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Zorpia is a social networking service, popular in India and China. Zorpia is one of the few ICP-licensed international social networks. The social networking site has 2 million unique users per month and has grown to a total worldwide user base of 26 million. Jeffrey Ng is the company's founder and CEO of Zorpia. The privately-funded company is based in Hong Kong and has 30 employees.

History
In December 2003, Jeffrey Ng founded Zorpia as a social networking service. Ng took the name Zorpia because he wanted it to be an online nation for people looking for new relationships. While sites like Facebook and twitter are still banned in China, the ban has allowed Zorpia to use its ICP license in China to grow its user base. Ng plans to expand Zorpia into 22 additional marketing in countries such as the UK, Taiwan, Australia, and Canada.

Leadership
Jeffrey Ng began his entrepreneurial career at the age of 13. He started his own Japanese music website and music search engine. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a degree in computer engineering. Before building Zorpia, he worked for Expedia Inc. and at his university’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Services
Zorpia's features include photo-sharing, social networking, messaging and profiles. Zorpia has developed technology to analyze and predict compatibility between strangers, and has developed false identity prevention systems and user attractiveness discovery algorithms to help people make friends.

Zorpia is one of the only social networking sites permitted for use in China.

Recognition
Alexa Internet ranks Zorpia among the 6,000 most-visited websites worldwide, with a global rank of 3,562 and with 40% users from India and 10% users from China. Alexa also ranks Zorpia among the top 1000 most popular websites in India, with a rank of 933.

Business Today India named Zorpia as the growth leader in the India market from 2009-2010. Zorpia has been recognized by CNN, China Daily, the biggest English newspaper in China, and it has been featured in Phoenix Television's A Date with Luyu.