AOL to Buy Online Profile Site About.me

Internet company AOL (AOL) agreed to purchase about.me Inc, a website that lets people create a single personal profile page that presents their online identity.

About.me lets users bring together profiles on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, blogs and more.

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About.me’s co-founder Tony Conrad and his team will join AOL’s Consumer Applications Group, AOL said in a statement.

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