In January, AOL announced plans to merge with media giant Time Warner

美國在線1月宣布計劃與媒體巨頭時代華納合并

America Online, the world's richest internet company, beat analysts' expectations when it announced profits of more than $1.2bn in its financial year which ended on 30 June.

The company had sales of $6.8bn for the year, the bulk of which come from the subscriptions paid by its members, who are mainly in the United States.

AOL added 900,000 more subscribers in the last quarter, bringing its total membership to 23.2m.

But what encouraged analysts most was the rapid growth of its revenues from e-commerce and advertising, which grew by 95% in the quarter to $609m. It now makes up one-third of the company's revenues, which totalled $1.9bn for the quarter, a 39% increase on the previous year.

美國在線--世界上最富有的網絡公司,宣布本財政年度（截止日期是6月30日）的利潤超過12億美元,超出了分析家們的預測。

美國在線本年度銷售額達68億美元，大部分來自它的會員交納的注冊費，這些會員主要來自美國。

上個季度，美國在線又增加了900，000名注冊會員，使它的會員總數達到了3320萬。

但最令分析家門鼓舞的是它的電子商務和廣告收入增長迅速，這一季度增長到6億零9百萬美元，增幅為95%，是公司收入的三分之一。公司這一季度的收入是19億美元，比去年同期增長了39%。