edgepedia

Portal and PC-internet era, 1995 to 2009

79 articles

58.com

58.com (58同城) is a Beijing-based Chinese classified-advertising platform founded by Yao Jinbo in 2005, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2013 and was taken private in 2020 for about US$8.7 billion.

Albert An

Albert An is a trading executive who has been Chief Executive Officer of Tower Research Capital, a New York quantitative proprietary trading firm, since 2019.

Beijing Rising Information Technology

Beijing Rising Information Technology, formerly 瑞星信息, is a Chinese information-security software company founded in Beijing in 1991 by Xin Wang, best known for the Rising line of antivirus products.

Ben Tsiang

Ben Tsiang (Benjamin Tsiang) is an internet entrepreneur who co-founded the overseas-Chinese news site Sinanet in 1995 and later served as an executive of Sina.

Cai Haoyu

Cai Haoyu (蔡浩宇, born 1987) is a Chinese game developer who co-founded miHoYo, creator of Genshin Impact, in 2012 and led it until stepping back in 2023.

Charles Chao

Charles Chao, also known as Cao Guowei (曹国伟), is a Chinese-born executive who led Sina Corporation as CEO from 2006 until 2021 and has chaired Weibo since 2009.

Charles Chen

Charles Chen, also known as Charles Chen Yidan (陈一丹), is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded Tencent in 1998 and served as its Chief Administration Officer until 2013.

Chen Chunxian

Chen Chunxian (陈春先, 1934–2004) was a Chinese plasma physicist who founded Zhongguancun's first private technology enterprise in 1980, earning the title "first person of Zhongguancun".

Chen Danian

Chen Danian (陈大年) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded the online-games company Shanda in 1999 with his brother Chen Tianqiao, and later founded WiFi Master Key.

Chen Tianqiao

Chen Tianqiao (陈天桥), also written Tianqiao Chen, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Shanda in Shanghai in 1999, made a fortune in online games, and now funds brain science.

Chi Yufeng

Chi Yufeng (池宇峰), born 1971, is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who founded HongEn education software and Perfect World, a games company he took public on Nasdaq in 2007.

Chrissy Luo

Chrissy Luo (雒芊芊, Luo Qianqian) is a Chinese businesswoman who co-founded the online-games company Shanda in 1999 and served as its chief financial officer until 2004.

Cui Shanshan

Cui Shanshan (崔珊珊) is a Chinese technology executive who joined Baidu in January 2000 as one of its seven founding members, later serving as senior vice president for human resources.

Danny Lui

Danny Lui (Lui Tam Ping, 1957–2012) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur known for co-founding Lenovo, then Legend Computer, and leading its 1994 Hong Kong IPO.

eLong

eLong (艺龙, formerly e龙网) is a Chinese online travel company founded in 1999, once China's second-largest online travel agency, now the hotel brand of Tongcheng-Elong.

Fritz Demopoulos

Fritz Demopoulos, also known as Dai Furei (戴福瑞), is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Qunar, China's online travel search company, and led it as CEO until 2011.

Fu Binxing

Fu Binxing (傅斌星, born 1984) is a Chinese media executive and president of Zhejiang Huace Film & TV, China's first listed TV series producer, since January 2022.

Fu Zhengjun

Fu Zhengjun (傅政军, born 1978 in Jinhua, Zhejiang) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded 9158 and leads its Hong Kong-listed parent, Tian Ge Interactive.

Giant Network Group

Giant Network Group is a Shanghai-based Chinese online game developer founded by Shi Yuzhu, known for the free-to-play game Zhengtu and its 2007 NYSE listing.

Guo Fansheng

Guo Fansheng (郭凡生), born in 1955, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Huicong, now HC Group, one of China's first B2B e-commerce companies, in Beijing in 1992.

Guo Wei

Guo Wei (郭为, born 1963) is a Chinese technology executive who joined Legend, now Lenovo, in 1988 and has led Digital China Holdings since its 2001 listing in Hong Kong.

HC Group

HC Group (慧聪集团), known as Huicong or HC International, is a Beijing-based Chinese company founded by Guo Fansheng in 1992 that pioneered B2B business-information services in China.

Hong Qinghua

Hong Qinghua (洪清华) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the Shanghai online travel agency Lvmama in 2008, building it into a leading distributor of scenic-spot tickets.

James Liang

James Liang, also known as Liang Jianzhang (梁建章), is a Chinese entrepreneur and economist who co-founded Ctrip in 1999 and leads its successor, Trip.com Group.

Ji Qi

Ji Qi (季琦, born 1966) is a Chinese serial entrepreneur who co-founded Ctrip, co-founded Home Inns, and founded Huazhu (H World Group), where he is executive chairman and CEO.

Jinghai Company

Jinghai (京海) was a Beijing computer-room engineering company founded by Wang Hongde, a Chinese Academy of Sciences engineer, in 1982, and one of the four best-known firms of Zhongguancun's first wave.

JOYY Inc.

JOYY Inc. (欢聚集团) is a Nasdaq-listed live streaming and social media company headquartered in Singapore, co-founded by David Xueling Li in 2005 and known for Bigo Live, Likee, and imo.

Kingsoft

Kingsoft Corporation (金山软件) is a Chinese software and internet services company built around WPS Office, the JX game series, and Kingsoft Cloud, listed in Hong Kong since 2007.

Ku6

Ku6 (酷6网) was a Beijing-based user-generated video website founded in 2006 by former Sohu chief editor Li Shanyou, listed on Nasdaq in 2010 as Ku6 Media.

Lei Ming

Lei Ming (雷鸣) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, one of Baidu's seven founding members and its chief architect, who left in 2003 and founded Kuwo Music in 2005.