Form 20-F

Vincent Wenyong Shi, Chairman, Chief Operating Officer and Acting Chief Financial Officer

(Name, Telephone, E-mail and/or Facsimile number and Address of Company Contact Person)

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act:

Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the Issuer’s classes of capital or common stock as of the close of the period covered by the annual report. 383, 004, 508 Class A common shares (excluding 4, 903, 540 Class A common shares represented by ADSs that are reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding options and 12, 885, 235 Class A common shares represented by ADSs that have been repurchased but not cancelled), par value US$0.0001 per share, and 50, 352, 971 Class B common shares, par value US$0.0001 per share, as of December 31, 2014.

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ¨ No x

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No ¨

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Indicate by check mark which basis of accounting the registrant has used to prepare the financial statements included in this filing:

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This annual report contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made under the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

You can identify these forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “is expected to,” “anticipate,” “aim,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “is/are likely to” or other similar expressions. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about:

You should thoroughly read this annual report and the documents that we refer to herein with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from and/or worse than what we expect. Other sections of this annual report, including the Risk Factors and Operating and Financial Review and Prospects sections, discuss factors which could adversely impact our business and financial performance. Moreover, we operate in an evolving environment. New risk factors emerge from time to time and it is not possible for our management to predict all risk factors, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. We qualify all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements.

You should not rely upon forward-looking statements we make as predictions of future events. The forward-looking statements made in this annual report relate only to events or information as of the date on which the statements are made in this annual report. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.

The following table presents the selected consolidated financial information for our company. The selected consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) data for the three years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 and the consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2013 and 2014 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements, which are included in this annual report beginning on page F-1. Our selected consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) data for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2011 and our consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2010, 2011 and 2012 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements not included in this annual report. We reclassified our revenues into the following categories beginning in 2013: mobile value added services (including consumer mobile security and mobile games), enterprise mobility, advertising services and other services. As a result, we reclassified the presentation of the revenue categories for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2011 and 2012 in conformity with these new revenue categories. Our selected consolidated financial statements are prepared and presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or U.S. GAAP. Our historical results for any period are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for any future period. You should read the following selected financial information in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes and the information under “Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects” included elsewhere in this annual report.

To supplement the net income/ (loss) presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP, we use adjusted net income/ (loss) as a non-GAAP financial measure. We define adjusted net income/ (loss) as net income/ (loss) excluding share-based compensation expenses. We present adjusted net income/ (loss) because it is used by our management to evaluate our operating performance, in addition to net income/ (loss) prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. We also believe it is useful supplemental information for investors and analysts to assess our operating performance without the effect of non-GAAP adjustments.

The use of adjusted net income/ (loss) has material limitations as an analytical tool. A limitation of using non-GAAP cost of revenues, operating expenses, income from operations and net income, excluding share-based compensation expenses, is that these items have been and may continue to be significant expenses in our business for the foreseeable future. In addition, because adjusted net income/ (loss) is not calculated in the same manner by all companies, it may not be comparable to other similar titled measures used by other companies. In light of the foregoing limitations, you should not consider adjusted net income/ (loss) as a substitute for or superior to net income/ (loss) prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. We encourage investors and others to review our financial information in its entirety and not rely on a single financial measure.

The following table sets forth the calculation of adjusted net income/ (loss), which is determined by adding back non-GAAP adjustments to our net income/ (loss) presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

We monitor certain key operating metrics that we believe are important to our financial performance. As our business evolves and we continue to gain further insight into our growing business, we may change the method of calculating our key operating metrics to address uncertainties in these metrics or add new key operating metrics to reflect the changes in our business.

Beginning in the third quarter of 2014, we redefined the operating metrics of monthly active user accounts, or MAUs, to include many emerging businesses previously not included in our user account metrics. The MAUs presented herein include the user accounts in NQ Live, Music Radar, and more recent investments such as Yipai and Showself, among others. As such, the MAUs presented herein should not be compared to operating metrics previously reported in historical periods because there is not a way to meaningfully compare such results. The average MAUs for the three months ended December 31, 2014, presented below, and going forward are expected to be better aligned with the key underlying trends of our company as a mobile internet platform company focused on driving mobile consumer traffic and engagement that can be monetized. The MAU statistics do not include the users addressed by the installation of our advertising SDK into third-party applications. These indirect users generate impressions and search traffic that we can monetize outside of the user accounts generated directly by our own portfolio of products and applications.

Our average MAUs for the three months ended December 31, 2014 was 160.8 million.

For your reference, we have included the description and tables for the operating metrics reported previously for our historical periods below, but please note that the metrics presented below should not be compared to the MAU operating metric reported above for the three months ended December 31, 2014, and we intend to only present the MAU operating metric going forward.

The following tables set forth our registered user accounts as of December 31, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 as well as the average monthly active user accounts, average monthly paying user accounts and average monthly premium user accounts for the three months ended December 31, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Our registered user accounts overstate the actual number of our individual registered users, and our active, paying and premium user accounts derived from our operational system may differ from the actual numbers of active, paying and premium users. For more information, see “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business and Industry — The number of our registered user accounts overstates the number of unique individuals who register to use our products. Our active, paying and premium user account figures may differ from the actual numbers of active, paying and premium users.”

Our Freemium subscription business model may not continue to be successful, and our business and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

We offer our diverse portfolio of consumer mobile security services to users globally through a “Freemium” business model. Our Freemium business model provides users with free services and the ability to upgrade to a selection of premium services either by paying subscription fees or engaging in an offer wall and advertising services. Our offer wall, launched in March 2013, provides a selection of self-developed and third-party sponsored applications, including mobile games. The offer wall allows users to accumulate points for downloading these applications and to use such points to upgrade to our premium services, as an alternative to paying subscription fees for the premium services. The success of our Freemium business model depends on, among other factors, our ability to convert our registered user accounts into premium user accounts and our ability to encourage user spending on additional products and services and user engagement in our advertising platform and mobile games. Although we constantly monitor and research user needs, we may be unable to meet user demands on a continuous basis or anticipate future user demands, which may adversely affect our ability to convert free user accounts into premium user accounts and materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations. Current premium users may also choose not to renew their subscriptions, click on our mobile advertisement or pay for mobile games through our offer wall. In addition, we may not be able to maintain and increase the prices of our premium products and services, which may have material and adverse effects on our growth and prospects.

The mobile security, privacy and productivity industry may not grow as quickly as expected, which may materially and adversely affect our business and prospects of future growth.

A significant portion of our business and prospects depend on the continued development of the mobile security, privacy and productivity industry in China and overseas. As a relatively new industry with intense competition, the mobile security, privacy and productivity industry has only begun to experience substantial growth in recent years both in terms of number of users and revenues. We cannot assure you, however, that the industry will continue to grow as rapidly as it has in the past. The growth of the mobile security, privacy and productivity industry is affected by numerous factors, such as users’ general communication experience, technological innovations, development of smart devices and other mobile devices, development of mobile Internet-based telecommunication services and applications, regulatory changes and the macroeconomic environment. If the mobile security, privacy and productivity industry in China or globally does not grow as quickly as expected or if we fail to benefit from such growth by successfully implementing our business strategies, our business and prospects may be materially and adversely affected.

Our business is subject to the risks of international operations, which could significantly affect our financial condition and operating results.

We have significant international operations, and international expansion continues to form an important component of our growth strategy. Expanding and maintaining our business internationally exposes us to a number of risks, including:

Our financial condition and operating results also could be significantly affected by these and other risks associated with overseas activities. Furthermore, we have implemented policies and procedures designed to facilitate compliance with laws and regulations in foreign jurisdictions applicable to us, but there can be no assurance that our employees, contractors or agents will not violate such laws and regulations or our policies. Any such violations could individually or in the aggregate materially and adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.

We have pursued and may continue to pursue acquisitions, investments, joint ventures or other strategic alliances, which may be unsuccessful or may expose us to additional risk.

We plan to grow both organically and through acquisitions, investments, joint ventures or other strategic alliances when appropriate opportunities arise. For example, in 2013 and 2014, we acquired 100% or majority equity interest in a number of entities, including but not limited to Beijing Trustek Technology Co., Ltd., or Trustek, Yipai and Showself, among others. These and any past and future acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and strategic alliances may expose us to new operational, regulatory and market risks, as well as risks associated with additional capital requirements, including risks associated with the assimilation of new operations, technologies and personnel, unforeseen or hidden liabilities, the inability to generate sufficient revenue to offset the costs and expenses of acquisitions, and potentially significant loss of investments. We may not be able to identify suitable future acquisition or investment candidates or alliance partners. If we fail to identify appropriate candidates or partners, or fail to complete the desired acquisitions, investments or alliances after identifying the appropriate candidates or partners, we may not be able to implement our business strategies effectively or efficiently. Furthermore, we may not be able to maintain a satisfactory relationship with our joint venture or other partners or handle other risks associated with our alliances, which could adversely affect our business and results of operations. Our ability to successfully integrate acquired companies and their operations and our ability to benefit from our alliances, including joint ventures and investments, may be adversely affected by a number of factors. These factors include but are not limited to diversion of management’s attention, difficulties in retaining personnel, unanticipated problems or legal liabilities, and tax and accounting issues.

If we fail to integrate acquired companies efficiently, our earnings, revenues, gross margins, operating margins and business operations could be negatively affected. Furthermore, the acquired companies may not perform to our expectations for various reasons, including legislative or regulatory changes that affect the products and services in which the acquired companies specialize and the loss of key personnel and customer accounts.

In addition, we issued share incentive awards to the shareholders of certain entities that we acquired in connection with the acquisitions. Such issuances may dilute your interest in our company, and could have a material adverse effect on the price of our ADSs.

If we are not able to realize the benefits envisioned for our acquisitions, investments, joint ventures or other strategic alliances, our overall profitability and growth plans may be adversely affected.

If we are not successful in executing our strategy of continuing to expand into the enterprise market, our business and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.

An important part of our growth strategy is to build on our strong consumer brand while continuing to expand into the enterprise mobility business. While our product revenues from the enterprise mobility segment has increased significantly in 2013 and 2014, sales to enterprises involve risks that may not be present (or present but to a lesser extent) in connection with sales to individual consumers. These risks include:

All these factors add further risks to business conducted with enterprise customers. If we are not successful in executing our strategy of expanding into the enterprise mobility market, our business and financial condition may be materially and adversely affected.

The highly competitive environment for gaming publishers and operators related to FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd., or FL Mobile, and the proposed merger of FL Mobile with a Hong Kong-listed company both make it difficult to evaluate FL Mobile’s future prospects and results of operations.

FL Mobile, also previously translated as Feiliu Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd., is currently one of our consolidated affiliated entities. It is difficult to evaluate the sustainability of FL Mobile’s business because of the highly competitive nature of the game publishing and operating business with mobile games. FL Mobile only started to generate revenue from mobile game operations beginning in 2012. As a result, FL Mobile is exposed to the risks and uncertainties experienced by early stage companies in evolving industries and the mobile game industry in China in particular.

In December 2014, we entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with Tack Fiori International Group Limited, or Tack Fiori, a Cayman Islands company listed in Hong Kong. As contemplated under the MOU, Tack Fiori proposes to purchase 100% of the equity interests in, and assume all liabilities of, FL Mobile Inc. by paying a total consideration of between US$570 million and US$630 million payable by way of allotment and issue of certain number of new shares of Tack Fiori at an issue price per new share which shall represent a discount of 10% to 20% to the average closing price per share of Tack Fiori as quoted on the HK Stock Exchange for the last thirty consecutive trading days up to and including the day immediately prior to the date of the MOU to us and other shareholders of FL Mobile Inc., which shall be documented by a sale and purchase agreement to be negotiated and executed by and among Tack Fiori, other shareholders of FL Mobile Inc., and us. We cannot assure you that this transaction will be completed as planned, and if such transaction is completed, we cannot assure you that we will be able to receive all the expected benefits of the transaction.

Our success in mobile game operations through FL Mobile depends on, among other factors:

The limited operating history of each of NationSky and Trustek and the limited history of the enterprise mobility sector in China make it difficult to evaluate their future prospects and results of operations.

Beijing NationSky Network Technology Co., Ltd., or NationSky, one of our subsidiaries, is a leading provider of device agnostic managed mobile services, mobile device management services and other mobile SaaS offerings to enterprises in China. Trustek primarily provides enterprise mobility solutions and services, including system management, application development, business intelligence and maintenance services. It is difficult to evaluate the viability and sustainability of the business of either NationSky or Trustek’s, due to these entities’ limited operating history and the fact that the enterprise mobility sector in China is still in its early stages. The success of NationSky and Trustek depends on, among other factors:

Failure to maintain relationships with top mobile game developers and to maintain operating rights for popular mobile games would adversely and materially affect the financial results of our mobile game operations.

FL Mobile identifies and develops relationships with top mobile game developers in China and overseas to obtain the operating rights for popular mobile games. Revenues derived from mobile game operations contributed to a significant portion of FL Mobile’s total revenues in the year ended December 31, 2014. If FL Mobile fails to renew the operating rights for popular games after the relevant contracts expire or fails to continually obtain rights to operate new popular games in the future, the financial results of our mobile game operations will be adversely and materially affected.

The mobile games that we offer have finite commercial lifespans. While we seek to extend the commercial lifespans of our mobile games by upgrading such games from time to time to include new features that appeal to existing players and attract new players, revenues generated by each mobile game may be expected to decline as each game approaches the more mature stages of its commercial lifespans. If we fail to extend the commercial lifespans of our mobile games sufficiently, our business and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

The mobile game industry is new and rapidly changing, which makes it difficult to evaluate our business and prospects.

The mobile game industry is new and rapidly changing. The growth of the mobile game industry and the level of demand and market acceptance of our mobile game content are subject to a high degree of uncertainty. Our future operating results will depend on numerous factors affecting the mobile game industry, many of which are beyond our control, including changes in user demographics, tastes and preferences and general economic conditions, particularly economic conditions adversely affecting discretionary consumer spending.

There is no assurance that mobile games will continue to be popular in China or elsewhere. A decline in the general popularity of mobile games may adversely affect our business and prospects. In addition, government authorities or industry organizations may adopt new standards that apply to game development. New technologies and new standards may require increases in expenditure for game development and operations, and we will need to adapt our business to cope with the changes and support these new services to be successful.

The future growth of the mobile advertising industry in China is uncertain.

The mobile advertising industry in China has evolved rapidly in recent years, with developments such as the introduction of new business models, the development of user preferences, market entry by new competitors and the adoption of new strategies by existing competitors. We expect each of these trends to continue, and we must continue to adapt our strategy to successfully compete in our target market. There are numerous other technologies and business models in varying stages of development, such as portable tablet computers, netbooks or other mobile Internet handsets involving fourth generation mobile technologies, which could render certain current technologies or applications obsolete. Accordingly, it is extremely difficult to accurately predict user acceptance and demand for our mobile advertising solutions and the size, composition and growth of the mobile advertising industry. Furthermore, given the limited history and rapidly evolving nature of these markets, we cannot predict the price that users will be willing to pay for mobile advertising services or whether users will have concerns over security, reliability, cost and quality of service associated with mobile advertising services. If acceptance of our mobile advertising services is different than anticipated, our ability to maintain or increase our revenues and profits could be materially and adversely affected.

Undetected errors, flaws or failures in our products or services, failure to update or to respond to events with sufficient speed and efficiency, or failure to maintain updated knowledge repositories could harm our reputation or reduce market acceptance of our products and services.

Our products and services may contain errors, flaws or failures that may only become apparent after their release, especially in terms of updated versions. We receive user feedback in connection with errors, flaws or failures in our products and services from time to time, and such errors, flaws or failures may also come to our attention during our internal testing process. We generally have been able to resolve such errors, flaws or failures in a timely manner, but we cannot assure you that we will be able to detect and resolve all of them effectively or in a timely manner. Undetected errors, flaws or failures in our services and products or failure to detect new security threats or issues or respond to such events with sufficient speed and efficiency may adversely affect user experience and cause our users to stop using our services and products, which could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.

In addition, although we maintain comprehensive repositories of mobile viruses, malware and spam massages, which also help to increase the efficiency and accuracy of our mobile security, privacy and productivity products and services, any failure on our part to maintain such updated repositories may materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.

Failure to maintain effective customer support could harm our reputation and our ability to retain both consumer and enterprise customers, which may materially and adversely affect our results of operations.

Our business is significantly affected by the overall size of our user base and our ability to monetize our user base, which in turn are determined by, among other factors, their experience with our services and products. Customer support, including customer service and technical support, is critical to retaining current users and attracting potential users for both our consumer and enterprise businesses. For example, if we otherwise fail to provide effective customer service, our users may be less inclined to use our services or recommend us to other potential users, and may switch to our competitors’ mobile services. Some China-based Internet companies have experienced group complaints, sometimes organized by their competitors or people attempting to profit from such complaints. If we face similar group complaints in a short time frame, we may not be able to effectively handle customer service requests from our users. Failure to maintain effective customer support could harm our reputation and our ability to retain both consumer and enterprise customers, which may materially and adversely affect out results of operations.

If we fail to execute our business model of continually adding compelling new services and monetizing of our active user base, our business, results of operations and financial condition will be materially and adversely affected.

We may be unsuccessful in executing our business model of adding compelling new services and monetizing our active user base for our consumer mobile business. Historically, our primary means of monetizing our active user base has been to provide our users with diversified security, privacy and productivity service offerings. For example, we have introduced services catering to families which include security and privacy services. If our family service or other new services are not accepted by our users, our business and financial performance will suffer. In addition, we may introduce new services beyond our current offerings, which may not be accepted by users and, as a result, affect our revenue growth and operations. If we cannot develop or maintain additional channels of monetizing our active user base and introduce additional services that users find compelling, we will not be able to continue our growth and increase our revenues and profitability. This includes our ability to deliver applications and services to consumers that are more engaging then security and productivity service solutions and deliver the traffic rates necessary to successfully grow our advertising revenues.

If we fail to successfully diversify our user acquisition channels or to successfully acquire new premium users through new channels for our consumer mobile security products and services, our business, results of operations and financial condition will be materially and adversely affected.

The growth of our consumer mobile security business depends on the expansion of our user base and the acquiring of new premium users for the related products and services. We plan to continue to diversify our user acquisition channels, especially in international markets. For example, we continue to expand our relationships with insurance companies who can bundle our applications as part of an overall value added services offering at retail or at the carriers. We established a partnership with eSecuritel for this type of offering and are looking to expand to other providers. If we fail to continue to acquire new users through additional new channels or the new channels fail to meet our expectation to generate new premium users, our business, results of operations and financial condition will be materially and adversely affected.

We operate in a rapidly evolving industry. If we fail to keep up with technological developments and mobile device users’ changing requirements, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

The mobile Internet industry is rapidly evolving and subject to continued technological developments. Our success depends on our ability to keep up with these technological developments and the resulting changes in user behavior. For example, an increasing number of mobile users have been able to access the Internet via an increasing number of different platforms, including Android, Symbian, iOS, BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone. Given that we operate in a rapidly evolving industry, we also need to continuously anticipate new security challenges and industry changes and respond to such changes in a timely and effective manner. There may be changes in the industry landscape as different types of platforms compete with one another for market share. For example, the Android platform has experienced faster growth than other competing platforms in recent years and has now become the more dominant platform among the smart device operating systems. If we do not adapt our products and services to such changes in an effective and timely manner as more platforms become available or certain platforms become dominant in the future, we may suffer loss in market share, and although we invest significant resources in research and development, we cannot predict the evolution of smart device operating systems or platforms in terms of releases, features, application programming interfaces, integrated security, privacy and productivity features. If access to existing smart device operating systems or platforms are changed in any way, thereby adversely affecting our ability to maintain, develop, sell, offer or distribute our products and services, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

Furthermore, changes in technology may require substantial capital expenditures in research and development as well as in modification of products, services or infrastructure. If we fail to keep up with technological developments and continue to innovate to meet the needs of our users, our products and services may become less attractive to users, which in turn may adversely affect our competitiveness, results of operations and prospects.

We may not be able to continue using or adequately protect our intellectual property rights, which could harm our business and competitive position.

We believe that patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyright, and other intellectual property we use are important to our business. We rely on a combination of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret protection laws in China and other jurisdictions, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions to protect our intellectual property. Some of the intellectual property used in our business operations is held by our founders and a third party. We have entered into license agreements to use such intellectual property for our business operations, but if the individuals holding such intellectual property fail to perform under these license agreements or if the agreements are terminated for any reason, our business and results of operations may be negatively impacted, and if we are deemed to be using such intellectual property without due authorization, we may become subject to legal proceedings or sanctions which could harm our business and results of operations. In addition, we have also invested significant resources to develop our own intellectual property. Failure to maintain or protect intellectual property rights could harm our business, and any unauthorized use of our intellectual property by third parties may adversely affect our current and future revenues, our reputation and ultimately, our overall business.

The validity, enforceability and scope of protection available under intellectual property laws with respect to the mobile and Internet industries in China, where a significant part of our business is located, are uncertain and still evolving. Implementation and enforcement of PRC intellectual property-related laws have historically been somewhat deficient. Accordingly, protection of intellectual property rights in China may not be as effective as in the United States or other countries. Furthermore, policing unauthorized use of proprietary technology is difficult and expensive, and we may need to resort to litigation to enforce or defend patents issued to us or to determine the enforceability, scope and validity of our proprietary rights or those of others. Such litigation and an adverse determination in any such litigation, if any, could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and management attention, which could harm our overall business and competitive position.

We may not be able to manage our expansion effectively and our current and planned resources may not be adequate to support our expanding operations; consequently, our business, results of operations and prospects may be materially and adversely affected.

We have experienced rapid growth since we commenced operations and began offering our first anti-virus services and products for mobile phones in 2005. The cumulative number of our registered user accounts increased from 35.6 million as of December 31, 2009 to 480.8 million as of December 31, 2013, not including the 106.9 million registered user accounts from FL Mobile as of December 31, 2013. In 2014, we began reporting our monthly active user accounts, or MAUs, to include the users and operating metrics from the many emerging businesses in which we have invested, including NQ Live, Music Radar, Yipai, Showself, and others. As such, our MAUs for the year ended December 31, 2014 and going forward should not be compared to previously reported operating metrics in historical periods. For the three months ended December 31, 2014, our average MAU was 160.8 million.

We are also continuing to expand the scale of our operations outside of China, particularly in the United States, with our dual operating headquarters in both Beijing, China and Dallas, Texas. Our rapid expansion may expose us to new challenges and risks. To manage the further expansion of our business and the growth of our operations and personnel, we need to continuously expand and enhance our infrastructure and technology as well as improve our operational and financial systems, procedures and controls. We also need to expand, train and manage our growing employee base. In addition, our management will be required to obtain, maintain or expand relationships with wireless carriers, handset manufacturer partners, chipmakers and other third-party business partners. We cannot assure you that our current and planned personnel, infrastructure, systems, procedures and controls will be adequate to support our expanding operations. If we fail to manage our expansions effectively, our business, results of operations and prospects may be materially and adversely affected.

We have historically derived a majority of our revenues from our smart device users, which may be affected by fluctuations in the smart device market.

We derive a significant amount of our net revenues for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 from mobile value added services, including mobile security, privacy and productivity applications and mobile games and entertainment, for smart devices. Any significant downturn in the overall demand for smart devices could adversely affect the demand for the mobile security, privacy and productivity applications and mobile games and entertainment that we provide, which in turn would materially reduce our revenues. Although the smart device market has grown rapidly in recent years, it is uncertain whether the number of smart devices to be manufactured will grow at a similar rate in the future. To the extent that our future revenues substantially depend on the sales of smart devices, our business would be vulnerable to any downturns in the smart device market.

A significant portion of our revenues historically have been attributable to the users of a limited number of wireless carriers and smart device manufacturers, and if we are unable to maintain these key relationships or establish new relationships with additional wireless carriers and smart device manufacturers, our revenues would be adversely affected.

In the value-added telecommunications market, wireless carriers and handset manufacturers generally have the power to select software and application suppliers. We have established strong relationships with certain wireless carriers and handset manufacturers, and we anticipate that a limited number of wireless carriers and handset manufacturers, particularly smart device manufacturers, will continue to be responsible for a significant percentage of our revenues within the mobile value added services segment for the foreseeable future. However, there is no assurance that we would be able to continue our current arrangements with these wireless carriers and handset manufacturers on similarly favorable terms or at all, and we are not guaranteed any minimum level of revenues from them. We cannot assure you that revenues derived from collaboration with such wireless carriers and handset manufacturers will reach or exceed historical levels in any future period. The loss of one or more of such key wireless carriers or smart device manufacturers, whether due to a change of control or bankruptcy or other causes, a reduction in mobile devices with our products preinstalled, or our failure to attract additional key wireless carriers and handset manufacturers, would adversely affect our revenues.

We depend on wireless carriers and mobile payment service providers as well as other third-party service providers for the collection of a portion of our consumer mobile security revenues, and any loss or deterioration of our relationship with wireless carriers, mobile payment service providers or any of these third-party service providers may result in disruptions to our business operations and the loss of revenues.

For the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2013, a substantial portion of our revenues were collected through third-party service providers, including but not limited to the payment channels of wireless carriers. We cooperate with wireless carriers, either directly or through mobile payment service providers, and wireless carriers provide us with billing and collection services for a fixed percentage of the total billing. If we cooperate with wireless carriers through mobile payment service providers and prepaid card distributors, we share the payments with the mobile payment service providers and prepaid card distributors. Approximately 30.4% and 15.5% of our net revenues were collected through wireless carriers and mobile payment service providers in the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2013. In 2014, however, net revenues collected from these channels became immaterial and fell below 3.5% of our total net revenue due to a strategic business adjustment. Although we expect such percentage to remain immaterial in the future, we expect to continue to rely on wireless carriers and/or mobile payment service providers to collect a part of our revenues. If the payment channels or collection systems of any third-party service providers we use for the collection of our revenues malfunction or become unavailable, we may experience delays associated with attempts to resolve the problems, which may result in a loss of revenues to us. Such problems may be particularly serious if a wireless carrier is involved, because several large wireless carriers hold dominant positions in their respective markets and therefore may have significant influence over a portion of our revenue collection efforts. In addition, any loss or deterioration of our relationships with wireless carriers or mobile payment service providers may result in disruptions to our business operations, the loss of our revenues and a material and adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Historically, we collected a substantial portion of revenues through our top mobile payment service provider, Tianjin Yidatong Technology Development Co., Ltd., or Yidatong, which charged us a lower fee rate than other mobile payment service providers through which we cooperate with wireless carriers. However, from 2012 to 2014, our net revenues collected through Yidatong, as a percentage of our total net revenues, gradually declined from 22.1% to 1.9% as we gradually diversified our number of mobile payment service provider partners and the percentage of our revenues collected through mobile payment service providers decreased in general. Since other mobile payment service provider partners generally impose higher charges as compared to Yidatong, our results of operations may be adversely affected from the reduction in the amount of revenues collected through Yidatong. Although we expect the percentage of revenues collected through Yidatong and other mobile payment service providers to remain immaterial in the future, we still expect to rely on them to collect a certain amount of revenues and our relationships with them may affect our revenue collection efforts. Currently our agreements with mobile payment service providers, including Yidatong, are generally for terms of one to five years and we generally renew these agreements when they expire. If mobile payment service providers do not perform or renew their contracts with us for any reason, our revenue collection efforts and, consequently, business and results of operations, may be adversely affected. In addition, if mobile payment service providers or prepaid card distributors increase the fee rates they charge us or if our relationships with them deteriorate our business and results of operations would be adversely affected.

A significant percentage of our consumer mobile security revenue comes from subscriptions to our premium products, which may not be renewed.

Historically, a significant majority of our active user accounts for consumer mobile security have used our free services. Our growth strategy in the consumer security segment of our business is based in part on offering premium products and services on top of our free products and services and to attract users to enter into new subscriptions or renew existing subscriptions. To the extent we are not able to attract existing users to renew subscriptions to our services or attract existing users to purchase new premium products and services, our ability to generate revenues from consumer mobile security services would be adversely affected. We generally provide our premium products and services pursuant to one-month, three-month, six-month or one-year subscriptions, after which the relevant products or services either cease to operate or are no longer updated with the latest mobile security threats, rendering such products or services increasingly less useful as new mobile security threats emerge. In 2012 and 2013, our consumer mobile security subscription revenues accounted for 74.0% and 42.1% of our total revenues, respectively. However, in 2014, our consumer mobile security subscription revenues accounted for only 17.1% of our total net revenues due to strategic business transition. While we offer our premium user accounts the option to renew their subscriptions, a portion of them choose not to renew. Any failure to maintain or improve the renewal rates of our subscriptions or to attract new subscriptions could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations. Uncertainty about the renewal rates of our subscription users also limits visibility with respect to future revenues from subscriptions to premium consumer mobile security services.

The success of our business depends on our ability to maintain and enhance strong brands; failure to do so may result in a reduced number of user accounts and material and adverse effects on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We believe that maintaining and enhancing our “NQ Mobile”, “NQ” and other brands is of significant importance to the success of our business. A well-recognized brand is critical to increasing the number of our user accounts and, in turn, enhancing our attractiveness to our channel partners, including wireless carriers, third-party developers, mobile device manufacturers and others. Since the mobile Internet industry is highly competitive, maintaining and enhancing our brands depends largely on our ability to retain our current market position in China and the rest of the world, and retaining such position may be difficult and expensive.

Historically, with our comprehensive and reliable mobile security, privacy and productivity services, we have established our reputation and our market position. In addition to our NQ brand, we hold a host of brand names such as “NationSky,” “FL Mobile,”“Ranknow”, “Vlife”, “Music Rader” and “ LOGO

”through NationSky, FL Mobile, Tianya, Huayong, Yinlong and Showself, respectively. We have conducted various marketing and brand promotion activities to enhance our brand names and intend to continue to conduct such marketing and promotional activities, we, however cannot assure you that these promotional activities will be successful and achieve the brand promotion effect we expect. In addition, our users may not positively associate these brands with NQ Mobile. Any failure to maintain and enhance our brands may result in a reduction in the number of user accounts and material and adverse effects on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Any negative publicity and allegations against us or our affiliates may adversely affect our brand, public image and reputation, which may seriously harm our ability to attract and retain users and business partners and result in material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and prospects.

Negative publicity and allegations about us, our products and services, our financial results or our market position, including by short sellers or investment research firms, may adversely affect our brand, public image and reputation, seriously harm our ability to attract and retain users and result in material adverse impact on our results of operations and prospects. For example, on March 15, 2011, a program broadcast by China Central Television Station reported various complaints of certain alleged fraudulent practices by us and by FL Mobile, including allegations of uploading malware or viruses to imported mobile phones to promote our mobile security products. We were subject to negative publicity as a result. We and FL Mobile both interviewed employees and examined or tested the mobile software products in question, in addition to submitting the software products to third-party testing centers established by authoritative government agencies for review, and did not find any evidence of malware or alleged fraudulent practices. In December 2012, an article published on seekingalpha.com made certain allegations concerning the operating data of our company.

Starting from October 2013, Muddy Waters LLC, an unrelated third party, issued several reports containing various allegations against us, after which the trading price of our ADSs declined sharply and several shareholder class action lawsuits were filed against us and some of our directors and senior executive officers. Following an independent investigation, we have rejected the allegations set out in the reports as false and have been actively defending ourselves in the shareholder class action lawsuits, but our share price fluctuated after such negative publicity. Negative publicity in relation to our services, products or business operations in general, regardless of their veracity, could seriously harm our brand, public image and reputation, which in turn may result in a loss of users and business partners and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operation and prospects.

We have been named as a defendant in putative shareholder class action lawsuits that could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition, results of operation, cash flows and reputation.

We will have to defend against the putative shareholder class action lawsuits described in “Item 8. Financial Information—A. Consolidated Statements and Other Financial Information—Legal Proceedings—Litigation,” including any appeals of such lawsuits should our initial defense be unsuccessful. We are currently unable to estimate the possible loss or possible range of loss, if any, associated with the resolution of these lawsuits. In the event that our initial defense of these lawsuits is unsuccessful, there can be no assurance that we will prevail in any appeal. Any adverse outcome of these cases, including any plaintiff’s appeal of a judgment in these lawsuits, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operation, cash flows and reputation. In addition, there can be no assurance that our insurance carriers will cover all or part of the defense costs, or any liabilities that may arise from these matters. The litigation process may utilize a significant portion of our cash resources and divert management’s attention from the day-to-day operations of our company, all of which could harm our business. We also may be subject to claims for indemnification related to these matters, and we cannot predict the impact that indemnification claims may have on our business or financial results. We depend on the billing and payment systems of third parties for our consumer mobile security business; if these systems fail to accurately account for or calculate the revenues generated from the sales of our mobile products and services, our results of operations may be adversely affected.

Failure to timely collect accounts receivable could negatively affect our operations and cash flows and results of operation.

Our business depends on our ability to successfully obtain payments of amounts owed to us for the services and products we provide.

We generally offer third parties whose billing and payment systems we use credit terms ranging from 60 to 210 days for overseas payment and from 30 to 90 days for domestic payment. The accounts receivable from overseas wireless carriers, mobile payment service providers, third-party payment processors and prepaid card distributors have longer settlement periods in general. We are working to reduce the settlement periods but cannot assure you that we will be successful. Substantially all of our accounts receivable are due from wireless carriers, mobile payment service providers, third-party payment processors, prepaid card distributors, Nationsky and Trustek’s customers, FL Mobile’s business partners and other partners and customers of our recently acquired businesses such as Showself as of the date of this annual report. Failure to timely collect our receivables from them, especially from overseas mobile payment service providers, third-party payment processors prepaid card distributors, and enterprise mobility customers may adversely affect our results of operations and cash flows. Our wireless carriers, mobile payment service providers, third-party payment processors, prepaid card distributors or enterprise mobility customers may from time to time experience cash flow difficulties. Consequently, they may delay their payments to us or fail to pay us at all. Any delay in payment or the inability of current or potential wireless carriers, mobile payment service providers, third-party payment processors, prepaid card distributors or enterprise mobility customers to pay us may significantly harm our cash flow and profitability.

As of December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, our accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts, were US$54.5 million, US$81.9 million and US$88.7 million, respectively. We establish a provision for doubtful accounts based upon an assessment of specific evidence indicating doubtful collection, historical experience, account balance aging and prevailing economic conditions. If our provision for doubtful accounts turns out to be insufficient for the relevant periods, our business and results of operations may be adversely affected.

We are highly reliant on the Apple platform for a significant portion of our mobile games revenues. If Apple changes its standard terms and conditions for developers or operators and the mobile game approval process in a way that is detrimental to us, our mobile games and advertising business could be materially and adversely affected.

To date, FL Mobile has derived a significant portion of its mobile game revenues and acquired a significant number of its mobile game players through the Apple platform. We expect this will continue in the near future. FL Mobile is subject to Apple’s standard terms and conditions for application developers and operators, which govern the promotion, distribution and operation of games and payment collection on the Apple platform, and which are subject to changes by Apple at its sole discretion at any time. Our business may be harmed if Apple discontinues or limits our access to its platform, terminates or does not renew our contractual relationship, modifies its terms of service or other policies with us, establishes more favorable relationships with one or more of our competitors, or develops its own competitive offerings.

