Sohu.com Renews and Expands Its Annual Subscription With DigitalGlobe, Inc.
December 08 2011 - 6:33PM
Marketwired
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of
high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced that
China's leading online media, search, gaming, community and mobile
service group, Sohu.com Inc. ("Sohu"), has renewed its annual
subscription for DigitalGlobe imagery and expanded its coverage
from 44 cities to 100 cities.
This will enable Sohu to provide its end-users with more
up-to-date maps, greater coverage of the Chinese landscape, and
increased functionality in its personal navigation devices.
"Sohu is pleased to continue its partnership with DigitalGlobe
to provide the most current and most extensive imagery of the
Chinese landscape to our end-users," said Bill Kong, director of
Sohu Map. "With this partnership, we can continue to deliver an
even richer, more engaging experience across our entire portfolio
of online, gaming, and mobile services."
Sohu has used DigitalGlobe content for the last three years.
This latest agreement extends Sohu's access to DigitalGlobe's
industry-leading Image Library. The Library offers customers over
1.8 billion square kilometers of highly accurate imagery, with 2
million square kilometers of fresh imagery added each day.
Sohu is the first online map service provider in China to use
satellite imagery.
"DigitalGlobe is honored to continue working with one of the
leading innovators of online location-based services in China,"
said Takayuki Odawara, head of North Asia commercial operations at
DigitalGlobe, Inc. "We are confident that this expanding
relationship will enable Sohu to strengthen its position in the
market and enhance the user experience through access to the
world's largest and most current commercial imagery library."
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Sohu expects to debut
its expanded imagery content on its website in the first quarter of
2012.
About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial
high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced from
our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery solutions
support a wide variety of uses within defense and intelligence,
civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil
and gas exploration, infrastructure management, Internet portals
and navigation technology. With our collection sources and
comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than one billion square
kilometers of earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range
of on- and off-line products and services designed to enable
customers to easily access and integrate our imagery into their
business operations and applications. In China, DigitalGlobe
imagery is distributed by its joint venture, Siwei WorldView
Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. For more information, visit
www.digitalglobe.com.
About Sohu
Sohu.com Inc. is China's premier online brand and indispensable
to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of
web properties and community based/web 2.0 products which offer the
vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding
information, entertainment and communication. Sohu has built one of
the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties
and proprietary search engines, consisting of the mass portal and
leading online media destination www.sohu.com; interactive search
engine www.sogou.com; #1 games information portal www.17173.com;
the top real estate website www.focus.cn; #1 online alumni club
www.chinaren.com; wireless value-added services provider
www.goodfeel.com.cn; leading online mapping service provider
www.go2map.com; and developer and operator of online games
www.changyou.com/en/.
Sohu corporate services consist of online brand advertising on
its matrix of websites as well as bid listing and home page on its
in-house developed search directory and engine. Sohu also offers
wireless value-added services such as news, information, music,
ringtone and picture content sent over mobile phones. Sohu's online
game subsidiary, Changyou.com and its subsidiaries currently
operates over 10 online games that includes in-house developed
MMORPGs, such as Tian Long Ba Bu, one of the most popular online
games in China, and Duke of Mount Deer, as well as Web-based games
such as DDTank. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of
China's internet pioneers, is in its fifteenth year of
operation.
DigitalGlobe is a registered trademark of DigitalGlobe.
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