Universo Online
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UOL (Bovespa UOLL4), once known as Universo Online, is a Brazilian online service provider and internet service provider. It is the leader in Latin America and the homepage portal is the biggest in the Portuguese speaking world. UOL started operations in 1996 as a joint venture with Grupo Abril (no longer a partner in the company) and Grupo Folha. UOL has cemented its leadership with the biggest Brazilian publications: Revista Veja and Folha de São Paulo.
UOL competes with another large communication groups for Brazil's internet audience: Organizações Globo (owner of the nation's top-rated television network) with Globo.com, Telefónica-owned Terra, Brasil Telecom's iG and iBest, and Telemar-owned Oi Internet.
UOL is ranked among the top 300 most visited websites according to Alexa.
In November, 2005, UOL started an Internet social network service called UOLKut . It was later renamed to UOL K .
On December 16, 2005, UOL started to being traded at Bovespa.
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