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about.me is a personal web hosting service co-founded by Ryan Freitas, Tony Conrad and Tim Young[1][2][3] in October 2009.[4] The site offers registered users a simple platform from which to link multiple online identities, relevant external sites, and popular social networking websites such as Facebook, Flickr, and Google+. The company remained at AOL for a little over twenty-five months.
On February 5, 2013, it was announced that Conrad had bought back majority control of About.me from AOL; although no specifics were revealed on the purchase price, Conrad did say that it was a fraction of the price AOL paid to originally buy it. Conrad believed that there were no advantages in being owned by AOL, and that the site did not fit with AOL's current business model (which has emphasized online content rather than social networking services). The site returned to becoming a startup, and began another funding round following the announcement.[5]
On February 21, 2019, About.me was acquired by Broadly.[6]
The service offers a free about.me/username page, or a subscription-based page having a custom domain and more features.[7]
References
- ↑ "About.me finally embraces Android, but only with its new 'Intro' business card app". VentureBeat. 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
- ↑ Sawers, Paul (2014-10-30). "About.me Launches 'Intro' App to 'Reinvent the Business Card'". The Next Web. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
- ↑ Lagorio-Chafkin, Christine (2014-04-16). "How This Entrepreneur Bought His Company Back From AOL". Inc.com. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
- ↑ "About.Me Launches with Ultimate Personal Domain Brand". Business Wire. 2010-12-09.
- ↑ "About.me Buys Itself Back from AOL". Bits. The New York Times. 2013-02-05.
- ↑ "About.me acquired by mobile-first small business startup Broadly". TechCrunch. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ↑ "Pricing | about.me".
External links
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