Qihoo 360 Technology, China’s largest provider of free antivirus software, filed for a US listing just hours before Japan’s nuclear crisis triggered a shares sell-off, making the planned flotation a test case for how Chinese technology listings can fare in a volatile market.
Qihoo’s filing late on Monday, in which it hopes to raise up to $200m, follows a string of listings by Chinese internet companies in the US in recent months.
In December, shares of Youku, the country’s leading online video website, soared 161 per cent on its first day of trading on Nasdaq, the biggest first-day rise of a Chinese IPO in the US since 2005.
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