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(United Online, Inc., Woodland Hills, CA, www.unitedonline.net) A merger of the Juno and NetZero online services in 2001. Later that year, it acquired the BlueLight.com service from Kmart. In 2004, it added to its portfolio of consumer Internet services by acquiring Classmates Online, Inc., which operates Classmates.com. See Juno.

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United Online (NASDAQUNTD) is a Woodland Hills, California, company formed by the 2001 merger of NetZero and Juno Online Services. The company owns 50megs.com, BlueLight Internet Services and Classmates Online, Inc., the operator of Classmates.com, StayFriends.de, StayFriends.se and Trombi.com. The company previously owned both Simpli and RocketCash.

In March 2005, United Online purchased Photosite from Homestead Technologies [1]. In April 2006, United Online purchased San Francisco-based shopping rewards program MyPoints.com for $56 million.

The current (2007) chairman, president, and CEO of United Online is Mark Goldston [2].

United Online also has an offshore development center (Juno Online Services Development Pvt. Ltd) at Hyderabad, India.

On April 29, 2008, United Online announced an agreement to buy FTD Group for $800 million.[1]

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