Universo Online

Universo Online S.A.
Company type	Sociedade Anônima
Industry	Online service provider
Founded	1996
Headquarters	São Paulo, Brazil
Key people	Rômulo Dias, (Chairman & CEO)
Products	Online media
Revenue	US$ 95.4 million (2021)
Net income	US$ 82.4 million (2021)
Number of employees	1001–5000
Parent	Grupo Folha
Subsidiaries	PagSeguro ; UOL DIVEO ; UOL HOST
Website	uol.com.br

Universo Online (Portuguese for "Universe Online") (known by the acronym UOL) is a Brazilian web content, products and services company. It belongs to Grupo Folha enterprise.

UOL is the world's largest Portuguese speaking portal, featuring 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 300,000 online shops, 23 million buyers, and 4 million vendors in its portals.^[2]

In 2012, UOL was the fifth most visited website in Brazil.^[3] 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.^[4]^[5]

^ ^a ^b "| Empresas Listadas | BM&FBOVESPA". Bmfbovespa.com.br. 2010-03-30. Archived from the original on 2011-10-20. Retrieved 2012-08-28.
^ "UOL desenvolve leitor de cartões de crédito para tablets e smartphones" (in Portuguese). Valor Econômico. January 1, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
^ Maurício Grego (April 18, 2012). "Antes de ser vendido, IG caiu no ranking dos portais da web" (in Portuguese). Exame.com. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
^ ValorOnline (December 29, 2010). "João Queiroz Filho, da Hypermarcas, vai comprar 29% do UOL" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
^ Valor Online (February 19, 2008). "UOL compra Digiweb e vira o terceiro maior provedor de hospedagem do país" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved December 3, 2014.

[bmfbovespa1-1] "| Empresas Listadas | BM&FBOVESPA". Bmfbovespa.com.br. 2010-03-30. Archived from the original on 2011-10-20. Retrieved 2012-08-28.

[2] "UOL desenvolve leitor de cartões de crédito para tablets e smartphones" (in Portuguese). Valor Econômico. January 1, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2014.

[3] Maurício Grego (April 18, 2012). "Antes de ser vendido, IG caiu no ranking dos portais da web" (in Portuguese). Exame.com. Retrieved December 3, 2014.

[4] ValorOnline (December 29, 2010). "João Queiroz Filho, da Hypermarcas, vai comprar 29% do UOL" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved December 3, 2014.

[5] Valor Online (February 19, 2008). "UOL compra Digiweb e vira o terceiro maior provedor de hospedagem do país" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved December 3, 2014.

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