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): August 4, 2016
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 3.01 Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing.
On August 4, 2016, the registrant notified the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department that Charles Huang has resigned from the audit committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the registrant’s Board of Directors and that, as a result, the Audit Committee has only two members and the registrant no longer complies with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(c)(2), which requires companies with securities listed on Nasdaq to have an audit committee composed of at least three directors. Mr. Huang remains on the registrant’s Board of Directors.
The registrant will rely on the cure period provided by Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(c)(4)(B), which will permit the single vacancy caused by Mr. Huang’s resignation from the Audit Committee to continue until the earlier of the registrant’s next annual meeting of stockholders or August 4, 2017. The registration intends to conduct an active search for a qualified replacement for Mr. Huang on the Audit Committee in order to fill the vacancy before the expiration of the cure period.
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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.
| DATED: August 5, 2016 | SOHU.COM INC. | |||||
| By: | /s/ Joanna Lv | |||||
| Joanna Lv | ||||||
| Acting Chief Financial Officer | ||||||
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