In addition, mobile games for sales on the Apple platform are subject to approval by Apple. Apple has complete control over the approval of each mobile game submitted to the Apple platform. The terms and policies for the mobile game approval process are very broad and subject to interpretation and frequent changes by Apple. If Apple changes its standard terms and conditions for developers or operators and the mobile game approval process in a way that is detrimental to us, our mobile games and advertising business could be materially and adversely affected. Furthermore, any negative publicity and allegations against us may affect our relationship with Apple, and Apple may remove our mobile games from its platform without giving any specific reason.

We may face increasing competition, which could reduce our market share and materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.

The mobile Internet industry is highly competitive. The industry is characterized by the frequent introduction of new products and services, short product life cycles, evolving industry standards, continual improvement in performance characteristics, rapid adoption of technological and product advancements, as well as price sensitivity on part of users. On the mobile security front, we compete directly with (i) domestic PC/mobile security vendors such as Qihoo 360, Tencent and Kingsoft, (ii) overseas security software providers such as Avast, Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Trend Micro, F-Secure and Kaspersky, and (iii) other emerging companies offering mobile security products, such as Lookout. While we have focused on providing mobile security services since the founding of our company, most of our competitors are traditional PC anti-virus providers who later entered into the mobile security market.

For our mobile game business, we compete primarily with other mobile game operators in China, such as Chukong Holdings Ltd, China Mobile Games & Entertainment Group Ltd, iDreamSky Technology Ltd and KunLun. For our enterprise mobility business, our mobile device management software “NQSky” competes with similar offerings from international vendors such as MobileIron, AirWatch and SAP Afaria. As an integrated enterprise mobility service provider, we also compete with other global and domestic players such as IBM, Accenture, Neusoft, Techown and Cyberwise.

For many of our emerging businesses and applications including Showself, Vlife, Doreso and our advertising business, we face competitions from other internet platform businesses including Tencent, Qihoo 360, Baidu as well as from more specialized Internet services providers like YY, 9158.com and Shazam, to name a few.

We may also face competition from alliances between our existing and new competitors, and new competitors may also emerge from time to time. With more entrants into the industry, aggressive price cutting by competitors may result in downward pressure on our gross margins and profitability in the future. Some of our existing and potential competitors may have greater financial, technological and marketing resources, stronger relationships with mobile ecosystem participants and a larger portfolio of offerings than we do. Some of our competitors or potential competitors may have greater development experience and resources than we have. If there are new entrants in the market or intensified competition among existing competitors, we may have to provide more favorable revenue-sharing arrangements to mobile ecosystem participants working with us, or cut the prices of our product and service offerings to retain and attract users which could adversely affect our profitability. If we fail to compete effectively, our market share would decrease and our results of operations would be materially and adversely affected.

Significant changes in the policies, guidelines or practice of wireless carriers with respect to mobile applications and other content may result in lower revenues or additional costs for us and materially and adversely affect our business operations, financial condition and results of operations.

Governments in the PRC or elsewhere in the world may from time to time issue new policies or guidelines, requesting or stating their requirements for certain actions to be taken by all wireless carriers. A significant change in wireless carriers’ policies or guidelines may cause our revenues to decrease or operating costs to increase. We cannot assure you that our financial condition and results of operations will not be materially and adversely affected by government policy or guideline changes.

For example, beginning in January 2010, China Mobile implemented a series of measures targeted at further improving the user experience from mobile handset embedded services. Under these measures, mobile applications and other content that are embedded in handsets are required to introduce additional notices and confirmations to users when being purchased. In addition, services based on SMS short codes will be required to be more tailored to the specific mobile applications and content offerings or mobile payment service providers. Such measures make it more burdensome for users to purchase services and products, and, as a result, some users purchased fewer applications or ceased purchasing altogether. If similar or more stringent measures are imposed by the government or wireless carriers in the future, our business and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

We cannot assure you that any of the governments in the regions we operate or any wireless carriers we work with will not introduce additional requirements with respect to the procedures for ordering monthly subscriptions or single-transaction downloads of mobile services and products, notifications to users, the billing of user accounts or other consumer protection measures or adopt other policies that may require significant changes in the way we promote and sell the applications, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Disruption or failure of our cloud-client computing platform and our servers could impair our users’ mobile experience and adversely affect our reputation and results of operations.

Our ability to provide our mobile security users with high-security mobile experience depends on the continuous and reliable operation of our cloud-client computing platform and servers. Disruptions, failures, unscheduled service interruptions or decrease in the connection speed could hurt our reputation and cause our users to switch to our competitors’ products and services. Our systems are vulnerable to damage or interruption as a result of fires, floods, earthquakes, power losses, telecommunication failures, undetected errors in the software, computer viruses, hacking and other attempts to harm our network and servers. We may experience network or service interruptions in the future despite our continuous efforts to improve our network and servers. If we experience frequent or persistent disruptions to our network or servers, whether caused by failures of our own systems or those of third-party payment processors, our users’ mobile experience may be negatively affected, which in turn, may have a material adverse effect on our reputation and results of operations. We cannot assure you that we will be successful in minimizing the frequency or duration of these interruptions.

We may be subject to liability for user complaints concerning our products and services which may cause fines or penalties and adversely affect our business operations.

In recent years, the PRC government has adopted several administrative rules governing and reinforcing the supervision over paid services and products delivered over the Internet. Under these administrative rules, telecommunications and Internet information providers are required to follow a formal procedure in handling user complaints, and the activities such as arbitrary charges or trapped charges are subject to severe penalties from the relevant authorities. Failure to comply with these administrative rules may subject us to liabilities including refund, damages payments to users or, in the most serious scenario, suspension of our business. In addition, if we are unable to duly resolve user complaints in a timely manner in the future, or if the PRC government promulgates regulations or administrative rules that have more restrictive provisions or more severe penalties, our business operations may be adversely affected.

Our business may be adversely affected if we fail to ensure the security and privacy of confidential user information.

A significant barrier to the development of wireless business is the secure transmission of confidential information over wireless networks. We rely on proprietary encryption and authentication technology to provide the security and authentication necessary to effect secure transmission of confidential user information and to protect such information, such as user name and password. While we have not experienced any material breach of our security measures to date, there can be no assurance that advances in technology capabilities, new discoveries in the field of cryptography, or other events or developments will not result in a compromise or breach of the algorithms used by us to protect user information. A party that is able to circumvent these security measures could misappropriate proprietary information or cause interruptions in our operations.

Intensifying legal protection for the confidential information of users may subject us to greater liability. For example, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, or MIIT, has promulgated “Several Provisions on Regulating the Market Order of Internet Information Services” to ensure a level playing ground for website operators in China and to enhance protection to Internet users in areas such as Internet security, web advertising and data protection. The provisions came into effect on March 15, 2012. These provisions echo the Chinese government’s policy of intensifying protection of personal privacy. Internet information service providers are required to obtain users’ consent prior to collecting any users’ personal information or disclosing it to a third party. Non-compliance with these protection requirements may incur a fine of RMB10, 000 to RMB30, 000. On December 28, 2012, the Standing Committee of Congress of the PRC issued the Decision on Strengthening Internet Information Protection, reiterating that Internet service providers must explicitly specify the purpose, way, scope of collecting users’ individual information and obtain users’ consent prior to such collection. The Internet service provider is also prohibited from sending unsolicited commercial information to users. Non-compliance with these provisions may result in civil, administrative or criminal penalties.

We may be required to expend significant capital and other resources to protect against security breaches or to alleviate problems caused by such breaches. Concerns over the security and privacy of user information, including concerns regarding potential misuse of private user information to commit crimes such as identity theft, may inhibit the wireless business generally, and our mobile security, privacy and productivity products and services in particular. To the extent that our activities involve the storage and transmission of personal data or proprietary information, security breaches could damage our reputation and expose us to a risk of loss or litigation and possible liability. There can be no assurance that our security measures will prevent security breaches, and failure to prevent such security breaches may have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.

Our results of operations, financial performance and business may be adversely affected by potential intellectual property rights infringement claims against us.

We could face claims by others that we are improperly using intellectual property owned by them or otherwise infringing upon their rights in intellectual property. For example, intellectual property disputes may arise in relation to certain third-party produced mobile software programs that we make available for download. Irrespective of the validity or the successful assertion of any such claims, we could incur costs in either defending or settling any intellectual property disputes alleging infringement. Intellectual property litigation against us could potentially force us to, among other things, cease offering the challenged mobile application, develop non-infringing alternatives or obtain licenses from the owners of the infringed intellectual property. We may not be successful in developing such alternatives or in obtaining such licenses on reasonable terms or at all and our results of operations, financial performance and business may be materially and adversely affected.

We have granted, and may continue to grant, stock options and restricted shares, which may result in increased share-based compensation expenses.

We adopted two share incentive plans, the 2007 Global Share Plan and the 2011 Share Incentive Plan (together, the “Plans”). We granted awards such as options and restricted shares to directors, executive officers, employees, third-party consultants, business partners both pursuant to and outside of the Plans and pursuant to contractual arrangements in some of our acquisitions. See “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employee — B. Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers — Share Incentive Plans” for detailed discussion. For the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, we recorded US$24.5 million, US$55.4 million and US$83.8 million, respectively, in share-based compensation expenses. As of March 15, 2015, 704,720 restricted shares and options to purchase a total of 25,011,840 common shares of our company were outstanding. As of March 15, 2015, 1,641,243 restricted ADSs were also granted and outstanding under the 2011 Share Incentive Plan; subject to the fulfillment of certain performance goals, up to 378,480 restricted ADSs shall become vested and non-forfeitable under the relevant award agreements. We believe the granting of stock options and restricted shares is of significant importance to our ability to attract and retain key personnel, employees and third-party consultants, and we will continue to grant stock options and restricted shares to key personnel, employees, third-party consultants and business partners in the future. However, the share-based compensation expenses we incur will reduce our income from operations. We have incurred, and expect to continue to incur, share-based compensation expenses, which may have a material and adverse effect on our results of operations.

Our quarterly revenues and operating results may fluctuate, which makes our results of operations difficult to predict and may cause our quarterly results of operations to fall short of expectations.

Our quarterly revenues and operating results have fluctuated in the past and may continue to fluctuate depending upon a number of factors, including, among others, the demand for our products and services, the launch of new products and services, policy changes of wireless carriers, and our revenue-sharing arrangements with mobile ecosystem participants. For our enterprise mobility business, we experience seasonality driven by our corporate customers’ mobile device and enterprise software procurement cycles. For example, China based corporations often procure information technology related products and services in the second half of the year. Thus, we typically derive a larger portion of enterprise mobility revenues in the second half of the year. Many of these factors are out of our control. For these reasons, comparing our operating results on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful, and you should not rely on our past results as an indication of our future performance. Our quarterly and annual revenues and costs and expenses as a percentage of our revenues may be significantly different from our historical or projected rates. Our operating results in future quarters may fall below expectations. Any of these events could cause the price of our ADSs to fall.

The continuing and collaborative efforts of our senior management and key employees are crucial to our success, and our business may be harmed if we were to lose their services.

Our success depends on the continuous efforts and services of our experienced senior management team, particularly Dr. Vincent Wenyong Shi, our co-founder, Chairman of the Board, chief operating officer and acting chief financial officer, and Zemin Xu, our co-chief executive officer and director, both experienced leaders with a successful track record of developing products and services, and our director and co-chief executive officer Omar Khan, a highly regarded veteran in the mobile industry. Additionally, the senior management and key employees of our key subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities, including FL Mobile and NationSky, are also critical to the success of our overall strategy and growth objectives.

If one or more of our executives or other key personnel or the senior management and key employees of our key subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities are unable or unwilling to continue to provide us with their services, we may not be able to replace them easily or at all, our business may be severely disrupted, our financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected, and we may incur additional expenses to recruit, train and retain personnel. For example, Dr. Henry Lin, our former co-chief executive officer and Chairman of the Board, and Mr. KB Teo, our former chief financial officer, resigned from our company due to personal reasons in 2014, and although other members of our senior management team remain committed to our company, we cannot assure you that we will continue to be able to find successors for every senior management member who may resign. Competition for management and key personnel is intense and the pool of qualified candidates is limited. We may not be able to retain the services of our executives or key personnel, or attract and retain experienced executives or key personnel in the future. If any of our executive officers or key employees join a competitor or forms a competing company, we may lose our superiority in technological design and development. Each of our executive officers and key employees has entered into an employment agreement with us, which contains non-competition provisions. However, if any dispute arises between us and our executives or key employees, these agreements may not be enforceable in China, where these executives and key employees reside, in light of uncertainties with China’s legal system. See “— Risks Relating to Doing Business in China — Uncertainties with respect to the PRC legal system could adversely affect us.” In addition, if one or more of our executives or other key personnel do not act in the best interests of our company when a conflict of interest arises, our business, prospects and reputation may be harmed.

Our business, financial condition and results of operations are sensitive to global economic conditions. A severe or prolonged downturn in the global or Chinese economy could materially and adversely affect our business and our financial condition.

The global financial markets experienced significant disruptions in 2008 and the recovery from such disruptions was uneven. The world economy is facing new challenges, including the potential renegotiation of the terms of the Greece sovereign debt in 2015and the recent and projected slowdown of the Chinese economy. There remains uncertainty over the long-term effects of the monetary and fiscal policies adopted by the central banks and financial authorities of some of the world’s leading economies, including China’s. There have also been concerns over unrest in different areas of the world, including the radical actions of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which have resulted in market volatility. Economic conditions in China are sensitive to global economic conditions as well as changes in domestic economic and political policies and the expected or perceived overall economic growth rate in China. Since the demand for high-end mobile applications is particularly sensitive to macroeconomic conditions, our business and prospects may be affected by the macroeconomic environment. Any negative impact to the global or Chinese economy may have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition, and continued turbulence in the international markets may materially and adversely affect our ability to access the capital markets to meet liquidity needs.

We may offer our products and services to persons in countries targeted by economic sanctions of the United States government through third-party distributors and download services, which may adversely affect our reputation and prospective investors, may decide not to invest in our shares, thereby potentially reducing our share price.

The U.S. government has enacted laws and regulations, including laws and regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, or the U.S. Economic Sanctions Laws that impose restrictions upon U.S. persons with respect to activities or transactions with certain countries, governments, entities and individuals that are the subject of U.S. Economic Sanctions Laws, or the Sanctions Targets. U.S. persons are also prohibited from facilitating such activities or transactions. We do not actively seek to provide our products and services to Sanctions Targets, have not generated any revenue from the distribution of our products and services in countries that are Sanctions Targets, and do not intend to do so in the future. However, as we make free products available for download on the Internet and have third-party distributors for our products outside of China, there may be instances where our products and services eventually become available to Sanctions Targets through different channels and without any active distribution by us in these regions. We believe the U.S. Economic Sanctions Laws under their current terms are not applicable to our activities. However, we cannot assure you that our products would not be available to Sanctions Targets, or that we would be able to effectively prevent Sanctions Targets from using our products and services in the future. If such transactions occur, our reputation could be adversely affected, and investors in the United States may choose not to invest in, and to divest any investments in, companies that are associated even indirectly with Sanctions Targets, all of which could have a material and adverse effect on the price of our shares and the value of your investment in us.

The number of our registered user accounts overstates the number of unique individuals who register to use our products. Our active, paying and premium user account figures may differ from the actual numbers of active, paying and premium users.

We define registered user accounts for a period, presented in this annual report for historical periods prior to 2014, as the cumulative number of user accounts at the end of the period. Because every time a person activates one of our mobile products after the initial installation, a unique registered user account is generated, and each person can install and activate more than one of our products on his or her smart devices, each smart device could be associated with more than one of our registered user accounts. In addition, each person could have more than one smart device with our mobile products installed and activated. Consequently, the actual number of unique individual users of our products and services is lower than the number of registered user accounts we provide in this annual report, where differences could be potentially significant.

We define active user accounts for a specific period as the registered user accounts that have accessed our services at least once during such period. We define paying user accounts for a specific period, presented in this annual report for historical periods from 2010 through 2012, as user accounts that have paid or subscribed for our premium services during the relevant period. We define premium user accounts for a specific period, presented in this annual report for the three months ended December 31, 2013, as user accounts that generate revenues either through direct payment or through indirect payment from third-party developers and advertisers. The numbers of active, paying and premium user accounts derived from our operational system for the periods presented may differ from the actual numbers of active, paying and premium users for such periods.

If we fail to establish or maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may be unable to accurately report our financial results or prevent fraud, and investor confidence and the market price of our shares may, therefore, be adversely impacted.

We are subject to reporting obligations under the U.S. securities laws. Among other things, the SEC, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or Section 404, adopted rules requiring every public company, including us, to include a report from management on the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting in its second annual report on Form 20-F. In addition, beginning at the same time, an independent registered public accounting firm must attest to and report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. We began to be subject to these requirements since the annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.

Our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting is effective as of December 31, 2014. See “Item 15. Controls and Procedures — Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting.” Our independent registered public accounting firm has issued an attestation report, which has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting is effective as of December 31, 2014. However, if we fail to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting in the future, our management and our independent registered public accounting firm may not be able to conclude that we have effective internal control over financial reporting at a reasonable assurance level. This could in turn result in the loss of investor confidence in the reliability of our financial statements and negatively impact the trading price of our ADSs. Furthermore, we have incurred and anticipated that we will continue to incur considerable costs, management time and other resources in an effort to maintain compliance with Section 404 and other requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

We have limited business insurance coverage, which could expose us to substantial costs and diversion of resources that in turn may have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

Insurance companies in China currently do not offer as extensive an array of insurance products as insurance companies do in more developed economies. Consistent with customary industry practice in China, we do not maintain specific business interruption insurance or real property insurance, although we do maintain a directors, officers and company liability insurance policy for the protection of our company and our directors and officers. We have determined that the costs of insuring for these risks and the difficulties associated with acquiring such insurance on commercially reasonable terms make it impractical for us to have such insurance. Uninsured damage to any of our equipment or buildings or a significant product liability claim may result in our incurring substantial costs and the diversion of resources, which could have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

We face risks of epidemics and other disasters, which could severely disrupt our business operations.

Our business could be materially and adversely affected by the outbreak of epidemics such as H1N1, avian influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, and Ebola. In recent years, there have been breakouts of epidemics in China and globally. Our business operations could be disrupted if one or more of our employees’ contract, or are suspected of having contracted, any highly contagious diseases such as H1N1, avian influenza, SARS or Ebola, since it could cause our employees to be quarantined or our offices to be quarantined or disinfected. Any prolonged recurrence of epidemics or other adverse public health developments could adversely affect economic activities and require the temporary closure of one or more of our offices. Such closures could severely disrupt our business operations and adversely affect our results of operations. In addition, our results of operations could be adversely affected to the extent that any outbreak of epidemics harms the global economy in general and the Chinese economy in particular.

In addition, our business operations are vulnerable to interruption and damage from man-made or natural disasters, including wars, acts of terrorism, snowstorms, earthquakes, fire, floods, environmental accidents, power loss, communications failures and similar events. If any man-made or natural disaster were to occur in the future, our ability to operate our business could be seriously impaired.

If the PRC government finds that the agreements that establish the structure for operating our businesses in China do not comply with PRC governmental restrictions on foreign investment in telecommunication business, or if these regulations or the interpretation of existing regulations change in the future, we could be subject to severe penalties or be forced to relinquish our interests in those operations.

Current PRC laws and regulations place certain restrictions on foreign ownership of companies that engage in telecommunication business, including mobile application providers. Specifically, foreign ownership in a value-added telecommunication mobile payment service provider may not exceed 50%. We currently conduct our operations in China principally through contractual arrangements among our wholly owned subsidiaries, our consolidated affiliated entities and the shareholders of our consolidated affiliated entities. Our consolidated affiliated entities hold the licenses and permits necessary to conduct our businesses in China. Our contractual arrangements with our consolidated affiliated entities and their respective shareholders enable us to exercise effective control over our consolidated affiliated entities and consolidate their financial results. For a detailed discussion of these contractual arrangements, see “Item 4. Information of the Company — C. Organizational Structure.”

The Circular Regarding Strengthening the Administration of Foreign Investment in and Operation of Value Added Telecommunications Business, issued by the MIIT in July 2006, reiterated the regulations on foreign investment in telecommunications businesses, which require foreign investors to set up foreign-invested enterprises and obtain a business operating license to conduct any value-added telecommunications business in China. Under this circular, a domestic company that holds a telecommunications value-added services operation license is prohibited from leasing, transferring or selling the license to foreign investors in any form, and from providing any assistance, including providing resources, websites or facilities, to foreign investors that conduct any value added telecommunications business illegally in China. Furthermore, the relevant trademarks and domain names that are used in the value-added telecommunications business must be owned by the local license holder. This circular further requires each telecommunications value-added services operation license holder to have the necessary facilities for its approved business operations and to maintain such facilities in the regions covered by its license. In addition, all value-added telecommunications mobile payment service providers are required to maintain network and information security in accordance with the standards set forth under relevant PRC regulations. Due to a lack of interpretative materials from the regulator, it is unclear what impact this circular might have on us or the other Chinese telecommunications and Internet companies that have adopted the same or similar corporate and contractual structures as ours.

The MIIT issued a circular in 2006 that emphasizes restrictions on foreign investment in value-added telecommunications businesses. In addition, a notice issued in 2009 by the General Administration of Press and Publication, or the GAPP, the National Copyright Administration, and the National Office of Combating Pornography and Illegal Publications states that foreign investors are not permitted to invest in online game operating businesses in China or to exercise control over or participate in the operation of such businesses through indirect means. Due to a lack of interpretative materials from the relevant PRC authorities, there are uncertainties regarding whether PRC authorities would consider our corporate structure and contractual arrangements to be a kind of foreign investment in value-added telecommunications services or online game operation businesses. According to Regulations on the Main Functions, Internal Organization and Staffing of GAPP issued by the General Office of the State Council on July 11, 2008 and its interpretation circulars, GAPP is authorized to approve online games before their launch on the Internet, while the PRC Ministry of Culture, or the MOC is authorized to administer and regulate the overall online game industry. Once an online game is launched on the Internet, it will be regulated only by the MOC, and if an online game is launched on the Internet without the prior GAPP approval, the MOC is the authority responsible for investigating the matter. On September 7, 2009, the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform, or the SCOPSR issued a circular for interpreting certain provisions of the Regulations on Three Provisions, in relation to comprehensive enforcement by GAPP, the MOC and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television over animation, online game and cultural market. The interpretation states that: (1) the regulatory authority with overall administrative responsibility for the oversight of online games is the MOC, and GAPP’s authority of administration over online games (other than pre-examination and approval before publication of online games on the Internet) has been granted to the MOC; (2) only the authority of pre-examination and approval for the publication of online games is retained by GAPP, but such authority is subject to the MOC’s overall administration and is only limited to the stage prior to the games being brought online for operation; (3) once the games are online, they will be completely administrated and regulated by the MOC; and (4) the MOC is the sole regulator which has the authority to penalize online game operators who failed to obtain the pre-examination and approval from GAPP. On the other hand, GAPP does not have direct administrative jurisdiction over such activities. According to such circular issued by SCOPSR, we thus believe that the provision of the GAPP Notice discussed above with respect to regulation of online game operation does not apply to us or our PRC subsidiaries, nor does it affect our control over our PRC subsidiaries. While we are not aware of any online game companies which use the same or similar contractual arrangements as ours having been penalized or ordered to terminate operations by PRC authorities claiming that the arrangements constituted foreign investment in value-added telecommunication services or a kind of control over or participation in the operation of online game operating businesses through indirect means, it is unclear whether and how the various regulations of the PRC authorities might be interpreted or implemented in the future.

Although we believe we are in compliance with current PRC regulations, we cannot assure you that the PRC government would agree that these contractual arrangements comply with PRC licensing, registration or other regulatory requirements, with existing policies or with requirements or policies that may be adopted in the future. PRC laws and regulations governing the validity of these contractual arrangements are uncertain and the relevant government authorities have broad discretion in interpreting these laws and regulations. If the PRC government determines that we do not comply with applicable laws and regulations, it could revoke our business and operating licenses, require us to discontinue or restrict our operations, restrict our right to collect revenues, block our websites, impose additional conditions or requirements with which we may not be able to comply, or take other regulatory or enforcement actions against us that could be harmful to our business. The imposition of any of these penalties would result in a material and adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business. The PRC government may also require us to restructure our operations entirely if it comes to find that our contractual arrangements do not comply with applicable laws and regulations. It is unclear how such mandatory restructuring could impact our business and operating results, as the PRC government has not yet found such contractual arrangements to be in non-compliance. However, any such restructuring may cause significant disruption to our business operations.

The relevant regulatory authorities would have broad discretion in dealing with such violations. In 2011, various media sources reported that the CSRC prepared a report proposing pre-approval by a competent central government authority of offshore listings by China-based companies with variable interest entity structures, such as ours, that operate in industry sectors subject to foreign investment restrictions. However, it is unclear whether the CSRC officially issued or submitted such a report to a higher level government authority or what any such report provides, or whether any new PRC laws or regulations relating to variable interest entity structures will be adopted or what they would provide. In addition, if the imposition of any of these penalties causes us to lose our rights to direct the activities of our consolidated affiliated entities and their respective subsidiaries or the right to receive their economic benefits, this may result in our being unable to control, and hence unable to consolidate, the consolidated affiliated entities and their respective subsidiaries.

We rely on contractual arrangements with our consolidated affiliated entities in China and their shareholders for our operations, which may not be as effective as direct ownership in providing operational control and may negatively affect our ability to conduct our business.

Since PRC laws restrict foreign equity ownership in companies engaged in value-added telecommunication businesses like us in China, we rely on contractual arrangements with our consolidated affiliated entities, including Beijing NQ Technology Co., Ltd., FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Wanpu Century Co., Ltd., and their shareholders to operate our business in China. Although we registered the equity pledge agreement with the shareholders of our subsidiaries so that we are able to enforce the pledge against any third parties, these contractual arrangements may not be as effective as direct ownership in providing us with control over our consolidated affiliated entities. Our consolidated affiliated entities and their respective shareholders may fail to take certain actions required for our business or fail to follow our instructions despite their contractual obligations to do so. If they fail to perform their obligations under their respective agreements with us, we may have to rely on legal remedies under PRC law, including seeking specific performance or injunctive relief, which may not be effective. See Item 7. Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions — B. Related Party Transactions — Contractual Arrangements.”

Although we have been advised by Jincheng Tongda & Neal, our PRC legal counsel, that each contract under these contractual arrangements with our consolidated affiliated entities named above is valid, binding and enforceable under current PRC laws and regulations, these contractual arrangements may not be as effective in providing us with control over our consolidated affiliated entities as direct ownership of them. In addition, our consolidated affiliated entities or their respective shareholders may breach the contractual arrangements. We cannot assure you that when conflicts of interest arise, our consolidated affiliated entities and their respective shareholders will act completely in our interests or those conflicts of interests will be resolved in our favor. In any such event, we would have to rely on legal remedies under PRC law.

All of these contractual arrangements are governed by PRC law and provide for the resolution of disputes through arbitration in the PRC. Accordingly, these contracts would be interpreted in accordance with PRC law and any disputes would be resolved in accordance with PRC legal procedures. Uncertainties in the PRC legal system could limit our ability to enforce these contractual arrangements, which may make it difficult to exert effective control over our consolidated affiliated entities, and our ability to conduct our business may be negatively affected.

Substantial uncertainties exist with respect to the enactment timetable, interpretation and implementation of draft PRC Foreign Investment Law and it may impact the viability of our current corporate structure, corporate governance and business operations.

The Minister of Commerce, or MOFCOM, published a discussion draft of the proposed Foreign Investment Law (the “Draft”) in January 2015 aiming to, upon its enactment, replace the trio of existing laws regulating foreign investment in China. The Draft embodies an expected PRC regulatory trend to rationalize its foreign investment regulatory regime in line with prevailing international practice and the legislative efforts to unify the corporate legal requirements for both foreign and domestic investments. The MOFCOM is currently soliciting comments on the Draft and substantial uncertainties exist with respect to its enactment timetable, interpretation and implementation. The Draft, if enacted as proposed, may materially impact the viability of our current corporate structure, corporate governance and business operations in following aspects:

Firstly, the Draft expands the definition of foreign investment and introduces the principle of “actual control” in determining whether a company is considered a foreign-invested enterprise, or an FIE. Under the Draft, the entities established in China but “controlled” by foreign investors will be treated as FIEs, whereas an entity set up in a foreign jurisdiction would nonetheless be, upon market entry clearance by the MOFCOM, treated as a PRC domestic investor provided that the entity is “controlled” by PRC entities and/or citizens. In this connection, “control” is broadly defined in the draft law to cover the following summarized categories: (i) holding, directly or indirectly, not less than 50% of shares, equities, share of properties, voting rights or other similar rights of the enterprise; (ii) holding, directly or indirectly, less than 50% of shares, equities, share of properties, voting rights or other similar rights of the enterprise, but falling under any of the following circumstances: (1) having the right to directly or indirectly appoint not less than half of the members of the board of directors or other similar decision-making body of the enterprise; (2) having the ability to ensure that its nominees occupy not less than half of seats in the board of directors or other similar decision-making body of the enterprise; or (3) holding voting rights sufficient to impose significant impacts on any resolution of the board of shareholders, at the general meeting of shareholders, or of the board of directors or other decision-making body of the enterprise; or (iii) having the power to exert decisive influence, via contractual or trust arrangements, over the subject entity’s operations, financial matters or other key aspects of business operations. Once an entity is determined to be an FIE, it will be subject to the foreign investment restrictions or prohibitions set forth in a “negative list,” to be separately issued by the State Council later, if the FIE is engaged in the industry listed in the negative list. Unless the underlying business of the FIE falls within the negative list, which calls for market entry clearance by the MOFCOM, prior approval from the government authorities as mandated by the existing foreign investment legal regime would no longer be required for establishment of the FIE.

The “variable interest entity” structure, or VIE structure, has been adopted by many PRC-based companies, including us, to obtain necessary licenses and permits in the industries that are currently subject to foreign investment restrictions in China. Under the Draft, variable interest entities that are controlled via contractual arrangement would also be deemed as FIEs, if they are ultimately “controlled” by foreign investors. Therefore, for any companies with a VIE structure in an industry category that is on the “negative list,” the VIE structure may be deemed legitimate only if the ultimate controlling person(s) is/are of PRC nationality (either PRC companies or PRC citizens). Conversely, if the actual controlling person(s) is/are of foreign nationalities, then the variable interest entities will be treated as FIEs and any operation in the industry category on the “negative list” without market entry clearance may be considered as illegal. Moreover, for the enterprises which are not incorporated under the laws of China (foreign investors) but are “controlled” by Chinese investors, they may submit documentary evidence to apply for identifying their investment as the investment by Chinese investors when they applying for the market entry clearance to engage in any investment as set out in the “negative list” in China. The competent authorities of foreign investment will grant the review opinion on whether the said investment is identified as the investment by Chinese investors.

Through our dual-class share structure, our controlling shareholders Dr. Henry Yu Lin, Dr. Vincent Wenyong Shi and Mr. Zhou Xu, all of whom are PRC citizens, together possess and control 56.1% of the total voting power of our company, which means that we may submit documentary evidence to apply for identifying our investment as the investment by Chinese investors. However, the Draft has not taken a position on what actions shall be taken with respect to the existing companies with a VIE structure, whether or not these companies are controlled by Chinese parties, while it is soliciting comments from the public on this point. Moreover, it is uncertain whether the mobile internet industry, in which our variable interest entities operate, will be subject to the foreign investment restrictions or prohibitions set forth in the “negative list” to be issued. If the enacted version of the Foreign Investment Law and the final “negative list” mandate further actions, such as MOFCOM market entry clearance, to be completed by companies with existing VIE structure like us, we face uncertainties as to whether such clearance can be timely obtained, or at all.

Besides, the Draft imposes stringent ad hoc and periodic information reporting requirements on foreign investors and the applicable FIEs. Aside from investment implementation report and investment amendment report that are required at each investment and alteration of investment specifics, an annual report is mandatory, and large foreign investors meeting certain criteria are required to report on a quarterly basis. Any company found to be non-compliant with such information reporting obligations may potentially be subject to fines and/or administrative or criminal liabilities, and the persons directly responsible may be subject to criminal liabilities.

Finally, the transition from the current regulatory regime to the new regime: The Draft sets out basic principles on how to deal with issues which may arise during the transition period. FIEs are provided a 3-year transition period to change its legal form and governance structures so as to align with the Company Law, the Partnership Law and the Individual Proprietor Enterprise Law. Before completion of such change, the Three FIE Laws remain in place.

Contractual arrangements with our consolidated affiliated entities may result in adverse tax consequences to us.

Under applicable PRC tax laws and regulations, arrangements and transactions among related parties may be subject to audit or scrutiny by the PRC tax authorities. We could face material and adverse tax consequences if the PRC tax authorities were to determine that the contractual arrangements among our subsidiaries, consolidated affiliated entities and the shareholders of our consolidated affiliated entities were not entered into on an arm’s-length basis and therefore constituted unfavorable transfer pricing arrangements. An unfavorable transfer pricing arrangements could, among others, result in an upward adjustment on taxation. In addition, the PRC tax authorities may impose late payment penalties and interest on our consolidated affiliated entities for the adjusted but unpaid taxes. Our results of operations may be materially and adversely affected if our consolidated affiliated entities’ tax liabilities increase significantly and they are required to pay late payment penalties and interest.

The shareholders of our consolidated affiliated entities may have potential conflicts of interest with us, which may materially and adversely affect our business and financial condition.

All of the shareholders of our consolidated affiliated entities are individuals who are our founders or executive officers. Conflicts of interest may arise between the dual roles of those individuals who are both executive officers of our company and shareholders of our consolidated affiliated entities. We do not have existing arrangements to address potential conflicts of interest between those individuals and our company and cannot assure you that when conflicts arise, those individuals will act in the best interest of our company or that such conflicts will be resolved in our favor. If we cannot resolve any conflicts of interest or disputes between us and those individuals, we would have to rely on legal proceedings, which may materially disrupt our business. There is also substantial uncertainty as to the outcome of any such legal proceeding.

We may rely principally on dividends and other distributions on equity paid by our PRC and HK subsidiaries to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have. Any limitation on the ability of our PRC and HK subsidiaries to pay dividends to us could have a material adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business.

We are a holding company, and we rely principally on dividends and other distributions on equity paid by our wholly owned subsidiaries for our cash and financing requirements, including the funds necessary to pay dividends and other cash distributions to our shareholders and service any debt we may incur. If these wholly owned subsidiaries, such as NQ Beijing, incur debt on its own behalf in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict their ability to pay dividends or make other distributions to us. In addition, the PRC tax authorities may require us to adjust our taxable income under the contractual arrangements we currently have in place with our consolidated affiliated entities in a manner that would materially and adversely affect their ability to pay dividends and other distributions to us.

