page_title: Brasil Online
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Brasil Online / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Brasil Online button, produced in 1995. Logo created by the type designer Tony de Marco
context_page_description: Brasil Online is an internet portal that provides email hosting and free email services UOL.
context_section_description: In April 1996, BOL was launched in Brazil by Grupo Abril, one of the largest Communication Holdings in Brazil.
  Grupo Abril and Grupo Folha, which owns (UOL), signed a joint-venture that September. UOL acquired BOL and created the largest Brazilian internet provider in numbers of subscribers and amount of content in Portuguese. Features such as news, photos, videos, chat rooms and entertainment are offered by the portal. It has million users every month.
  In October 1999, BOL was re-branded as the first free email provider in Brazil. BOL hosted more than million email accounts by the following August.
  BOL launched a new email platform based in AJAX with Web 2.0 technology in 2008. The platform has search engines that go through each folder as well as provide automatic contact storage, create filters to organize messages, including smart visualization of attached files and creating contact groups.
  In 2011, BOL partnered with sports journalist Milton Neves. With the partnership, Neves hosted his sports portal "Terceiro Tempo" and blog covering news, opinions and Brazilian and International football side stories on BOL.
  In 2013, BOL partnered with Elancers to create a resume database on the BOL Empregos page. BOL Empregos is a free service that gathers more than 40,000 jobs for meeting from over 6,000 business for sale. A new version of the BOL mobile mail app for Smartphones and Tablets compatible with Android and iOS operating systems was released that year.
caption: Brasil Online promotional button, created in 1996 with logo designed by typographer and designer Tony de Marco
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