Sohu.com Inc. provides online media, search, gaming, community, and mobile services in the People's Republic of China. The company's brand advertising business offers advertisements on its portal Websites to companies to enhance their brand awareness online; and search and others business provides customers, pay-for-click and online marketing services. Its online game business develops, operates, and licenses massively multiplayer online games and Web-based games; wireless business offers short messaging services, interactive voice response, mobile games, and ring back tones to mobile phone users; and others business offers licensed video content. The company operates sohu.com, a mass portal and online media destination that provides news, entertainment, sports, business and finance, and automobiles content for various channels; and tv.sohu.com, which offers online video content that covers television dramas, movies, in-house produced shows and programs, news, documentaries, animations, entertainment related contents, live television Webcasts, in-house produced shows and programs, and user-generated content. It also operates Focus.cn that provides new home, resale properties, and household appliances information for house seekers, homeowners, and household appliance buyers; 17173.com, which provides news, electronic forums and other information services on online games to game players; and communication and community tools, such as micro-blogs, message boards, blogs, and e-mail services. In addition, the company provides Sogou Pinyin, a Chinese character input method software; Sogou Browser; Sogou Web Directory, a Web directory navigation site; and Sogou.com, a proprietary search engine. The company was formerly known as Internet Technologies China Incorporated and changed its name to Sohu.com Inc. in September 1999. Sohu.com Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.