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Company type | Sociedade Anônima |
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Industry | Online service provider |
Founded | 1996 |
Headquarters | São Paulo, Brazil |
Key people | Rômulo Dias, (Chairman & CEO) |
Products | Online media |
Revenue | ![]() |
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Number of employees | 1001–5000 |
Parent | Grupo Folha |
Subsidiaries | PagSeguro UOL DIVEO UOL HOST |
Website | uol.com.br |
Universo Online (Portuguese for "Universe Online") (known by the acronym UOL) is a Brazilian web content, products and services company. It belongs to Grupo Folha enterprise.
UOL is the world's largest Portuguese speaking portal, featuring more than 1,000 news sources and 7 million pages. The portal provides website hosting, data storage, publicity dealing, online payments and security systems. It also holds more than 300,000 online shops, 23 million buyers, and 4 million vendors in its portals.[2]
In 2012, UOL was the fifth most visited website in Brazil.[3] 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.[4][5]