Under PRC laws and regulations, our subsidiaries may pay dividends only out of its cumulative profits as determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. In addition, they are required to set aside at least 10% of their cumulative after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund certain statutory reserve funds, until the aggregate amount of such a fund reaches 50% of their respective registered capital. Although the statutory reserves can be used, among other ways, to increase the registered capital and eliminate future losses in excess of retained earnings of the respective companies, the reserve funds are not distributable as cash dividends except in the event of liquidation. At their discretion, they may allocate a portion of their after-tax profits based on PRC accounting standards to staff welfare and bonus funds. These reserve funds and staff welfare and bonus funds are not distributable as cash dividends. The registered capital of NQ Beijing is US$50 million. As of December 31, 2012, NQ Beijing turned into cumulative profit pursuant to PRC accounting standards since its inception and therefore, in accordance with applicable PRC laws and regulations, it set aside US$7.7 million and US$7.7 million statutory reserve as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

Furthermore, cash transfers from our PRC subsidiaries to our subsidiaries outside of China are subject to PRC government control of currency conversion. Restrictions on the availability of foreign currency may affect the ability of our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities to remit sufficient foreign currency to pay dividends or other payments to us, or otherwise satisfy their foreign currency denominated obligations. See “Item 3. Key Information — D. Risk Factors— Risks Related to Doing Business in China—Governmental control of currency conversion may limit our ability to utilize our revenues effectively and affect the value of your investment.”

Any limitation on the ability of NQ Beijing to pay dividends or make other distributions to us could materially and adversely limit our ability to grow, make investments or acquisitions that could be beneficial to our business, pay dividends, or otherwise fund and conduct our business. See “Item 3. Key Information — D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Doing Business in China — Our global income and the dividends that we may receive from our PRC subsidiaries may be subject to PRC taxes under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, which may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.”

PRC regulation of loans to, and direct investment in, PRC entities by offshore holding companies and governmental control of currency conversion may restrict or prevent us from making loans to our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities or making additional capital contributions to our PRC subsidiaries, which may materially and adversely affect our liquidity and our ability to fund and expand our business.

We are an offshore holding company conducting our operations in China through our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities. We may make loans to our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities, or we may make additional capital contributions to our PRC subsidiaries.

Any loans we issue to our PRC subsidiaries, which is treated as a foreign-invested enterprise under PRC law, are subject to PRC regulations and foreign exchange loan registrations. Pursuant to Article 18 of the Provisional Rules on Management of Foreign Debt effective on March 1, 2003, the total amount of foreign debts of a foreign-invested company shall be subject to a statutory limit which is the difference between the amount of total investment and the amount of registered capital of such foreign-invested company. The current amount of total investment and amount of registered capital of our PRC subsidiaries are US$176.054 million and US$134.15 million, respectively, and the current statutory limits on the loans to the PRC subsidiary is US$41.904 million. Such statutory limits can increase if the amount of total investment of the PRC subsidiary increases; under PRC laws and regulations, the maximum amount of total investment of a foreign-invested company with a registered capital of more than US$12 million shall not exceed three times of its registered capital. For example, loans by us to NQ Beijing to finance its activities cannot exceed statutory limits and must be registered with the local counterpart of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or SAFE. We may also decide to finance NQ Beijing by means of capital contributions. These capital contributions must be approved by the PRC Ministry of Commerce or its local counterpart. Due to the restrictions imposed on loans in foreign currencies extended to any PRC domestic companies, we are not likely to make such loans to our consolidated affiliated entities, such as Beijing Technology, FL Mobile and QingYun (Tianjin) Financial Management Co., Ltd., or Tianjin QingYun, each a PRC domestic company. However, if such loans become necessary for the operations of our PRC subsidiaries or consolidated affiliated entities, these statutory limits and other restrictions may materially and adversely affect our liquidity and ability to fund operations in the PRC by limiting us as a source of cash for these PRC entities. Meanwhile, we are also not likely to finance the activities of our consolidated affiliated entities by means of capital contributions due to regulatory restrictions relating to foreign investment in PRC domestic enterprises engaged in our line of business.

On August 29, 2008, SAFE promulgated the Circular on the Relevant Operating Issues Concerning the Improvement of the Administration of the Payment and Settlement of Foreign Currency Capital of Foreign Invested Enterprises, or SAFE Circular 142, regulating the conversion by a foreign-invested enterprise of foreign currency registered capital into RMB by restricting how the converted RMB may be used. SAFE Circular 142 provides that the RMB capital converted from foreign currency registered capital of a foreign-invested enterprise may only be used for purposes within the business scope approved by the applicable governmental authority and may not be used for equity investments within the PRC. In addition, SAFE strengthened its oversight of the flow and use of the RMB capital converted from foreign currency registered capital of a foreign-invested company. The use of such RMB capital may not be altered without SAFE approval, and such RMB capital may not in any case be used to repay RMB loans if the proceeds of such loans have not been used. Violations of SAFE Circular 142 could result in severe monetary or other penalties. On November 16, 2011, SAFE promulgated the Circular of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Issues Relating to Further Clarification and Regulation of Certain Capital Account Items under Foreign Exchange Control, or Circular 45, to further strengthen and clarify its existing regulations on foreign exchange control under SAFE Circular 142. Circular 45 expressly prohibits foreign invested entities, including wholly foreign owned enterprises, from converting registered capital in foreign exchange into RMB for the purpose of equity investment, granting certain loans, repayment of inter-company loans, and repayment of bank loans which have been transferred to a third party. Further, Circular 45 generally prohibits a foreign invested entity, such as our PRC subsidiaries, from converting registered capital from foreign currencies into RMB for the payment of various types of cash deposits. If our consolidated affiliated entities requires financial support from us or our PRC subsidiaries in the future and we find it necessary to use foreign currency-denominated capital to provide such financial support, our ability to fund our consolidated affiliated entities’ operations will be subject to statutory limits and restrictions, including those described above.

In light of the various requirements imposed by PRC regulations on loans to and direct investment in PRC entities by offshore holding companies, including SAFE Circular 142, we cannot assure you that we will be able to complete the necessary government registrations or obtain the necessary government approvals on a timely basis, if at all, with respect to future loans by us to our PRC subsidiaries or any consolidated affiliated entities or with respect to future capital contributions by us to our PRC subsidiaries. If we fail to complete such registrations or obtain such approvals, our ability to capitalize or otherwise fund our PRC operations may be negatively affected, which could materially and adversely affect our liquidity and our ability to fund and expand our business.

Changes in China’s economic, political or social conditions or government policies could have a material adverse effect on our business and operations.

Although a significant portion of our business is overseas, a substantial portion of our assets and operations are located in China. Accordingly, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may be influenced, to a considerably degree, by political, economic and social conditions in China generally and by continued economic growth in China as a whole.

The Chinese economy differs from the economies of most developed countries in many respects, including the level of government involvement, level of development, growth rate, control of foreign exchange and allocation of resources. Although the Chinese government has implemented measures since the late 1970s emphasizing the utilization of market forces for economic reform, the reduction of state ownership of productive assets, and the establishment of improved corporate governance in business enterprises, a substantial portion of productive assets in China is still owned by the Chinese government. In addition, the Chinese government continues to play a significant role in regulating industry development by imposing industrial policies. The Chinese government also exercises significant control over China’s economic growth through allocating resources, controlling payment of foreign currency-denominated obligations, setting monetary policy, and providing preferential treatment to particular industries or companies.

While the Chinese economy has experienced significant growth over the past decades, growth has been uneven, both geographically and among various sectors of the economy. The Chinese government has implemented various measures to encourage economic growth and guide the allocation of resources. Some of these measures may benefit the overall Chinese economy, but may have a negative effect on us. For example, our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows may be adversely affected by government control over capital investments or changes in tax regulations. In addition, in the past the Chinese government has implemented certain measures, including interest rate increases, to control the pace of economic growth. These measures may cause decreased economic activity in China, which may adversely affect our business and operating results.

Uncertainties with respect to the PRC legal system could adversely affect us.

We conduct our business in China primarily through our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities, including but not limited to Beijing Technology and its subsidiaries. Our operations in China are governed by PRC laws and regulations. Our PRC subsidiaries are foreign-invested enterprises and are subject to laws and regulations applicable to foreign investment in China and, in particular, laws applicable to foreign-invested enterprises. The PRC legal system is a civil law system based on written statutes. Unlike the common law system, prior court decisions may be cited for reference but have limited precedential value.

In 1979, the PRC government began to promulgate a comprehensive system of laws and regulations governing economic matters in general. The overall effect of legislation over the past three decades has significantly enhanced the protections afforded to various forms of foreign investments in China. However, China has not developed a fully integrated legal system, and recently enacted laws and regulations may not sufficiently cover all aspects of economic activities in China. In particular, the interpretation and enforcement of these laws and regulations involve uncertainties. Since PRC administrative and court authorities have significant discretion in interpreting and implementing statutory and contractual terms, it may be difficult to evaluate the outcome of administrative and court proceedings and the level of legal protection we enjoy. For example, China enacted a new Anti-Monopoly Law, which became effective on August 1, 2008. Because the Anti-Monopoly Law and related regulations are still relatively new, there have been very few court rulings or judicial or administrative interpretations on certain key concepts used in the law. As a result, there is still uncertainty as to how the enforcement and interpretation of the Anti-Monopoly Law may affect our business and operations.

Furthermore, the PRC legal system is based in part on government policies and internal rules, some of which are not published on a timely basis or at all, which may have a retroactive effect. As a result, we may not be aware of our violation of any of these policies and rules until sometime after the violation. In addition, any administrative and court proceedings in China may be protracted, resulting in substantial costs and diversion of resources and management attention.

We may be adversely affected by the complexity, uncertainties and changes in PRC regulation of the licenses and permits required for the telecommunications and software development industries in China.

The PRC government extensively regulates the telecommunications and software development industries, including foreign ownership of, and the licensing and permit requirements pertaining to, companies in the telecommunication industry. These laws and regulations are relatively new and evolving, and their interpretation and enforcement involve significant uncertainty.

As a result, there are uncertainties relating to the regulation of the telecommunication business in China, particularly evolving licensing practices. This means that permits, licenses or operations at some of our companies may be subject to challenge, or we may fail to obtain permits or licenses that applicable regulators may deem necessary for our operations or we may not be able to obtain or renew certain permits or licenses to maintain their validity. The major permits and licenses that could be involved include, without limitation, the Value-Added Telecommunications Services Operation Permit issued by the MIIT and the Telecommunications and Information Services Operation Permit issued by the Beijing Communications Administration. New laws and regulations may be promulgated that will regulate telecommunication activities and additional licenses may be required for our operations. If our operations do not comply with these new regulations at the time they become effective, or if we fail to obtain any licenses required under these new laws and regulations, we could be subject to penalties.

On July 13, 2006, the Ministry of Information Industry, which was the predecessor of the MIIT, issued the Notice of the Ministry of Information Industry on Intensifying the Administration of Foreign Investment in Value-added Telecommunications Services. This notice prohibits domestic telecommunication services providers from leasing, transferring or selling telecommunications business operating licenses to any foreign investor in any form, or providing any resources, websites or facilities to any foreign investor for their illegal operation of a telecommunications business in China. According to this notice, either the holder of a value-Added telecommunication business operating license or its shareholders must directly own the domain names and trademarks used by such license holders in their provision of value-added telecommunication services. The notice also requires each license holder to have the necessary facilities, including servers, for its approved business operations and to maintain such facilities in the regions covered by its license.

Operating mobile online games in China requires a series of permits and approvals. For example, we have obtained a license from the Ministry of Culture with respect to the operation of mobile online games. In addition, the Internet publication of mobile online games requires pre-approval from the GAPP. We operate a substantial majority of our mobile online games in collaboration with third parties such as content providers, and such third parties are in charge of obtaining the approvals from GAPP. For the remaining mobile online games we operate, we are responsible for obtaining approvals from GAPP. Because the requirement for GAPP approval of mobile online games was imposed in late 2009 and the approval process is lengthy, GAPP has not yet approved any mobile online games that we operate. With respect to the games that we operate alone, we have not submitted applications for GAPP approval as we are first required to obtain an online publication license from GAPP. We have started the process of obtaining such a license. We cannot assure you that we can obtain an online publication license in a timely manner or at all.

The interpretation and application of existing PRC laws, regulations and policies and possible new laws, regulations or policies relating to the telecommunications and software development industries have created substantial uncertainties regarding the legality of existing and future foreign investments in, and the businesses and activities of, telecommunication businesses in China, including our business. We cannot assure you that we have obtained all the permits or licenses required for conducting our business in China or will be able to maintain our existing licenses or obtain any new licenses if required by any new laws or regulations. There are also risks that we may be found to violate the existing or future laws and regulations given the uncertainty and complexity of China’s regulation of the telecommunications and software development industries. See “Item 4. Information on the Company — B. Business Overview — PRC Regulation.”

Regulation and censorship of information disseminated over the Internet and wireless telecommunication networks in China may adversely affect our business, and the mobile service providers with which we cooperate may be liable for information displayed on, retrieved from, or linked to their platforms.

China has enacted regulations governing telecommunication mobile service providers, Internet and wireless access and the distribution of news and other information over the Internet and wireless telecommunication networks. Under these regulations, mobile content publishers like us are prohibited from posting or displaying over the Internet or wireless networks content that, among other things, violates PRC laws and regulations, impairs the national dignity of China, or is obscene, superstitious, fraudulent or defamatory.

When Internet and mobile service providers find that any obscene, superstitious, fraudulent or defamatory information is transmitted on their platforms, they are required to terminate the transmission of such information or delete such information immediately, keep records, and report to relevant authorities. Mobile network operators like China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom also have their own policies prohibiting or restricting the distribution of inappropriate content. On December 15, 2009, the MIIT issued the Notice Regarding Plan for Further Regulating Obscene Materials on Mobile Phones, or Circular 672. Under Circular 672, mobile network operators are required to examine their business, promotional channels, as well as the business of their partners, and must immediately terminate such business if any obscene material is involved. Mobile service providers involved in distributing or publishing such obscene materials on mobile handsets are subject to immediate suspension or termination of cooperation with mobile network operators, and a violation will be reported to relevant authorities. Mobile network operators and mobile service providers must examine all websites accessed through mobile handsets and conduct full daily inspection of such websites. If any obscene material is found, access and transmission must cease and be reported to authorities. On June 3, 2010, the MOC issued the Online Game Measures, which became effective on August 1, 2010, according to which companies that plan to engage in the operation of online games, issuance of virtual currency and provision of virtual currency transaction services shall obtain a license from the provincial counterpart of the MOC. Online and mobile game operators are required to establish a self-censorship mechanism and ensure the lawfulness of the content of their games and corporate operations. The Administrative Measures for Content Self-review by Internet Culture Business Entities, or the Content Self-review Administrative Measure, which took effect in December 2013, require Internet culture business entities to review the content of products and services to be provided prior to providing such content and services to the public. The content management system of an Internet culture business entity is required to specify the responsibilities, standards and processes for content review as well as accountability measures, and is required be filed with the local provincial branch of the MOC.

As these regulations are relatively new and subject to interpretation by the relevant authorities, it may not be possible for us to determine in all cases the type of content that could result in liability for us as a mobile game operator. In addition, we may not be able to control or restrict the content of other content providers linked to or accessible through our mobile service providers. To the extent that regulatory authorities find any portion of the applications and content on our mobile service providers objectionable, they may require them to limit or eliminate the dissemination of such information or otherwise curtail the nature of such content on our mobile service providers, which may reduce our user traffic, which in turn decrease access to and downloading of our mobile games.

Fluctuations in exchange rates may have a material adverse effect on your investment.

The value of the RMB against the U.S. dollar and other currencies is affected by, among others, changes in China’s political and economic conditions and China’s foreign exchange policies. The conversion of RMB into foreign currencies, including U.S. dollars, is based on exchange rates set by the People’s Bank of China. The PRC government allowed the RMB to appreciate by more than 20% against the U.S. dollar between July 2005 and July 2008. Between July 2008 and June 2010, this appreciation halted and the exchange rate between the RMB and the U.S. dollar remained within a narrow band. Since June 2010, the PRC government has allowed RMB to appreciate slowly against the U.S. dollar again, though there have been periods when the U.S. dollar has appreciated against the Renminbi as well. It is difficult to predict how market forces or PRC or U.S. government policy may impact the exchange rate between the RMB and the U.S. dollar as well as other currencies in the future.

To the extent that we need to convert U.S. dollars into RMB for capital expenditures and working capital and other business purposes, appreciation of the RMB against the U.S. dollar would have an adverse effect on the RMB amount we would receive from the conversion. Conversely, if we decide to convert RMB into U.S. dollars for the purpose of making payments for dividends on our common shares or ADSs, strategic acquisitions or investments or other business purposes, appreciation of the U.S. dollar against the RMB would have a negative effect on the U.S. dollar amount available to us.

A significant portion of our revenues and costs are denominated in RMB. At the Cayman Islands holding company level, we may receive dividends and other fees paid to us by our subsidiary in China. Any significant revaluation of the RMB may materially and adversely affect our cash flows, revenues, earnings and financial position, and the value of, and any dividends payable on, our ADSs in U.S. dollars. For example, an appreciation of the RMB against the U.S. dollar would make any new RMB denominated investments or expenditures more costly to us, to the extent that we need to convert U.S. dollars into RMB for such purposes. Conversely, a significant depreciation of the RMB against the U.S. dollar may significantly reduce the U.S. dollar equivalent of our earnings, which in turn could adversely affect the price of our ADSs.

Very limited hedging options are available in China to reduce our exposure to exchange rate fluctuations. To date, we have not entered into any hedging transactions in an effort to reduce our exposure to foreign currency exchange risk. While we may decide to enter into hedging transactions in the future, the availability and effectiveness of these hedges may be limited and we may not be able to adequately hedge our exposure or at all. In addition, our currency exchange losses may be magnified by PRC exchange control regulations that restrict our ability to convert RMB into foreign currency. As a result, fluctuations in exchange rates may have a material adverse effect on your investment.

Governmental control of currency conversion may limit our ability to utilize our revenues effectively and affect the value of your investment.

The PRC government imposes controls on the convertibility of the RMB into foreign currencies and, in certain cases, the remittance of currency out of China. We receive a substantial part of our revenues in RMB, and the rest in foreign currencies such as U.S. dollars. Under our current corporate structure, our Cayman Islands holding company, to a large extent, relies on dividend payments from our wholly owned PRC subsidiary, NQ Beijing, and our wholly owned Hong Kong subsidiary, NQ International Ltd. (formerly known as NetQin International Limited), or NQ HK, to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have. Under existing PRC foreign exchange regulations, payments of current account items, including profit distributions, interest payments and trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions, can be made in foreign currencies without prior SAFE approval by complying with certain procedural requirements. Therefore, NQ Beijing is able to pay dividends in foreign currencies to us without prior approval from SAFE. However, approval from or registration with appropriate government authorities is required where RMB is to be converted into foreign currency and remitted out of China to pay capital expenses such as the repayment of loans denominated in foreign currencies. The PRC government may also at its discretion restrict access to foreign currencies for current account transactions in the future. If the foreign exchange control system prevents us from obtaining sufficient foreign currencies to satisfy our foreign currency demands, we may not be able to pay dividends in foreign currencies to our shareholders, including holders of our ADSs. PRC regulations established complex procedures for certain acquisitions of PRC companies by foreign investors, which could make it more difficult for us to pursue growth through acquisitions in China.

Regulations about mergers and acquisition in the PRC may make it more difficult for us to pursue growth through acquisitions.

Six PRC regulatory agencies promulgated regulations effective on September 8, 2006 that are commonly referred to as the M&A Rules. See “Item 4. Information on the Company — B. Business Overview — PRC Regulation.” The M&A Rules establish procedures and requirements that could make some acquisitions of PRC companies by foreign investors more time-consuming and complex, including requirements in some instances that the Ministry of Commerce be notified in advance of any change-of-control transaction in which a foreign investor takes control of a PRC domestic enterprise. In addition, the national security review rules issued by the PRC governmental authorities in 2011 require acquisitions by foreign investors of domestic companies engaged in military related businesses or certain other industries that are crucial to national security to be subject to prior security review. We may expand our business in part by acquiring complementary businesses. Complying with the requirements of the M&A Rule, security review rules and other PRC regulations to complete such transactions could be time-consuming, and compliance with any required approval processes, including obtaining approval from the Ministry of Commerce, may delay or inhibit our ability to complete such transactions, which could affect our ability to expand our business or maintain our market share.

PRC regulations relating to the establishment of offshore special purpose vehicles, or SPVs, by PRC residents may subject our PRC resident beneficial owners or our PRC subsidiaries to liability or penalties, limit our ability to inject capital into our PRC subsidiaries, limit our PRC subsidiaries’ ability to increase its registered capital or distribute profits to us, or may otherwise adversely affect us.

SAFE promulgated the Notice on Issues Relating to the Administration of Foreign Exchange in Fund-Raising and Round-trip Investment Activities of Domestic Residents Conducted via Offshore Special Purpose Companies, or SAFE Circular No. 75, on October 21, 2005. SAFE Circular No. 75 and other associated regulations require PRC residents and PRC corporate entities to register with local branches of SAFE in connection with their direct or indirect offshore investment activities. These regulations apply to our shareholders who are PRC residents and may apply to any offshore acquisitions that we make in the future. To further clarify and simplify the implementation of SAFE Circular No. 75, SAFE has issued various rules which established more specific and stringent supervision on the registration process required by Circular No. 75.

SAFE promulgated the Circular on Relevant Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Control on Domestic Residents’ Offshore Investment and Financing and Roundtrip Investment through Special Purpose Vehicles, or SAFE Circular No. 37, on July 4, 2014, which replaced SAFE Circular No. 75. SAFE Circular No. 37 requires PRC residents to register with local branches of SAFE in connection with their direct establishment or indirect control of an offshore entity, or an SPV, for the purpose of overseas investment and financing, utilizing such PRC residents’ legally owned assets or equity interests in domestic enterprises or offshore. The term “control” under SAFE Circular No. 37 is broadly defined as the right to operate, rights as beneficiary or decision-making rights acquired by the PRC residents in the offshore SPVs or PRC companies by such means as acquisition, trust, proxy, voting rights, repurchase, convertible bonds or other arrangements. SAFE Circular No. 37 further requires amendment to the registration in the event of any significant changes with respect to the SPV, such as increase or decrease of capital contributed by PRC individuals, share transfer or exchange, merger, division or other material event. In the event that a PRC shareholder holding interests in a SPV fails to fulfill the required SAFE registration, the PRC subsidiaries of that SPV may be prohibited from distributing profits to the offshore parent and from carrying out subsequent cross-border foreign exchange activities, and the SPV may be restricted in its ability to contribute additional capital into its PRC subsidiary. Moreover, failure to comply with the various SAFE registration requirements described above could result in liability under PRC law for evasion of foreign exchange controls.

SAFE Circular No. 37 provides that PRC residents include both PRC citizens, meaning any individual who holds a PRC passport or resident identification card, and individuals who are non-PRC citizens but primarily reside in the PRC due to their economic ties to the PRC. We have requested all of our current shareholders and/or beneficial owners to disclose whether they or their shareholders or beneficial owners fall within the ambit of SAFE Circular No. 37 and its guidance and will urge relevant shareholders and beneficial owners, upon learning they are PRC residents, to make the necessary applications, filings and amendments as required under SAFE Circular No. 37 and other related rules. To our knowledge, all of our shareholders who are PRC citizens have completed initial registrations with a local SAFE branch as required under SAFE Circular No. 75 and will update their registrations to the extent required under Circular No. 37 and its implementing guidelines to reflect our latest ownership structure.

We have requested our current shareholders and/or beneficial owners to disclose whether they or their shareholders or beneficial owners fall within the coverage of Circular No. 37 and urge those who are PRC residents to register with the local SAFE branch as required under Circular No. 37. However, as SAFE Circular No. 37 was recently promulgated, there are substantial uncertainties on how this new rule will be implemented and interpreted. We cannot assure you that our current shareholders and/or beneficial owners or their shareholders or beneficial owners can successfully comply with registration requirements under SAFE Circular No. 37 and subsequent implementation rules in a timely fashion or at all. In addition, we may not be informed of the identities of all the PRC residents holding direct or indirect interest in our company, and we cannot provide any assurances that these PRC residents will comply with our request to make or obtain any applicable registrations or comply with other requirements required by SAFE Circular No. 37 or other related rules. Failure by our current or future shareholders or beneficial owners who are PRC residents to comply with the SAFE regulations may subject us to fines or other legal sanctions, restrict our cross-border investment activities, limit our PRC subsidiaries’ ability to make distributions or pay dividends or affect our ownership structure, which could adversely affect our business and prospects.

Furthermore, it is unclear how these regulations, and any future regulation concerning offshore or cross-border transactions, will be interpreted, amended and implemented by the relevant government authorities. We cannot predict how these regulations will affect our business operations or future strategy. For example, we may be subject to a more stringent review and approval process with respect to our foreign exchange activities, such as remittance of dividends and foreign-currency-denominated borrowings, which may adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. In addition, if we decide to acquire a PRC domestic company, we cannot assure you that we or the owners of such company, as the case may be, will be able to obtain the necessary approvals or complete the necessary filings and registrations required by the foreign exchange regulations. This may restrict our ability to implement our acquisition strategy and could adversely affect our business and prospects.

We face uncertainty with respect to indirect transfers of equity interests in PRC resident enterprises by their non-PRC holding companies.

Pursuant to the Notice on Strengthening Administration of Enterprise Income Tax for Share Transfers by Non-PRC Resident Enterprises, or SAT Circular 698, issued by the State Administration of Taxation, or the SAT, on December 10, 2009 with retroactive effect from January 1, 2008, where a non-resident enterprise transfers the equity interests of a PRC resident enterprise indirectly via disposing of the equity interests of an overseas holding company, or an Indirect Transfer, and such overseas holding company is located in a tax jurisdiction that: (i) has an effective tax rate less than 12.5% or (ii) does not tax foreign income of its residents, the non-resident enterprise, being the transferor, shall report to the competent tax authority of the PRC resident enterprise this Indirect Transfer. Using a “substance over form” principle, the PRC tax authority may disregard the existence of the overseas holding company if it lacks a reasonable commercial purpose and was established for the purpose of reducing, avoiding or deferring PRC tax. As a result, gains derived from such Indirect Transfer may be subject to PRC tax at a rate of up to 10%. SAT Circular 698 also provides that, where a non-PRC resident enterprise transfers its equity interests in a PRC resident enterprise to its related parties at a price lower than the fair market value, the relevant tax authority has the power to make a reasonable adjustment to the taxable income of the transaction.

There is uncertainty as to the application of SAT Circular 698. For example, while the term “Indirect Transfer” is not clearly defined, it is understood that the relevant PRC tax authorities have the power to compel the cooperation of a wide range of foreign entities having no direct contact with China. Moreover, the relevant authority has not yet promulgated any formal provisions or formally declared or stated how to calculate the effective tax rates in foreign tax jurisdictions, and the process and format of the reporting of an Indirect Transfer to the competent tax authority of the relevant PRC resident enterprise. In addition, there are not any formal declarations with regard to how to determine whether a foreign investor has adopted an abusive arrangement in order to reduce, avoid or defer PRC tax. As a result, we may become at risk of being taxed under SAT Circular 698 and we may be required to expend valuable resources to comply with SAT Circular 698 or to establish that we should not be taxed under the general anti-avoidance rule of the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, which may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Discontinuation of any of the preferential tax treatments or imposition of any additional taxes could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

China passed an updated PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, or the EIT Law, and its implementation rules, both of which became effective on January 1, 2008. The EIT Law significantly curtails tax incentives granted to foreign-invested enterprises under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law concerning Foreign-Invested Enterprises and Foreign Enterprises (or the Old EIT Law, which was effective from July 1, 1991 to December 31, 2007). The EIT Law, however, (i) reduces the statutory rate of the enterprise income tax from 33% to 25%, (ii) permits companies established before March 16, 2007 to continue to enjoy their existing tax incentives, adjusted by certain transitional phase-out rules promulgated by the State Council on December 26, 2007, and (iii) introduces new tax incentives, subject to various qualification criteria.

The EIT Law and its implementation rules permit certain “high and new technology enterprises strongly supported by the state” which hold independent ownership of core intellectual property to enjoy a preferential enterprise income tax rate of 15% subject to certain new qualification criteria. Beijing Technology, our consolidated affiliated entity, was recognized by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission as a “high and new technology enterprise” on December 24, 2008, and therefore is eligible for the reduced 15% enterprise income tax rate. The qualification as a “high and new technology enterprise” is subject to review by the relevant authorities in China every three years. Beijing Technology was qualified as a high and new technology enterprise and has successfully renewed this status in late 2014, which enabled it to enjoy preferential income tax treatment through 2016. However, if Beijing Technology fails to maintain its “high and new technology enterprise” qualification or renew its qualification when the relevant term expires, its applicable enterprise income tax rate may increase to 25%, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. In addition, according to the Notice of the State Administration of Taxation on Further Clarifying the Standards for the Implementation of Preferential Policies Regarding Corporate Income Tax during the Transition Period issued on April 21, 2010, or Circular 157, where a resident enterprise is qualified as a high and new technology enterprise, and simultaneously is entitled to a term holiday under the phase-out rules of the EIT Law, the resident enterprise can choose either to enjoy the term holiday based on the phase-out tax rates (i.e., 18% for 2008, 20% for 2009, 22% for 2010, 24% for 2011 and 25% for 2012 and onwards) or enjoy the preferential tax rate of 15% as a high-tech enterprise. However, for taxable years 2008 through 2010, Beijing Technology applied a transitional tax rate of 7.5% as its applicable rate despite the provisions in Circular 157. This EIT rate has been approved by Beijing Haidian District State Tax Bureau as a transitional treatment to allow Beijing Technology to continue to enjoy its unexpired tax holiday under prior law. Since it is uncertain whether the State Administration of Taxation will enforce Circular 157 retrospectively, we cannot assure you that Beijing Technology will maintain the tax benefits it previously enjoyed, or that the local tax authorities will not, in the future, order the return of such tax benefits. NQ Beijing has already obtained the Software Enterprise Certification. Therefore, it qualifies for preferential tax treatment as a “software enterprise” under the EIT Law and is entitled to a two-year exemption from the first year it becomes profitable and a three-year 50% reduction in corporate income tax, upon its filing with its in-charge tax authority. In 2014, the applicable corporate income tax rate of NQ Beijing was 12.5 %.

Preferential tax treatments granted to our subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities by the local governmental authorities are subject to review and may be adjusted or revoked at any time. The discontinuation of any preferential tax treatments currently available to us and our wholly owned PRC subsidiaries will cause our effective tax rate to increase, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. We cannot assure you that we will be able to maintain our current effective tax rate in the future.

Our financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected if the value added tax reforms in the PRC become unfavorable to our PRC subsidiaries or consolidated affiliated entities.

In 2012, China introduced a value added tax, or VAT, to replace the previous 5% business tax. Our PRC subsidiaries and the consolidated affiliated entities have been subject to VAT at a base rate of 6% since September 2012. The rules related to VAT are still evolving and the timing of the promulgation of the final tax rules or related interpretation is uncertain. Our financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected if the interpretation and enforcement of these tax rules become materially unfavorable to our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities.

Our global income and the dividends that we may receive from our PRC subsidiaries may be subject to PRC taxes under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, which may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

Under the EIT Law, an enterprise established outside of China with its “de facto management body” within China is considered a resident enterprise and will be subject to enterprise income tax at the rate of 25% on its global income. The “de facto management body” is defined as the organizational body that effectively exercises overall management and control over production and business operations, personnel and human resources, finance and accounting, and properties of the enterprise. It remains unclear how the PRC tax authorities will interpret such a broad definition. On April 22, 2009, the SAT issued a circular, known as Circular 82, which provides certain specific criteria for determining whether the “de facto management body” of a PRC-controlled enterprise that is incorporated offshore is located in China. Under Circular 82, an offshore incorporated enterprise controlled by a PRC enterprise or a PRC enterprise group will be regarded as a PRC tax resident by virtue of having its “de facto management body” in China and will be subject to PRC enterprise income tax on its global income only if all of the following conditions are met: (i) the primary location of the day-to-day operational management is in the PRC; (ii) decisions relating to the enterprise’s financial and human resource matters are made or are subject to approval by organizations or personnel in the PRC; (iii) the enterprise’s primary assets, accounting books and records, company seals, and board and shareholder resolutions, are located or maintained in the PRC; and (iv) at least 50% of voting board members or senior executives habitually reside in the PRC. Further to Circular 82, the SAT issued a bulletin, known as SAT Bulletin 45, which became effective in September 2011, to provide more guidance on the implementation of Circular 82 and clarify the reporting and filing obligations of such “Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated resident enterprises.” SAT Bulletin 45 provides procedures and administrative details for the determination of resident status and administration on post-determination matters. Although both Circular 82 and SAT Bulletin 45 only apply to offshore enterprises controlled by PRC enterprises or PRC enterprise groups, not those controlled by PRC individuals or foreigners, the criteria set forth in the Circular 82 and SAT Bulletin 45 may reflect the SAT’s general position on how the “de facto management body” test should be applied in determining the tax resident status of all offshore enterprises, regardless of whether they are controlled by PRC enterprises, PRC enterprise groups or by PRC or foreign individuals.

We do not believe that we or our Hong Kong subsidiary meet all of the conditions above and thus we do not believe that we or our Hong Kong subsidiary are PRC resident enterprises, though a substantial majority of the members of our management team as well as the management team of our offshore holding companies are located in China. However, we have been advised by our PRC counsel, Jincheng Tongda & Neal, that there remains uncertainty regarding the interpretation and implementation of the EIT Law and its implementation rules, and there is no assurance that we or our Hong Kong subsidiary will not be treated as a PRC resident enterprise. If we are considered a resident enterprise and earn income other than dividends from our PRC subsidiaries, a 25% enterprise income tax on our global income may significantly increase our tax burden and materially and adversely affect our cash flow and profitability. Dividends paid between PRC companies are not generally subject to PRC withholding tax. However, it is unclear whether this exemption applies to foreign companies considered PRC residents under the EIT law. Accordingly, if we or our Hong Kong subsidiary are treated as a PRC resident enterprise, it is uncertain whether dividends we or our Hong Kong subsidiary receive from our PRC subsidiaries would be subject to PRC withholding tax.

The enforcement of the Labor Contract Law and other labor-related regulations in the PRC may adversely affect our business and our results of operations.

China enacted the Labor Contract Law effective on January 1, 2008. The Labor Contract Law introduces specific provisions related to fixed-term employment contracts, part-time employment, probation, consultation with labor union and employee assemblies, employment without a written contract, dismissal of employees, severance, and collective bargaining, which together represent enhanced enforcement of labor laws and regulations. According to the Labor Contract Law, an employer is obliged to sign an unlimited-term labor contract with any employee who has worked for the employer for ten consecutive years. Further, if an employee requests or agrees to renew a fixed-term labor contract that has already been entered into twice consecutively, the resulting contract must have an unlimited term, with certain exceptions. The employer must also pay severance to an employee in nearly all instances where a labor contract, including a contract with an unlimited term, is terminated or expires. In addition, the government has continued to introduce various new labor-related regulations after the Labor Contract Law. Among other things, new annual leave requirements mandate that annual leave ranging from five to 15 days is available to nearly all employees and further require that the employer compensate an employee for any annual leave day the employee is unable to take in the amount of three times the employee’s daily salary, subject to certain exceptions. We cannot assure you that our employment practices do not or will not violate the Labor Contract Law and other labor-related regulations. If we are subject to severe penalties or incur significant liabilities in connection with labor disputes or investigations, our business and results of operations may be adversely affected.

