VISION: To Provide the Most Advanced Interactive Online Services in China with the Goal of Continually Capturing Users' Imaginations & Consistently Delivering Customer Satisfaction- To Become SIMPLY INDISPENSABLE in the Lives of Chinese People
What does SOHU mean? The direct English translation of SOHU is 'Search Fox' which can be traced back to the company's origins. Founder, Dr. Charles Zhang was the pioneer in bringing the concept of connecting the Chinese people via the Internet. Dr. Zhang founded the Company after returning from his studies in the United States in 1996 at a time when China's Internet was nascent. Sohu has since become one of the largest and most influential Internet companies in China. COMPANY PROFILE: Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) is China's premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based/web 2.0 products which offer the vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication. Sohu has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties and proprietary search engines, consisting of: - www.sohu.com, the mass portal and leading online media destination; - www.sogou.com, an interactive search engine with over 10 billion retrieved Chinese web pages; - www.chinaren.com, the #1 online alumni club; - www.focus.cn, a top real estate and home furnishing website; - www.17173.com, the #1 games information portal; - www.goodfeel.com.cn, a wireless value-added services provider; and - www.go2map.com, a leading online mapping service provider.
This network of web properties offers the vast Sohu user community a broad range of choices regarding information, entertainment, communication and commerce.
REVENUE MODEL Sohu generates revenues through a wide array of corporate and consumer services delivered online with the core revenue stream coming from a focused growth strategy towards the brand advertising business line.
Corporate Services - Brand Advertising Corporate online advertising on Sohu's matrix of portals & web properties. - Sponsored Search Sponsored search advertising aimed at small & medium-sized enterprises who pay fees to list on Sohu's sites for search results or in its directory.
Consumer Services - Online Games Sohu operates two massively multiplayer online role-playing game s(MMORPGs) Blade Online and Tian Long Ba Bu, and online casual games. - Wireless Wireless products focused on entertainment, media and communications via a broad choice of technologies, such as short messaging services (SMS), wireless application protocol (WAP), interactive voice response (IVR), multimedia messaging services (MMS), and ring back tone (RBT) services.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Charles Zhang, Ph.D Carol Yu Belinda Wang Xiaochuan Wang Luming Chen Gang Fang Tao Wang Lin Zhou Wei Yu Ye Deng
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Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer Co-President and Chief Financial Officer Co-President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Vice President Vice President of Product Vice President of Sohu.com, Chief Executive Officer of Changyou.com Vice President of Technology Vice President of Media Vice President of Entertainment Media
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Dr. Charles Zhang Prof. Edward B.Roberts Charles Huang Dr. Dave Qi Shi Wang Dr. Zhonghan Deng
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Chairman Member of the Compensation and Nominating Committees Member of the Audit and Nominating Committees Member of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating Committees Member of the Nominating Committees Member of the Audit and Nominating Committees
| MARKET DATA Stock Exchange: NASDAQ Industry: Internet portal/China IPO Date: July 2000 Ticker Symbol: SOHU Total Outstanding Shares: 37.8 million (December 2009)
INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian CPAs Limited Company 26/F, Office Tower A, Beijing Fortune Plaza, 7 Dongsanhuan Zhong Road, Chaoyang District Beijing 100020, P.R.China
TRANSFER AGENT BNY Mellon Shareowner Services PO Box 358015 Pittsburge, PA 15252-8015a
LEGAL COUNSEL Goulston & Storrs Timothy B. Bancroft 400 Atlantic Avenue Boston, MA, 02110-3333 United States of America
Transasia China World Trade Center Tower 1, Room 2218 1 Jianguomen Wai Avenue Beijing 100004 People's Republic of China
INVESTOR RELATIONS AND CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS Mei Li Direct Line: (86-10) 62726596 Fax: (86-10) 6272 6988 Email: ir@contact.sohu.com |