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Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Share of voting rights (as of December 31, 2011) 31.9%
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Representative
Yun Ma
Chairman

Business Overview

Alibaba Group Holding operates the B2B service site Alibaba.com, the C2C online shopping site Taobao Marketplace, and the B2C online shopping site Tmall.com, through one of its affiliated businesses. All three are the leading*1 websites in their respective fields in China.
Alibaba Group Holding strives to improve the quality of the stores and products on each site, and is working to increase user convenience by providing mobile phone access and developing a logistics network covering the whole of China.

[Note]
  • *1Alibaba.com and Taobao Marketplace: data published by the China Electronic Commerce Research Center (August 1, 2011).
    Tmall.com: data published by Analysys International (March 22, 2012).

Renren Inc.

Share of voting rights (as of December 31, 2011) 34.1%
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Representative
Joseph Chen
Chairman and CEO

Business Overview

Renren operates China's largest*2 real-name social network service (SNS) site, Renren.com, which currently boasts over 154.2 million activated users (as of March 31, 2012) through one of its affiliated businesses.
In addition, Renren also operates a leading group-buying service site in China, Nuomi.com, through one of its affiliated businesses. Nuomi.com leverages Renren's broad user base and Location Based Service (“LBS”) to tap into the potential of social commerce amid increasing usage of smartphones.

[Note]
  • *2Data published by iResearch (April 2012). In terms of total SNS page views and total stay time (April 2012).

InMobi Pte. Ltd.

Share of voting rights (as of March 31, 2012) 21.2%
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Representative
Naveen Tewari
CEO

Business Overview

InMobi is a global mobile advertising network. With employees in 32 locations across five continents, InMobi provides advertisers, publishers and developers with a cutting-edge technology solution for advertising and monetization. The network is growing fast and now delivers the unprecedented ability to reach more than 400 million consumers, in over 165 countries, through 74 billion mobile ad impressions monthly.

Bharti Softbank Holdings Pte. Ltd.

Share of voting rights (as of March 31, 2012) Approx. 50%
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Representative
Atsushi Taira
CEO

Business Overview

BSB was established in June 2011 as a joint venture between Bharti Group and SoftBank. Bharti Airtel, a core company of Bharti Group, is the largest*3 mobile services provider in India and the fifth largest*4 in the world.
BSB seeks to pioneer the Indian mobile Internet market by developing businesses mainly in the three areas of social media, gaming, and e-commerce.

[Notes]
  • *3Data published by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (as of April 30, 2012).
  • *4Data published by Wireless Intelligence (as of September 30, 2011).
  • *The content of this page is based on information included in the ANNUAL REPORT 2012.
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