AOL Global Operations Ltd is to create 50 new software engineering jobs at its Dublin development centre over the next two years, it announced yesterday.
It aims to expand its reach as a leading provider of internet advertising technologies, services and user content through its range of AOL content brands.
AOL has also announced it is moving to new headquarters in Dublin city centre from its base at Citywest, where it has been for the past 10 years.
Dublin is its development engine for Europe and works alongside its other development centres in San Francisco, Dulles, New York and Bangalore.
The Dublin centre currently employs 110 people, dedicated mainly to its advertising services – ADTECH and AOL Advertising – and to developing user applications for use on platforms like AOL Search and properties such as AOL Money Finance.
AOL’s portfolio of technologies attracts an average worldwide audience of 250 million unique visitors each month, according to comScore Media Metrix April 2010 Unified Data.