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Acquired byTOM Group
Price$100M
Date3/07
TermsCash

General Information

Websiteir.tom.com
CategoryMobile/Wireless
Phone86 10 6528 3399
Employees1,200
Founded2001
Descriptionwireless Internet company

Offices

HQ
Tower W3 Oriental Plaza No 1 Dong Chang An Avenue
8th Floor
Beijing, 100738, CHN

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www-kingjoway-webs-com

TOM Online

TOM Online, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a wireless Internet company in China. It operates various online properties, which focus on the youth demographic. The company primarily offers wireless Internet and online advertising services through its Internet portal, www.tom.com, which features approximately 50 content channels on topics, such as entertainment, music, and sports. Its wireless Internet services include the provision of mobile phone users with short messaging service, multimedia messaging service, wireless application protocol, color ring-back tones, wireless interactive voice response, and other value-added services. These services include news subscriptions, music, entertainment, sports information, mobile e- mail, dating service, picture downloads, wallpaper, ring tones, logo downloads, chat rooms, and access to music files. In addition, the company provides e-commerce and fee-based email services. The company provides these services through mobile telecommunication operators’ channels, portal and Web alliances, alliances with handsets manufacturers, users’ mobile phones, traditional media, including television, radio and print. As of December 31, 2006, TOM Online had an active wireless user base of approximately 75 million. Further, the company operates TOM-Skype that provides localized instant messaging/chat client for the Chinese market. As of January 31, 2007, it had approximately 31.5 million registered TOM-Skype users. TOM Online was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Beijing, China. TOM Online, Inc. is a subsidiary of TOM Group Limited.

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Uploaded: 10/9/09

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  1. TOM Group to buy out US-listed TOM Online (cn-c114.net) [edit]
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