Under the Social Insurance Law and the Administrative Measures on Housing Fund, employees are required to participate in pension insurance, work-related injury insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance and housing funds and employers are required, together with their employees or separately, to pay the social insurance premiums and housing funds for their employees. These laws designed to enhance labor protection tend to increase our labor costs. In addition, as the interpretation and implementation of these regulations are still evolving, our employment practices may not be at all times be deemed in compliance with the regulations. As a result, we could be subject to penalties or incur significant liabilities in connection with labor disputes or investigations.

The trading price of our ADSs has been and may continue to be subject to significant fluctuations. From January 1, 2014 to March 18, 2015, the trading price of our ADSs on the New York Stock Exchange ranged from US$3.22 to US$22.33 per ADS, and the closing price on March 18, 2015 was US$3.95 per ADS. The trading price for our ADSs may continue to be volatile and subject to wide fluctuations in response to factors including the following:

In addition, the stock market in general, and the market prices for companies with operations in China in particular have experienced volatility that might have been unrelated to the operating performance of such companies. The securities of some China-based companies that have listed their securities in the United States have experienced significant volatility since their initial public offerings, including, in some cases, substantial price declines in the trading prices of their securities. The trading performances of the securities of these China-based companies after their offerings may affect the attitudes of investors toward Chinese companies listed in the United States, which consequently may impact the trading performance of our ADSs, regardless of our actual operating performance. In addition, any negative news or perceptions about inadequate corporate governance practices or fraudulent accounting, corporate structure or other matters of other China-based companies, such as news of the SEC initiating administrative proceedings against and imposing sanctions on the China affiliates of the Big Four public accounting firms for refusing to produce audit work papers and other documents related to China-based companies under investigation by the SEC for potential accounting fraud, may also negatively affect the attitudes of investors towards China-based companies in general, including us, regardless of whether we have engaged in any inappropriate activities. The global financial crisis and the ensuing economic recessions in many countries have also contributed and may continue to contribute to extreme volatility in the global stock markets, such as the large decline in share prices in the United States, China and other jurisdictions in late 2008, early 2009 the second half of 2011 and part of 2012. These broad market and industry fluctuations may adversely affect the price of our ADSs, regardless of our operating performance.

Provisions of our convertible notes could discourage an acquisition of us by a third party.

In October 2013, we issued an aggregate of US$172.5 million 4.00% convertible senior notes due in 2018. Certain provisions of our convertible senior notes could make it more difficult or more expensive for a third party to acquire us. The indentures for these convertible notes define a “fundamental change” to include, among other things: (1) any person or group gaining control of our company; (2) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of our ordinary shares or the ADSs as a result of which these securities would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets; (3) the adoption of any plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of our company; (4) our ADSs ceasing to be listed on The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market; or (5) any change in or amendment to the laws, regulations and rules in China that prohibits us from operating substantially all of the business operations and prevents us from continuing to derive substantially all of the economic benefits from our business operations. Upon the occurrence of a fundamental change, holders of these notes will have the right, at their option, to require us to repurchase all of their notes or any portion of the principal amount of such notes in integral multiples of US$1,000. In the event of a fundamental change, we may also be required to issue additional ADSs upon conversion of our convertible notes.

Because we do not expect to pay dividends in the foreseeable future, you must rely on price appreciation of our ADSs for return on your investment.

We currently intend to retain most, if not all, of our available funds and any future earnings to fund the development and growth of our business. As a result, we do not expect to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Therefore, you should not rely on an investment in our ADSs as a source for any future dividend income.

Our board of directors has complete discretion as to whether to distribute dividends. Even if our board of directors decides to declare and pay dividends, the timing, amount and form of future dividends, if any, will depend on, among other things, our future results of operations and cash flow, our capital requirements and surplus, the amount of distributions, if any, received by us from our subsidiaries, our financial condition, contractual restrictions and other factors deemed relevant by our board of directors. Accordingly, the return on your investment in our ADSs will likely depend entirely upon any future price appreciation of our ADSs. There is no guarantee that our ADSs will appreciate in value or even maintain the price at which you purchased the ADSs. You may not realize a return on your investment in our ADSs and you may even lose your entire investment in our ADSs.

Substantial future sales or perceived potential sales of our ADSs in the public market could cause the price of our ADSs to decline.

Sales of our ADSs or common shares in the public market, or the perception that these sales could occur, could cause the market price of our ADSs to decline. If our shareholders sell substantial amounts of our ADSs, including those issued upon the exercise of outstanding options, in the public market, the market price of our ADSs could fall. Such sales also might make it more difficult for us to sell equity or equity-related securities in the future at a time and price that we deem appropriate. If any existing shareholder or shareholders sell a substantial amount of shares, the prevailing market price for our ADSs could be adversely affected. In addition, if we pay for our future acquisitions in whole or in part with additionally issued common shares or ADSs, your ownership interests in our company would be diluted and this, in turn, could have a material adverse effect on the price of our ADSs.

You may not have the same voting rights as the holders of our common shares and may not receive voting materials in time to be able to exercise your right to vote.

Except as described in this annual report and in the deposit agreement, holders of our ADSs will not be able to exercise voting rights attaching to the shares represented by our ADSs on an individual basis. Holders of our ADSs will appoint the depositary or its nominee as their representative to exercise the voting rights attaching to the shares represented by the ADSs. You may not receive voting materials in time to instruct the depositary to vote, and it is possible that you, or persons who hold their ADSs through brokers, dealers or other third parties, will not have the opportunity to exercise a right to vote.

Your right to participate in any future rights offerings may be limited, which may cause dilution to your holdings, and you may not receive cash dividends if it is impractical to make them available to you.

We may from time to time distribute rights to our shareholders, including rights to acquire our securities. However, we cannot make rights available to you in the United States unless we register both the rights and the securities to which the rights relate under the Securities Act or an exemption from the registration requirements is available. Under the deposit agreement, the depositary will not make rights available to you unless both the rights and the underlying securities to be distributed to ADS holders are either registered under the Securities Act or exempt from registration under the Securities Act. We are under no obligation to file a registration statement with respect to any such rights or securities or to endeavor to cause such a registration statement to be declared effective and we may not be able to establish a necessary exemption from registration under the Securities Act. Accordingly, you may be unable to participate in our rights offerings and may experience dilution in your holdings.

The depositary of our ADSs has agreed to pay to you the cash dividends or other distributions it or the custodian receives on our common shares or other deposited securities after deducting its fees and expenses. You will receive these distributions in proportion to the number of common shares your ADSs represent. However, the depositary may, at its discretion, decide that it is impractical to make a distribution available to any holders of ADSs. For example, the depositary may determine that it is not practicable to distribute certain property through the mail, or that the value of certain distributions may be less than the cost of mailing them. In these cases, the depositary may decide not to distribute such property to you.

Your ADSs are transferable on the books of the depositary. However, the depositary may close its transfer books at any time or from time to time when it deems expedient in connection with the performance of its duties. In addition, the depositary may refuse to deliver, transfer or register transfers of ADSs generally when our books or the books of the depositary are closed, or at any time if we or the depositary deems it advisable to do so because of any requirement of law or of any government or governmental body, or under any provision of the deposit agreement, or for any other reason.

You may face difficulties in protecting your interests, and your ability to protect your rights through the U.S. federal courts may be limited because we are incorporated under Cayman Islands law, we conduct significant portion of our operations in China and a significant number of our directors and officers reside outside the United States.

We are incorporated in the Cayman Islands and currently conduct a significant portion of our operations in China through our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities. A significant number of our directors and officers reside outside the United States and a substantial portion of their assets are located outside of the United States. As a result, it may be difficult or impossible for you to bring an action against us or against these individuals in the Cayman Islands or in China in the event that you believe that their rights have been infringed under the securities laws or otherwise. Even if you are successful in bringing an action of this kind, the laws of the Cayman Islands and of China may render you unable to enforce a judgment against our assets or the assets of our directors and officers. There is no statutory recognition in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, although the courts of the Cayman Islands will generally recognize and enforce a non-penal judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrial on the merits.

Our corporate affairs are governed by our memorandum and articles of association, as amended and restated from time to time, and by the Companies Law (2013 Revision) and common law of the Cayman Islands. The rights of shareholders to take legal action against us and our directors, actions by minority shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors are to a large extent governed by the common law of the Cayman Islands. The common law of the Cayman Islands is derived in part from comparatively limited judicial precedent in the Cayman Islands as well as from English common law, which provides persuasive, but not binding, authority. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors under Cayman Islands law are not as clearly established as they would be under statutes or judicial precedents in the United States. In particular, the Cayman Islands has a less developed body of securities laws than the United States and provides significantly less protection to investors. In addition, shareholders of Cayman Islands companies may not have standing to initiate a shareholder derivative action in U.S. federal courts.

As a result, our public shareholders may have more difficulty in protecting their interests through actions against us, our management, our directors or our major shareholders than would shareholders of a corporation incorporated in a jurisdiction in the United States.

Our dual-class common share structure with different voting rights will limit your ability to influence corporate matters and could discourage others from pursuing any change of control transactions that holders of our Class A common shares and ADSs may view as beneficial.

Our common shares are divided into Class A common shares and Class B common shares. Holders of Class A common shares are entitled to one vote per share, while holders of Class B common shares are entitled to ten votes per share. We issued Class A common shares represented by our ADSs in our initial public offering. All of our outstanding common shares prior to the initial public offering were redesignated as Class B common shares and our outstanding preferred shares were automatically converted into Class B common shares upon the completion of our initial public offering. In addition, all options issued prior to the completion of our initial public offering entitle option holders to the equivalent number of Class B common shares once the options are vested and exercised. Due to the disparate voting powers attached to these two classes, certain shareholders have significant voting power of our outstanding common shares and have considerable influence over matters requiring shareholder approval, including election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or sale of our company or our assets. In particular, as of March 15, 2015, our three founders, Dr. Henry Yu Lin, Mr. Xu Zhou and Dr. Vincent Wenyong Shi, and their affiliates own approximately 11.6% of our outstanding common shares, representing 56.1% of our total voting power. This concentrated control will limit your ability to influence corporate matters and could discourage others from pursuing any potential merger, takeover or other change of control transactions that holders of Class A common shares and ADSs may view as beneficial and may depress the trading prices of our ADSs.

Our memorandum and articles of association contain anti-takeover provisions that could adversely affect the rights of holders of our Class A common shares and ADSs.

Our memorandum and articles of association contain certain provisions that could limit the ability of others to acquire control of our company, including a provision that grants authority to our board directors to establish from time to time one or more series of preferred shares without action by our shareholders and to determine, with respect to any series of preferred shares, the terms and rights of that series. The provisions could have the effect of depriving our shareholders of the opportunity to sell their shares at a premium over the prevailing market price by discouraging third parties from seeking to obtain control of our company in a tender offer or similar transactions.

Our corporate actions are substantially controlled by our directors, executive officers and other principal shareholders, who can exert significant influence over important corporate matters, which may reduce the price of our ADSs and deprive you of an opportunity to receive a premium for your shares.

As of March 15, 2015, our directors, executive officers and principal shareholders collectively hold approximately 73.3% of the total voting power of our outstanding common shares. Our three founders in particular, Dr. Henry Yu Lin, Mr. Xu Zhou and Dr. Vincent Wenyong Shi, together beneficially own 11.6% of our outstanding common shares and approximately 56.1% of the total voting power of our outstanding common shares. These shareholders, if acting together, could exert substantial influence over matters such as electing directors and approving material mergers, acquisitions or other business combination transactions. If our founders and directors retain their shares in our company, they will continue to have substantial influence over our company in the foreseeable future. This concentration of ownership may also discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company, which could have the dual effect of depriving our shareholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their shares as part of a sale of our company and reducing the price of our ADSs. These actions may be taken even if they are opposed by our other shareholders, including those who purchase our ADSs. In addition, these persons could divert business opportunities away from us to themselves or others.

As a public company, we incur significant accounting, legal and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as rules subsequently implemented by the SEC and The New York Stock Exchange, have detailed requirements concerning corporate governance practices of public companies, including Section 404 relating to internal control over financial reporting. These and other rules and regulations applicable to public companies increase our accounting, legal and financial compliance costs and make certain corporate activities more time-consuming and costly. We cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we may incur or the timing of such costs.

We may be classified as a passive foreign investment company, which could result in adverse United States federal income tax consequences to U.S. investors in the ADSs or common shares.

We will be classified as a “passive foreign investment company,” or “PFIC”, if, in the case of any particular taxable year, either (a) 75% or more of our gross income for such year consists of certain types of “passive” income or (b) 50% or more of the average quarterly value of our assets (as determined on the basis of fair market value) during such year produce or are held for the production of passive income (the “asset test”). Although the law in this regard is unclear, we treat our PRC consolidated affiliated entities as being owned by us for United States federal income tax purposes, not only because we exercise effective control over the operation of such entities, but also because we are entitled to substantially all of their economic benefits associated with these entities, and, as a result, we consolidate their operating results in our consolidated financial statements. Assuming that we are the owner of our PRC consolidated affiliated entities for United States federal income tax purposes, and based upon our current income and assets, we do not presently expect to be classified as a PFIC for the current taxable year or the foreseeable future.

Assuming that we are the owner of our PRC consolidated affiliated entities for United States federal income tax purposes, although we do not expect to be a PFIC in the taxable year ended December 31, 2014, there is a risk that we may become a PFIC for our current taxable year ending December 31, 2015 and future taxable years because of changes in the nature of our income and assets, our significant cash balances and because the value of our assets for purposes of the PFIC test will generally be determined by reference to the market price of our ADSs. Accordingly, fluctuations in the market price of our ADSs may cause us to become a PFIC for the current or future taxable years. The determination of whether we will be or become a PFIC will also be affected by how, and how quickly, we use our liquid assets. Under circumstances where we determine not to deploy significant amounts of cash for active purposes or our consolidated affiliated entities were not treated as owned by us for United States federal income tax purposes, our risk of being classified as a PFIC may substantially increase. Because there are uncertainties in the application of the relevant rules and PFIC status is a factual determination made annually after the close of each taxable year, there can be no assurance that we will not be a PFIC for the current taxable year or any future taxable year.

If we are classified as a PFIC in any taxable year, a U.S. Holder (as defined in “Item 10. Additional Information —E. Taxation—United States Federal Income Taxation”) may incur significantly increased United States income tax on gain recognized on the sale or other disposition of the ADSs or common shares and on the receipt of distributions on the ADSs or common shares and such holders may be subject to burdensome reporting requirements. Further, if we are classified as a PFIC for any year during which a U.S. Holder holds our ADSs or common shares, we generally will continue to be treated as a PFIC for all succeeding years during which such U.S. Holder holds our ADSs or common shares. For more information see “Item 10. Additional Information —E. Taxation—United States Federal Income Taxation.”

We commenced operations in October 2005, when our founders incorporated Beijing Technology in China. Beijing Technology is primarily engaged in the research and development of products and services related to mobile security, privacy and productivity. In March 2007, our founders incorporated NetQin Mobile Inc., the offshore holding company for our operations in China, in the Cayman Islands. We changed the name of NetQin Mobile Inc. to NQ Mobile Inc. in April 2012.

In May 2007, we established our wholly owned subsidiary, NQ Beijing, in China. In April 2010, we established NQ HK in Hong Kong, NQ HK became the directly wholly owned subsidiary of NQ Mobile Inc. and the immediate holding company of NQ Beijing, and currently conducts part of our business activities and operations outside of China.

In September 2010, we purchased 33% of the equity interest in FL Mobile, and in November 2012, we increased our equity interest holding to 100%.

In November 2010, we established NQ Mobile US Inc. (“NQ US”), a direct wholly owned subsidiary of NQ Mobile Inc., in the United States. NQ US primarily engages in consumer mobile value added services and advertising services in the United States and other markets outside of China.

In May 2011, we completed an initial public offering of 7,750,000 ADSs. Each ADS represents five Class A common shares. On May 5, 2011, we listed our ADSs on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “NQ.”

In February 2012, Beijing Technology established QingYun (Tianjin) Financial Management Co., Ltd. (“Tianjin QingYun”) as its wholly owned subsidiary. Tianjin QingYun primarily engages in financial management services. As of the date of this annual report, we invested, through Tianjin QingYun, as a limited partner in two PRC limited liability partnerships to primarily make venture investments in China’s mobile Internet industry.

In May 2012, we acquired 55% of the equity interest in NationSky through Beijing Technology. Headquartered in Beijing, NationSky provides mobile services for enterprises in China. In July 2013, we acquired the remaining 45% of the equity interest in NationSky. In June 2014, we announced an agreement to transfer approximately 3.4% of the equity interest in NationSky to Beijing Guorun Qilian Venture Capital Center (LP), but the transaction was subsequently cancelled. We continued to hold 100% of NationSky through Beijing Technology as of the date of this annual report.

In September 2012, we acquired 18.9% of the equity interest in Shanghai Yinlong Information and Technology Co., Ltd. (“Yinlong”) which mainly provides mobile music search and recognition software services. In November 2013, we acquired an additional 36.1% of the equity interest in Yinlong. In May 2014, we acquired the remaining 45% of the equity interest in Yinlong.

In January 2013, we established our wholly owned subsidiary, NQ (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“NQ Tongzhou”) in China. NQ Tongzhou primarily engages in software design and development for computer and mobile devices and other technology consulting services. In the same month, we established FL Mobile Inc. in the Cayman Islands as a wholly owned subsidiary of us, and FL Mobile Hong Kong Limited (“FL HK”) in Hong Kong as a wholly owned subsidiary of FL Mobile Inc.

In March 2013, we acquired 51% of the equity interest in Beijing Fanyue Information Technology Co., Ltd., or Fanyue, through FL Mobile. Fanyue primarily provides off-line user acquisition services. In September 2013, we acquired the remaining 49% of the equity interest in Fanyue.

In September 2013, we acquired 100% of the equity interest in Best Partners Ltd. (“Best Partners”). Best Partners runs its business mainly through Beijing Wanpu Century Co., Ltd. (“Wanpu Century”), an offer-wall based mobile advertising company and Best Partners’ variable interest entity. Best Partners controls Wanpu Century through Beijing Wanpu Media Technologies Co., Ltd. (“Wanpu Beijing”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Partners. In September 2013, we entered into a contractual arrangement with Wanpu Century, under which we obtained control over Wanpu Century through Wanpu Beijing.

In September 2013, we acquired 100% of the equity interest of Beijing Tianya Co., Ltd. (“Tianya”). Tianya mainly engages in mobile healthcare applications development and search engine marketing in the healthcare industry in China.

In October 2013, we acquired 100% of the equity interest of Chengdu Ruifeng Technology Co., Ltd. (“Ruifeng”). Ruifeng primarily provides enterprise mobility system development and iOS training programs.

In October 2013, we issued an aggregate of US$172.5 million 4.00% convertible senior notes due in 2018. Use of proceeds from the sale of the notes is for general corporate purposes, including working capital needs and potential acquisitions of complementary businesses.

In September 2013 and December 2013, we acquired 10.00% and 29.01% of the equity interest in Tianjin Huayong Wireless Technology Co., Ltd., or Huayong. Huayong primarily conducts research and development and marketing of live wallpapers for smart phones using Android system. In January 2014 and June 2014, we acquired additional 18.99% and 10% of equity interest in Huayong, respectively.

In January 2014, we acquired 100% of the equity interest in Beijing Trustek Technology Co., Ltd. (“Beijing Trustek”). Beijing Trustek primarily provides enterprise mobility solutions and services, including system management, application development, business intelligence and maintenance services.

In September 2013, we acquired 20% of the equity interest in Beijing Showself Technology Co., Ltd. (“Showself”). Showself primarily operates a live mobile social video platform. In May 2014, we acquired an additional 45% of the equity interest in Showself.

In May 2014, we entered into a share purchase agreement with Bison Mobile Limited, pursuant to which Bison Mobile Limited agreed to purchase up to 3.75% of the equity interest in FL Mobile Inc., and we have the right but not the obligation to sell up to 2.13% of the equity interest in FL Mobile Inc. to other third party investors. As part of this transaction, we conducted a corporate reorganization in July 2014, under which (i) FL Mobile (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“FL Beijing”), the wholly owned PRC subsidiary of FL HK, entered into a series of contractual agreements with FL Mobile, pursuant to which FL Beijing exercises effective control over FL Mobile and its subsidiaries and has the right to receive substantially all of their economic benefits and (ii) FL Mobile Inc. acquired 100% equity interest in Best Partners. As a result of the reorganization, FL Mobile became one of our consolidated affiliated entities. FL Mobile Inc. issued shares representing 4.94% of the equity interest to Bison Mobile Limited and other third party investors pursuant to the share purchase agreements entered into prior to December 31, 2014. The share purchase agreements have a redemption right if FL Mobile Inc. does not complete a qualified listing within 12 months after the share purchase is completed.

In July 2014, we received a non-binding proposal from Bison Capital Holding Company Limited to acquire all of our outstanding ordinary shares and ADSs for a fixed cash consideration of US$9.80 per ADS. Our Board of Directors, after careful consideration, rejected this proposal in October 2014.

In September 2014, we established our wholly owned subsidiary, Beijing NQ Mobile Co., Ltd. (“NQ Yizhuang”) in China. NQ Yizhuang primarily engages in software design and development for computer and mobile devices and other technology consulting services.

In December 2014,we entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with Tack Fiori International Group Limited (“Tack Fiori”) (Stock code:928.HK), a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability and listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “HK Stock Exchange”). As contemplated under the MOU, Tack Fiori proposes to purchase 100% of the equity interests in, and assume all liabilities of, FL Mobile Inc. by paying a total consideration of between US$570 million and US$630 million, payable by way of allotment and issue of certain number of new shares of Tack Fiori at an issue price per new share which shall represent a discount of 10% to 20% to the average closing price per share of Tack Fiori as quoted on the HK Stock Exchange for the last thirty consecutive trading days up to and including the day immediately prior to the date of the MOU, to NQ Mobile and other shareholders of FL Mobile Inc., which shall be documented by a sale and purchase agreement to be negotiated and executed by and among Tack Fiori, NQ Mobile and other shareholders of FL Mobile Inc. (the “Proposed FL Transaction”). The MOU contemplates that, after the completion of the Proposed FL Transaction, NQ Mobile Inc. and/or its affiliates shall become the controlling shareholders of Tack Fiori. The Proposed FL Transaction is conditional upon the fulfillment of certain conditions, including but not limited to the obtaining of all necessary third party, governmental and regulatory consents, approvals and waivers. No binding contract will exist between the parties unless and until they sign and deliver one or more definitive agreements.

PRC laws and regulations currently limit foreign ownership of companies that provide value-added telecommunications services. To comply with these restrictions, we conduct our operations in China primarily through contractual arrangements between our wholly owned PRC subsidiaries and our consolidated affiliated entities. Our consolidated affiliated entities hold the qualifications, licenses and permits necessary to conduct our operations in China.

Our wholly owned subsidiaries have entered into a series of contractual agreements with our consolidated affiliated entities and their respective shareholders, which enable us to:

As a result of these contractual arrangements, we are considered the primary beneficiary of our consolidated affiliated entities and have consolidated their financial results in our consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP. For a description of these contractual arrangements, see “Item 7. Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions — B. Related Party Transactions.”

We have dual headquarters in Beijing and Dallas. Our principal executive offices and headquarters in Beijing are located at No. 4 Building, 11 Heping Li East Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100013, the People’s Republic of China. Our telephone number at this address is +86 (10) 8565-5555. Our Dallas headquarters is located at 4514 Travis St, Dallas, Texas, 75205. Our registered office in the Cayman Islands is located at Maples Corporate Services Limited, PO Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman KY1-1104, Cayman Islands. Our agent for service of process in the United States is Law Debenture Corporate Services Inc., 400 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10017.

See “Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects—B. Liquidity and Capital Resources—Capital Expenditures” for a discussion of our capital expenditures.

We are a leading global provider of mobile Internet services. We have been a pioneer in the consumer mobile security industry since 2005 and have since built a mobile Internet platform with proven competency to acquire, engage, and monetize mobile customers globally. We currently offer a variety of products and services to consumers and enterprises. In 2014, we made significant efforts to greatly accelerate our transition to a traffic-based platform company and to open up our platform to our channel partners, including wireless carriers, third party developers, and original equipment manufacturers, enabling them to offer our products and services directly to their customers through their own branding and marketing. We plan to continue to develop products and services for consumers and enterprises, while offering our products and services directly to consumers and enterprises as well as enabling channel partners to offer their own versions of our products and services. We also increase the monetization of the traffic on our platform through advertising, including third-party application referrals, offer wall and pay wall models as well as brand advertising.

Our vision is to become a leading mobile Internet platform for consumers and enterprises globally. We began our business by offering consumers mobile security services to address the fundamental and rapidly growing needs of smart device users. Over the years, our proprietary, cloud-based security solution has been recognized as effective solutions for detecting and combating mobile security threats. Building upon the success of our mobile security offerings, we expanded our product and service offerings to provide mobile privacy and productivity, and started to offer additional mobile value added services, such as mobile games and interest-based community applications. We also started to offer a full set of enterprise mobility solutions. Additionally, we began offering our products and services to our channel partners to provide these products and services to their own users. We also enhanced our ability to monetize our mobile users through advertising, mobile games and technology licensing. Our products and services cater to the ever-expanding needs of consumers and enterprises in their usage of mobile devices, and we believe we are well positioned to capture market opportunities presented by the rapidly evolving mobile Internet industry.

We provide a wide range of mobile security related services to address fundamental user requirements, which have allowed us to build a large user base while enhancing user engagement and loyalty. Our large user base provides us with significant monetization opportunities, such as up-selling our premium consumer mobile security and other mobile Internet services, cross-selling third-party mobile Internet applications on our platform as well as advertising.

Our cloud-based platform enables us to compile and update a database of information based on the usage and actions of our users. By knowing our users, we are able to deliver the most applicable mobile Internet services and advertisements, further enhancing our engagement, up-selling and cross-selling capabilities. This allows us to simultaneously deliver strengthened security products and services from our continuously increasing cloud-based repository of security threats, and also provide other relevant mobile Internet services and advertisements through our powerful database of user information. This continual strengthening of our security services as well as development of additional mobile Internet services based on our understanding of users enhance our platform for the purpose of attracting new users, resulting in a virtuous cycle that we believe allows us to continually acquire, engage, and monetize our use base. We have also opened this platform up and are now attracting other partners, including wireless carriers, third-party application developers and original equipment manufacturers, to utilize our technologies, products, services and solutions to engage and monetize their own mobile users as well.

We offer our products and services under our own brands and also as white label solutions that can be tailored to the specific requirements and offered under the brands of our channel partners. We also offer technology solutions and software development kit (SDK) platforms that enable our channel partners to expand their own business objectives, while we share in the revenues and results. In summary, we sell products directly to customers, through channel partners to customers, and also generate revenues by helping channel partners sell their own branded products and services that are powered by our solutions and technology. Additionally, we are now monetizing the traffic on our platform that is associated with our users who are interacting with our products and services directly and with our channel partners in the form of advertising, third party application referrals and offer wall/pay wall.

We began our business by offering mobile security products for consumers and subsequently expanded our portfolio to include a variety of products and services for consumers, enterprises, developers and advertisers. The products and services we currently offer are divided into three main categories: mobile value added services, advertising services and enterprise mobility products and services.

We offer a wide range of products and services in the area of mobile security, privacy, productivity, personalized cloud, and family protection. Our current product offerings are in the following categories:

Mobile Security: Our mobile security product “NQ Mobile Security” protects users’ mobile voice and data from malicious software (such as viruses or malware), hacking, phishing and privacy intrusion. We provide mobile malware scanning, Internet firewall, financial and social media account and communication protection, phone performance optimization and call and SMS blocking. Through “NQ Mobile Easy Finder”, we enable users to remotely locate, track, lock, alarm, message and delete information from lost or stolen phones. We also provide backup and restore tools in both products.

Mobile Privacy: Our mobile privacy product “NQ Mobile Vault” ensures users’ digital privacy through active control and on-device encryption of content and communication, including contacts, call logs, SMS, pictures and videos.

Mobile Productivity: Our mobile productivity products “Android Booster,” “Mobile Manager,” “NQ Easy Battery Saver” and “Super Task Killer” intelligently tune users’ smart devices to achieve optimum performance. “Call Blocker” enhances users’ time and relationship management, including screening incoming calls, filtering unwanted spam and SMS messages, and protecting communication privacy.

Family Protection: Our family protection product “NQ Family Guardian” allows parents to monitor and protect their children’s smart device activities. NQ Family Guardian’s unique suite of services for safety and monitoring comprises a mobile app that is downloaded and installed on the child’s smart devices along with a web-based control center that is accessible from any desktop or mobile browser. With this app, parents can set up protection for their children including browser blocking, app filtering, contact filtering, usage scheduling, communication monitoring, geo-fencing, location tracking and panic alarm.

We also provide a cloud security and storage SDK that allows third-party developers to incorporate the function to their own applications and products.

Our consumer mobile products are offered directly under our various NQ brands as well as white labeled and branded by our various channel partners who sell their own versions of these products. Such channel partners include American Movil and its subsidiaries, US Cellular, ZTE, Lenovo, Huawei, Gionee, Vivo, TCL Micromax, Smartfren and Ninetology.

We have established diversified user acquisition channels through strong relationships with key players in the global mobile ecosystem. We acquire users of our consumer mobile products through pre-installation/pre-load, retail, online channels and viral marketing.

Pre-installation in mobile handsets is an important user acquisition channel. We have formed strong collaborative relationships with many handset distributors that each has relationships with an extensive network of handset manufacturers, including ZTE, Lenovo, Huawei, Gionee, Vivo, Smartfren, Cherry Mobile, I-Mobile, Ninetology, Mito, Fly, and Polytron to pre-install our products on different types and models of their mobile phones. We also work with wireless carriers such as US Cellular to pre-install our products. We intend to further expand our pre-installation relationships to include additional mobile handset manufacturers, wireless carriers, mobile handset distributors and retailers to pre-install and promote our products.

We expanded our user acquisition channels to wireless carriers in certain international markets since 2012 to offer our products and acquire premium users. Our products are sold at retail locations by our wireless retail partners, including The Cellular Connection, A Wireless, in the United States and Telkomsel in Indonesia.

We provide online downloads via various mobile Internet websites, mobile application stores and mobile Internet portals. These mobile Internet websites, mobile application stores and portals promote the download link of our products and help expand our user base for a fee. Apart from utilizing our own advertising network, we also run mobile advertising campaigns with various mobile advertising networks such as Admob by Google and Mobpartner to generate user downloads of our products.

We acquire users from our own user acquisition channels and traffic. These users learn of our products and services through word of mouth user referrals.

We collect net revenues from our consumer mobile products through a variety of payment channels. We operate globally and with various channel partners that each utilizes different payment processing and collecting systems. We collect payment from our users for premium consumer mobile products through major wireless carriers, mobile payment service providers, prepaid card distributors, and third-party payment processors, including credit card and debit card companies.

Through FL Mobile, we publish and operate both third-party and self-developed mobile games.

We operated 29 games on the iOS platform and 74 games on the Android platform as of December 31, 2014. Most of these games were developed by third parties but published and operated by FL Mobile. In 2014, FL Mobile operated six games that ranked among the top 100 gross applications on Apple’s iTunes app store in China. The top revenue-contributing and most anticipated mobile games published and operated by FL Mobile during 2014 are:

We acquire and maintain mobile gamers through our own interest-based community applications including Mobile Phone User Bible, or ShouJi Shi Yong Bao Dian, and FL Mobile Game Community, or the app stores FL Download and FL Game Center. We also leverage third-party platforms and distribution channels to promote games and gain users. We generate revenues through operating and publishing contracts with game developers and receiving licensing fees for our self-developed games. Almost all games are free to play and we generate revenues through the sale of in-game virtual items.

In the second quarter of 2014, we acquired a controlling interest in Showself and began consolidating revenues generated by Showself in our MVAS revenues in the third quarter of 2014. Showself is a live mobile social video platform, or social entertainment business.

We generate advertising revenues mainly on a CPA basis in the form of third-party application referrals through our mobile security applications, interest-based online community applications, mobile games, our advertising network platform and offline channels. We help third parties to promote and refer their applications and services to users in the form of notifications, offer walls, banner advertising, video advertising, audio advertising, in-application alerts, icon drops, advanced overlays, and interstitials. We also offer banner advertising through our interest-based community applications to advertisers on a CPT basis.

We charge our advertisers a pre-determined rate on a CPA basis, and our revenues generated from advertising services depend on the numbers of active users’ clicks and downloads. We generate advertising revenues from mobile game developers and other mobile application developers for utility, music, reading, e-commerce and travel. Through health care applications operated by our subsidiary Beijing Tianya Co., Ltd., or Tianya, we also generate advertising revenues from health care related industries.

We expanded into the enterprise mobility market through our acquisition of NationSky. As employees and knowledge workers increasingly use bring-your-own-device (BYOD) smart mobile devices for both business and personal use, managing work productivity and keeping corporate owned information and sensitive employee data protected have become significant concerns for businesses and employees. We deliver a comprehensive suite of mobility solutions to our clients by architecting mobility strategies, sourcing suitable devices, optimizing and deploying devices and applications, and maintaining ongoing 24/7 support.

NQSky Mobile Device Management (MDM): Our MDM product, NQSky, enables enterprise IT managers to integrate mobile devices with existing IT policies and directly manage devices, applications and contents via centralized administration cloud.

Mobile Application Management (MAM): We provide enterprises with the services for provisioning and controlling access to internally-developed and commercially available mobile applications used in business settings.

Mobile Content Management (MCM): We provide enterprises with services capable of storing and delivering content and services to mobile devices. We offer discrete systems and enable secure mobile access to content anytime.

BYOD platform: NationSky provides its enterprise customers a complete BYOD platform solution encompassing hardware, software, carrier voice/data plan and ongoing support services. The BYOD platform is device agnostic covering multiple operating systems including iOS, Android and Windows 8 and enables office mobility for enterprise employees.

Cross platform middleware/Center Enterprise Server: NationSky’s Center Enterprise Server (CES) provides cross platform middleware for enterprise customers to enable data collection, storage, compression, encryption and analysis on mobile devices.

Enterprise mobile security platform: Our enterprise security product “NQ Enterprise Shield” provides enterprise customers and their employees with the privacy and security features they need to protect their businesses by securing sensitive device data from mobile security threats and insecure mobile environments.

Our SDK monitoring platform provides customers with Internet malware intelligence detection and solutions on their mobile terminals. The service helps detect malware and screens SMS, MMS, URL, and other possible loopholes on each mobile device locally.

Our e-commerce payment protection capability is embedded in clients’ terminals through an SDK. It prevents unauthorized changes on applications and provides general protection and an anti-phishing function to secure online transactions of mobile phone users.

