NetEase is a Chinese

China

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 internet company that operates 163.com, a popular web portal

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 which received over 546 million page views in June of 2005

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. The company has grown rapidly since its founding in June 1997, thanks in part to its investment in search engine

Search engine

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 technology and massively multiplayer online gaming. Fantasy Westward Journey

Fantasy Westward Journey

Fantasy Westward Journey is a MMORPG developed and run by NetEase. The game is the most popular online game in China as of May 2007 by peak concurrent users , with a peak count of 1.5 million. Registered users reached 25 million by April 2005, with 576,000 peak concurrent players on 198 game...

, an MMORPG developed internally by NetEase, is an online game

Online game

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 in China. NetEase.com,inc. (网易公司) has a market value

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 of US$

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761.6 million. as of April 2006, and 1600 employees as of February 2006.

In 2004, NetEase's founder and chief architect William Ding (Ding Lei

Ding Lei

Ding Lei , is the founder and CEO of NetEase. He made significant contributions to the development of computer networks in mainland China. He was the wealthiest man in China at one point.-Early life:...

) won the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for his innovative use of information technology. Ding became one of the wealthiest individuals in China after founding NetEase.

The 163.com domain attracted at least 1.8 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com

Compete.com

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 survey. In April 2010, the site was the 28th most visited site in the world according to Alexa's internet rankings

Alexa Internet

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 and in August 2010, the site was the 27th most visited site drawing more traffic than the websites of AOL

AOL

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, BBC

BBC

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, Flickr

Flickr

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, Craigslist

Craigslist

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, Apple

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, CNN

CNN

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, LinkedIn

LinkedIn

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, Adobe

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, CNet

CNET

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, ESPN

ESPN

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 and several other heavy hitters.

External links

• 163.com web portal
• NetEase corporate site
• NetEase (NTES) (Wikinvest
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