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COMPUSERVE INTERACTIVE SERVICES OVERVIEW CompuServe Interactive Services provides complete and comprehensive products and access for Internet online users at home, in the workplace and around the globe. With the launch of CompuServe 2000 in 1999, CompuServe reached a new milestone by making the gathering of information and exploring the Internet faster, easier and more convenient than ever before for its 3 million worldwide members. Since its acquisition by AOL in 1998, CompuServe has continued to enhance its core service to meet the needs of one of the fastest-growing segments of the Internet: value-driven adults who are going online for the first time. An Internet Pioneer Founded in 1969 as a computer time-sharing service, Columbus, Ohio-based CompuServe drove the initial emergence of the online service industry. In 1979, CompuServe became the first service to offer electronic mail capabilities and technical support to personal computer users. CompuServe broke new ground again in1980 as the first online service to offer real-time chat online with its CB Simulator. By 1982, the company had formed its Network Services Division to provide wide-area networking capabilities to corporate clients. CompuServe also led the interactive services industry overseas, entering the international arena in Japan in 1986 with Fujitsu and Nisso Iwai, developing a Japanese-language version of CompuServe called NIFTYSERVE. In 1989, the company expanded into Europe, where it grew to become a leading Internet service provider. A Key Brand Since February 1998, CompuServe has been a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc. As part of AOL's Web Properties Group, CompuServe provides services for adults seeking a high value, dependable connection to the Internet offering unique news, information and entertainment. CompuServe responds to this online audience by offering a fun, easy-to-use, comprehensive online experience. CompuServe's Main Menu offers fast and direct access to a variety of service features, including access to stock quotes, Channels, Search, a continuously updated news ticker, daily convenience features and special Shopping convenience links. Other features include: · New CompuServe Radio and music channel, offering 15 channels of popular music powered by Spinner.com. · Up to 20 stock portfolios, customizable on a single account. · 20 megabytes of storage space per screen name, enabling members to create homepages featuring audio, video or multimedia. · Personalized news, weather and city guides. · CompuServe Search allows users to search CompuServe and the Internet from one convenient location. The search capability includes hundreds of Internet "Recommended Sites," all carefully selected for members by CompuServe editors. · Shop@CompuServe, with the best selection of brand-name merchants available anywhere online, online shopping catalogs and personal buying guides, an enhanced GiftMinder service, Quick Check Out (offering members the convenience of having to enter credit card information only once) and a "Search and Buy Now" feature that searches for products by brand and category. · Over 25 Channels, bringing the best of CompuServe and the Internet right to members' fingertips with broad integration of world-class AOL Time Warner content from great brand like CNN, CNNSI, People.com, Fortune, InStyle. CompuServe.com CompuServe's Web site, CompuServe.com serves the important role of expanding its services to members onto the Web and providing an easy-to-navigate Web where Members can access CompuServe Channels and E-Mail while away from their home PCs. It also allows users to make use of CompuServe's high quality and reliable information, services and content.
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