Our gateway test capability provides mobile phone security screening for telecom operators. It provides virus detection, malware detection, and system vulnerabilities detection, ensuring that mobile phones are secured before entering the market for sale.

Industry mobility solutions: NationSky provides vertical mobility solutions by extending existing IT functionalities to mobile devices for industries such as banking, insurance and brokerage. NationSky’s industry mobility solutions also enable capabilities such as mobile Office Automation (OA), mobile Business Intelligence (BI) and mobile Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for its enterprise customers.

Architecting mobility strategies: NationSky works with enterprise customers and designs the strategy roadmap based on specific needs and priorities. It designs the mobility architecture and recommends the most suitable devices, mobile device management software and data packages with detailed analysis.

Sourcing suitable devices: Based on customers’ specific needs, NationSky recommends and procures the most suitable devices from vendors covering Apple iOS, Blackberry, Android and Windows.

Optimizing and deploying devices and applications: NationSky installs mobile device management (MDM) software, branded NQSky, and maintains consistent standards for configuration over the course of a broad, high-volume enterprise device roll-out. With the mobile device management installed and mobile devices registered, enterprises can remotely control mobile devices, including: locating and locking devices, erasing content, mobile application installation and updates, and unified configuration of network settings.

Training and 24/7 support: NationSky provides training to employees of enterprise customers and familiarize them with the technology, architecture design and software. NationSky also provides 24/7 support for enterprise customers.

As the needs of our enterprise customers evolve, we have continued to develop new products and services. In 2014, one of our important new products will be Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP). MEAP is a development environment that provides tools and middleware for developing, testing, deploying and managing corporate software running on mobile devices. Two important features of MEAP are: mobile application management links to enterprise applications and database, and a centralized management component that enables administrators to control access.

In addition to the NationSky products and services, we acquired Trustek in the first quarter of 2014 and began to include these revenues within our overall enterprise business segment. Trustek primarily provides enterprise mobility solutions and services, including system management, application development, business intelligence and maintenance services.

For our consumer mobile security business, we operate a 24/7 global customer service center with trained professional staff for customer inquiries and technical support. We provide multiple support channels, including telephone, fax, SMS, email, instant messenger and online forums, among others, to address inquiries and collect user feedback. We deploy more than 60 customer service hotlines to provide multi-lingual assistance to answer user inquiries and resolve technical issues promptly. We have a team of highly trained customer service specialists and technology support personnel. For our mobile games business on the FL Mobile platform, we provide 12/7 multiple support channels, including online instant messenger and telephone hotline, to address inquiries and questions from our users. For our enterprise mobility business, NationSky provides 24/7 customer support through a centralized customer service hotline and its 11 service centers located in major cities across China.

As of December 31, 2014, our research and development department consisted of 695 engineers and technicians. Supervisors in charge of our research and development department have educational backgrounds from leading universities in China and have significant industry experience before joining us. We recruit our engineers throughout China and have established various recruiting and training programs with leading universities in China.

We will also continue to recruit, train, retain and motivate highly trained and qualified research and development staff to maintain our technological advantage. In addition, we will continue to apply for more patents in order to protect our new, innovative ideas and intellectual property.

Our business success has benefited from our continuous efforts in obtaining and maintaining intellectual property protection, including and application and registration of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. As of December 31, 2014, we had 235 patent registrations, applications and exclusive licenses in China and overseas, including but not limited to patents covering anti-virus, anti-spam firewall, anti-phishing, contact management, agenda management and parental controls, mobile game and advertising, enterprise mobile management. Some of these patents have been issued and are currently held by us, while others are still pending. As of December 31, 2014, 36 of our patents applications have been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, and claim the benefits of initial patent applications, eight of which has been approved by USPTO. Some of the intellectual properties our company currently uses are held by individuals, all of whom have entered into assignment or exclusive patent licensing agreements with us. We have also made 215 copyright registrations and 353 trademark registrations and applications in China and overseas, and have applied with USPTO to register the word “NQ” and related logo as a trademark. In addition, we have131 registered domain names, including www.NQ.com, our primary operation website, which we licensed from a third party (the “Licensor”) in July 2011. We have been granted an exclusive license for the use of the domain name of www.NQ.com for ten years from July 2011 to June 2021. Unless renewed, upon the expiration or earlier termination of this agreement, the Licensor shall have the right to license the domain name to any other party as the Licensor desires. However, if the Licensor intends to transfer the domain name to another party, we have a right of first refusal. In addition, the Licensor provides us ten years search engine optimization services from July 2011 to June 2021.

Our business operations substantially rely on the techniques covered by following patents: (1) a patent on a method and system to subscribe, configure and move mobile telephone software service conveniently, which was filed in China in September 2007 and has a corresponding U.S. patent application file in May 2010, both of which were granted; (2) a patent on a method and system for a self-learning intellectualized short message firewall for mobile terminals, which was filed in China in December 2009 and has a corresponding PCT application file in December 2010; (3) a patent on an anti-theft method and system for mobile terminals, which was filed in China in December 2012 and has a corresponding PCT application in March 2013; and (4) a patent on a method and system to show contents on mobile terminals, which was filed in China in October 2013.According to Article 42 of Chinese Patent Law, each of the four patents above would have a term of twenty years, starting from its application date.

We regard our copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and similar intellectual property as our core assets, and rely on trademark and copyright law, trade secret protection and confidentiality and/or license agreements with our employees, suppliers and others to protect our proprietary rights. All of our research and development personnel have entered into confidentiality and proprietary information agreements or clauses with us. These agreements address intellectual property protection issues and require our employees to assign to us all of the inventions, designs, and technology they develop during their employment with us.

Seasonal fluctuations and industry cyclicality have had minimal effect on our consumer mobile service business in the past, and we expect this trend to continue for the foreseeable future. For our enterprise mobility business, we experience seasonality and fluctuations in our quarterly revenues which reflect the seasonal fluctuations driven by our customers’ procurement cycles for mobile devices and enterprise software. China-based enterprises typically procure IT related services toward the end of the year. As a result, our revenues in the second half of the year are higher than the first. Finally, the advertising business in general has seasonal factors that tend to show more strength in the second half of the year compared to the first half of the year. We expect to see this type of trend generally in advertising, especially as our own advertising network expands.

We compete primarily on the basis of user base, services portfolio, technology know-how, research and development capabilities as well as relationships with key players in the mobile ecosystem, such as wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, chipmakers, distributors and retailers and third-party payment processors. For a discussion of risks relating to competition, see “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business and Industry—We may face increasing competition, which could reduce our market share and materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.”

The mobile services market in China and globally is competitive. On the mobile security front, we compete directly with (i) domestic PC/mobile security vendors such as Qihoo 360, Tencent and Kingsoft (Cheetah Mobile), (ii) overseas security software providers such as Avast, Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Trend Micro, F-Secure and Kaspersky, and (iii) other emerging companies offering mobile security products, such as Lookout. While we have focused on providing mobile security services since the founding of our company, most of our competitors are traditional PC anti-virus providers who later entered into the mobile security market.

As a mobile Internet Platform business, including attracting, engaging, and monetizing mobile users across multiple products, services and applications and focusing on traffic, we compete in China with many of the largest platform companies including Tencent, Baidu, Qihoo 360. We also have numerous products, services and applications that compete on a stand-alone basis with other technology companies including, but not limited to, Shazam, YY, and numerous other advertising platforms and networks.

Consistent with customary industry practice in China, we do not maintain specific business interruption insurance or real property insurance, although we do maintain a directors, officers and company liability insurance policy for the protection of our company and our directors and officers. Uninsured damage to any of our equipment or buildings or a significant product liability claim could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations. See “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business and Industry—We have limited business insurance coverage, which could expose us to substantial costs and diversion of resources that in turn may have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.”

From time to time, we may be subject to various claims or legal, arbitral or administrative proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of our business. For more information, see “Item 8. Financial Information—A. Consolidated Statements and Other Financial Information—Legal Proceedings.” Also see “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business and Industry — Our results of operations, financial performance and business may be adversely affected by potential intellectual property rights infringement claims against us.”

The PRC government has imposed extensive and stringent measures to regulate the telecommunications and software development industries. The State Council of the PRC, or the State Council, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, or the MIIT (formerly the Ministry of Information Industry, or the MII), and other relevant authorities in the PRC have issued various regulations with respect to the telecommunications and software development industries. This section summarizes the principal PRC laws and regulations relevant to our business and operations.

On September 25, 2000, the State Council issued the Regulations on Telecommunications of the PRC, or the Regulations on Telecommunications, which was amended on July 29, 2014, and which regulates the telecommunications industry and other related activities and services within the PRC. The MIIT regulates the telecommunications industry on a national level while the provincial-level communications administrative bureaus, or the CABs, supervise and regulate the telecommunications industry in their respective administrative regions. The Regulations on Telecommunications classifies telecommunications services into two main categories: (1) core telecommunications services and (2) value-added telecommunications services, and further divides each main category into several sub-categories. According to the Catalog for Classification of Telecommunications Businesses, which became effective on April 1, 2003, our business operates under the provision of information services through mobile networks and the Internet, thus fitting into the category of value-added telecommunications services.

Providers of value-added telecommunications services in the PRC are subject to examination and approval from, and require licenses issued by, the MIIT or the relevant CABs. Pursuant to the Regulation on Telecommunications, to provide value-added telecommunications services in more than two provinces, autonomous regions or centrally administered municipalities, the mobile payment service provider shall obtain the Transregional Value-Added Telecommunication Business Operation License from the MIIT; to provide value-added telecommunications services within one province, autonomous region or centrally administered municipality, the mobile payment service provider shall obtain the Value-Added Telecommunication Business Operation License from relevant CABs. On March 1, 2009, the MIIT issued the Administrative Measures for Licensing of Telecommunications Business Operations which set forth the basic requirements for a license to provide value-added telecommunications services in the PRC. Such requirements mainly include the following:

On April 15, 2004, the MII issued the Notice on Certain Issues Regarding Regulating Short Message Services which specifies that only those telecommunications services providers that hold specific short message service licenses may provide such services in the PRC. The notice also requires short message services providers to censor the contents of short messages, to automatically collect information such as the time that short messages are sent and received and the telephone numbers or codes of the sending and receiving terminals and to keep such records for five months within the time each short message is delivered.

On November 3, 2014, the MII issued a discussion draft of the proposed Administrative Provisions on Short Message Services (the “Draft of SMS”) to seek public comments by December 5, 2014.The Draft of SMS indicates that any SMS operators should obtain a telecommunications license under the law. Basic telecommunications service operators shall not provide network or service access used for business operations for SMS providers without a license. The Draft of SMS clearly underlines that any entity or individual should not send commercial short messages to recipients without their consent or request. If a recipient consents to receiving and then clearly refuses to receive short messages, operators should stop sending him messages. In addition, SMS providers should introduce a complaint-handling mechanism, publish contract information and accept complaints relating to SMS.

On January 29, 2003, the MII issued the Administrative Measures on Telecommunications Networks Code Number Resources to administer the code number resources including mobile communications network code number. According to the administrative measures, the entity shall apply to the MII for a code number to be used in the inter-provincial operations and shall apply to the relevant CAB for a separate code number for intra-provincial operations. The administrative measures specify the qualifications for a code number, required application materials and application procedures.

On March 13, 2005, the MII issued the Specifications for Telecommunications Services specifying the telecommunications service qualities to which all telecommunications mobile payment service providers in the PRC should conform. It also requires all telecommunications services providers to establish a sound service quality management system and make periodical reports to the relevant telecommunications authorities.

Foreign direct investment in telecommunications services industry in China is regulated under Regulations on the Administration of Foreign-Invested Telecommunications Enterprises, or the FITE Regulations. The FITE Regulations were issued by the State Council on December 11, 2001 and amended by the State Council on September 10, 2008. According to the FITE Regulations, foreign investors’ ultimate equity interests in any entity providing value-added telecommunications services in the PRC may not exceed 50%. A foreign investor must demonstrate a good track record and prior experience in providing value-added telecommunications services outside the PRC prior to acquiring any equity interest in any value-added telecommunications services business in the PRC.

On July 13, 2006, the MII issued the Notice Regarding Strengthening the Administration of Foreign Investment in Operating Value-Added Telecommunications Businesses, or the MII Notice, which prohibits value-added telecommunications services operation license holders, including Trans-regional Value-Added Telecommunications Services Operation License and Telecommunications Value-Added Services Operation License holders, from leasing, transferring or selling their licenses to any foreign investors in any manner, or providing any resources, premises or facilities to any foreign investors for illegal operation of telecommunications services business in the PRC. The MII Notice also requires that, (1) value-added telecommunications services operation license holders or their shareholders must directly own the domain names and trademarks used by such license holders in their daily operations; (2) each license holder must have necessary facilities for its approved business operations and maintain such facilities in the regions specified by its license; and (3) all value-added telecommunications mobile payment service providers are required to maintain network and Internet security in accordance with the standards set forth in relevant PRC regulations. If a license holder fails to comply with the requirements in the MII Notice and fails to remedy such non-compliance within a designated period, the MIIT or relevant CABs may take administrative actions against such license holder, including revocation of their valued-added telecommunications services operation licenses. We provide our services through our controlled affiliated entity that own Value-Added Telecommunications Services Operation Licenses. We believe our controlled affiliated entity is in compliance with the MII Notice.

The MOFCOM published a discussion draft of the proposed Foreign Investment Law (the “Draft”) in January 2015 aiming to, upon its enactment, replace the trio of existing laws regulating foreign investment in China. The Draft embodies an expected PRC regulatory trend to rationalize its foreign investment regulatory regime in line with prevailing international practice and the legislative efforts to unify the corporate legal requirements for both foreign and domestic investments. The MOFCOM is currently soliciting comments on the Draft and substantial uncertainties exist with respect to its enactment timetable, interpretation and implementation. The Draft, if enacted as proposed, may materially impact the viability of our current corporate structure, corporate governance and business operations. The Draft expands the definition of foreign investment and introduces the principle of “actual control” in determining whether a company is considered an FIE. Under the Draft, the entities established in China but “controlled” by foreign investors will be treated as FIEs, whereas an entity set up in a foreign jurisdiction would nonetheless be, upon market entry clearance by the MOFCOM, treated as a PRC domestic investor provided that the entity is “controlled” by PRC entities and/or citizens. In this connection, “control” is broadly defined in the draft law to cover the following summarized categories: (i) holding, directly or indirectly, not less than 50% of shares, equities, share of properties, voting rights or other similar rights of the enterprise; (ii) holding, directly or indirectly, less than 50% of shares, equities, share of properties, voting rights or other similar rights of the enterprise, but falling under any of the following circumstances: (1) having the right to directly or indirectly appoint not less than half of the members of the board of directors or other similar decision-making body of the enterprise; (2) having the ability to ensure that its nominees occupy not less than half of seats in the board of directors or other similar decision-making body of the enterprise; or (3) holding voting rights sufficient to impose significant impacts on any resolution of the board of shareholders, at the general meeting of shareholders, or of the board of directors or other decision-making body of the enterprise; or (iii) having the power to exert decisive influence, via contractual or trust arrangements, over the subject entity’s operations, financial matters or other key aspects of business operations. Once an entity is determined to be an FIE, it will be subject to the foreign investment restrictions or prohibitions set forth in a “negative list,” to be separately issued by the State Council later, if the FIE is engaged in the industry listed in the negative list. Unless the underlying business of the FIE falls within the negative list, which calls for market entry clearance by the MOFCOM, prior approval from the government authorities as mandated by the existing foreign investment legal regime would no longer be required for establishment of the FIE.

Under the Draft, variable interest entities that are controlled via contractual arrangement would also be deemed as FIEs, if they are ultimately “controlled” by foreign investors. Therefore, for any companies with a VIE structure in an industry category that is on the “negative list,” the VIE structure may be deemed legitimate only if the ultimate controlling person(s) is/are of PRC nationality (either PRC companies or PRC citizens). Conversely, if the actual controlling person(s) is/are of foreign nationalities, then the variable interest entities will be treated as FIEs and any operation in the industry category on the “negative list” without market entry clearance may be considered as illegal. Moreover, for the enterprises which are not incorporated under the laws of China (foreign investors) but are “controlled” by Chinese investors, they may submit documentary evidence to apply for identifying their investment as the investment by Chinese investors when they applying for the market entry clearance to engage in any investment as set out in the “negative list” in China. The competent authorities of foreign investment will grant the review opinion on whether the said investment is identified as the investment by Chinese investors.

On March 5, 2009, the MIIT issued the Administrative Measures for Software Products, or the Measures for Software Products, to regulate the development, production, sale, and import and export of software products, including computer software, software embedded in information systems and equipment, and computer software provided in conjunction with other information or technology services. Any entity or individual shall not develop, produce, sell and import or export any software product which infringes upon the intellectual property rights of third parties, contains computer viruses, endangers computer system security, is not in compliance with the software standard specification of the PRC, or contains contents prohibited under PRC laws and regulations. To that end, for any software products and services, the Measures for Software Products require registration and filing with the provincial level software registration institutions authorized to accept and review software products registration applications. Once accepted for review, the software product registration application shall be filed with and publicly announced by the MIIT, and if no objection is received within a seven-working-day publication period, a software registration number and a software product registration certificate will be granted. A software registration certificate is valid for five years and may be renewed upon expiration.

A PRC enterprise that develops one or more software products and meets the Certifying Standards and Administrative Measures for Software Enterprises (Proposed), promulgated by the MII, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology and the State Administration of Taxation, or the SAT on October 16, 2000, can be certified as a “software enterprise.” The certification standards for software enterprises include the following:

Enterprises that qualified as “software enterprises” are entitled to certain preferential treatments in the PRC. According to the Circular on Relevant Policies for Encouraging the Development of the Software and Integrate Circuit Industries (Circular No. 25) (2000) by the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation, or the SAT, newly-established software manufacturing enterprises (i.e. those established after July 1, 2000) may be exempt from income tax in the first two years of profitability and enjoy 50% income taxes reduction for the next three years, such policy is known as the “Two Free, Three Half” preferential policy. On February 22, 2008, the Ministry of Finance and SAT promulgated the Notice on Several Preferential Policies in Respect of Enterprise Income Tax, or the Notice 2008 No. 1, which reiterated that a software production enterprise newly established within China may, upon certification, enjoy the Two Free, Three Half preferential treatment. On April 24, 2009, the Ministry of Finance and SAT promulgated the Notice on Several Issues Relevant to the Implementation of the Preferential Policies on Enterprise Income Tax, which states that, the software production enterprises and the integrated circuit production enterprises established prior to the end of 2007 may, upon certification, enjoy the preferential policies on the enterprise income tax reductions and exemptions within specified periods as provided in the Notice 2008 No. 1. An enterprise which became profitable in or before 2007 and started enjoying the enterprise income tax reductions and exemptions within specified periods may continue to enjoy the relevant preferential treatment from 2008 until the expiration of the specified periods.

The manufacture and the sale of special products for computer information system safety are mainly regulated by the Protection Regulations for Computer Information System Safety of the PRC, which was promulgated by the State Council and become effective as of February 18, 1994 and the Administrative Measures for Inspection and Sales License of Special Products for Computer Information System Safety, which was promulgated by the Ministry of Public Security and became effective as of December 12, 1997. Pursuant to relevant articles in these laws and regulations, the manufacturer of special products for computer information system safety shall apply for a sales license for special products for computer information system safety before such products entering into the market and tag the mark of “Sales Permit” on a fixed place of such products. No individual or entity is allowed to sell special products for the computer information system safety without a mark of “Sales Permit.”

According to the Catalog of Industries for Guiding Foreign Investment amended in 2011, foreign investment is encouraged in the software development and production sector. As such, there are no restrictions on foreign investment in the software development industry in the PRC aside from business licenses and other permits that every software development entity in the PRC must obtain.

Internet domain names in the PRC are regulated by the Administrative Measures on the PRC Internet Domain Name, which were promulgated by the MII and which came into effect on December 20, 2004, and the Implementation Rules of Registration of Domain Name, which were promulgated by PRC’s domain name registrar, China Internet Network Information Center, or CNNIC and which came into effect on December 1, 2002. Domain name service organizations accept applications for network domain names; successful applicants become holders of the registered domain names after registration. Holders needs to pay operation fees on time to keep the registered domain names, otherwise the domain name registrar may revoke the domain names. In case there is any change to the registration information of a domain name, the holder shall file the changes with the domain name registrar within 30 days after such a change. The CNNIC is responsible for the administration of .cn domain names and domain names in Chinese language. Disputes in respect of domain names are regulated by the Measures on Resolution of Disputes regarding Domain Names which were issued by CNNIC and revised on February 14, 2006, and shall be settled by organizations approved by the CNNIC.

Provision of Internet information services in the PRC is regulated by the Administrative Measures on Internet Information Services adopted by the State Council on September 20, 2000. According to these measures, provision of Internet information services regarding news, publication, education, medical and health care, pharmacy and medical appliances are subject to examination, approval and regulation by relevant authorities responsible for regulating these sectors. Internet content providers are not allowed to provide services beyond the scope of licensed or registered. The measures also provide a list of prohibited contents on the Internet. Internet information service providers are required to monitor and censor the information on their websites, and when prohibited content is found, they shall terminate the transmission immediately, keep the relevant record and report immediately to relevant authorities.

According to these measures, commercial Internet information service providers must obtain a License for Internet Content Providers, or ICP license, in order to engage in such business. Moreover, provision of ICP services in multiple provinces, autonomous regions and centrally administered municipalities may require a trans-regional ICP license.

On November 6, 2000, the MII issued the Regulations for the Administration of Internet Electronic Notice Services to regulate the provision of information via Internet in the form of, among others, electronic bulletin boards, electronic whiteboards, electronic forums, Internet chat-rooms and message boards. The Internet electronic bulletin service providers are required to record the content and time of information released, the website or domain name in the electronic bulletin system, keep such records for at least 60 days, and to provide such information to the relevant authorities upon request.

The Technology Import and Export Administrative Regulations of the PRC promulgated by the State Council on December 10, 2001 and the Regulations for the Implementation of the Trademark Law of PRC which came into effect in 2002, with effect from January 1, 2002, requires approval of imports and exports of restricted technology, and registration of contracts to import or export unrestricted technology. Software is part of the technology governed by this regime. To implement this requirement, the Administrative Measures for Registration of Technology Import and Export Contracts, or the Registration Measures, was promulgated by the Ministry of Commerce, or the MOFCOM and become effective on March 1, 2009; the Administrative Measures on Prohibited and Restricted Technology Exports, or the Technology Export Measures was jointly promulgated by the MOFCOM and the Ministry for Science and Technology and become effective on May 20, 2009, and the Administrative Measures on Prohibited and Restricted Technology Imports, or the Technology Import Measures was promulgated by the MOFCOM and become effective on March 1, 2009. Pursuant to these regulations, the technology within the prohibited list for import and/or export shall not be imported and/or exported, permit for import and/or export shall be obtained by the importer and/or exporter if the technology to be imported and/or exported are listed within the restricted list for import and/or export. For any import or export technology, the relevant department of commerce is responsible for the registration of contracts for such technology import or export.

Registered trademarks in the PRC are protected by the Trademark Law of the PRC which came into effect in 1982 and was revised in 1993, 2001 and 2013 and the Regulations for the Implementation of Trademark Law of PRC which came into effect in 2002 and was revised in 2014. A trademark can be registered in the PRC with the Trademark Office under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, or the SAIC. The protection period for a registered trademark in the PRC is ten years starting from the date of registration and may be renewed if an application for renewal is filed within one year prior to expiration. If such an application cannot be filed within that period, an extension period of six months may be granted.

Copyright in the PRC is protected by the Copyright Law of the PRC which was promulgated in 1990 and revised in 2001 and February 2010 and the Regulation for the Implementation of the Copyright Law of the PRC which was promulgated in September 2002 and revised in January 2013. Under the revised Copyright Law, copyright protections have been extended to information network and products transmitted on information network. Copyrights are reserved by the author, unless specified otherwise by the laws. According to Article 16 of the Copyright Law, if a work constitutes “work for hire”, the employer, instead of the employee, is considered the legal author of the work and will enjoy the copyrights of such “work for hire” other than rights of authorship. “Works for hire” include, (1) drawings of engineering designs and product designs, maps, computer software and other works for hire, which are created mainly with the materials and technical resources of the legal entity or organization with responsibilities being assumed by such legal entity or organization; (2) those works the copyrights of which are, in accordance with the laws or administrative regulations or under contractual arrangements, enjoyed by a legal entity or organization. The actual creator may enjoy the rights of authorship of such “work for hire.”

A copyright owner may transfer its copyrights to others or permit others to use its copyrighted works. Use of copyrighted works of others generally requires a licensing contract with the copyright owner. The protection period for copyrights in the PRC varies, with 50 years as the minimum. The protection period for a “work for hire” where a legal entity or organization owns the copyright (except for the right of authorship) is 50 years, expiring on December 31 of the fiftieth year after the first publication of such work.

In China, holders of computer software copyrights enjoy protections under the Copyright Law. China’s State Council and the State Copyright Administration have promulgated various regulations relating to the protection of software copyrights in China. Under these regulations, computer software that is independently developed and exists in a physical form is protected, and software copyright owners may license or transfer their software copyrights to others. Registration of software copyrights, exclusive licensing and transfer contracts with the Copyright Protection Center of China (previously, the State Copyright Administration) or its local branches is encouraged. Such registration is not mandatory under Chinese law, but can enhance the protections available to the registered copyrights holders. For example, the registration certificate is proof of protection.

The principal regulations governing distribution of dividends in foreign-invested enterprises include the Foreign-invested Enterprise Law promulgated by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, as amended on October 31, 2000, and the Implementation Rules of the Foreign-invested Enterprise Law issued by the State Council, as amended on April 12, 2001.

Under these laws and regulations, foreign-invested enterprises in China may pay dividends only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. In addition, foreign-invested enterprises in China are required to allocate at least 10% of their respective net profits each year, if any, to fund certain reserve funds unless these reserves have reached 50% of the registered capital of the enterprises. Foreign-invested enterprises are not allowed to distribute profits until deficits of previous fiscal years have been made up.

The principal regulations governing foreign currency exchange in the PRC are the Foreign Exchange Administration Regulations promulgated by the State Council, as amended on August 5, 2008, or the Foreign Exchange Regulations. Under the Foreign Exchange Regulations, the RMB is freely convertible for current account items, as long as true and lawful transaction basis is provided, but not for capital account items, such as capital transfer, direct investments, loans, repatriation of investments, investments in securities and derivatives outside of the PRC, unless the prior approval of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or the SAFE, is obtained and prior registration with the SAFE is made. Circular 78 ceased to be in effect and was replaced by the Circular for Relevant Issues on Foreign Exchange Administration on Domestic Individuals Participating in the Employee Stock Option Plan of An Overseas Listed Company, or Circular 7, promulgated by SAFE on February 15, 2012. Circular 7 modifies and simplifies the relevant procedures as provided by Circular 78.

On December 25, 2006, the People’s Bank of China issued the Administration Measures on Individual Foreign Exchange Control and its Implementation Rules were issued by the SAFE on January 5, 2007, both of which became effective on February 1, 2007. Under these regulations, all foreign exchange matters involve the employee stock ownership plan, stock option plan and other similar plans, participated by onshore individuals must be transacted upon approval from the SAFE or its authorized branch. On March 28, 2007, the SAFE promulgated the Operating Procedures for Administration of Domestic Individuals Participating in the Employee Stock Option Plan or Stock Option Plan of An Overseas Listed Company, or Circular 78. Under Circular 78, PRC citizens who participate in stock incentive plans or equity compensation plans by an overseas publicly listed company are required to engage a PRC agent through the PRC subsidiaries of such overseas publicly-listed company, to complete certain foreign exchange registration procedures with respect to the plans upon the examination by, and approval of, the SAFE.

On October 21, 2005, the SAFE issued Relevant Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Control on Domestic Residents’ Corporate Financing and Roundtrip Investment through Offshore Special Purpose Vehicles, or Circular 75, which became effective as of November 1, 2005.

On July 4, 2014, the SAFE issued the Circular of the SAFE on Issues concerning Foreign Exchange Administration over the Overseas Investment and Financing and Round-trip Investment by Domestic Residents via Special Purpose Vehicles (“SAFE Circular No. 37”), which became effective as the date of issuance. Circular 75 shall be annulled simultaneously. Where the relevant provisions enacted previously are inconsistent with SAFE Circular No. 37, SAFE Circular No. 37 shall prevail. Under SAFE Circular No. 37, PRC residents to register with local branches of SAFE in connection with their direct establishment or indirect control of an offshore entity, or an SPV, for the purpose of overseas investment and financing, utilizing such PRC residents’ legally owned assets or equity interests in domestic enterprises or offshore. The term “control” under SAFE Circular No. 37 is broadly defined as the right to operate, rights as beneficiary or decision-making rights acquired by the PRC residents in the offshore SPVs or PRC companies by such means as acquisition, trust, proxy, voting rights, repurchase, convertible bonds or other arrangements. SAFE Circular No. 37 further requires amendment to the registration in the event of any significant changes with respect to the SPV, such as increase or decrease of capital contributed by PRC individuals, share transfer or exchange, merger, division or other material event. In the event that a PRC shareholder holding interests in a SPV fails to fulfill the required SAFE registration, the PRC subsidiaries of that SPV may be prohibited from distributing profits to the offshore parent and from carrying out subsequent cross-border foreign exchange activities, and the SPV may be restricted in its ability to contribute additional capital into its PRC subsidiary. Moreover, failure to comply with the various SAFE registration requirements described above could result in liability under PRC law for evasion of foreign exchange controls.

Under the relevant rules, failure to comply with the registration procedures set forth in SAFE Circular No. 37 may result in restrictions on the foreign exchange activities of the relevant onshore company, including higher requirement for registered capital, restrictions on the payment of dividends and other distributions to its offshore parent or affiliate and the capital inflow from the offshore entity, and may also subject relevant PRC residents to penalties under PRC foreign exchange administration regulations. Under relevant regulations, our PRC resident founders are required to register their investments in our company with the SAFE.

On March 16, 2007, the PRC National People’s Congress, the Chinese legislature, passed the Enterprise Income Tax Law, and on December 6, 2007, the State Council issued the Implementation Regulations of the Enterprise Income Tax Law, both of which became effective on January 1, 2008. The Enterprise Income Tax Law and its Implementation Regulations, or the EIT Law, applies a uniform 25% enterprise income tax rate to both foreign-invested enterprises and domestic enterprises. Pursuant to the Notice of the State Council Regarding the Implementation of Transitional Preferential Policies for Enterprise Income Taxes issued on December 26, 2007, enterprises established prior to March 16, 2007, eligible for preferential tax treatment in accordance with the currently prevailing tax laws and administrative regulations shall, under the regulations of the State Council, gradually become subject to the EIT Law rate over a five-year transition period starting from the date of effectiveness of the EIT Law. In addition, certain enterprises may still benefit from income tax exemptions and reductions under the new tax law if they meet the definition of a “software enterprise” or a preferential tax rate of 15% under the new tax law if they meet the definition of “high and new technology enterprises.”

On April 29, 2014, the State Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Finance issued the Circular of the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation on the Inclusion of Telecommunications Industry in the Pilot Collection of Value-Added Tax in Lieu of Business Tax, and on May 14, 2014, the State Administration of Taxation issued Announcement of the State Administration of Taxation on Promulgating the Interim Administrative Measures for the Collection of Value-Added Tax from Telecommunication Enterprises(the “Announcement”), both of which became effective on June 1, 2014. Pursuant to the Circular and the Announcement, Telecommunications industry is included in the pilot collection of value-added tax in lieu of business tax (hereinafter referred to as “VAT in lieu of BT”) upon approval of the State Council. Entities and individuals who provide telecommunications services within the territory of the PRC are VAT tax payers, who shall pay VAT instead of BT in accordance with the provisions of the Announcement and the Circular of the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation on the Inclusion of the Railway Transport Industry and Postal Service Industry in the Pilot Collection of Value-Added Tax in Lieu of Business Tax, tax rate for basic telecommunications services is 11% and that for value-added telecommunications services is 6%.

Furthermore, under the EIT Law, enterprises established outside of China whose “de facto management bodies” are located in China are considered “resident enterprises.” Currently, there are no detailed rules or precedents governing the procedures and specific criteria for determining “de facto management body.”

The EIT Law imposes a withholding tax of 10% on dividends distributed by a foreign-invested enterprise to its immediate holding company outside China, if such immediate holding company is considered a “non-resident enterprise” without any establishment or place within China or if the received dividends have no connection with the establishment or place of such immediate holding company within China, unless such immediate holding company’s jurisdiction of incorporation has a tax treaty with China that provides for a different withholding arrangement. Holding companies in Hong Kong, for example, are subject to a 5% withholding tax rate.

Pursuant to the Employment Contracts Law of the People’s Republic of China, or ECL, promulgated by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on June 29, 2007 and became effective on January 1, 2008 and the Implementing Regulations of the PRC Employment Contracts Law promulgated and effective on September 18, 2008, an employer establishes an employment relationship with an employee from the date when the employee is put to work, and a written employment contract shall be entered into on this same day. If an employment relationship has already been established with an employee but no written employment contract has been entered into simultaneously, a written employment contract shall be entered into within one month from the date the employee commences work. If an employer fails to enter into a written employment contract with an employee for more than one month but less than one year as of the date on which the employment commences, it shall pay the employee twice his/her salary for each month of that period and rectify the situation by subsequently entering into a written employment contract with the employee. If the employee refuses to enter into the written contract with the employer, the employer shall issue a written notice to the employee to rescind the employment relationship, and pay severance to the employee in accordance with relevant provisions of the ECL.

As of December 31, 2014, we mainly operate our business through the following significant subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities:

Our principal executive offices and headquarters in Beijing are located on premises comprising approximately 12800 square meters at 11 Heping Li East Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China, which we lease from an unrelated third party. We plan to renew our lease when it expires. The premises are shared by NQ Beijing, Beijing Technology and some subsidiary companies. The lessor of the leased premises in Beijing has valid title to the property. We believe that our existing facilities are adequate for our current and foreseeable requirements.

Our headquarters in Dallas is located in premises comprising approximately 769 square meters at 4514 Travis Street, Suite 200, Dallas, Texas. We leased this premise from an unrelated third party.

We also lease an aggregate of approximately 6700 square meters of office space in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Gyeonggi-do all from unrelated third parties.

We made capital expenditures of US$2.3 million, US$2.3 million and US$1.6 million and US$3.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively. Our capital expenditures were primarily used to purchase servers and other equipment, software and other intangible assets (such as the domain name www.nq.com) for our business. Our capital expenditures may increase in the near term as our business continues to grow.

See footnotes 8 and 9 to our financial statements for further information about our property and equipment and intangible assets.

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this annual report. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results and the timing of selected events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this annual report.

