sector: Technology ·
industry: IT Services & Consulting ·
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Sohu.com Inc. (Sohu) is an Internet company in China, providing Chinese with news, information, entertainment and communication. The Company’s business consists of advertising business and non-advertising business. Its advertising business comprises brand advertising and sponsored search services. Sohu’s non-advertising business principally includes online games and wireless value-added services. The Company’s advertising business offers content to its users free of charge and provides advertising services to advertisers on its matrix of Chinese language Web properties consisting of www.sohu.com, a mass portal and online media destination; www.17173.com, a games information portal; www.focus.cn, a real estate Website; www.chinaren.com, an online alumni club, and www.sogou.com, an interactive search engine. The Company operates two massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPG games), Tian Long Ba Bu (TLBB) and Blade Online (BO).
BRIEF: For the nine months ended 30 September 2009, Sohu.com Inc.'s revenues increased 23% to $379.4M. Net income from cont. ops. increased 13% to $115.5M. Revenues reflect an increase in brand advertising sales, a significant increase in income from online games and higher income from Wireless & Others. Net income was partially offset by an increase in cost of advertising revenues and a rise in cost of sponsored search.
Sohu.com Inc.
Level 12, Sohu.com Int. Plaza
#1 Unit Zhongguancun East Road
Haidian District
Beijing BEJ 100084
P: +8610.62726666