Two such listings are planned for later this year: Sina.com and Sohu.com.
He was as senior vice president of Sohu.com after ChinaRen.com was acquired by Sohu in 2000.
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Another player here, Sohu.com (nasdaq: SOHU - news - people ), saw its wireless business fall by 18.2%.
Shenzhen-based firm Easou.com (with WAP-based mobile search partnering with Chinese Web portal Sohu.com) was the second most popular choice, followed by Google.
Alibaba Group, which is based in Hangzhou, China, has agreed to purchase a stake in Sohu.com Inc.
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Koo was COO, CFO and president of Chinese portal Sohu.com before founding Youku, a site that streams video programs.
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The Beijing graduate returned to China from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology to found Sohu.com in the late 1990s.
Specifically, Sohu.com posted an unexpected 39% drop in profit, with the company citing acquisition charges and eroding advertising and games sales.
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Before her career in journalism, she was an early employee at Beijing-based Internet site Sohu.com and worked for Reuters' new media team in China.
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Apparel giant Adidas and Chinese search engine Sohu.com are on board as well, investing millions attaching their brands to the up-and-coming squad.
"We have to keep telling employees that they're in it for the long run, to not get worried about market fluctuations, " says Sohu.com's Zhang.
Shares of China-based Internet company Sohu.com are trading sharply higher after the company this morning reported Q3 financial results that crushed Street estimates.
Another player here, Sohu.com, saw its wireless business fall by 18.2%.
Carol Yu, co-president and chief financial officer of Sohu.com, last week denied newspaper reports that the giant Chinese internet portal was in talks to go private.
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"There just isn't the money out there anymore, " says Charles Zhang, ceo of the Chinese portal Sohu.com, which narrowly cashed in on the NASDAQ IPO frenzy in July, just before the mood turned sour.
He tells how Sohu.com "caught the last train" to list on New York's Nasdaq technology stocks index in July 2000, just as the dotcom boom came crashing down, but survived to turn its first profit in the third quarter of 2002.
Sohu does not match up well against its host of competitors, especially its two main portal rivals, Sina.com and NetEase.
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