We are a leading global provider of mobile Internet services. We have been a pioneer in the consumer mobile security industry since 2005 and have built a world-class cloud-based platform with proven competency to acquire, engage, and monetize customers globally. We currently offer a variety of products and services for the consumer and enterprise markets in (i) mobile value added services, which are comprised of consumer mobile security and productivity applications, mobile games, and live mobile social video platform (ii) advertising and (iii) enterprise mobility. Since our inception, we have focused on building a large and engaged user base. In 2014, we redefined the operating metrics of “active user accounts” to include many emerging businesses previously not included in our user account metrics reported in periods prior to 2014. The monthly active user accounts “MAUs” presented in 2014 and going forward include the user accounts in NQ Live, Music Radar, and more recent investments such as Yipai and Showself, among others. As such, the MAUs presented herein should not be compared to previously reported operating metrics in historical periods because there is not a way to meaningfully compare such results. The MAUs for the current period 2014 and going forward are expected to be better aligned with the key underlying trends of our company as a mobile Internet platform company focused on driving mobile consumer traffic and engagement that can be monetized. The MAU statistics do not include the users addressed by the installation of our advertising SDK into third-party applications. These indirect users generate impressions and search traffic that we can monetize outside of the user accounts generated directly by our own portfolio of applications.

The average monthly active user accounts for the three months ended December 31, 2014 was 160.8 million.

As a convenient reference, below is the historical summary of our user and operating metrics. However, these should not be compared to the MAU statistics for 2014 and in the future.

The number of our total registered user accounts for the year ended December 31, 2011, 2012 and 2013 were 146.7 million, 283.4 million and 480.8 million, respectively, not including the registered user accounts of FL Mobile for the year ended December 31, 2012 and 2013, which were 67.4 million and 106.9 million, respectively. Our average monthly active user accounts for the three months ended December 31, 2011, 2012 and 2013 were 52.3 million, 97.7 million and 136.0 million, respectively, not including the average monthly active user accounts of FL Mobile for the three months ended December 31, 2012 and 2013, which amounted to 12.5 million and 20.4 million, respectively. The numbers of our average monthly paying user accounts for the three months ended December 31, 2011 and 2012 were 5.6 million and 8.9 million, respectively. The number of our average monthly premium user accounts for the three months ended December 31, 2013 was 15.6 million.

We generate revenues primarily through (i) mobile value added services, which include consumer mobile security and productivity applications, mobile games, live mobile social video platform, (ii) advertising and (iii) enterprise mobility. Our total net revenues increased from US$40.7 million in 2011 to US$91.8 million in 2012 and US$196.7 million in 2013 and US$332.3 million in 2014. We achieved net income attributable to NQ Mobile Inc. of US$10.3 million and US$9.4 million in 2011 and 2012, respectively, and had a net loss of US$1.9 million and US$76.7 million in 2013 and 2014. Our adjusted net income attributable to NQ Mobile Inc., which is determined by adding back share-based compensation expenses to our net income attributable to NQ Mobile Inc. presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP, is another measure used by our management to evaluate our operating performance. We had adjusted net income attributable to NQ Mobile Inc. of US$34.0 million, US$53.5 million and US$7.1 million in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

We incur significant share-based compensation expenses in the course of our business as we have issued share-based awards in order to motivate and retain talent and pursuant to earn outs in certain of our acquisitions. We incurred US$24.5 million, US$55.4 million and US$83.8 million in share-based compensation expenses for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. The granting or acceleration of our share-based awards will materially and adversely affect our financial results in the periods over the vesting period of the newly granted options and restricted shares.

Our results of operations are affected by PRC laws, regulations and policies relating to value-added telecommunications services. Due to current legal restrictions on foreign ownership and investment in value-added telecommunications services in China, we rely on a series of contractual arrangements with our consolidated affiliated entities and their shareholders to conduct our business in China. We do not hold equity interests in our consolidated affiliated entities. As a result of these contractual arrangements, we are the primary beneficiary of our consolidated affiliated entities.

Our results of operations are affected by, among others, the following factors:

The growth of the consumer mobile security, privacy and productivity industry

Our business and prospects depend on the continued development of the mobile security, privacy and productivity industry in China and abroad. The mobile security, privacy and productivity industry has begun to experience substantial growth in recent years in terms of number of users and revenues. The growth of the mobile security, privacy and productivity industry is affected by numerous factors, such as users’ general communication experience, technological innovations, development of smartphones and other mobile devices, development of mobile Internet and Internet-based mobile telecommunication services, regulatory changes, and the macroeconomic environment.

We generate mobile game revenues from operating free-to-play mobile games that monetize through the sale of in-game virtual items. The number of mobile gamers has been increasing significantly over the past two years with the continuous increasing market penetration of mobile Internet and affordable smart devices. Based on CNNIC data, more and more gamers are migrating from PC to mobile phones as mobile devices enable gamers to better utilize their fragmented time in everyday life. The growth of mobile game industry depends on factors including the penetration of mobile Internet, affordability of smart devices, ever-evolving mobile game content and quality of mobile game operators.

We generate advertising revenues on CPA and CPT basis. Mobile advertising industry in China is still at the early stage of development and the revenue is mainly contributed by application-related marketing, downloads and in-application advertisements. The growth of this industry depends on factors including the penetration of mobile Internet, affordability and functionalities of mobile devices, advertising budget shifting to mobile platforms and effectiveness of mobile advertising.

NationSky generates revenues by providing enterprise customers a full range of mobility solutions such as architecting mobility strategies; sourcing suitable devices, optimizing and deploying devices and applications, and maintaining ongoing 24/7 support. As employees and knowledge workers increasingly use bring-your-own-device (BYOD) smart mobile devices for both business and personal use, managing work productivity and keeping corporate owned information and sensitive employee data protected have become significant concerns for businesses and employees. Enterprise mobility is a relatively new and fast-growing industry in China and around the world and we believe factors such as IT consumerization, BYOD adoption and availability of smart mobile devices at affordable prices are the key drivers for the growth of enterprise mobility across different industry sectors.

Our ability to expand our user base of our consumer mobile security products

Our business is significantly affected by the overall size of our active user base, which in turn is determined by, among other factors, (i) user experience of our services and products, (ii) our relationships with key players in the mobile ecosystem such as wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, chipmakers, distributors and retailers and third-party payment processors, (iii) the expansion of our business into overseas markets, (iv) the expansion of our target user base beyond smartphone users to mobile tablets and other Internet-enabled mobile devices.

Our ability to monetize our user base of our consumer mobile security products

Our revenues and results of operations depend to a large extent on our ability to monetize users globally through an innovative Freemium business model. Our Freemium business model provides users with free services and the ability to upgrade to a section of premium services either by paying subscription fees or engaging in our offer wall. Our offer wall, launched in March 2013, provides a selection of self-developed and third-party sponsored applications, including mobile games. The offer wall allows users to accumulate points for downloading these applications and to use such points to upgrade to our premium services, as an alternative to paying subscription fees for the premium services. We aim to attract more existing premium users to renew their subscriptions and turn more active user accounts into premium user accounts through up-selling and cross-selling our premium services, among others, the success of which is affected by our ability to continually improve and promote our existing premium products and services, develop and introduce new services and features meeting user needs, and enhance user experience. In addition, our ability to monetize our user base is affected by our pricing power, which in turn depends on various factors such as local consumption levels, market prices for mobile applications, recognition and acceptance of our brand and services, and competition.

Our ability to continue to develop and offer new mobile security, privacy and productivity services

We generate revenues through user subscriptions of our consumer mobile security, privacy and productivity services, which substantially depend on our ability to continue offering services and products that meet the changing requirements of our users and appropriately price our services and products. As the mobile security, privacy and productivity industry evolves and user preferences for mobile security, privacy and productivity services and products change, our results of operations depend on our ability to continually research, develop and update our products and services to meet user needs and offer such products at competitive prices. As the industry continues to evolve, we need to introduce products and services which provide competitive advantages over other competing products which may enter the market.

Our mobile game revenues depend on our ability to attract and engage active users to our mobile games, the quality of the mobile games we can operate, publish and develop, and our operational capabilities. Our interest-based community applications are an important channel for FL Mobile to acquire and retain users. Our ability to keep the communities active and engaged also influences our mobile game revenues.

Our ability to attract advertisers by acquiring and retaining active users

We generate advertising revenues primarily on a CPA basis through our mobile security applications, interest-based community applications, mobile games and advertising network platform. We charge our advertisers a pre-determined rate on a CPA basis. The pre-determined rate depends on the effectiveness of our advertising network and the advertising revenue depends on the numbers of active users’ clicks and downloads. We also generate some advertising revenues on a CPT basis. The price for CPT advertising depends on the effectiveness of our advertising network and the activity level of our user base.

Our ability to continue to improve our services for enterprise customers and to improve our MDM software

NationSky provides a full range of mobility services to enterprises and generates revenue from mobility strategy consulting, architecture design, hardware procurement and deployment, mobile device and application management and other training and ongoing support services, which substantially depend on our ability to continue to improve and expand our products and services to meet the changing needs of our enterprise customers.

Our operating expenses include selling and marketing expenses, general and administrative expenses, and research and development expenses. Our total operating expenses increased from 2009 to 2014, as our business expanded rapidly in its recent years and we hired more personnel and incurred more expenses to support marketing, administrative, and research and development efforts. We expect that our operating expenses, excluding the non-cash share-based compensation expenses, will continue to increase. Our results of operations are and will continue to be affected by our ability to control our operating expenses.

We are exposed to foreign exchange risk arising from various currency exposures. See “Item 11. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk.”

We recognize revenues net of value added tax business tax and related surcharges. We derive our net revenues primarily from (i) mobile value added services, which include consumer mobile security services (previously named as “premium mobile Internet services”) mobile games, and live mobile social video platform (ii) advertising services and (iii) enterprise mobility products and services. For our consumer mobile security services, we focus on mobile security, privacy protection and productivity services and provide for free the basic functions of such services, such as the anti-malware scanning, anti-spam, contact back-up and restore functions. We charge our users a subscription fee for subscribing to our premium services, such as access to continual updates of our virus library and advanced privacy protection services, on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis. We generate mobile game revenues from operating free-to-play mobile games that monetize through sales of in-game virtual items. Our new “offer wall” launched in March 2013 provides a selection of self-developed and third-party sponsored applications, including mobile games. The offer wall allows users to accumulate points for downloading these applications and to use such points to upgrade to our premium services, as an alternative to paying subscription fees for the premium services. We generate advertising revenues on CPA and CPT basis through our mobile security applications, mobile games, interest-based community applications, advertising network platform and offline channels. For our enterprise users, we derive enterprise mobility product revenues from sales of mobile hardware and enterprise mobility service revenues from the offering of managed mobility services. In addition, we derive a portion of our net revenues from other sources, such as secured download and technology development services to third parties.

Due to the expansion of our business and diversification of our revenue streams, we re-classified our revenues into the following categories in 2014: mobile value added services (including consumer mobile security, mobile games, and live mobile social video platform), enterprise mobility, advertising services and other services. As a result, we re-classified in the consolidated results of operations table, and the presentation of the revenue categories for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 in this annual report are in conformity with these new revenue categories.

We collect net revenues from consumer mobile security services primarily through three payment channels. First, we cooperate with wireless carriers, either directly or through mobile payment service providers, to provide services to users. In this payment channel, wireless carriers charge a fixed percentage of the total user payment as a fee primarily for billing, collection and customer support services relating to the end users. We recognize net revenues excluding the fees retained by wireless carriers. If we cooperate with wireless carriers through mobile payment service providers, we pay a fee to the mobile payment service providers and the amounts attributed to mobile payment service providers are recognized as cost of revenues. Second, we sell prepaid cards to customers of our consumer mobile security services through independent distributors and amortize such net proceeds from the distributors as net revenues on a straight-line basis over the subscription period. Third, users can subscribe for our consumer mobile security services directly through our website and make payments through third-party payment processors. We recognize the proceeds collected through third-party payment processors as revenues on a gross basis and the amounts attributed to third-party payment processors are recognized as cost of revenues.

Mobile games revenues are derived from third-party developed mobile games and self-developed mobile games. We enter into exclusive or joint operation agreements with game developers for licensed mobile game applications. Game players can download the free-to-play games and pay to acquire virtual currency which can be redeemed in the games for in-game virtual items. Pursuant to agreements signed between us and game developers, revenues from the sales of virtual currency to be used for the purchase of virtual items are shared between us and the game developers based on a pre-agreed ratio for each game. We also generate mobile games revenues from offering virtual items in self-developed mobile games and collect license fees of our self-developed mobile games. Within the storefronts, game players can download our free-to-play games and pay to acquire virtual currency which can be redeemed in the games for in-game virtual items. Live mobile social video platform, revenues are mainly derived from the sale of virtual currency which can be used to purchase virtual presents and items in the Rooms. All the Rooms can be accessed for free. Our operating entities primarily cooperate with independent third-party distributors to sell our virtual currency through the annual distribution agreements with these distributors. Pursuant to the distribution agreements with these distributors, each distributor is responsible for sales of virtual currency for one or more of our communities through developing and engaging sales agents who directly sell the virtual currency to users. We have discretion to determine the price of the virtual currency sold to sales agents or users. In addition, we take overall responsibility of the content or performances provided by hosts in our community. Consequently, we recognize revenue on a gross basis pursuant to ASC 605-45.

Advertising revenues are derived from the advertisement placement services on our platform. Advertising fees are generally charged to advertisers on a cost per action (“CPA”) basis. The desired actions to be performed include but are not limited to activation, download, click, registration or opt-ins, which are determined by the advertisers. The revenues are generally recognized when the end users activate the applications, register accounts or deliver their opt-ins. We also provide advertisement placements on our websites and interest-based communities. We enter into pay-for-time (“CPT”) contracts with advertisers, under which the fixed price and advertising services are established upfront and charged ratably over the contractual period of display.

Enterprise mobility revenues are derived primarily from hardware sales to enterprise customers for their provision of mobility solutions, technology and software development, and commission income shared with mobile network operators. We recognize the hardware procurement revenue once customers acknowledge the receipt of the hardware delivered and title and risk of loss have been transferred. Mobility solution revenue in connection with agreements for standard proprietary software is recognized upon delivery of the software, provided that collection is considered probable and the fee is fixed or determinable. Revenues from technology and software development are recognized when services are completed. Commission income is derived from bringing enterprise customers to the mobile network operators and is determined based on fixed percentages, agreed with the mobile operators, of actual charges to the enterprise customers. We recognize the commission incomes in the month in which the service is provided to the enterprise customers.

The following table sets forth the principal components of our net revenues in both domestic and overseas markets by amount and as a percentage of our total net revenues for the periods indicated.

Net revenues from mobile value added services, which included consumer mobile security services, mobile games, live mobile social video platform increased significantly from 2012 to 2014. The increase in mobile value added service revenues was primarily due to the increase in mobile game revenues and the inclusion of live mobile social video platform revenues, partially offset by the decrease in consumer mobile security revenues. The increase in mobile game revenues was primarily due to the rapid growth of FL Mobile’s game platform and the launch of new games in the fiscal year of 2014. The inclusion of live mobile social video platform revenues is the result of the consolidation of Showself. The decrease in consumer mobile security revenues was primarily due to moving our focus away from premium security subscription-based revenues and focusing more on domestic mobile applications and services that can be monetized, which resulted that net revenues from mobile value added services attributable to overseas users as a percentage of our mobile value added service revenues decreased from 52.3% in 2012 to 36.8% in 2014.

Net revenues from advertising services increased significantly from 2012 to 2014, due primarily to (i) the acquisition of FL Mobile in 2012 and the acquisitions of Fanyue, Best Partners and Tianya in 2013; and (ii) our launch of the offer wall in March 2013, through which we generated advertising revenues when users download third-party sponsored applications and games from the offer wall.

We recorded net revenues from enterprise mobility products and services of US$12.6 million, US$53.0 million and US$148.7 million in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Our net revenues from enterprise mobility products and services were generated by NationSky and Trustek. We acquired 55% of the equity interest in NationSky in May, 2012 and the remaining 45% in July 2013, and entered into a definitive agreement to sell 3.4% equity interest in NationSky to a third party in 2014, which was subsequently cancelled. We acquired 100% interest in Trustek in January 2014.

Cost of revenues primarily consists of: (i) payments to third parties in connection with user acquisition, (ii) salaries and benefits for employees that provide customer services and other support directly related to our products and services, (iii) payments paid to or retained by mobile payment service providers and third-party payment processors, (iv) revenues shared with third-party content providers for advertising services and mobile games, and (v) hardware procurement costs.

We acquire users primarily through viral marketing, or word-of-mouth marketing, pre-installation and online download. We provide online downloads of our products and services via various third-party websites, including online advertising networks, Internet portals and mobile application stores. We pay such third parties a fee for each registered user account acquired through them. Payments to these third parties increased from 2012 to 2014 as we acquired more registered user accounts through them during these periods. We also pay fees to handset manufacturers to pre-install our applications on their handsets. As we further expand our global user base and grow our revenue, we expect payments to third parties in connection with user acquisition to continue to increase.

Salaries and benefits for employees that provide customer services and other support directly related to our products and services increased from 2012 to 2014, primarily reflecting the expansion of customer services and product support teams.

We cooperate with wireless carriers, either directly or through mobile payment service providers, to provide services to users. If we cooperate with wireless carriers through mobile payment service providers, we pay a fee to the mobile payment service providers and the amounts attributed to mobile payment service providers are recognized as cost of revenues.

We entered into arrangements with certain content providers, under which we display advertisements in their applications. To the extent we are obligated to share our revenues with such content providers, we recognize the shared revenues as our cost of revenues over the terms of the arrangements. We also entered into exclusive operation agreements with mobile game developers. We share our revenues with the mobile game developers and recognize the shared revenues as cost of revenues.

Our hardware procurement costs include the majority of the cost of revenues incurred by NationSky and Trustek which operates at a much lower gross margin than our mobile value added services and advertising services. As we are expanding our enterprise mobility business through NationSky and Trustek, we expect our cost of revenues to increase.

Cost of revenues also includes an allocation of our share-based compensation expenses. See “— Critical Accounting Policies — Share-based compensation.”

Our operating expenses consist of (i) selling and marketing expenses, (ii) general and administrative expenses, and (iii) research and development expenses. We expect our operating expenses to continue to increase as our business grows. The following table sets forth the components of our operating expenses by amount and as a percentage of total operating expenses for the periods indicated.

Selling and Marketing Expenses. Selling and marketing expenses consist primarily of marketing and promotional expenses and salaries, benefits and commissions for our sales and marketing personnel.

General and Administrative Expenses. General and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and benefits, including share-based compensation, for our general and administrative personnel. We expect our general and administrative expenses to continue to increase in the future as our business continues to grow and we hire additional executives, officers, and employees and we incur increased costs related to complying with our compliance and reporting obligations under the U.S. securities laws as a public company.

Research and Development Expenses. Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and benefits for research and development personnel. We expect our research and development expenses to increase as we intend to hire more research and development personnel to increase performance levels of existing products and services and develop new products and services.

Operating expenses also include an allocation of our share-based compensation charges. See “— Critical Accounting Policies — Share-based compensation.”

Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with US GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make judgments, estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. We continually evaluate these estimates and assumptions based on the most recently available information, our own historical experience and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Since the use of estimates is an integral component of the financial reporting process, actual results could differ from those estimates.

An accounting policy is considered critical if it requires an accounting estimate to be made based on assumptions about matters that are highly uncertain at the time such estimate is made, and if different accounting estimates that reasonably could have been used, or changes in the accounting estimates that are reasonably likely to occur periodically, could materially impact the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our accounting policies with respect to revenue recognition, segment reporting, goodwill, impairment of long-lived assets, allowance for doubtful accounts, share-based compensation, income taxes, equity investments, convertible debts, and mezzanine equity represent critical accounting policies that reflect the more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements.

The following descriptions of critical accounting policies, judgments and estimates should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and other disclosures included elsewhere in this annual report. When reviewing our financial statements, you should consider (i) our selection of critical accounting policies, (ii) judgments and other uncertainties affecting the application of such policies and (iii) the sensitivity of reported results to changes in conditions and assumptions.

We recognize revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred and/or service has been performed, the price is fixed or determinable and collection is reasonably assured. Revenue is recorded net of business tax, value added tax and related surcharges.

Revenues presented in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) include revenues from mobile value added services that are comprised of consumer mobile security, mobile games and live mobile social video platform, advertising services, enterprise mobility and other services.

Consumer mobile security revenues are derived principally from providing premium mobile security and productivity services to end users. The basic functions of security and productivity services, including anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spam, privacy protection, data backup and recovery are free of charge. The customers are charged for updating the anti-virus database on a pay-per-use basis or paying a fee to subscribe to the premium security and productivity services including continuous update of anti-virus database, continuous update of the semantics of anti-spam, and advanced privacy protection on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually basis. We recognize revenue for premium services considered to be software-related (e.g., mobile security services) in accordance with industry specific accounting guidance for software and software-related transactions. For premium services where the customer does not take possession of fully-functioning software (e.g., mobile productivity services), we recognize revenue pursuant to ASC 605, Revenue Recognition. Provided collectability is probable, revenue is recognized over the usage period which is the same for software-related services and services where software is incidental to the provision of the services. Basic functions and customer support are provided to end users free of charge, whether they subscribe to our services or not. Customer arrangements may include premium mobile security and productivity services which are multiple elements. Revenue on arrangements that include multiple elements is allocated to each element based on the relative fair value of each element. Fair value is generally determined by vendor-specific-objective-evidence, or VSOE. For all the periods presented, the usage period for the elements in arrangements that include multiple elements is the same. No allocation was performed as there is no impact from the allocation on revenue recognized.

Revenue for pay-per-use services is recognized on a per-use basis when the update is made. Proceeds from sale of subscription services are deferred when received and revenue for the subscription services is recognized on a straight-line basis over the estimated service period provided all revenue recognition criteria have been met.

The payment channels include wireless carriers and service providers, prepaid cards, and third-party payment processors.

Wireless carriers and service providers. We, via service providers, cooperate with wireless carriers to provide consumer mobile security services to the customers. In China, service providers have the exclusive licenses to contract with wireless carriers in offering consumer mobile security services to the end users and they are mainly responsible for assisting in the billing of consumer mobile security services. Wireless carriers are mainly responsible for billing, collection and customer support relating to the end users. Under certain circumstances, we ourselves are a service provider and contract directly with wireless carriers.

Fees paid for premium service are charged to the customers’ telephone bills and shared between us and wireless carriers. The sharing percentage is fixed and determined by wireless carriers. We do not enter into arrangements directly with the wireless carriers except when we act as a service provider and the wireless carriers are not acting as an agent for us in the transactions. Therefore, the revenue recognized is net of the amounts retained by the wireless carriers.

We recognize and report our consumer mobile security services revenues on a gross basis based on our and service providers’ portion of the billings as we have the primary responsibility for fulfillment and acceptability of the consumer mobile security services and are considered a principal in the transactions. The amounts attributed to services providers’ share are determined pursuant to the arrangements between services providers and us and are recognized as cost of revenues.

To recognize consumer mobile security services revenues, we rely on wireless carriers and service providers to provide us with the billing confirmations for the amount of services they have billed to their mobile customers. At the end of each reporting period, when the wireless carriers or service providers are yet to provide us the monthly billing confirmations, we use information generated from our internal system as well as the historical data to estimate the amounts of collectable consumer mobile security services fees and to recognize revenue. Historically, there have been no significant adjustments to the revenue estimates.

Prepaid cards. We sell prepaid cards to customers through independent distributors. The customers can use the prepaid cards to subscribe to the premium services. Once the customers activate the premium services using the prepaid cards, we start to recognize our revenues on a straight-line basis over the service period. While we have primary responsibility for fulfillment and acceptability, we do not have control of, and generally do not know, the ultimate selling price of the prepaid cards sold by the distributors, and therefore, net proceeds from the distributors form the basis of revenue recognition.

Third-party payment processors. The customers can also subscribe to our premium service directly through our website and the billings are handled by third-party payment processors. Under these circumstances, we have the primary responsibility for fulfillment and acceptability and recognize the revenue on a gross basis. The amounts attributed to third-party payment processors are recognized as costs of revenue.

Mobile game revenues are derived principally from game operations for both third-party developed mobile games and self-developed mobile games and game licensing of self-developed mobile games to other third-party game operators.

Mobile game operations. We generate mobile games revenues from operating and publishing mobile games developed by third parties and itself. We enter into exclusive or joint operation agreements with developers for licensed mobile game applications. We distribute the games on Apple’s App Store, Android platforms, FL Mobile’s platforms and other channels (collectively, “Platforms”). Game players can download the free-to-play games and pay to acquire virtual currency which can be redeemed in the game for in-game virtual items.

We sell both consumable and durable virtual goods in games. Consumable goods are items that are used up one-time, while durable goods are items accessible to the user over an extended period of time. We recognize revenue from the sales of consumable goods when the goods are used up. We recognize revenue from the sales of durable goods ratably over the estimated average playing period of paying users.

We estimate the playing periods of paying users based on available data obtained since September 2012. On a quarterly basis, we determine the estimated average playing period for paying players on a game by game basis, beginning at the time of a payer’s first purchase in that game and ending on a date when that paying player is no longer playing the game. We then calculate the average of the time periods from the first purchase date to the date the last player is expected to cease playing the game for each game player to determine the total average playing period for that game.

We determine that a paying player will cease playing a game once the Inactive Period has occurred. We define the Inactive Period as the time period after which if a paying player has not logged onto a game, the possibility that he/she will continue to play the game in the future is very low. To determine the Inactive Period, we regularly analyze the paying players’ activities on our games to determine when the paying players stop playing the games. For the players who have not logged onto a game for 50 days as of the period end, we deem them inactive players. For the players who have not logged onto a game for less than 50 days as of the period end, we deem that they will cease to play the game after 90 days from the last date when they logged onto the game before the period end.

Currently estimated average playing periods of the mobile games are three months, based on current available game player information. We regularly reassess these estimates and may revise such estimates in the future as additional game data becomes available and if and when future data indicates a change in playing patterns or behaviors.

Pursuant to agreements signed between us, game developers and the Platforms, revenues from the sale of game currency to be used for the purchase of virtual items are shared between us, game developers and the Platforms for third-party developed games, based on a pre-agreed ratio for each game.

The determination of whether to record these revenues using gross or net method is based on an assessment of various factors. The primary factors are whether we are acting as the principal in offering services to the game players or as an agent in the transaction, and the specific requirements of each agreement.

For third-party developed games under exclusive operation agreements and self-developed games, we recognize revenue based on the gross amount billed to customers (i.e., inclusive of the amount retained by the Platforms and amounts paid to game developers under revenue-sharing arrangements if any), because we are able to determine pricing for the virtual items sold and are the primary obligor to the customer. The amount paid to Platforms and game developers are recorded as cost of revenue.

For third-party developed games under joint operation agreements, the game developer is considered the primary obligor to the customers and has latitude in establishing price. We account for such sales on a net basis by recognizing the commission it retains from each sale (i.e., revenue net of the amount retained by the Platforms and amounts paid to game developers under revenue-sharing arrangements).

To determine whether Platforms play a role of primary obligor or agents, we has considered ASC 605-45-45 and concluded that Platforms are agents in the sale of in-game virtual items to the customers because it 1) is not responsible for the fulfillment of in-game virtual items and does not take overall responsibility of the services provided to the customers, 2) does not have pricing latitude and only receives a fixed commission, 3) does not have inventory risk, 4) does not change the virtual items sold or determine specifications of the game or the virtual items sold, and 5) does not have credit risk. In the case of self-developed games and third-party developed games under exclusive operation by us, Platforms are our agents. In the case of third-party developed games under joint operation, Platforms are the agents of the game developers.

Mobile game licensing. We license our self-developed games to other third-party game operators and generally receive revenue in forms of initial license fees, non-refundable minimum guarantee, monthly revenue-based fees under revenue-sharing arrangement or a combination. The initial license fee is generally a fixed amount and recognized ratably over the term of the license. The non-refundable minimum guarantee is generally a fixed amount and recognized once the fees are collected. The revenue-based fees under revenue-sharing arrangement are generally equal to a fixed percentage of the revenues generated by the game operators from the sale of virtual items and are recognized when the game operators provide us with the monthly billing confirmation.

We operate a live mobile social online video community, namely Showself Live Broadcast ( LOGO

). The community contains thousands of real time video rooms (“Room”) with user-created content provided by hosts and online users, and broadcasted to the ‘Rooms’ viewers. We are responsible for providing a technological infrastructure to enable the hosts, online users and viewers to interact through live online social video platforms.

All the Rooms can be accessed for free. We mainly derive the revenue from sales of virtual currency which can be used to purchase virtual presents in the Rooms. Our operating entities primarily cooperate with independent third-party distributors to sell our virtual currency through the annual distribution agreements with these distributors. Pursuant to the distribution agreements with these distributors, each distributor is responsible for sales of virtual currency for one or more of our communities through developing and engaging sales agents who directly sell the virtual currency to users.

We have discretion to determine the price of the virtual currency sold to sales agents or users. In addition, we take overall responsibility of the content or performances provided by hosts in our community. Consequently, we recognize revenue on a gross basis pursuant to ASC 605-45.

We also utilize third-party payment collection channels, which charge us the payment handling cost, for users to purchase the virtual currency directly from it. The payment handling costs are recorded in cost of revenues. Upon sales of virtual currency, we typically have an implied obligation to provide the services which enable the virtual currency to be used on our platform. We recognize revenue ratably over the estimated average playing period of paying users.

We estimate the playing periods of paying users based on available data obtained since we launched the platform in April 2014. On a quarterly basis, we determine the estimated average playing period for paying players, beginning at the time of a payer’s first purchase on our platform and ending on a date when that paying player is no longer active. We then calculate the average of the time periods from the first purchase date to the date the player is expected to cease playing on our platform to determine the total average playing period.

We determine that a paying player has ceased playing on our platform once the player reached an “Inactive Period”. We define the Inactive Period as the length of time after which if a paying player has not logged into the community, the possibility that he/she will continue to play on our platform in the future is very low. To determine the Inactive Period, we regularly analyze paying players’ activities in the community. For the players who have not logged on our platform for 50 days as of the period end, we deem them inactive players. Currently estimated average playing periods are within three months, based on current available paying users’ information. We regularly reassess these estimates and may revise such estimates in the future as additional data becomes available and if and when future data indicates a change in playing patterns or behaviors.

Advertising revenues are derived principally from promotion of third-parties’ applications, games or services over a particular period of time, through a variety of patterns, which are classified into online advertising services and offline advertising services.

We promote third-parties’ games and applications through NQ security applications, interest-based online community applications and mobile games in a variety of forms including but not limited to offer walls, banners, buttons, text-links and content integration and referrals. Advertising fees are generally charged to advertisers on a CPA basis. The desired actions to be performed include but are not limited to activation, download, click, registration or inquiry, which are determined by the advertisers. The revenues are generally recognized when the end users activate the applications, register accounts or deliver their opt-ins.

We also provide advertising services by embedding the advertisement in applications developed by third-party content providers. We sign agreements with advertisers and content providers separately. The determination of whether to record these revenues using gross or net method is based on an assessment of various factors. The primary factors are whether we are acting as the principal in offering services to advertisers or as an agent in the transaction, and the specific requirements of each agreement. After considering our obligations and risk, latitude in establishing price, determination of service specifications and etc., we conclude that we are the primary obligor in the contracts with advertisers. The fees are charged to advertisers on the cost-per-activation basis. The revenues are recognized by us on a gross basis pursuant to ASC 605-45, without net of payment to content providers which are recognized as costs of revenues.

Moreover, we provide advertisement placements on our websites and interest-based communities. We enter into CPT contracts with advertisers, under which the fixed price and advertising services are established upfront and charged ratably over the contractual period of display.

We provide with the pre-installation services to promote various applications in mobile phones. The revenues are recognized when the end users activate the applications or could be active users within certain periods, pursuant to the contracts.

Enterprise mobility revenues are derived principally from hardware sales to enterprise users, technology and software development for provision of mobility solution, and commission income shared from mobile network operators, all of which are provided on a stand-alone basis in the years of 2013 and 2014.

The revenue from sale of hardware is recognized upon the time of acceptance. Hardware is considered delivered to customers once customers acknowledge the receipt of the hardware delivered and title and risk of loss have been transferred. For most of our hardware sales, these criteria are met at the time customers sign the delivery notes.

We recognize the revenue from technology and software development in connection with provision of mobility solution upon the delivery and acceptance by customers of the standard proprietary software, which involves significant production, modification, or customization. These software arrangements generally include the right to post contract customer support (“PCS”). We recognize the technology and software development revenues immediately after we deliver the software since PCS is assessed insignificant after considering the facts of (i) no additional charges are occurred for PCS; (ii) all PCS were normally for a period of 6 months to 1 year; (iii) the estimated cost for such services is insignificant based on our historical records; and (iv) we did not offer upgrades or enhancements to the software during PCS period and these services are expected to continue to be infrequent. We adopted completed-contract method to account for revenues from technology and software development, given the substantive acceptance terms in arrangements and short duration of development.

Commission income derived from bringing enterprise users to the mobile network operators and is determined based on fixed percentages of actual charges to the enterprise users as agreed with the mobile operators. Commission incomes are recognized in the month in which the service is provided to the enterprise users. For the amount of revenues to be recognized, we firstly estimate the amount of service fee and recognize revenue based on the fixed commission rates as stipulated on the contract that multiply the estimated customer charges. When we later receive the statements of actual charge issued by the mobile network operators, we record a true-up adjustment. Based on the historical experience, there had not been any material adjustments incurred.

Other service revenues are derived primarily from providing technical services and training services. We recognize such revenues when the performance of our obligation is completed.

Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise engaging in business activities about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by our chief operating decision-maker (“CODM”), Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, in deciding how to allocate resources and assess performance.

Our organizational structure is based on a number of factors that the CODM uses to evaluate, view and run our company’s business operations, which include, but are not limited to, customer base, homogeneity of products and technology. Our operating segments are based on its organizational structure and information reviewed by our CODM to evaluate the operating segment results.

Before 2012, we principally engaged in consumer mobile security and other services and operated and managed this business as a single segment. In 2012, we expanded our business by the acquisition of NationSky in enterprise mobility services and the acquisition of FL Mobile and its subsidiary, Red, in mobile games and advertising services. In 2013 and 2014, we enhanced our business in enterprise mobility services and traffic services by a series of acquisitions, and generate revenue from the operations of such businesses. See Note 4 – “Business Combination” for more details.

We have determined that the business segments that constitute its primary reportable segments are consumer and enterprise. The consumer segment primarily consists of mobile value added services, which includes consumer mobile security services, mobile games and live mobile social video platform, advertising services and other services. The enterprise segment mainly consists of technology and software development services and hardware sales aggregated under enterprise mobility revenues.

We generate our revenues from customers in the PRC and overseas. Net revenues from customers in the PRC were US$55.2 million, US$143.2 million and US$290.0 million in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Net revenues from our overseas customers were US$36.5 million, US$53.5 million and US$42.3 million in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

Goodwill is the excess of the consideration transferred over the fair value of the acquired assets and assumed liabilities in a business combination.

