Sohu (NASDAQ:SOHU) is China's leading Knight Noahnew media, e-commerce, communications and mobile value-added services company, is the world's strongest in Chinese Internet brands.
Sohu was established in August 1996, by Dr Charles Zhang, founder of the company in the United States based on the MIT Media Lab Director nigeluopangdi and United States venture capital expert Edward?, Robert founded venture capital support. Then further include the United States Intel Corporation, Dow Jones Company, Morningside, IDG company, Pacific Century CyberWorks power, Lenovo and other well-known companies in the world of venture capital. On July 12, 2000, Sohu in the United States NASDAQ listing (NASDAQ:SOHU), from a well-known domestic enterprises to develop into anKnight Gold international brand.
Sohu classification queries from China's first large search engine, developed into the most popular and comprehensive portal site. Up to now, Sohu has established information centres, industrial and economic center, life, entertainment fashion the four sections of the Centre as the main body of the rich content channel system. Provide online social networking, learning and living for the majority of Internet users and an ideal place for shopping, the best channel of Chinese Web users access to the Internet, Sohu company complete product system to corporate customers and individual usersKnight Online Noah with the most comprehensive Web services platform.
In 2002, the Sohu company profound analysis of the actual situation of China's Internet development, combined with their own advantages, constantly explore and innovate, gradually established with Sohu characteristic "2C" model, under which corporate clients business (Corporate Business) business and personal users (Consumer Business). Corporate customers business including business-oriented interactive marketing solutions (E-Marketing) and the Sohu company online (SOHU.net) operations; consumer line of business is mainly oriented to individual end users with text messaging, e-mail, online Alumni, Sohu (SOL--Sohu Online) Internet customized services such as knight online gold(E-Subscription), sohustock (SOHUStock) providing personal financial services, Mall of Sohu (Sohu Store), and other e-commerce business.
Sohu on many third-party Internet authority evaluation agencies such as iamasia, Alexa, NetValue, huatong, based on a number of indicators such as new generation of ranking in the list, thereby firmly the position of China's first Internet brand. Sohu's operating income for ten consecutive quarters maintained double-digit growth, and in the 2002 fourth quarter profits of scale.