Edgar Filing: SOHU COM INC

DATED: March 25, 2014

SOHU.COM INC.

/s/ Carol Yu

Co-President and Chief Financial Officer

Form 8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 24, 2014

SOHU.COM INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

0-30961

98-0204667

(State or other jurisdiction

Of incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

Level 18, SOHU.com Media Plaza

Block 3, No. 2 Kexueyuan South Road, Haidian District

Beijing 100190

People’s Republic of China

(011) 8610-6272-6666

(Address, including zip code, of registrant’s principal executive offices and registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

On March 24, 2014, the registrant’s majority-owned search subsidiary Sogou Inc., a Cayman Islands company (“Sogou”), purchased from China Web Search (HK) Limited (“China Web”) 14,400,000 Series A Preferred Shares of Sogou held by China Web for an aggregate purchase price of $47.3 million, pursuant to a Repurchase/Put Option Agreement, dated September 16, 2013, between Sogou and China Web.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.