UCWeb

UCWeb Inc. — the company entering into Alibaba Group is a supplier of the mobile software and services. From the moment of the foundation in 2004, UCWeb sees the mission in ensuring better work of the mobile Internet for people from around the world. The flagship product of UCWeb — UC Browser, is established more than on 3,000 different models of mobile devices of more than 200 producers and is compatible to all popular operating systems. Working with users more than in 150 countries, UC Browser is available to loading in 11 languages, including English, Russian, Indonesian and Vietnamese.

2014

"Subsidiary" of Alibaba Group, UCWeb company, opens office in Russia

In December, 2014 UCWeb company, the developer of the mobile UC Browser browser, announced the solution to open office in Moscow, in connection with achievement of a mark of 8 million Russian users and an annual gain of users for 160%, according to data for November, 2014. The office will become one of the first representative offices of the Chinese Internet companies in Russia. For UCWeb it will be already the fourth regional office. Its tasks will include support and promotion of products of the company among users in Russia and other Russian-speaking countries.

In April, 2012 the UCWeb company created the small working group for support of development of UC Browser in the Russian market. The first Russian version of the browser was soon submitted to Google Play. In October, 2013 UC Browser began cooperation in the field of mobile search with the Russian Internet giant, Yandex Company. UC Browser is not only the popular mobile browser in India and China, according to these iResearch and StatCounter, but also shows stable growth in Russia and other Russian-speaking countries where the number of users of the browser increased by 160%, in comparison with November of previous year. Also the Russian team of UCWeb increased: the employees who are engaged in user support and marketing communications entered it.

'Russia and other BRIC countries have key value for our mission — to provide to people worldwide the best experience with the mobile Internet. In the next years we are going to increase our efforts regarding a product and its localization, improving UC Browser for Russian-speaking users' — Simonov Pavel, the head of the Russian representative office of UCWeb noted.