UOL has been Brazil’s main content portal since its launch in April 1996. UOL is home to the world’s most extensive content in Portuguese and attracts seven out of ten internet users in Brazil, a mark made possible by its reputation for credibility and innovation.

During its 13 years of existence, UOL has become a synonym for the Internet in Brazil, offering the best news, sports and entertainment content, as well as products and services focused on the needs of the country’s growing ranks of Internet users. Today UOL has more than one thousand specific channels and dozens of theme stations.

Updated 24 hours a day, seven days a week, UOL registered a monthly average of 26.112 million unique visitors at home and at work between May and October 2009. According to polling institutes, in the same period of 2009, UOL had a monthly average of 3.776 billion page views at home and work. The average navigation time per person at home and work was 1 hour and 39 minutes.

In journalism, UOL combines proprietary content with prestigious sources such as Folha de S.Paulo, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Financial Times, USA Today, BBC and Reuters. Meanwhile, the list of its partners include Atrevida, National Geographic, PC World, PC Magazine, Corpo a Corpo, História Viva, Scientific American and Ciência Hoje.

UOL’s team of columnists and bloggers include established names such as Juca Kfouri, José Simão, Fernando Rodrigues, Jairo Bauer, Rosely Sayão, Ana Maria Bahiana, Sérgio Dávila and José Roberto Torero.

UOL also offers a variety of products and services in the areas of interaction, technology, communication, e-commerce and customer service for subscribers.

Bate-Papo UOL is the principal meeting point on the Brazilian Internet, with 7,500 chat rooms in which more than 375,000 people can communicate simultaneously. In addition, at UOL subscribers can also chat with their favorite actors in virtual auditoriums.

For efficient communication, UOL’s e-mail service offers easy navigation, a calendar, large storage capacity, a secure environment for users and videomail.

The search utility UOL Busca locates specific content from among the more than 3 billion pages available on the Internet. An agreement with Google, the developer of the world’s leading search tool, has enabled UOL to strengthen its searches of video, websites, images and maps, as well as the other specific searches offered by the portal.

UOL develops tools to facilitate the lives of internet users: UOL Voip allows low-cost telephone connections, AntiPop‑up helps prevent advertising pop-ups and AntiSpam blocks unwanted e-mails.

At Shopping UOL, subscribers can instantly compare product prices from a wide variety of stores. Other services that foster and accelerate the country’s electronic commerce industry are PagSeguro, which makes transactions more secure not only for buyers but also for sellers; and TodaOferta, which allows any person to buy and sell over the Internet in a direct and quick manner.

UOL Host, developed through strategic partnerships with Plug In and Digiweb as well as in-house development efforts, has become a national reference in this segment. According to the evaluation made by the magazine Info Revista published by Editora Abril, UOL Host offers the best cost/benefit relationship for hosting plans, as well as exceptional site building and e-mail management services.

The portal also maintains personalized 24/7 customer service available to UOL subscribers to answer questions about the company’s services.

UOL: quality content, secure and innovative services and diversified entertainment.

Last Update on December 09, 2009