Universo Online (Portuguese for "Online Universe") (known by the acronym UOL) is a Brazilian web content, products and services company. It belongs to Grupo Folha enterprise. In 2012, UOL was the fifth most visited website in Brazil, below only Google portals (Google Brasil, Google USA, YouTube) and Facebook. 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. Overview UOL is the world’s largest Portuguese speaking portal, which is organized in 42 thematic stations with 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 thousand online shops, 23 million buyers and 4 million people selling goods and services in its portals UOL includes: UOL Cliques, ads and publicity portal. Radar de Descontos, group buying portal. Emprego Certo, jobs portal. Shopping UOL, online price comparing tool. UOL Segurança Online, online safety firm. Universidade UOL, online education portal. UOL Revelação Digital, online photo developing portal. Toda Oferta, buying and selling portal. UOL Wi-Fi, unlimited wireless broadband Internet access. PagSeguro, e-commerce tool in which shops and people can pay and cash online payments. UOL Mais, portal with unlimited space for videos, photos, audio and texts. UOL HOST, hosting and cloud computing firm. UOL Assistência Técnica, technical support services for computers, tablets, and smartphones. UOL DIVEO, online IT outsourcing firm. UOL Afiliados, membership program for subscribers and non-subscribers. The program pays UOL associate that remunerates websites and blogs that disclose ads. Each associate receives a quantity per clicks received in each ad or signature conversion. History UOL was established by Grupo Folha on April 28, 1996. After 7 months, UOL joined portal Brasil Online (BOL) from Editora Abril. However Editora Abril does not own shares in BOL anymore. Portugal Telecom had 29% of UOL, but sold its shares to Folhapar, a company controlled by businessman João Alves de Queiroz Filho of Hypermarcas holding in 2010. Grupo Folha and Folhapar are UOL’s main shareholders. UOL won more than 100 awards as one of Brazil’s largest online portal since 1996. Early years On April 28, 1996, UOL went online. In July 1996 it put online an operation with a 2 megabit per second base connection. In August, UOL launched a web provider in the cities of Greater São Paulo and Rio