All the companies’ profiles comes from Yahoo Finance.
(1) NTES 网易
NetEase.com, Inc., an Internet technology company, engages in the development of applications, services, and other technologies for the Internet in China. It provides online game services to Internet users through the in-house development or licensing of massively multi-player online role-playing games, including Fantasy Westward Journey, Westward Journey Online II, Westward Journey Online III, Tianxia II, Heroes of Tang Dynasty, and Datang, as well as the licensed game, Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft. The company also offers online advertising on its Web sites. In addition, NetEase has paid listings on its search engine and Web directory, and classified advertising services, as well as an online mall, which provides opportunities for e-commerce and traditional businesses to establish their own storefront on the Internet. Further, it provides wireless value-added services, such as news and information content, matchmaking services, music, and photos from the Web over SMS, MMS, WAP, IVR, and Color Ring-back Tone technologies. Additionally, the company offers community services, including instant messaging, online personal advertisements, matchmaking, alumni clubs, and community forums; and aggregates news content on world events, sports, science and technology, and financial markets, as well as entertainment content, such as cartoons, games, astrology, and jokes from over 100 international and domestic content providers. NetEase.com, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.
(2) SINA 新浪
SINA Corporation provides online media and mobile value-added services (MVAS) in the People’s Republic of China. It provides advertising, non-advertising, and free services through SINA.com, Weibo.com, and SINA Mobile. SINA.com offers free interest-based channels that provide region-focused format and content, including news, sports, automobile-related news, finance, entertainment, luxury, technology, digital, tools, collectibles, video, music, and wireless application protocol, as well as interactive platform for fashion-conscious users to share comments and ideas on a range of topics, such as health, cosmetics, and beauty. The company’s microblogging platform, Weibo.com, enables its users to follow the hottest topics being discussed online, as well as discussions related to people they know. It’s similar to Twitter. Weibo accounts consist of celebrities, commercial enterprises, government entities, and grass root Internet users. In addition, SINA plans to spin off the Weibo so that Weibo can be an independent entity to go public. Its SINA Mobile service allows users to receive news and information, download ring tones, mobile games and pictures, and participate in dating and friendship communities. The company also offers SINA Game, which serves as an interactive platform that provides users with downloads and gateway access to popular online games; SINA eReading, a shop for book reviews; SINA.net, an enterprise solutions platform to assist businesses and government bodies; and SINA Mall, an online shopping Website. In addition, it provides a platform for Chinese bloggers; photo-sharing platform; free email, VIP mail, and corporate email for enterprise users; audio and video-based instant messaging tools; proprietary search technology; and classified advertising services, as well as hosts topic-specific discussion forums in Chinese language; and creates user-maintained and supported online communities. The company has strategic cooperation agreement with China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited. SINA Corporation was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China.
(3) CHINA 中华网
CDC Corporation operates as an enterprise software and media company. Its Software segment offers enterprise software applications and related services. The software suite includes enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain management, order management systems, human resources and payroll management, and business intelligence products. This segment’s products are designed to support and automate the processes of an organization to help achieve company-wide integration of business and technical information across multiple divisions and organizational boundaries, such as finance, manufacturing, logistics, human resources, marketing, sales, and customer service. The company’s Global Services offers information technology services, eBusiness consulting, Web development, and outsourcing in Australia and the United States; and marketing database and marketing support services principally in Australia and New Zealand. It provides program management, outsourcing services, application development, and ongoing support services using a range of technologies. Its CDC Games segment engages in the development and operation of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, which are online games that allow users to interact with one another in a virtual world in the People’s Republic of China. The company’s China.com segment encompasses a range of businesses, including Internet media business, which is focused on online entertainment, and Internet products and services that target users in China via its portal network; and a Singapore-based travel trade publisher and organizer serving the travel and tourism industry in the Asia Pacific region. It has operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. The company was formerly known as chinadotcom corporation and changed its name to CDC Corporation in April 2005. CDC Corporation was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Central, Hong Kong.
