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AOL Buys Marketing Optimization Company Convertro For $101M

By TechTaffy Desk

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AOL has agreed to acquire marketing optimization and analytics platform Convertro for roughly $101 million. AOL will integrate Convertro with its AdLearn Open Platform (AOP), with Adap.tv; as a standalone attribution modeling tool; and with AOL One, the company’s unified advertising platform.

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