We test goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level on an annual basis as of November 1, and between annual tests when an event occurs or circumstances change that indicate that the assets might be impaired. Commencing in September 2011, in accordance with the FASB revised guidance on “Testing of Goodwill for Impairment,” a company first has the option to assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. If we decide, as a result of the qualitative assessment, that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, the quantitative impairment test is mandatory. Otherwise, no further testing is required. The quantitative impairment test consists of a two-step goodwill impairment test. The first step compares the fair value of each reporting unit to its carrying amount. If the fair value of each reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, goodwill is not considered to be impaired and the second step will not be required. If the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, the second step compares the implied fair value of goodwill to the carrying value of a reporting unit’s goodwill. The implied fair value of goodwill is determined in a manner similar to accounting for a business combination with the allocation of the assessed fair value determined in the first step to the assets and liabilities of the reporting unit. The excess of the fair value of the reporting unit over the amounts assigned to the assets and liabilities is the implied fair value of goodwill. This allocation process is only performed for purposes of evaluating goodwill impairment and does not result in an entry to adjust the value of any assets or liabilities. An impairment loss is recognized for any excess in the carrying value of goodwill over the implied fair value of goodwill.

Application of a goodwill impairment test requires significant management judgment, including the identification of reporting units, assigning assets and liabilities to reporting units, assigning goodwill to reporting units, and determining the fair value of each reporting unit. The judgment in estimating the fair value of reporting units includes estimating future cash flows, determining appropriate discount rates and making other assumptions. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the determination of fair value for each reporting unit.

The carrying amounts of long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is evaluated by a comparison of the carrying amount of assets to future undiscounted net cash flows expected to be generated by the assets. Such assets are considered to be impaired if the sum of the expected undiscounted cash flow is less than carrying amount of the assets. The impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amounts of the assets exceed the fair value of the assets. No impairment of long-lived assets was recognized for any of the periods presented.

An allowance for doubtful accounts is recorded in the period in which a loss is determined to be probable. We review the accounts receivable on a periodic basis and make specific allowances based on an assessment of specific evidence indicating doubtful collection, historical experience, account balance aging and prevailing economic conditions. If any of our intermediaries with significant outstanding accounts receivable balances were to become insolvent or unable to make payments in a timely manner, or refuse to pay us, we would have to make further provisions or write off the relevant amounts if the potential for recovery is considered remote. No significant allowance has been provided on accounts receivable for the periods presented.

We grant options and restricted shares to our selected employees, directors and non-employee consultants. Awards granted to employees with service conditions attached are measured at the grant date fair value and are recognized as an expense using graded vesting method, net of estimated forfeitures, over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period. The estimate of forfeitures will be adjusted over the requisite service period to the extent that actual forfeitures differ, or are expected to differ, from such estimates. Changes in estimated forfeitures will be recognized through a cumulative catch-up adjustment in the period of change and will also impact the amount of share-based compensation expense to be recognized in future periods.

Awards granted to employees with performance conditions attached are measured at fair value on the grant date and are recognized as the compensation expenses in the period and thereafter when the performance goal becomes probable to achieve.

Awards granted to employees with market conditions attached are measured at fair value on the grant date and are recognized as the compensation expenses over the estimated requisite service period, regardless of whether the market condition has been satisfied if the requisite service period is fulfilled.

Awards granted to non-employees are measured at fair value at the earlier of the commitment date or the date the services are completed, and are recognized using graded vesting method over the period the service is provided.

Binomial option-pricing models are adopted to measure the value of awards at each grant date or measurement date. The determination of fair value is affected by the share price as well as assumptions relating to a number of complex and subjective variables, including but not limited to the expected share price volatility, actual and projected employee and non-employee share option exercise behavior, risk-free interest rates and expected dividends. The use of the option-pricing model requires extensive actual employee and non-employee exercise behavior data for the relative probability estimation purpose, and a number of complex assumptions.

Current income tax is provided on the basis of income for financial reporting purpose, adjusted for income and expense items which are not assessable or deductible for income tax purpose, in accordance with the regulations of the relevant tax jurisdictions. Deferred income tax is accounted for using the liability approach which requires the recognition of income tax payable or refundable for the current year and deferred income tax liabilities and assets for the future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in our financial statements or tax returns. Deferred income tax is determined based on the differences between the financial reporting and tax basis of assets and liabilities and is measured using the currently enacted tax rates and laws. The effect on deferred income tax assets and liabilities of a change in income tax rates is recognized in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income in the period when such changes are enacted. A valuation allowance is provided to reduce the carrying amounts of deferred income tax assets if it is considered more likely than not that a portion or all of the deferred income tax assets will not be realized.

We adopt a more likely than not threshold and a two-step approach for the tax position measurement and financial statement recognition. Under the two-step approach, the first step is to evaluate the tax position for recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained, including resolution of related appeals or litigation process, if any. The second step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more than 50% likely of being realized upon settlement.

We currently have deferred tax assets resulting from net operating loss carryforwards and deductible temporary differences, all of which are available to reduce future tax payable in our significant tax jurisdictions. The largest component of our deferred tax assets is operating loss carryforwards generated by our PRC subsidiaries and VIE due to their historical operating losses. In assessing whether such deferred tax assets can be realized in the future, we need to make judgments and estimates on the ability of each of our PRC subsidiaries and VIE to generate taxable income in the future years. To the extent that we believe it is more likely than not that some portion or the entire amount of deferred tax assets will not be realized, we established a total valuation allowance to offset the deferred tax assets. As of December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, we recognized a valuation allowance of US$1.4 million, US$4.4 million and US$7.9 million against deferred tax assets, respectively. If we subsequently determine that all or a portion of the carryforwards are more like than not to be realized, the valuation allowance will be released, which will result in a tax benefit in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income.

Our equity investments are comprised of cost method investments and equity method investments.

In accordance with ASC subtopic 325-20 (“ASC 325-20”), Investments-Other: Cost Method Investments, we carry the investment at cost and only adjusts for other-than-temporary declines in fair value and distributions of earnings. We regularly evaluate the impairment of the cost method investments based on performance and financial position of the investee as well as other evidence of market value. Such evaluation includes, but is not limited to, reviewing the investee’s cash position, recent financing, projected and historical financial performance, cash flow forecasts and financing needs.

In accordance with ASC subtopic 323-10 (“ASC 323-10”), Investments-Equity Method and Joint Ventures: Overall. Under the equity method, we initially record our investment at cost and the difference between the cost of the equity investee and the amount of the underlying equity in the net assets of the equity investee is recognized as equity method goodwill, which is included in the equity method investment on the consolidated balance sheets. We subsequently adjust the carrying amount of the investment to recognize our proportionate share of each equity investee’s net income or loss into consolidated statements of comprehensive income after the date of investment. We will discontinue applying the equity method if an investment (and additional financial supports to the investee, if any) has been reduced to zero.

Sales of equity interests of an investee by us is accounted for as gains or losses equal to the difference at the time of sale between selling price and carrying amount of the equity interests sold.

We assess our equity investments for other-than-temporary impairment by considering factors including, but not limited to, current economic and market conditions, operating performance of the companies, including current earnings trends and undiscounted cash flows, and other company-specific information. The fair value determination, particularly for investments in privately-held companies, requires significant judgment to determine appropriate estimates and assumptions. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could affect the calculation of the fair value of the investments and determination of whether any identified impairment is other-than-temporary. Other-than-temporary impairment loss is recognized in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income equal to the excess of the investment’s carrying value over its fair value at the balance sheet date of the reporting period for which the assessment is made. The fair value would then become the new cost basis of such investment.

In accordance with ASC subtopic 470-20, the convertible debts are initially carried at the principal amount of the convertible debts. Related debts issuance cost, are subsequently amortized using effective interest method as adjustments to interest expense from the debt issuance date to its first redemption date. Convertible debts are classified as a current liability if they are or will be callable by us or puttable by the debt holders within one year from the balance sheet date, even though liquidation may not be expected within that period.

Mezzanine Equity consists of non-controlling interests in FL Mobile Inc. and a put option pursuant to which the non-controlling shareholders will have the right to put their equity interests in FL Mobile Inc. to us at a pre-determined price if FL Mobile Inc. does not complete a qualified listing. The put option will expire within three months after the first anniversary of the closing date. Since the occurrence of the put is not solely within the control of our company, we classify the non-controlling interest as mezzanine equity instead of permanent equity in our consolidated financial statements.

In accordance with ASC subtopic 480-10, we calculate, on an accumulative basis from the acquisition date, (i) the amount of accretion that would increase the balance of non-controlling interest to its estimated redemption value over the period from the date of the issuance to the earliest redemption date of the non-controlling interest and (ii) the amount of net profit attributable to non-controlling shareholders of FL Mobile Inc. based on their ownership percentage. The carrying value of the non-controlling interest as mezzanine equity will be adjusted by an accumulative amount equal to the higher of (i) and (ii).

The following table sets forth a summary of our consolidated results of operations as a percentage of net revenue for the periods indicated. This information should be read together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this annual report. The results of operations in any period are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for any future period.

Net Revenues Our total net revenues increased by 68.9% from US$196.7 million in 2013 to US$332.3 million in 2014, primarily due to the increase in net revenues from mobile valued added services and, to a lesser extent, to an increase in net revenues from enterprise mobility products and services and advertising services.

Cost of Revenues Our total cost of revenues increased by 180.1% from US$80.9 million in 2013 to US$226.7 million in 2014. This increase was primarily due to: (i) an increase in hardware procurement costs from US$37.4 million in 2013 to US$128.5 million in 2014 following our acquisitions of NationSky in May 2012 and Trustek in January 2014; (ii) an increase in user acquisition cost from US$19.7 million in 2013 to US$26.8 million in 2014, primarily as payments to handset manufacturers and distributors for pre-installation and to third-party websites increased as we acquired more registered user accounts and active user accounts through these channels; (iii) amortization of intangible assets resulted from the acquisition activities; and (iv) an increase in staff cost from US$5.3 million in 2013 to US$11.7 million in 2014, mainly in the form of increased salary and headcount as our overall business continues to expand. Our cost of services increased by 125.5% from US$43.6 million in 2013 to US$98.2 million in 2014. Our cost of products sold increased by 243.6% from US$37.4 million in 2013 to US$128.5 million in 2014. Our cost of products sold is primarily due to hardware procurement cost for NationSkyand Trustek’s enterprise mobility business.

Gross Profit and Margin As a result of the foregoing, our gross profit decreased by 8.7% from US$115.8 million in 2013 to US$105.7 million in 2014. Our gross margin decreased from 58.9% in 2013 to 31.8% in 2014. This decrease was primarily due to the impact from the enterprise mobility business, which has much lower gross margin than other portions of our business. Excluding the impact from the enterprise mobility business, our gross profit in 2014 was US$91.5 million, representing a 10.6% decreased from US$102.3 million in 2013. The gross margin of the enterprise mobility business in 2014 was 9.5%. Our gross margin excluding the enterprise mobility business was 49.9% in 2014.

Operating Expenses Our total operating expenses increased by 55.2% from US$120.3 million in 2013 to US$186.6 million in 2014.

Selling and Marketing Expenses. Our selling and marketing expenses increased by 16.1% from US$25.8 million in 2013 to US$30.0 million in 2014. This increase was primarily due to (i) an increase in travelling and entertainment spending from US$1.5 million in 2013 to US$2.6 million in 2014, due to business expansion; and (ii) an increase in staff costs, including salaries, benefits and commissions to our sales and marketing personnel, from US$6.9 million in 2013 to US$11.5 million in 2014, as a result of the increased employee headcount resulting from our acquisition activities. The selling and marketing expenses related to our enterprise business were US$4.7 million in 2014, increased from US$2.7 million in 2013. The increase was mainly due to the increase in staff costs, traveling and other expenses.

General and Administrative Expenses. Our general and administrative expenses increased by 70.1% from US$77.0 million in 2013 to US$131.0 million in 2014. The increase was primarily due to (i) a significant increase in share-based compensation expenses for our general and administrative personnel from US$50.7 million in 2013 to US$81.1 million in 2014, primarily attributable to the grant of restricted shares in connection with our acquisition activities and to our senior executives and employees in 2014; (ii) an increase in staff cost from US$8.2 million in 2013 to US$14.7 million in 2014, resulting mostly from salary increases and the hiring of additional senior executives; and (iii) an increase in legal and professional fees from US$7.2 million in 2013 to US$14.0 million in 2014, largely in connection with our acquisition activities and our reactions to the short seller allegations. The general and administrative expenses related to our enterprise business were US$4.5 million in 2014, increased from US$2.0 million in 2013. The increase was mainly due to the increase in staff costs and other expenses.

Research and Development Expenses. Our research and development expenses increased by 47.2% from US$17.4 million in 2013 to US$25.7 million in 2014. This increase was primarily due to the hiring of more research and development personnel, which led to (i) an increase in staff cost from US$11.7 million in 2013 to US$17.3 million in 2014; and (ii) an increase in joint R&D from US$0.3 million in 2013 to US$2.7 million in 2014. The research and development expenses related to our enterprise business were US$7.8 million in 2014, increased from US$2.4 million in 2013. The increase was mainly due to the increase in staff costs.

Income (loss) from Operations. As a result of the foregoing, we had a loss from operations of US$81.0 million in 2014, compared to a loss from operations of US$4.5 million in 2013.

Income Tax Expense. Our income tax expense increased by 394.0% from US$1.1 million in 2013 to US$5.5 million in 2014. The increase was primarily due to the increase in the income of our subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities in the PRC, offset by the tax benefits from our deferred tax assets.

Net Income (loss) attributable to NQ Mobile Inc. As a result of the foregoing, we had a net loss of US$76.7 million in 2014, compared to a net income of US$1.9 million in 2013.

Net Revenues. Our total net revenues increased by 114.3% from US$91.8 million in 2012 to US$196.7 million in 2013, primarily due to the increase in net revenues from mobile valued added services and, to a lesser extent, to an increase in net revenues from enterprise mobility products and services and advertising services.

Cost of Revenues. Our total cost of revenues increased by 214.4% from US$25.7 million in 2012 to US$80.9 million in 2013. This increase was primarily due to: (i) an increase in hardware procurement costs from US$9.0 million in 2012 to US$37.4 million in 2013 following our acquisitions of NationSky in May 2012; (ii) an increase in user acquisition cost from US$7.8 million in 2012 to US$19.7 million in 2013, primarily as payments to handset manufacturers and distributors for pre-installation and to third-party websites increased as we acquired more registered user accounts and active user accounts through these channels; (iii) amortization of intangible assets resulted from the acquisition activities; and (iv) an increase in staff cost from US$3.2 million in 2012 to US$5.3 million in 2013, mainly in the form of increased salary and headcount as our overall business continues to expand. Our cost of services increased by 159.7% from US$16.8 million in 2012 to US$43.6 million in 2013. Our cost of products sold increased by 316.8% from US$9.0 million in 2012 to US$37.4 million in 2013. Our cost of products sold is primarily due to hardware procurement cost for NationSky’s enterprise mobility business.

Gross Profit and Margin. As a result of the foregoing, our gross profit increased by 75.3% from US$66.0 million in 2012 to US$115.8 million in 2013. Our gross margin decreased from 72.0% in 2012 to 58.9% in 2013. This decrease was primarily due to the acquisition of NationSky, which has much lower gross margin than other portions of our business. Excluding NationSky, our gross profit in 2013 was US$102.3 million, representing a 62.8% increase from US$62.9 million in 2012. The gross margin of NationSky in 2013 was 25.4%. Our gross margin excluding NationSky was 71.2% in 2013.

Operating Expenses. Our total operating expenses increased by 88.6% from US$63.8 million in 2012 to US$120.3 million in 2013.

Selling and Marketing Expenses. Our selling and marketing expenses increased by 48.4% from US$17.4 million in 2012 to US$25.8 million in 2013. This increase was primarily due to (i) an increase in marketing and advertising spending from US$8.5 million in 2012 to US$13.3 million in 2013, as a result of increased advertising and promotion in overseas markets which formed part of our increased effort in marketing and brand-building; and (ii) an increase in staff costs, including salaries, benefits and commissions to our sales and marketing personnel, from US$4.4 million in 2012 to US$6.9 million in 2013, as a result of the increased employee headcount resulting from our acquisition activities. The selling and marketing expenses related to our enterprise business were US$2.7 million in 2013, increased from US$0.5 million in 2012. The increase was mainly due to the increase in staff costs, traveling and other expenses

General and Administrative Expenses. Our general and administrative expenses increased by 109.4% from US$36.8 million in 2012 to US$77.0 million in 2013. The increase was primarily due to (i) a significant increase in share-based compensation expenses for our general and administrative personnel from US$20.5 million in 2012 to US$50.7 million in 2013, primarily attributable to the grant of restricted shares in connection with our acquisition activities and to our senior executives and employees in 2013; (ii) an increase in staff cost from US$6.8 million in 2012 to US$8.2 million in 2013, resulting mostly from salary increases and the hiring of additional senior executives; and (iii) an increase in legal and professional fees from US$3.6 million in 2012 to US$7.2 million in 2013, largely in connection with our acquisition activities and our reactions to the short seller allegations. The general and administrative expenses related to our enterprise business were US$2.0 million in 2013, increased from US$0.8 million in 2012. The increase was mainly due to the increase in staff costs and other expenses.

Research and Development Expenses. Our research and development expenses increased by 81.9% from US$9.6 million in 2012 to US$17.4 million in 2013. This increase was primarily due to the hiring of more research and development personnel, which led to (i) an increase in staff cost from US$6.4 million in 2012 to US$11.7 million in 2013; and (ii) an increase in share-based compensation for our research and development personnel from US$1.5 million in 2012 to US$2.0 million in 2013. The research and development expenses related to our enterprise business were US$2.4 million in 2013, increased from US$0.6 million in 2012. The increase was mainly due to the increase in staff costs.

Income(loss) from Operations. As a result of the foregoing, we had a loss from operations of US$4.5 million in 2013, compared to an income from operations of US$2.3 million in 2012.

Income Tax Expense. Our income tax expense increased by 166.0% from US$0.4 million in 2012 to US$1.1 million in 2013. The increase was primarily due to the increase in the income of our subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities in the PRC, offset by the tax benefits from our deferred tax assets.

Net Income (loss) attributable to NQ Mobile Inc. As a result of the foregoing, we had a net loss of US$1.9 million in 2013, compared to a net income of US$9.4 million in 2012.

In our management’s view, we operate through two operating segments: consumer and enterprise. Both are reportable segments.

Net revenues from our consumer segment accounted for 55.3% of our total net revenues in the year ended December 31, 2014. Net revenues from our enterprise segment accounted for 44.7% of our total net revenues in the year ended December 31, 2014. We recognize revenues from consumer mobile security services as we deliver the services and revenues from consumer mobile games when the game players consume the virtual items. We recognize revenues from enterprise mobility products when users acknowledge the receipt of the hardware and software delivered and title and risk of loss have been transferred to the users.

Cost of revenues for our consumer segment primarily consists of user acquisition costs, payments to mobile payment service providers, revenues shared with third-party content providers and related staff cost. Cost of revenues for our enterprise segment primarily consists of hardware procurement cost for our enterprise mobility business and related staff cost.

Operating expenses for our consumer segment primarily consist of expenses for selling and marketing activities for our mobile value added services and advertising services, general and administrative expenses for the compensation and benefits of administrative staff of consumer segment and professional and consulting fees, and expenses for research and development of related technologies. Operating expenses for our enterprise segment primarily consist of expenses for selling and marketing activities for our mobile enterprise services, general and administrative expenses for compensation and benefits of administrative staff of enterprise segment, communication expense and depreciation and amortization of property and equipment used in the general and administrative activities of our enterprise segment, and expenses for research and development of related technologies.

The following tables list our net income by reportable segments for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012.

Since our inception, inflation in China has not materially impacted our results of operations. According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the year-over-year percent changes in the consumer price index for December 2012, 2013 and 2014 were increases of 2.5% and 2.5% and1.5%, respectively. Although we have not been materially affected by inflation in the past, we may be materially affected if China experiences higher rates of inflation in the future.

In May of 2014, the FASB issued Topic 606, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers”. This topic clarifies the principles for recognizing revenue and develops a common revenue standard for U.S. GAAP and IFRS. Simultaneously, this topic supersedes the revenue recognition requirements in Topic 605, Revenue Recognition, and most industry-specific guidance throughout the Industry Topics of the Codification. The core principle of the guidance requires an entity to recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. To achieve that core principle, an entity should apply the five steps: 1) identify the contract(s) with a customer; 2) identify the performance obligations in the contract; 3) determine the transaction price; 4) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; 5) recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation. The amendments are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within that reporting period. Early application is not permitted. This amendments shall be applied retrospectively either to each prior reporting periods or with the cumulative effect of initially applying this amendments recognized at the date of initial application. There is no impact on the consolidated financial statements for current reporting periods since early adoption is not permitted. We are in process of evaluating the cumulative effect on the consolidated financial statements of adopting this guidance so as to transit to the new revenue recognition guidance in the year of 2016.

In June of 2014, the FASB issued guidance on “Stock Compensation –Accounting for Share-Based Payments When the Terms of an Award Provide That a Performance Target Could Be Achieved after the Requisite Service Period”. The amendments clarify that a performance target that affects vesting and that could be achieved after the requisite service period should be treated as a performance condition. As such, the performance target should not be reflected in estimating the grant-date fair value of the award. No matter when the performance target becomes probable of being achieved, the compensation cost should be recognized in the period in which it becomes probable that the performance target will be achieved and should represent the compensation cost attributable to the period(s) for which the requisite service has already been rendered. The amendments are effective for annual periods and interim periods within those annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015. Earlier adoption is permitted. We have evaluated that there is no impact on the consolidated financial statements of adopting this guidance.

In August 2014, the FASB issued “Presentation of Financial Statements – Going Concern”. This standard requires management to evaluate for each annual and interim reporting period whether it is probable that the reporting entity will not be able to meet its obligations as they become due within one year after the date that the financial statements are issued. If the reporting entity is in such a position, the standard provides for certain disclosures depending on whether or not the entity will be able to successfully mitigate its going concern status. This guidance is effective for annual periods ending after December 15, 2016 and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016. Early application is permitted. We do not anticipate that this adoption will have a significant impact on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

As of March 15, 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) has issued ASU No. 2013-01 through ASU 2015-02, which is not expected to have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements upon adoption.

To date, we have financed our operations primarily through private placements of preferred shares to investors, the proceeds of our initial public offering in May 2011, the proceeds of our convertible senior notes offering in October 2013 and cash generated from operations. Except as disclosed in this annual report, we have no outstanding bank loans or financial guarantees or similar commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of third parties. We believe that our current cash and cash equivalents and our anticipated cash flows from operations will be sufficient to meet our anticipated working capital requirements and capital expenditures needs for the next 12 months.

In October 2013, we issued an aggregate of US$172.5 million 4.00% convertible senior notes due in 2018. The net proceeds from the sale of the notes were US$166.4 million and will be used for general corporate purposes. As of December 31, 2014, the total carrying value of these notes were US$172.5 million. We are not subject to any financial covenants or other significant restrictions under the notes. US$7.2 million interest payments were paid in 2014 related to these notes.

As of December 31, 2014, we had US$153.0 million in cash and cash equivalents, and US$116.3 million in term deposits. Cash and cash equivalents represent cash on hand, demand deposits and other short-term highly liquid investments placed with banks that have original maturities of three months or less and are readily convertible to known amounts of cash. Term deposits are bank deposits with maturity terms of four to twelve months, which expect no risk of principal loss.

The following table sets forth a summary of our cash flows for the periods indicated:

Current PRC regulations permit our subsidiary to pay dividends to us only out of its accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with Chinese accounting standards and regulations. Under PRC law, each of our wholly owned PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities is required to set aside at least 10% of its after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund a statutory reserve until such reserve reaches 50% of each of their respective registered capital. Although the statutory reserves can be used, among other ways, to increase the registered capital and offset future losses in excess of retained earnings of the respective companies, the reserve funds are not distributable as cash dividends except in the event of liquidation. As a result of these PRC laws and regulations, our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities are restricted in their abilities to transfer net assets to us in the form of dividends, loans or advances. Total restricted net assets of our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities were US$66.5 million, US$79.0 million and US$93.5 million as of December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Furthermore, cash transfers from our PRC subsidiaries to our subsidiaries outside of China are subject to PRC government control of currency conversion. Restrictions on the availability of foreign currency may affect the ability of our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities to remit sufficient foreign currency to pay dividends or other payments to us, or otherwise satisfy their foreign currency denominated obligations. See “Item 3. Key Information — D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Corporate Structure — We may rely principally on dividends and other distributions on equity paid by our PRC and HK subsidiaries to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have. Any limitation on the ability of our PRC and HK subsidiaries to pay dividends to us could have a material adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business” and “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Doing Business in China — Governmental control of currency conversion may limit our ability to utilize our revenues effectively and affect the value of your investment.”

According to the exclusive technical consulting services agreement between Beijing Technology and NQ Beijing, Beijing Technology pays to NQ Beijing quarterly service fees, the amount of which is determined unilaterally by NQ Beijing. The cash held by Beijing Technology and its subsidiaries can be transferred to NQ Beijing through this method.

Cash held by NQ Beijing, our wholly owned PRC subsidiary, within China can be transferred to its shareholders outside of China through dividend payments. Such transfer will incur cost in the form of PRC withholding tax of 10%, as disclosed in this annual report under “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors—Risks Related to Doing Business in China—Our global income and the dividends that we may receive from our PRC subsidiaries may be subject to PRC taxes under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law which would have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.”

The following table sets forth a breakdown of our cash and cash equivalents located inside and outside the PRC, respectively, for the periods indicated:

The following table sets forth a breakdown of our term deposits located inside and outside the PRC, respectively, for the periods indicated:

As an offshore holding company, we are permitted, under PRC laws and regulations, to provide funding from the proceeds of our overseas fund raising activities to our PRC subsidiaries only through loans or capital contributions, and to our PRC consolidated affiliated entities only through loans, subject to the satisfaction of the applicable government registration and approval requirements. As a result, uncertainties exist as to our ability to provide prompt financial support to our PRC subsidiaries or consolidated affiliated entities when needed. See “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Corporate Structure—PRC regulation of loans to, and direct investment in, PRC entities by offshore holding companies and governmental control of currency conversion may restrict or prevent us from making loans to our PRC subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities or making additional capital contributions to our PRC subsidiaries, which may materially and adversely affect our liquidity and our ability to fund and expand our business.” Notwithstanding the foregoing, our wholly-owned subsidiaries may use their own retained earnings to provide financial support to our consolidated affiliated entities in the PRC either through extended payment terms on amounts due to NQ Beijing from our consolidated affiliated entities, or via entrusted loans from our subsidiaries to consolidated affiliated entities, or direct loans to the nominee shareholders of consolidated affiliated entities, which would be contributed to the consolidated affiliated entities as capital injection.

Net cash provided by or used in operating activities consisted primarily of our net income/loss adjusted by non-cash adjustments, such as share-based compensation charges, and adjusted by changes in operating assets and liabilities, such as accounts receivable.

Net cash provided by operating activities amounted to US$6.2 million in 2014, as compared to US$24.3 million in 2013. Non-cash expenses consisting principally of share-based compensation of US$83.8 million, depreciation and amortization of US$14.2 million and allowance for doubtful accounts of US$5.0 million were partially offset by other income from ADR depositary arrangement and unrealized gain on investment of US$12.4 million, an increase in accounts receivable of US$10.3 million and an increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets of US$5.1 million. The increase in share-based compensation was primarily due to the increase of acquisition related share-based compensation expenses and share-based compensation for our executives and employees.

Net cash provided by operating activities amounted to US$24.3 million in 2013, as compared to net loss of US$1.3 million. Non-cash expenses consisting principally of share-based compensation of US$55.4 million, depreciation and amortization of US$6.0 million and allowance for doubtful accounts of US$2.8 million were partially offset by an increase in accounts receivable of US$26.6 million and an increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets of US$14.6 million. The increase in share-based compensation was primarily due to the increase of acquisition related share-based compensation expenses and share-based compensation for our executives and employees.

Net cash provided by operating activities amounted to US$19.5 million in 2012, which was primarily attributable to a net income of US$10.0 million, adjusted for certain non-cash expenses consisting principally of share-based compensation of US$24.5 million and depreciation and amortization of US$1.6 million, other income from ADR depositary arraignment and gain from step acquisition of US$3.2 million and by an increase in working capital. The increase in working capital was primarily attributed to an increase in accounts receivable of US$28.1 million, mainly from overseas mobile payment service providers that have longer credit terms, partially offset by an increase in accounts payable of US$5.3 million, deferred revenue of US$4.9 million and accrued expenses and other current liabilities of US$4.5 million.

Net cash provided by or used in investing activities largely reflected placement and maturities of term deposits, cash paid for equity investment and for business acquisitions, bridge loans paid in connection with completed and ongoing investments, purchase of property and equipment and intangible assets and proceeds from disposals of available-for-sale investments.

Net cash used in investing activities amounted to US$21.0 million in 2014, primarily attributable to cash paid for equity investment of US$3.4 million cash paid for business acquisitions of US$23.0 million, partially offset by cash received from the disposal of non-controlling shareholder interest US$21.6 million, as well as bridge loans collected of US$4.4 million.

Net cash used in investing activities amounted to US$41.5 million in 2013, primarily attributable to cash paid for equity investment of US$28.4million, cash paid for business acquisitions of US$14.9 million, bridge loans made in connection with completed and ongoing investments of US$6.7 million, partially offset by bridge loans collected of 1.2 million, as well as proceeds from disposals of available-for-sale investments of 7.6 million.

Net cash used in investing activities amounted to US$68.6 million in 2012, primarily attributable to a net placement of term deposits of US$42.1 million, net placement of financial products of US$7.6 million, cash paid for equity investment of US$6.3 million, bridge loan and prepayment made in connection with completed and ongoing investments of US$11.3 million and purchase of property and equipment and intangible assets of US$2.3 million, partially offset by US$1.2 million cash acquired from business acquisitions.

Net cash used in financing activities amounted to US$13.3 million in 2014, primarily attributable to repurchasing common stock of US$15.7 million, partially offset by proceeds from exercising of share options of US$2.4 million.

Net cash provided by financing activities amounted to US$176.8 million in 2013, primarily attributable to the net proceeds of US$166.4 million from the issuance of convertible senior note issued in 2013 and the net proceeds of US$11.6 million from issuance of common shares, partially offset by our repurchase of common shares of US$6.7 million as part of our Repurchase Plan. See “Item 16E. Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers” for the details of the Repurchase Plan.

Net cash used in financing activities amounted to US$1.2 million in 2012, primarily attributable to the US$1.3 million used to repurchase our common stock as part of our Repurchase Plan.

We made capital expenditures of US$2.3 million, US$1.6 million and US$3.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Our capital expenditures were primarily used to purchase servers and other equipment, software and other intangible assets (such as the domain name www.nq.com) for our business. Our capital expenditures may increase in the near term as our business continues to grow.

See “Item 4. Information on the Company — B. Business Overview — Research and Development” for a description of the research and development aspect of our business and “Item 4.Information on the Company — B. Business Overview — Intellectual Property” for a description of the protection of our intellectual property.

Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and benefits for research and development personnel. We expect our research and development expenses to increase as we intend to hire more research and development personnel to increase performance levels of existing products and services and develop new products and services. We incurred US$9.6 million, US$17.4 and US$25.7 million in research and development expenses in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

Other than as disclosed elsewhere in this annual report, we are not aware of any trends, uncertainties, demands, commitments or events since the beginning of our fiscal year 2014 that are reasonably likely to have a material effect on our net revenues, income from operations, profitability, liquidity or capital resources, or that would cause the disclosed financial information to be not necessarily indicative of future operating results or financial condition.

We have not entered into any financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of any third parties. We have not entered into any derivative contracts that are indexed to our shares and classified as shareholders’ (deficit)/equity, or that are not reflected in our consolidated financial statements. Furthermore, we do not have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support to such entity. We do not have any variable interest in any unconsolidated entity that provides financing, liquidity, market risk or credit support to us or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.

The following table sets forth our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2014 by specified categories:

Other than the obligations set forth above, we did not have any other long-term debt obligations, operating lease obligations, purchase obligations or other long-term liabilities as of December 31, 2014.

The following table sets forth information regarding our directors and executive officers as of the date of this annual report. There are no family relationships among any of the directors or executive officers of our company.

Vincent Wenyong Shi is a founder of our company. Dr. Shi has served as our chairman since December 2014, our acting chief financial officer since August 2014, our director since January 2011 and our chief operating officer since our inception in October 2005. He is responsible for the operations of our company, including management of business operations, channel development, online business development and customer support. Dr. Shi also serves as the chairman of the board of directors of Beijing Wangnuo Xingyun Technology Co., Ltd. since February 2013. Dr. Shi received a Ph.D and a master’s degree in geographic information system and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Peking University.

Zemin Xu has served as our director and co-chief executive officer since December 2014 and our president since December 2010. Mr. Xu has served as a member of the audit committee, strategy and development committee, compensation committee and evaluation committee of Hengxin Mobile Business Co., Ltd., a company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, since January 2012. From January 2007 to November 2010, Mr. Xu was the vice president and the business development and strategic marketing general manager of Asia Info-linkage, Inc., which was a NASDAQ listed company. Prior to that, Mr. Xu worked at Internet Security One (China) Co., Ltd., where he served as the chief operating officer and the executive vice president in charge of day-to-day operations from March 2005 to November 2006. Before joining Internet Security One (China) Co., Ltd., Mr. Xu served multiple positions with business and management functions in the posts and telecommunications sector in Tianjin for over ten years. Mr. Xu received an MBA degree from the Business School of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Omar Sharif Khan has served as our co-chief executive officer since January 2012. Mr. Khan focuses on the global expansion of our business into markets such as North America, Latin America, Europe, Japan, Korea and India. He joined us from Citigroup, where he was managing director and global head of the Mobile Center of Excellence and led the Citigroup’s mobile development and delivery efforts globally from July 2011 to January 2012. Prior to that, from 2008 to 2011, Mr. Khan served in multiple senior executive roles at Samsung Mobile. During this tenure, he served as chief strategy officer and the chief product and technology officer and was responsible for Samsung Mobile’s strategy, product, technology, content and services functions. Prior to joining Samsung, Mr. Khan spent eight years at Motorola from 2000 to 2008, where his last role was vice president, global supply chain and business operations for the mobile devices business. Mr. Khan holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also completed his graduate work in conjunction with the Sloan School of Management in the field of System Dynamics.

Xu Zhou is a founder of our company. Mr. Zhou has served as our director since June 2007. Before joining our company, Mr. Zhou served as the president of Beijing Chineseall Culture Development Co., Ltd. from 2006 to 2007, and served as the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Beijing Polywin Technology Co., Ltd. from 2005 to 2006. Mr. Zhou received an Executive MBA degree from China Europe International Business School, and a bachelor’s degree from China Management Software Institute.

Jun Zhang has served as our director since June 2007. Mr. Zhang was appointed as our independent director in January 2011. Mr. Zhang has also served as the vice president of Beijing Beida Jade Bird Group and the president of Beijing Beida Jade Bird New Energy Technology Co., Limited since 2001, and the president of Chengdu Shengbang Information Technology Co., Limited since 2010. Mr. Zhang received a bachelor’s degree from Peking University.

