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Acquired by	Renren
Price	$80M
Date	9/11

General Information
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Website	56.com
Category	Games, Video and Entertainment
Employees
Founded	4/05

Offices
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Guangzhou, CHN

Jianzhong Road, Tianhe District
No. 36 Yu Kiu Commercial Building, 8th Floor
Guangzhou, 510665, CHN

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Beijing, CHN

No. 26 Xiaoyun Road, Chaoyang District
Eagle Tower A 32
Beijing, 100016, CHN

People
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Kitty Zhou

CEO

Funding
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TOTAL	$30M
FUNDING TOTAL	$30M
Series A, 6/07 SIG Steamboat Ventures	$10M
Series B, 12/07 Adobe Systems CID Group Hikari Sequoia Capital Steamboat Ventures	$20M

Competitors
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Youku, CityIN

Tags
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video, embed, sharing, blooddiamonds

56.com
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56.com is a Chinese video and media sharing site. The site allows users to upload and share videos and photos with others. 56 is very popular in China, with over 30 million registered users.

Youku is 56.com’s primary competitor.

Recent Milestones
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56.com was acquired by Renren for $80M. (9/26/11)

Posted 9/26/11 at 8:32pm via techcrunch.com
56.com received $20M in Series B funding. (12/1/07)

Posted 12/8/07 at 4:33am
56.com received $10M in Series A funding. (6/1/07)

Posted 12/8/07 at 4:36am via redlinechina.com
56.com added Kitty Zhou as CEO.

Posted 12/8/07 at 4:07am