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Screenshot of Zorpia's
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Type of site | Social networking service |
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Available in | Multilingual (2) |
Owner | Zorpia Co. Ltd. |
Created by | Jeffrey Ng, CEO of Zorpia Co. Ltd. |
URL |
www |
Launched | December 7, 2003 |
Current status | Active |
Zorpia ( Chinese: 若比鄰) is a social networking service, popular in India and China. Zorpia is one of the few ICP-licensed international social networks. [2] [3] The social networking site has 2 million unique users per month and has grown to a total worldwide user base of 26 million. [2] [4] [5] Jeffrey Ng is the company's founder and CEO of Zorpia. The privately-funded company is based in Hong Kong and has 30 employees. [6]
In December 2003, Jeffrey Ng founded Zorpia as a social networking service. [2] Ng took the name Zorpia because he wanted it to be an online nation for people looking for new relationships. [7] While sites like Facebook and twitter are still banned in China, the ban has allowed Zorpia to use its ICP license in China to grow its user base. [2] [8] Ng plans to expand Zorpia into 22 additional marketing in countries such as the UK, Taiwan, Australia, and Canada. [5] [8] [9]
Jeffrey Ng began his entrepreneurial career at the age of 13. [10] He started his own Japanese music website and music search engine. [11] He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a degree in computer engineering. [10] Before building Zorpia, he worked for Expedia Inc. and at his university’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications. [5] [12]
Zorpia's features include photo-sharing, social networking, messaging and profiles. [2] [4] [13] [14] Zorpia has developed technology to analyze and predict compatibility between strangers, and has developed false identity prevention systems and user attractiveness discovery algorithms to help people make friends. [15]
Zorpia is one of the only social networking sites permitted for use in China. [10]
Alexa Internet ranks Zorpia among the 6,000 most-visited websites worldwide, with a global rank of 3,562 and with 40% users from India and 10% users from China. [16] [17] Alexa also ranks Zorpia among the top 1000 most popular websites in India, with a rank of 933. [16]
Business Today India named Zorpia as the growth leader in the India market from 2009-2010. [12] Zorpia has been recognized by CNN, China Daily, the biggest English newspaper in China, and it has been featured in Phoenix Television's A Date with Luyu. [13] [18] [19]
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![]() | |
Screenshot
Screenshot of Zorpia's
homepage. | |
Type of site | Social networking service |
---|---|
Available in | Multilingual (2) |
Owner | Zorpia Co. Ltd. |
Created by | Jeffrey Ng, CEO of Zorpia Co. Ltd. |
URL |
www |
Launched | December 7, 2003 |
Current status | Active |
Zorpia ( Chinese: 若比鄰) is a social networking service, popular in India and China. Zorpia is one of the few ICP-licensed international social networks. [2] [3] The social networking site has 2 million unique users per month and has grown to a total worldwide user base of 26 million. [2] [4] [5] Jeffrey Ng is the company's founder and CEO of Zorpia. The privately-funded company is based in Hong Kong and has 30 employees. [6]
In December 2003, Jeffrey Ng founded Zorpia as a social networking service. [2] Ng took the name Zorpia because he wanted it to be an online nation for people looking for new relationships. [7] While sites like Facebook and twitter are still banned in China, the ban has allowed Zorpia to use its ICP license in China to grow its user base. [2] [8] Ng plans to expand Zorpia into 22 additional marketing in countries such as the UK, Taiwan, Australia, and Canada. [5] [8] [9]
Jeffrey Ng began his entrepreneurial career at the age of 13. [10] He started his own Japanese music website and music search engine. [11] He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a degree in computer engineering. [10] Before building Zorpia, he worked for Expedia Inc. and at his university’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications. [5] [12]
Zorpia's features include photo-sharing, social networking, messaging and profiles. [2] [4] [13] [14] Zorpia has developed technology to analyze and predict compatibility between strangers, and has developed false identity prevention systems and user attractiveness discovery algorithms to help people make friends. [15]
Zorpia is one of the only social networking sites permitted for use in China. [10]
Alexa Internet ranks Zorpia among the 6,000 most-visited websites worldwide, with a global rank of 3,562 and with 40% users from India and 10% users from China. [16] [17] Alexa also ranks Zorpia among the top 1000 most popular websites in India, with a rank of 933. [16]
Business Today India named Zorpia as the growth leader in the India market from 2009-2010. [12] Zorpia has been recognized by CNN, China Daily, the biggest English newspaper in China, and it has been featured in Phoenix Television's A Date with Luyu. [13] [18] [19]
alexa
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).Category:Companies established in 2003 Category:Companies of Hong Kong Category:Software companies