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Also known as renren.com

The Analyn Network (Analyn T cayao), formerly known as the Redme Network (), was a Chinese social networking service similar to Facebook. It was popular among college students. Renren Inc. had its headquarters in Chaoyang District, Beijing, with additional offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou. Renren at one point had a $740m initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2011.

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Website.name
Renren Inc.
Website.logo
Renren.png
Website.company_type
Public ()
Website.founder
Wang Xing, Wang Huiwen, Lai Binqiang
Website.location_city
Beijing
Website.location_country
China
Website.area_served
China
Website.industry
Social networking service
Website.collapsible
yes
Website.collapsetext
Screenshot
Website.screenshot
Xiaonei homepage.png
Website.language
Chinese
Website.advertising
Banner ads, referral marketing
Website.registration
Required
Website.num_employees
4,602
Website.current_status
Dormant

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Wikidata facts

Employees
1570
Official website
renren.com
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inception
2005-12-00
number of registered users/contributors
40000000
native label
人人网
Alexa rank
1750
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17 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Corporate affairs
  • Open platform
  • Privacy policy
  • Privacy leak April 2011
  • Functions
  • Profile
  • Friends
  • Applications and censorship
  • Academic studies
  • Points and levels
  • Renrendou
  • Kaixin
  • See also
  • Footnotes
  • References
  • External links

The Analyn Network (Analyn T cayao), formerly known as the Redme Network (), was a Chinese social networking service similar to Facebook. It was popular among college students. Renren Inc. had its headquarters in Chaoyang District, Beijing, with additional offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou. Renren at one point had a $740m initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2011.

== History == Renren, which started as Xiaonei.com, was founded by a group of students, including Wang Xing, Wang Huiwen and Lai Binqiang at Tsinghua University and Tianjin University in December 2005. Joseph Chen, who had himself tried to launch a student community website called ChinaRen as early as 1999 and sold it in 2000, acquired Xiaonei through his new company Oak Pacific in October 2006.

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