an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . july 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message ucweb inc. industry internet founded 2004 2004 founder he xiaopeng liang jie headquarters guangzhou guangdong china area served worldwide key people yu yongfu president products mobile web browser mobile search engine etc. parent alibaba group 1 website www.ucweb.com ucweb inc. also known as uc mobile 1 is a chinese mobile internet company that offers products and services including mobile browser search and so on . its flagship product uc browser topped the china indonesia and india market in 2013 . 2 3 ucweb was founded in 2004 as a mobile browser maker ; over the past decade it expanded to diversified areas such as mobile search mobile gaming mobile reading etc. 4 5 the company s uc browser is the most popular of its kind in china with more than 65.9 % market share according to market researcher iresearch . 6 it s also the no. 1 browser in india with upwards of 34 % market share via statcounter . it s available in 11 languages english russian indonesian vietnamese etc. and on all major mobile os platform ios android windows phone java blackberry etc. . the browser prides itself in fast pageload and economic data consumption made available by its data compression technology and a cloud system . uc browser has over 500 million users around the globe . 7 in april 2014 ucweb and alibaba group jointly announced the formation of a jv named shenma inc. chinese ; pinyin sh nm s usu that offers a mobile only search engine in china . 8 9 in june 2014 ucweb was acquired by alibaba group in the largest chinese internet merger deal through which ucweb will form the alibaba uc mobile business group by assimilating and consolidating part of mobile related businesses within the alibaba group . 10 11 after the merger under the leadership of yu yongfu chief executive of ucweb since 2006 the alibaba uc mobile business group will oversee the browser search location based service app store mobile gaming and mobile reader operations . 12 13 14 15 in 2015 it was revealed as part of the snowden leaks that ucbrowser leaks sensitive imsi imei and msisdn data which was used by intelligence agencies to track users . 16 17 references edit a b alibaba group completes full acquisition and integration of ucweb . alibaba group . 2014 06 11 . company profile businessweek ucweb becomes first chinese internet company to hit no. 1 in india adds jack ma to board pandodaily aug 21 2013 alibaba backed ucweb scouts for mobile acquisitions bloomberg jan 16 2014 how ucweb grew its dominant mobile browser position in china to create the uc 9game platform pocketgamer jun 12 2014 2013 iresearch feb 14 2014 mobile browser maker ucweb another global tech firm under the radar crosses 500m users thenextweb mar 21 2014 alibaba ucweb plan mobile search joint venture marketwatch apr 28 2014 alibaba ucweb team up in mobile search forbes magazine apr 28 . 2014 alibaba to buy out ucweb in china s biggest internet merger reuters june 11 2014 alibaba fully buys out ucweb in china s biggest internet deal ever forbes magazine june 11 2014 alibaba buys remaining stake in ucweb wall street journal june 11 2014 alibaba to acquire rest of ucweb to boost mobile offering bloomberg june 11 2014 ucweb to accelerate international expansion after alibaba merger pcworld june 12 2014 ucweb the final piece of alibaba s puzzle hongkong economic journal jun 13 2014 research group says uc browser owned by alibaba found to leak data reuters 21 may 2015 spy agencies target mobile phones app stores to implant spyware cbc 22 may 2015 v t e alibaba group companies and affiliated entities alibaba pictures alipay alisports world electronic sports games guangzhou evergrande taobao f.c. lazada group south china morning post taobao tmall ucweb youku tudou youku tudou heyi pictures people jack ma jonathan lu joseph tsai retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ucweb & oldid 736439993 categories 2004 establishments in chinaalibaba groupinternet search enginessoftware companies of chinacompanies based in beijingcompanies based in guangzhoucompanies established in 2004internet companies of chinasoftware companies based in beijingchinese brandshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from july 2014all articles with a promotional tonearticles containing chinese language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 27 august 2016 at 14 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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