Sogou responded to Tencent's offer and thanked Tencent for its recognition of sogou's value, technological capability and product innovation capability. Next, we will seriously discuss and measure related issues, so that sogou can continue to create greater value for users.
According to the proportion of the current tradable shares in sogou and Tencent's shareholding, the price of Tencent's acquisition of sogou will exceed US$ 265,438+billion (about RMB 147 billion).
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Tencent holds nearly 40% of the shares in sogou.
In May 2020, sogou released the unaudited financial report for the first quarter of 2020. Data show that sogou's revenue in the first quarter was 65.438+79 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), up 5% year-on-year.
The financial report shows that in the first quarter, search and search-related income was 654.38+658 million yuan (US$ 238 million), up 654.38+0% year-on-year, and the pay-per-click service based on auction continued to grow year-on-year, accounting for 965.438+0.0% of search and search-related income, compared with 87.2% in the same period of 2065.438+09; Other income was 65.438+38 billion yuan (US$ 20 million), up 6% year-on-year, mainly due to the increase in sales revenue of intelligent hardware products. In addition, in this quarter, the input method DAU of sogou was 482 million, up 9% year-on-year, and the average daily voice request reached 654.38+04 billion.
As of March 3, 2020, Tencent holds nearly 40% of the shares of sogou, Sohu holds 33.8%, Zhang Chaoyang holds 6.4% and Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan holds 5.5%.
National Business Daily-Late at night! Tencent's 65.438+0.47 billion yuan is a big deal, and it plans to acquire sogou wholly.