Qihoo 360

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Qihoo 360
legal form Ltd.
founding 2005
Seat Beijing , People's Republic of ChinaChina People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
management Zhou Hongyi, Qi Xiangdong, Cao Shu, Xu Zuoli Alex, Yao Jue
Number of employees 4200
sales 1.39 billion US dollars
Branch IT security
Website www.360.cn
Status: 2014

Qihoo 360 ( Chinese : 奇 虎 360; pinyin: Qíhǔ Sānliùlíng ), full name Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. , Is a Chinese IT security company known for its antivirus software. It was founded by Zhou Hongyi and Qi Xiangdong in June 2005. In June 2014, Qihoo 360 had around 496 million users for its Internet security products and around 641 million users for its antivirus products for mobile devices. The headquarters of the company is located in the Beijing district Chaoyang . Measured by Alexa Internet Rank, the company's website is 23rd of the most viewed websites on the Internet and 9th in China.

Products

  • 360 Internet Security is an Internet security program that was launched on June 11, 2013.
  • 360 Mobile Security is security software for mobile devices with the Android operating system and was first released on June 11, 2013.
  • 360 Safeguard is internet security software with an anti-virus program and system optimization.
  • 360 Secure Browser is a web browser for better security when surfing the Internet. It can be selected from a layout for Internet Explorer , Google Chrome, and Apple Safari .
  • 360 Mobile Assistant is a data storage management program for mobile devices that enables users to download, install and manage Android apps from their PC.
  • 360 Security is the international version of the anti-virus products.
  • 360 Total Security is a program for the security and system optimization of Windows operating systems.

Financing and sales

The main sources of revenue for Qihoo 360 include advertising space on the 360 ​​home page, as well as revenue shares with game developers who have published their games on the 360 ​​Mobile Assistant. Sales in 2012 were broken down as follows:

  • 67% from advertising revenue
  • 31% from value-added services
  • less than 1% from software sales to third parties.

Revenue increased 96% from $ 167.9 million in 2011 to $ 329.0 million in 2012.

history

The company was founded in 2005 by Zhou Hongyi and Qi Xiangdong. Qihoo 360 started selling antivirus software to third parties online . Soon afterwards, they recognized the potential of the freemium business model in the Chinese market and made some antivirus products available free of charge. In a short time the security products gained popularity and market share in China . Your current sales are funded through online advertising and services to customers, as well as remote technical support and system integration .

In the summer of 2012, Qihoo 360 entered the smartphone market by launching the Battleship cell phone together with Haier , the major Chinese manufacturer of consumer electronics. Qihoo 360 said that Haier will provide the hardware , while Qihoo 360 will focus on customizing the software. Qihoo 360 received more than 220,000 pre-orders for the Android-based smartphone on the first day.

In 2012, Qihoo 360 entered the search market with the introduction of so.com, competing directly with Baidu , the dominant search engine in China. Its share of unique visits in the market has grown to 10.52%. "Sōu" (搜) means "search" in Chinese. On July 18, 2013, Qihoo launched its new search engine leidian.com, which specializes in the mobile market. The company announced in late July 2013 that in early talks it had bought Sohu.com's search engine Sogou.com for approximately $ 1.4 billion.

In 2013 the company announced that it wanted to expand its international market position and sought support for English , Russian , Japanese , Spanish , German , French and Korean . On July 11, 2014, the company founded venture capital in Silicon Valley . In early 2015, Qihoo renamed its so.com search engine to redirect to haosou.com. "Hao" means "good" in Chinese; Haosou means something like "good search engine".

On December 18, 2015, Qihoo 360 announced that it had agreed to a deal with a group of investors worth around 9.3 billion US dollars. On July 18, 2016, Qihoo 360 bought a large part of Opera Software for $ 600 million. The acquisition with Golden Brick Capital was completed on November 4, 2016 .

In December 2017, due to concerns about privacy and personal rights violations, the Chinese government decided to limit the widespread webcasting of live security corporate cameras, private webcams and IP camera recordings by restricting Qihoo's services.

criticism

Qihoo has been described as a contentious company by business magazine Forbes because of its involvement in various anti- competition lawsuits . The company has been involved in litigation with Tencent , as well as other companies such as Baidu , Emiage and Sogou .

The company has been accused by Anonymous of overreacting the site's traffic to attract advertisers.

The antivirus test company AV-Comparatives from Austria , AV-Test from Germany and Virus Bulletin from Great Britain have accused Qihoo of testing its anti-virus, which is equipped with a Bitdefender engine, while the consumer version only uses Qihoo's own QVM engine uses.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ 360.cn Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa. Accessed October 4, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem. Retrieved October 4, 2018 (American English).
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  10. ↑ Reuters Editorial: Deals of the day - mergers and acquisitions . In: US ( reuters.com [accessed October 4, 2018]).
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  18. ↑ Privacy fears over online surveillance footage broadcasts in China . In: South China Morning Post . ( scmp.com [accessed October 4, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Charles Custer: Qihoo 360 Wireless In Court Again . In: Forbes . ( forbes.com [accessed October 4, 2018]).
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  27. ^ Gregg Keizer: Antivirus test labs call out Chinese security company as cheat . In: Computerworld . ( computerworld.com [accessed October 4, 2018]).