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Chinese Internet company founded in 1996
Sohu, Inc.
(
Chinese
:
搜狐
;
pinyin
:
S?uhu
;
lit.
'Search-fox') is a Chinese Internet company headquartered in the Sohu Internet Plaza in
Haidian District
, Beijing.
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[5]
Sohu and its subsidiaries offer advertising, a search engine (Sogou.com), on-line multiplayer
gaming
(ChangYou.com) and other services.
History
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Sohu was founded as
Internet Technologies China (ITC)
in 1996 by
Charles Zhang
after he completed his
PhD
from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and received
venture capital
funding from colleagues he met there.
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The following year, Zhang changed the name of ITC to
Sohoo
in homage to
Yahoo!
after meeting its cofounder,
Jerry Yang
; the name was soon after changed to
Sohu
to differentiate it from the American company.
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Sohu has been listed on NASDAQ since 2000 through a
variable interest entity (VIE)
based in
Delaware
.
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[9]
Sohu's
Sogou.com
search engine was in talks to be sold in July 2013 to
Qihoo
for around $1.4 billion.
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On September 17, 2013, it was announced that
Tencent
has invested $448 million for a minority share in Chinese search engine
Sogou.com
, the subsidiary of Sohu, Inc.
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Sohu was ranked as the world's third- and twelfth-fastest growing company by Fortune in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
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Allegations against Google
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On April 6, 2007, Sohu made a request that
Google
stop providing its
Google Pinyin
Input Method Editor
software for download because portions of Sohu's IME software,
Sogou Pinyin
, were allegedly copied in order to construct it.
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The detection of the alleged copyright infringement was found due to a suspicious error found in both IMEs, notably the translation of the pinyin "pinggong" which erroneously produces the actor and comedian
Feng Gong
.
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On April 9, 2007, Google's spokesman Cui Jin has admitted that the pinyin Google IME "was built leveraging some non-Google database resources."
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2008 Olympic Games website
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In November 2005, Sohu was selected to be the Official Internet Content Service Sponsor of the
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
. Sohu was provided exclusive services to construct, operate and host the official Beijing Olympics website.
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References
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"Company Milestones"
. Sohu. Archived from
the original
on August 24, 2019.
- ^
"2017 Annual Report"
(PDF)
. Retrieved
August 3,
2018
.
- ^
"Company Profile for Sohu.com Inc (SOHU)"
. Retrieved
December 31,
2012
.
- ^
"
Contact Us
." Sohu. Retrieved on December 27, 2010. "Headquarter Office Sohu.com Internet Plaza, No.1 Park, Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100084, PRC ."
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"
Sohu.com
."
CNN
Money
. Retrieved on August 19, 2009.
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"Charles Zhang a Confident Man of Action"
. China.org.cn
. Retrieved
April 12,
2020
.
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Lee, Kai-Fu
(September 25, 2018).
AI Superpowers
.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
. p. 31.
ISBN
9781328546395
.
- ^
"Sohu.com Announces Stockholder Approval of Proposed Reorganization"
.
CISION
. Retrieved
September 8,
2019
.
- ^
Levisohn, Ben (March 6, 2013).
"Sohu denied rumors of Nasdaq delisting"
. Barrons.com.
- ^
"Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions"
.
Reuters
. Reuters. July 19, 2013.
- ^
Aitken, Todd (September 17, 2013).
"Tencent invested $448 million in Chinese search engine Sogou"
. CEOWORLD Magazine.
- ^
"The World's 3rd Fastest-Growing Company In 2009"
.
Fortune magazine
.
- ^
"The World's 12th Fastest-Growing Company In 2010"
.
Fortune magazine
.
- ^
Lemon, Sumner (April 8, 2007).
"Rival Asks Google to Yank 'Copycat' Application"
.
PC World
. IDG
. Retrieved
April 11,
2007
.
- ^
Lemon, Sumner (April 6, 2007).
"Google Evades Question About Software Similarities"
.
PC World
. IDG
. Retrieved
April 11,
2007
.
- ^
Lemon, Sumner (April 9, 2007).
"Google Admits Using Outside Source for Chinese App"
.
PC World
. IDG
. Retrieved
April 11,
2007
.
- ^
"Sohu.com to run website for Beijing 2008 Olympic games"
.
ChinaTechNews.com
. Retrieved
November 7,
2005
.
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