These Internet services pop up on millions of PCs and smartphones every day, selling goods, processing searches and offering the latest in celebrity gossip. But if you’re not Chinese, you probably won’t recognize their names; they’re catering to the giant population of China, and prospering from legions of loyal users.
With an online population of more than 600 million, China is one of the world’s most important markets for technology companies, but U.S. firms like Google and eBay have struggled to make it big. Here are six of the top Internet companies in China.
Qihoo 360: Baidu gets all the attention when people talk about China’s search market, but Qihoo 360 is chipping away at Baidu’s lead. The company is best known for its online security software, which has more than 400 million users, but in 2012 it launched a search engine that now has close to a quarter of the Chinese market.
The company has been embroiled in controversy, however. It had a public feud with Baidu, which accused it of indexing its pages without permission, and it’s had nasty disputes with Tencent, one of China’s better known online giants. None of that has done much to slow it down, though.
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