004, United Online acquired the amateur photo web hosting site Photosite from Homestead Technologies in March 2005, The Names Database in March 2006 , and MyPoints in April 2006 for $ 56 million (the latter founded by United Airlines in 1997 ). The full takeover of the FTD Group began in April 2008 and was completed in August 2008. For July 1, 2016 was United Online by B. Riley Financial, Inc. adopted. The company was then taken off the stock exchange.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United Online press release , August 26, 2008
2. ↑ B. Riley Financial Completes Acquisition of United Online , on www.yahoo.com ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 20, 2016