AOL's mergers & acquisitions department lands it Userplane, a provider of private chat and instant message technologies.
Userplane provides IM and chat technology for more than 100,000 websites on a variety of business models. Interoperability with AIM should be something that happens once the technology becomes integrated with the overarching AOL infrastructure. Userplane boasts that its technology can deliver streaming audio and video to a targeted audience based on user profiles and demographics. This would extend AOL's advertising reach to more of the sweet spot demographic 18-35 year olds that marketers covet. Userplane said in a statement that users of its chat and IM average 20 minutes of usage of those services. Userplane's founders said on theirSuggest a Correction
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