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AOL Acquires Relegence Corporation.


DULLES, Va. -- AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services.  LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

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 today announced that it has acquired leading financial news and information search technology company, The Relegence Corporation of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, NY (http://www.relegence.com).

AOL's acquisition agreement with privately-held Relegence was signed and closed on Monday, November 6th, 2006. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Relegence and its 60 employees will continue to be headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest . It will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL, and will continue to partner with and serve a distinguished list of the world's top financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 firms.

Founded in 1999, Relegence is the premier global technology company putting real time information, news and knowledge in the hands of end users moments after it is published. Relegence sells subscription-based services that offer real-time discovery, notification and delivery of information, connecting customers to cross-media content as it is generated from anywhere across the globe.

Using proprietary technology, Relegence simultaneously monitors, indexes, and filters more than 20,000 unique, global sources of live content streams - such as local and international newswires, print media, television and cable networks, regulatory feeds, corporate and information web sites, internet bulletin boards - and deliver to a user's desktop only the information which is relevant to his or her individual search criteria. Additionally, Relegence can comprehensively integrate internal content streams and programming with external content and create a powerful tool for users to manage and utilize mission-critical information in their day-to-day activities and enable them to make more timely and accurate choices and decisions.

AOL will leverage these best-in-class capabilities for its ongoing efforts to develop and deploy its publishing and content management platform. By integrating Relegence's technologies, AOL will be in a position to better serve consumers with a comprehensive and timely content experience.

"This acquisition is a perfectly timed enhancement and complement to our web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term.  strategy, where content management for web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both.  will be a critical component of delivering the best experience for our users," said Jim Bankoff, Executive Vice President, Consumer & Publisher services, AOL LLC. "Relegence's unique technology delivers web events and information in real-time to its users - giving them a huge 'knowledge' advantage in the marketplace and in their daily lives. We're confident that Relegence will bring a scalable and differentiated approach to serving AOL users, while existing institutional customers will continue to be well-served by their innovative technology and capabilities."

"Seven years ago we set out on a quest to create the real-time internet," said Edo Segal, Relegence Founder, Chairman & CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . "To create a world where if a piece of information relevant to you is published - anywhere - it will be on your desktop that second. By joining with AOL, Relegence will be able to execute on this vision. We are incredibly excited to combine our next generation technologies with the scale of AOL. This transaction is a fulfillment of our journey so far, with incredible potential for change and evolution of the Internet phenomenon."

"This acquisition validates the strategy we have pursued thus far: to make the real-time delivery of content to end-users a mission-critical and transforming part of their daily lives," said Steve Fadem, Relegence CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  & President. "We are tremendously excited about the opportunity to work with the great team at AOL to further leverage our core strengths of talent and technology in the financial services industry and across AOL's vast network of properties and audiences."

Relegence is AOL's fifth announced acquisition of 2006, following Userplane and GameDaily in August, Lightningcast, Inc. in May, and Truveo, Inc. in January. Other recent corporate acquisitions by AOL include MusicNow, LLC; Weblogs, Inc.; Xdrive, Inc.; and Wildseed, Ltd. - all in 2005.

For more information, please visit (http://www.relegence.com).

About AOL

AOL is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs the country's largest Internet access business, and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary

A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company.
 of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE NYSE

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:TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange Service) A U.S. and Canadian dial-up communications service that became part of Telex. In 1971, the Bell System sold TWX to Western Union. TWX transmitted 5-bit Murray code or 7-bit ASCII code at up to 150 bps. See Telex. ), AOL LLC is based in Dulles, Virginia. AOL and its subsidiaries also have operations in Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com.

About Relegence

The Relegence Corporation is the leading real-time financial services news engine, providing market and business intelligence to global buy-side and sell-side institutions. Relegence's automated infrastructure uniquely aggregates relevant structured and unstructured information from internal resources and external research, including blogs, Web sites, email and over 20,000 other global information services See Information Systems.  in multiple languages. In addition to Relegence's cutting-edge technology, it has created the world's largest business-focused news pipeline delivering customized live content to users in real-time to any communications device.
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