William Tiewei Li has served as our independent director since May 2012. From 1998, Mr. Li has worked for Beijing Zhongchuang Telecom Test Co,. Ltd., or Beijing Zhongchuang, a company listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange as the vice president, general manager, financial director and assistant to the general manager. Prior to joining Beijing Zhongchuang, Mr. Li worked for World Capital Market (US) Investment Co., Ltd., or World Capital Market, from October 1997 to November 1998, during which he set up the Beijing representative office and served as the chief representative. Mr. Li joined World Capital Market from Jardin Fleming Securities Ltd. where he was mainly responsible for business related to B-shares and overseas listings from May 1996 to October 1997. Mr. Li holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Changchun University of Technology in China, a master’s degree in economics from Renmin University, and an MBA degree from the University of Edinburgh.

Max Yao has served as our independent director since July 2014. Mr. Yao is the founder of HaiBang Venture, a leading venture capital firm in Zhejiang province, China that has invested in and nurtured several Chinese technology companies. He is also one of the founders and the chief executive officer of Focused Photonics Inc., a publicly traded leading high-end analytical and measurement instrument company in the industrial and environmental market in China, with a current market capitalization of over US$1 billion. Mr. Yao holds a bachelor of science degree from Peking University, a master of science from UC Berkeley and a master’s in management from Stanford Business School.

Justin Chen has served as our independent director since July 2014. Mr. Chen is a counsel at PacGate Law Group. He is a California-licensed attorney and holds a juris doctor degree from the University of Iowa College of Law as well as a bachelor’s degree from Peking University.

Roland Wu has served as our independent director since December 2014. Mr. Wu has extensive experience and in-depth capital markets knowledge, having served in financial industry over the last fourteen years. He has served as Executive Director of China Tycoon Beverage Holdings Limited since 2014 and as independent director of T3 Mobile Inc. since 2014. In addition, Mr. Wu was Executive Director of Bestway International Holdings Limited from 2013 to 2014. Additionally, Mr. Wu served as a portfolio manager at Haitong International Asset Management Company from 2010 to 2013 and as an investment analyst at Baoying Fund Management Co., Ltd. from 2006 to 2009. Mr. Wu received an MBA from Nankai University and a Bachelor of Computer Science from Beijing Jiaotong University.

Chun Ding has served as our independent director since March 2015. Mr. Ding is the Managing Member of CRCM LLC, which is the general partner of CRCM L.P., an asset management firm founded by Mr. Ding in 2006. Mr. Ding is a Responsible Officer (RO) of CRCM Ltd., also an asset management firm and a subsidiary of CRCM L.P. Prior to founding CRCM, he worked at Farallon Capital Management from 1997. In July 2003, Mr. Ding became a Managing Member of Farallon Capital Management. Prior to business school, Mr. Ding worked as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1993 with a B.A. in Economics, where he was valedictorian of his class, and he received his Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1997 where he was elected a Baker Scholar.

Gavin Kim has served as our chief product officer since May 2012. Mr. Kim also serves as a director in a private company in Texas. He held senior leadership positions with Microsoft as general manager for windows phone from September 2011 to May 2012 and with Samsung Mobile as vice president of value-added services and enterprise business from July 2008 to September 2011. He led product marketing, strategy and planning, and drove efforts to accelerate developer ecosystems and strategic business partnerships at both companies. Before that, he was a technology and software investor at Advanced Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture fund, from December 2006 to June 2008, and was with Motorola Mobile Devices as director of product operations from October 2003 to December 2006. From June 1999 to October 2003, Mr. Kim was director of business development and sales at PacketVideo Corporation and was a consultant at Deloitte Consulting from June 1997 to June 1999. Mr. Kim holds an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell University.

Matthew Mathison has served as our vice president of capital markets since July 2013. Before joining our company, Mr. Mathison served as president of WP Asset Management, a registered investment advisor in the U.S. and acted as general partner of Proconex Partners LLC from January 2012 through June 2013. Before that, he was a president of Wedge Partners Corporation from 2004 to 2011, responsible for leading the sales efforts of the company’s technology-focused research and trading business and worked as an institutional sales representative at Goldman Sachs from 2000 to 2004. Mr. Mathison received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management.

We have entered into employment agreements with each of our executive officers. In general, we may terminate an executive officer’s employment for cause, at any time, without notice or remuneration, for certain acts of the officer, including, but not limited to, a conviction or plea of guilty to a felony, willful misconduct to our detriment or a failure to perform agreed duties. We may also terminate an executive officer’s employment without cause at any time. An executive officer may terminate his or her employment with us by 90-day prior written notice for certain reasons.

Our executive officers have also agreed not to engage in any activities that compete with us, or to directly or indirectly solicit the services of our employees, during the term of the employment. Each executive officer has agreed to hold in strict confidence any of our confidential information or trade secrets. Each executive officer also agrees to comply with all material applicable laws and regulations related to his or her responsibilities with respect to our company as well as all of our material corporate and business policies and procedures.

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, we paid an aggregate of approximately US$1.9 million in cash to our executive officers and directors. We also paid an aggregate of approximately US$0.1million in cash compensation and granted 75, 000 restricted shares to our non-executive directors in 2014. For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, our PRC subsidiaries made contributions equal to certain percentages of each employee’s salary for his or her pension insurance, medical insurance, housing fund, unemployment and other statutory benefits as required by law. We did not set aside or accrue any pension or other retirement benefits for our named executive officers and directors for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014.

For share incentive grants to our officers and directors, see “— Share Incentive Plans.”

We have adopted two share incentive plans, the 2007 Global Share Plan and the 2011 Share Plan. The purpose of these two share incentive plans is to motivate, retain and attract certain officers, employees, directors and other eligible persons by linking their personal interests with those of our shareholders and with the success of our business.

Under the 2011 Share Plan, as amended, the maximum aggregate number of Class A common shares which may be issued pursuant to all awards under the plan shall be 13,000,000 plus an annual increase on the first day of each fiscal year, beginning in 2012, equal to the total number of shares underlying the options or other awards granted in the preceding year that remain outstanding, or such lesser amount of Class A common shares as determined by the board. Thus, unless our board of directors determines to add a lesser amount of shares to the number of shares reserved under the 2011 Share Plan on or before the first day of each fiscal year, the maximum number of shares that can be issued in that year pursuant to all awards granted under the 2011 Share Plan is 13,000,000. As of March 15, 2015, 704,720 restricted shares and options to purchase 13,155,570 Class A common shares have been granted and were outstanding under the 2011 Share Plan. In addition, as of March 15, 2015, 1,641,243 restricted ADSs were also granted and outstanding under the 2011 Share Incentive Plan; subject to the fulfillment of certain performance goals, up to 378,480 restricted ADSs shall become vested and non-forfeitable under the relevant award agreements.

Types of Awards The following briefly describe the principal features of the various awards that may be granted under the 2011 Share Plan.

Plan Administration. The plan administrator is our board or a committee of one or more members of our board.

Award Agreement Options, restricted shares, or restricted share units granted under the plan are evidenced by an award agreement that sets forth the terms, conditions, and limitations for each grant.

Option Exercise Price The exercise price subject to an option shall be determined by the plan administrator and set forth in the award agreement. The exercise price may be amended or adjusted in the absolute discretion of the plan administrator, the determination of which shall be final, binding and conclusive. To the extent not prohibited by applicable laws or the rules of any exchange on which our securities are listed, a downward adjustment of the exercise prices of options shall be effective without the approval of the shareholders or the approval of the affected participants.

Eligibility We may grant awards to our employees, directors, consultants, and advisers or those of any related entities.

Term of the Awards The term of each option grant shall be stated in the award agreement, provided that the term shall not exceed ten years from the grant date. As for the restricted shares and restricted share units, the plan administrator shall determine and specify the period of restriction in the award agreement.

Vesting Schedule In general, the plan administrator determines the vesting schedule, which is set forth in the award agreement.

Transfer Restrictions. Awards for options, restricted shares or restricted share units may not be transferred in any manner by the award holder and may be exercised only by such holders, subject to limited exceptions. Restricted shares and restricted share units may not be transferred during the period of restriction.

Termination of Employment or Service In the event that an award recipient ceases employment with us or ceases to provide services to us, any unvested options will automatically terminate and any vested options will generally terminate after a period of time following the termination of employment or service if the award recipient does not exercise the options during this period. Any restricted shares and restricted share units that are at the time of termination subject to restrictions will generally be forfeited and automatically transferred to and reacquired by us at no cost to us.

On June 7, 2007, we adopted our 2007 Global Share Plan to motivate, retain and attract talent and promote the success of our business. We amended the 2007 Global Share Plan on December 15, 2007, April 26, 2010, December 15, 2010 and February 28, 2011. Our board of directors authorized the issuance and reservation of up to 44,415,442 common shares under the Plan. As of March 15, 2015, options to purchase 11,856,270 common shares have been granted and were outstanding under the 2007 Global Share Plan.

Types of Awards and Exercise Prices. Two types of awards may be granted under the 2007 Global Share Plan.

Plan Administration. Our board of directors or a committee appointed by the board will administer the Plan. The administrator has the power, among other things, to determine the fair market value of shares underlying the options, to select the persons to whom the awards may be granted, to determine the number of awards granted, to determine the form of the award agreement, and to determine the terms and conditions of any award granted including, but not limited to, the exercise price, the purchase price, when the options may be exercised, when the relevant repurchase or redemption rights shall lapse, any vesting acceleration or waiver of forfeiture restrictions, and any restriction or limitation regarding any award or the shares relating thereto, based in each case on such factors as the administrator, in its sole discretion, shall determine. Subject to applicable laws, the administrator may delegate limited authority to specified offices of our company to execute on behalf of our company any instrument required to effect an award previously granted by the administrator.

Award Agreement. Incentive share options or nonstatutory share options granted under the 2007 Global Share Plan are evidenced by an award agreement that sets forth the terms and conditions for each grant, including the exercise price, the exercisable date and term of the option.

Eligibility. We may grant awards to employees, directors or consultants of our company.

Transfer Restriction. Awards for incentive share options and nonstatutory share options are subject to such forfeiture conditions, rights of repurchase or redemption, rights of first refusal and other transfer restrictions as the plan administrator may determine.

Term of Awards. The award agreement shall specify the term of each option; however, the term shall not exceed ten years from the grant date, or a shorter term may be required by the 2007 Global Share Plan.

Amendment and Termination. The plan administrator may at any time amend, alter, suspend or terminate the 2007 Global Share Plan. Unless sooner terminated, the Plan shall continue in effect for a term of ten years.

The following table summarizes the outstanding options and restricted shares that our directors, executive officers and other individuals as a group beneficially owned as of March 15, 2015.

We granted restricted shares to other individuals under the 2007 Global Share Plan and the 2011 Share Plan on the following dates: (i) on May 5, 2011, 1,075,000 restricted shares, (ii) on July 10, 2012, 1,287,630 restricted shares, (iii) on July 27, 2012, 831,250 restricted shares, (iv) on January 2, 2013, 3,000,000 restricted shares, (v) on February 19, 2013, 189,105 restricted shares, (vi) on July 1, 2013, 1,710,000 restricted shares, (vii) on May 15, 2014, 250,000 restricted shares, (viii) on June 27, 2014, 1,500,000 restricted shares, (ix) on July 8, 2014, 1,525,000 restricted shares and (ix) on January 30, 2015, 2,079,020 restricted shares. Among the total number of restricted shares granted to other individuals, 8,061,665 had been vested and 361,720 had become expired or forfeited, leaving a total number of 6,705,080 restricted shares outstanding as of March 15, 2015.

Our board of directors currently consists of ten directors, including six independent directors. A director is not required to hold any shares in our company by way of qualification. A director may vote with respect to any contract, proposed contract or arrangement in which he is materially interested provided the nature of the interest is disclosed prior to voting. A director may exercise all the powers of our company to borrow money, mortgage its undertaking, property and uncalled capital, and issue debentures or other securities whenever money is borrowed or as security for any obligation of our company or of any third party. None of our non-executive directors has a service contract with us that provides for benefits upon termination of employment. See “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees — B. Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers” for a description of the employment agreements we have entered into with our senior executive officers.

We have established three committees under the board of directors: the audit committee, the compensation committee and the corporate governance and nominating committee. We have adopted a charter for each of these committees. Each committee’s members and functions are described below.

Audit Committee. Our audit committee consists of Mr. Max Yao, Mr. Jun Zhang, Mr. William Tiewei Li and Mr. Justin Chen. Mr. Yao is the chairman of our audit committee. Each of Mr. Yao, Mr. Zhang, Mr. Li and Mr. Chen satisfies the “independence” requirements of Section 303A of the Corporate Governance Rules of the New York Stock Exchange and Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The audit committee oversees our accounting and financial reporting processes and the audits of the financial statements of our company. The audit committee is responsible for the following, among others:

Compensation Committee. Our compensation committee consists of Mr. Jun Zhang, Mr. Justin Chen and Mr. Ronald Wu. Mr. Zhang is the chairman of our compensation committee. Each of Mr. Zhang, Mr. Chen and Mr. Wu satisfies the “independence” requirements of the Corporate Governance Rules of the New York Stock Exchange. The compensation committee assists the board in reviewing and approving the compensation structure, including all forms of compensation, relating to our directors and executive officers. Our chief executive officers may not be present at any committee meeting during which his compensation is deliberated. The compensation committee is responsible for, the following, among others:

Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. Our corporate governance and nominating committee consists of Mr. William Tiewei Li, Mr. Jun Zhang and Mr. Justin Chen, and is chaired by Mr. William Tiewei Li. Each of Mr. Li, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Chen satisfies the “independence” requirements of the Corporate Governance Rules of the New York Stock Exchange. The corporate governance and nominating committee will assist the board of directors in identifying individuals qualified to become our directors and in determining the composition of the board and its committees. The corporate governance and nominating committee is responsible for the following actions, among others:

Under Cayman Islands law, our directors have a duty of loyalty to act honestly in good faith with a view to our best interests. Our directors also have a duty to exercise the skill they actually possess and such care and diligence that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances. In fulfilling their duty of care to us, our directors must ensure compliance with our memorandum and articles of association. We have the right to seek damages if a duty owed by our directors is breached.

Our officers are elected by and serve at the discretion of the board of directors. Our directors are not subject to a term of office and hold office until such time as they resign or are removed from office by ordinary resolution of our company. A director will be removed from office automatically if, among other things, the director (i) becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors; or (ii) becomes of unsound mind.

We had 626, 1,233 and 1,742 employees as of December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. The following table sets forth the number of our employees by function as of December 31, 2014.

We invest significant resources in the recruitment, retention, training and development of our employees. We hire our employees through various channels, including word-of-mouth referrals, on-campus recruiting programs, professional headhunters and job search websites. At the time a new employee is hired, we offer introductory training during the probation period which typically lasts three months. We offer internal continuing education training programs for our employees on a variety of topics, including (i) general training on topics like time management and general business communication, (ii) training specific to each of their professional positions, such as training regarding sales strategies and project management, and (iii) management-level training, including training on employee motivation, delegation of authority and stress management. We also offer employees outside training opportunities on an as-needed basis.

Our success depends on our ability to attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel. We believe we offer our employees competitive compensation packages, and we have generally been able to attract and retain qualified personnel and maintain a stable core management team. Through a combination of short-term performance evaluation and long-term incentive arrangements, we intend to build a competent, loyal and highly motivated workforce.

Compensation for our full-time employees typically consists of base salary, additional pay determined in accordance with employee seniority and other subsidies. In addition, based on our results of operations, we may award discretionary bonuses to our employees. Our employees are also eligible for equity incentives. For more information on the terms of our share option plans, see “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees — B. Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers — Share Incentive Plans.”

Substantially all of our employees are based in the PRC. In accordance with PRC laws, our full-time employees in China participate in various employee benefit plans including pension, medical benefit plans as well as various types of general social insurance required by the relevant PRC laws and regulations, including unemployment insurance, and commercial insurance covering certain worked-related injuries and complementary medical expenses for all of our employees.

We believe that we maintain a good working relationship with our employees and we have not experienced any business interruptions due to labor disputes. For a description of the employment agreement we signed with some members of our senior management, see “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees — B. Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers — Employment Agreements.”

As of March 15, 2015, we had 396,632,111 Class A common shares outstanding (excluding 2,774,810 Class A common shares represented by ADSs that we reserved for issuance upon the exercise of options or the vesting of restricted shares and 13,312,735 Class A common shares that we repurchased from open market but not cancelled). In addition, as of March 15, 2015, we have granted, and have outstanding, options to purchase 13,155,570 Class A common shares and 11,856,270 Class B common shares, 704,720 restricted shares and 1,641,243 restricted ADSs to our directors, executive officers, other employees and consultants. For information regarding the Share Incentive Plans, see “Item 6.B. Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers.”

The following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial ownership of our common shares as of March 15, 2015, by:

Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC. In computing the number of shares beneficially owned by a person and the percentage ownership of that person, we have included shares that the person has the right to acquire within 60 days after March 15, 2015, the most recent practicable date, including through the exercise of any option, warrant or other right or the conversion of any other security. These shares, however, are not included in the computation of the percentage ownership of any other person.

The calculations in the table below assume that there were 446,985,082 common shares outstanding as of March 15, 2015.

As of March 15, 2015, 446,985,082 of our common shares were issued and outstanding, including 396,632,111 Class A common shares and 50,352,971 Class B common shares (excluding 2,774,810 Class A common shares represented by ADSs that we reserved for issuance upon the exercise of options or the vesting of restricted shares and 13,312,735 Class A common shares that we repurchased from open market but not cancelled). Based on a review of the register of members maintained by our Cayman Islands registrar, we believe that as of March 15, 2015, 396,903,665 Class A common shares and 7 Class B common shares representing approximately 87.0% of our total outstanding shares were held by two record holders in the United States, which includes 396,903,665 Class A common shares held of record by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the depositary of our ADS program (including 2,774,810 Class A common shares represented by ADSs that we reserved for issuance upon the exercise of options or the vesting of restricted shares and 13,312,735 Class A common shares that we repurchased from open market but not cancelled). The number of beneficial owners of our ADSs in the United States is likely to be much larger than the number of record holders of our common shares in the United States. None of our existing shareholders have different voting rights from other shareholders in the same class. See “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees — B. Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers — Employee Agreements” for a description of the employment agreements we have entered into with our senior executive officers.

We are not aware of any arrangement that may, at a subsequent date, result in a change of control of our company.

Please refer to “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees — E. Share Ownership.”

PRC laws and regulations currently limit foreign ownership of companies that provide value-added telecommunications services. To comply with PRC laws, we provide our products and services through our contractual arrangements with our consolidated affiliated entities and their respective shareholders.

The following is a summary of the material contracts among our subsidiaries, NQ Beijing, FL Beijing and Wanpu Beijing, and our significant consolidated affiliated entities, Beijing Technology, FL Mobile and Wanpu Century, and the respective shareholders of Beijing Technology, FL Mobile and Wanpu Century.

Business Operations Agreement. Pursuant to the business operations agreement dated as of June 5, 2007 and amended and restated as of June 6, 2012, among NQ Beijing, Beijing Technology and the shareholders of Beijing Technology, Beijing Technology must appoint the persons designated by NQ Beijing to be its directors, general manager, chief financial officer and any other senior officers. Beijing Technology agrees to accept the proposal provided by NQ Beijing from time to time relating to employment, daily business and financial management. Without NQ Beijing or its representative’s prior written consent, Beijing Technology shall not conduct any transaction which may materially affect its assets, business, personnel, rights, liabilities or operations. In addition, the shareholders of Beijing Technology irrevocably appointed a person designed by NQ Beijing as their attorney-in-fact to vote on their behalf on all matters of Beijing Technology requiring shareholder approval, including matters relating to the transfer of any or all of their respective equity interests in Beijing Technology, and appointment of the directors, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, and other senior management members of Beijing Technology. They further agree to withdraw such appointment and appoint another person as their power-in-fact per NQ’s request in any time. The shareholders of Beijing Technology agree to transfer any dividends, bonus or any other benefits or interests, which they received as the shareholders of Beijing Technology, to NQ Beijing without any conditions. This agreement is effective until NQ Beijing ceases to exist. NQ Beijing may terminate the agreement at any time by providing 30-day’s advance written notice to Beijing Technology and to each of its shareholders. Neither Beijing Technology nor any of its shareholders may terminate this agreement prior to the expiration date.

Equity Interest Pledge Agreement. Pursuant to the equity interest pledge agreement dated as of August 6, 2007 and amended and restated as of June 6, 2012, among NQ Beijing and the shareholders of Beijing Technology, as amended, the shareholders of Beijing Technology pledge all of their respective equity interests in Beijing Technology to NQ Beijing, to guarantee Beijing Technology and its shareholders’ performance of their obligations under the exclusive technical consulting services agreement, equity disposition agreement and business operations agreement. If Beijing Technology and/or any of its shareholders breach their contractual obligations under these agreements, NQ Beijing, as pledgee, will be entitled to certain rights, including the right to sell the pledged equity interests. Without NQ Beijing’s prior written consent, shareholders of Beijing Technology shall not transfer or assign the pledged equity interests, or create or allow any encumbrance that would prejudice NQ Beijing’s interests. During the term of this agreement, Beijing Technology shall not distribute any dividends or profits; otherwise NQ Beijing is entitled to receive all of the dividends and profits paid on the pledged equity interests. The equity interest pledge will be effective upon the completion of the registration of the pledge with the competent local branch of the SAIC, and expire when, upon NQ Beijing’s written confirmation, Beijing Technology and its shareholders have fully performed their obligations under the exclusive technical consulting services agreement, equity disposition agreement and business operations agreement. We have registered the pledge of Beijing Technology’s equity interests with the Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce, and thus are entitled to enforce the pledge against any third parties who may acquire the equity interests in Beijing Technology in good faith. See “Item 3. Key Information — D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Corporate Structure — We rely on contractual arrangements with our consolidated affiliated entities in China and their shareholders for our operations, which may not be as effective as direct ownership in providing operational control and may negatively affect our ability to conduct our business.”

Exclusive Technical Consulting Services Agreement. Pursuant to the exclusive technical consulting services agreement dated as of June 5, 2007 between NQ Beijing and Beijing Technology, NQ Beijing has exclusive right to provide technical consulting services relating to, among other things, research and development of mobile anti-virus software, training for employees, transfer of research and development technology, public relations, market research and analysis, strategic planning and sales and marketing to Beijing Technology. Without NQ Beijing’s prior written consent, Beijing Technology shall not engage any third party for any of the technical consulting services provided under this agreement. In addition, NQ Beijing exclusively owns all intellectual property rights resulting from the performance of this agreement. Beijing Technology agrees to pay a quarterly service fee to NQ Beijing based on the percentage of revenue of Beijing Technology as set forth in this agreement. During the term of this agreement, NQ Beijing shall have the right to adjust the service fees. The term of this agreement expires upon the dissolution date of NQ Beijing under the laws and regulations of the PRC. NQ Beijing can terminate this agreement at any time by providing 30-day’s prior written notice. Beijing Technology is not permitted to terminate this agreement prior to the expiration date.

Agreements that Provide Us the Option to Purchase the Equity Interest in Beijing Technology

Equity Disposition Agreement. Pursuant to the equity disposition agreement dated as of June 5, 2007 and amended and restated as of June 6, 2012, among NQ Beijing, Beijing Technology and the shareholders of Beijing Technology, Beijing Technology’s shareholders grant NQ Beijing or its designated representative(s) an exclusive option to purchase, to the extent permitted under PRC law, all or part of their equity interests in Beijing Technology. All of the equity interests in Beijing Technology can be acquired in considerations for the cancellation of all of the loans extended to Beijing Technology’s shareholders under the loan agreements mentioned below. NQ Beijing or its designated representative(s) have sole discretion to decide when to exercise such options, either in part or in full. NQ Beijing or its designated representative(s) is entitled to exercise the options an unlimited number of times until all of the equity interests have been acquired, and can freely transfer the option, in whole or in part to any third party. Without NQ Beijing’s prior written consent, Beijing Technology’s shareholders shall not transfer, donate, pledge, or otherwise dispose of their equity shareholdings in any way. The equity disposition agreement has a term of ten years, but may be extended at the sole option of NQ Beijing. NQ Beijing also has the right to require other parties to sign an updated equity disposition agreement instead of extending the existing one.

Loan Agreements. On June 5, 2007, NQ Beijing and the shareholders of Beijing Technology entered into a loan agreement, pursuant to which NQ Beijing extended interest-free loans to the shareholders of Beijing Technology with an aggregate amount of RMB 6,122,500. In addition, NQ Mobile Inc. extended a loan in the amount of US$250,000 to the shareholders of Beijing Technology with an annual interest rate of 6.0%. In January 2011, NQ Mobile Inc., NQ Beijing and the shareholders of Beijing Technology entered into an agreement, which provides that the sole purpose of the loans in the amounts of RMB6,122,500 and US$250,000 is to provide funds necessary for the capital injection of Beijing Technology and that the obligations of the shareholders of Beijing Technology to repay such loans can only be fully performed by the sale of all of its equity interests to NQ Beijing or its designated representative(s) pursuant to the equity disposition agreement. On May 31, 2012, NQ Beijing and the shareholders of Beijing Technology entered into another loan agreement, pursuant to which NQ Beijing extended interest-free loans to the shareholders of Beijing Technology with an aggregate amount of RMB 40,000,000. We refer to these agreements collectively as the loan agreements. Without NQ Beijing’s prior written consent, the shareholders of Beijing Technology shall not approve any transaction which may significantly affect its assets, operations or liabilities. The term of the loan agreements is ten years, and may be extended if both parties agree in writing.

The contractual agreements between FL Mobile, FL Beijing and the shareholders of FL Mobile are substantially the same as the contractual agreements among NQ Beijing, Beijing Technology and the shareholders of Beijing Technology.

The contractual agreements between Wanpu Beijing, Wanpu Century and the shareholders of Wanpu Century are substantially the same as the contractual agreements among NQ Beijing, Beijing Technology and the shareholders of Beijing Technology, except that instead of an exclusive technical consulting services agreement, they entered into an exclusive business cooperation agreement. Below is a summary of the exclusive business cooperation agreement between Wanpu Beijing and Wanpu Century:

Exclusive Business Cooperation Agreement. Pursuant to the exclusive business cooperation agreement dated as of July 1, 2011 between Wanpu Beijing and Wanpu Century, Wanpu Beijing has an exclusive right to provide overall business support, technical services and consulting services to Wanpu Century. Without Wanpu Beijing’s prior written consent, Wanpu Century shall not accept service or support from, or cooperate with, any third party. Wanpu Beijing may designate a person to provide service or support to Wanpu Century under this agreement. In addition, Wanpu Beijing exclusively owns all intellectual property rights resulting from the performance of this agreement. Wanpu Century agrees to pay a service fee to Wanpu Beijing based on the percentage of revenue of Wanpu Century as set forth in this agreement. The term of this agreement is ten years from the date of this agreement. Wanpu Beijing can unilaterally renew this agreement by its written confirmation, and Wanpu Century must agree to such renewal. Wanpu Beijing may terminate this agreement at any time by providing 30-day’s advance written notice to Wanpu Century. Wanpu Century may not terminate this agreement unless such termination arises from Wanpu Beijing’s gross negligence or deceit.

In connection with our issuance of Series A preferred shares, we and our then-existing shareholders entered into a shareholders agreement on June 7, 2007. This shareholders agreement was amended four times on June 22, 2007, December 15, 2007, April 26 and November 12, 2010, respectively. Under the shareholders agreement, as amended, holders of our registrable shares are entitled to certain registration rights set forth below.

Demand Registration Rights. Holders of registrable securities holding at least 20% of the registrable securities then outstanding have the right to demand that we file a registration statement covering the offer and sale of their securities. We, however, are not obligated to effect a demand registration if, among other things, we have already effected a registration under the Securities Act within six months prior to the date of such request pursuant to which such holders had an opportunity to participate as a piggyback registrant. We have the right to defer filing of a registration statement for up to 90 days if our board of directors determine in good faith that filing of a registration will be materially detrimental to us, but we cannot exercise the deferral right more than once in any twelve-month period.

Form F-3 Registration Rights. Holders of registrable securities holding at least 20% in voting power of the registrable securities then outstanding (or a lesser percent if the anticipated aggregate offering price would exceed US$2,000,000) have the right to request that we file a registration statement of the registrable securities. When we are eligible for use of Form F-3 or Form S-3, any holder of any registrable security has the right to request that we file a registration statement thereunder at any time, but not more than twice during any twelve month period. We, however, are not obligated to effect a registration on Form F-3 if, among other scenarios, we have, within the six-months period preceding the date of such request, already effected a registration under the Securities Act other than a registration from which the registrable securities of such holders have been excluded (with respect to all or any portion of the registrable securities other holders requested be included in such registration). We have the right to defer filing of a registration statement for up to 60 days if our board of directors determine in good faith that filing of a registration will be materially detrimental to us and our shareholders, but we cannot exercise the deferral right more than once in any twelve-month period and we may not register any other of our shares during such twelve-month period.

Piggyback Registration Rights. If we propose to file a registration statement in connection with a public offering of securities of our company other than in response to demands from holders of registrable securities under their demand registration rights or Form F-3 registrable rights or relating to a company stock plan or corporate reorganization or other Rule 145 transaction, an offer and sale of debt securities, or a registration on any registration form that does not permit secondary sales), then we must offer each holder of the registrable securities the opportunity to include their shares in the registration statement.

Expenses of Registration. We will pay all expenses relating to any demand, piggyback or Form F-3 registration, except each holder that exercised its demand registration rights shall bear such holder’s proportionate share (based on the total number of shares sold in such registration other than for the account of our company) of all selling expenses incurred in connection with registrations, filings or qualifications pursuant to such registration. We are also not required to pay for any expenses of any registration proceeding begun in response to holders’ exercise of their demand registration rights if the registration request is subsequently withdrawn at the request of the holders of a majority of the registrable securities to be registered, subject to a few exceptions.

Termination of our Obligations. Our obligations with respect to any registrable securities proposed to be sold by a holder in a registration pursuant to aforementioned rights shall terminate on the seventh (7th) anniversary of our initial public offering, or, if, in the opinion of our counsel, all such registrable securities proposed to be sold by a holder may then be sold without registration in any ninety (90) day period pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act.

During 2010, we entered into housing loan contracts with 10 employees, under which we provided interest-free housing loans to the employees in the amount of $180,000 each. The employees were each required to repay a certain percentage of the loans immediately upon signing the relevant loan agreements and repay a fixed amount per month for the next five years. During 2011, we entered into an interest-free housing loan agreement with an employee amounting to US$78,681 with a fixed amount of repayment each month for the next 15 years. During 2012, we entered into housing loan agreements with 4 employees amounting to RMB 1,900,000 with a fixed amount of repayment each month for the next 10 or 15 years. During 2013, we entered into interest-free housing loan agreement with 4 employees amounting to RMB 1,100,000 with a fixed amount of repayment each month for the next 10 or 15 years. During 2014, we entered into interest-free housing loan agreement with 2 employees amounting to RMB 800,000 with a fixed amount of repayment each month for the next 5 or 10 years. The loans were guaranteed by RPL Holdings Limited. As of December 31, 2014, we had outstanding housing loans of US$0.5 million.

As of December 31, 2014, we have extended interest-free loans of US$4.7 million to Hesine Technologies International Worldwide Inc., in which we hold minority equity interest, for its business operations.

As of December 31, 2014, we have extended interest-free loans of US$0.6 million to Symbol Media (HK) Limited, in which we hold minority equity interest, for its business operations.

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, we earned commissions of US$5.4 million from the purchase of mobile hardware from Apple for Beijing Wangnuo Xingyun Technology Co., Ltd, or Wangnuo Xingyun, over which a member of our senior management has significant influence. All receivables from Wangnuo Xingyun due to hardware procurement and commission fees were paid off as of December 31, 2014. As of December 31, 2014, we received US$6.5 million deposit from Wangnuo Xingyun for the purpose of purchasing enterprise products.

In 2014, we entered into an agreement with Inmotion Technologies Co., Ltd. (“Inmotion”), a company over which one of our senior management has significant influence, to purchase their sensor controlled vehicles for market promotion. We recognized US$ 163,000 advertising expense.

In October 2013, we entered into an exclusive operation arrangement with Beijing Century Hetu Software Technology Co., Ltd., a company in which we hold minority equity interest, to publish and operate one of its mobile games. We prepaid US$1.6 million (RMB10 million) after signing the agreement for revenue-sharing fees and copyright.

In the year of 2014, we promoted mobile applications developed by Showself through Wanpu Century and recognized advertising revenue of approximately US$30,000 therefrom before the acquisition date, sequentially eliminated upon consolidation.

See “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees — B. Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers — Employee Agreements” for a description of the employment agreements we have entered into with our senior executive officers.

See “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees — B. Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers” for a description of share-based compensation awards we have granted to our directors, officers and other individuals as a group.

See footnote 22 to our financial statements for further information about our related party transactions.

From time to time, we are subject to legal proceedings, investigations and claims incidental to the conduct of our business.

On October 25, 2013, a putative shareholder class action lawsuit against our company, Kostuk v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 12712 (D. Mass.), was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Shortly thereafter, six more putative shareholder class action suits against our company and certain current and former directors and officers of our company were filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York: Ho v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7608 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on October 28, 2013); Ghauri v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7637 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on October 29, 2013); Pang v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7685 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on October 30, 2013); Hiller v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7713 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on October 30, 2013); Gangaramani v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7858 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on November 5, 2013); Martin v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 8125 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on November 14, 2013). On December 2, 2013, another putative shareholder class action suit against our company and certain current and former directors and officers of our company, Hsieh v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 1048 (E.D. Tex.), was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. On January 6, 2014, Kostuk v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 12712 (D. Mass.), was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff. On April 9, 2014, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York consolidated the six putative shareholder class action suits filed in that court under the caption, In re NQ Mobile, Inc. Securities Litigation, Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7608 (S.D.N.Y.) (“In re NQ Mobile, Inc. Securities Litigation”), and appointed a lead plaintiff. On May 13, 2014, Hsieh v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 1048 (E.D. Tex.), was transferred from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was accepted by the Southern District of New York as related to the consolidated putative shareholder class action, In re NQ Mobile, Inc. Securities Litigation.

On July 21, 2014, the lead plaintiff in In re NQ Mobile, Inc. Securities Litigation filed a Consolidated Class Action Complaint (the “Consolidated Complaint”) against us, our former co-chief executive officer Henry Yu Lin, co-chief executive officer Omar Sharif Khan, chief operating officer and acting chief financial officer Vincent Wenyong Shi, former chief financial officer Suhai Ji, former chief financial officer Kian Bin Teo (collectively the “NQ Defendants”), and our former auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers ZhongTian LLP and its affiliate, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited. Similar to the previously filed complaints, the Consolidated Complaint alleges that various press releases, financial statements and other related disclosures made by our company during the alleged class period contained material misstatements and omissions, in violation of the federal securities laws, and that such press releases, financial statements and other related disclosures artificially inflated the value of our company’s ADSs. The Consolidated Complaint states that the lead plaintiff seeks to represent a class of persons who allegedly suffered damages as a result of their trading activities related to our ADSs from March 6, 2013 to July 3, 2014, and, similar to previous complaints filed in the putative class actions, alleges violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78(b) and 78t(a), and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, 17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5 (2013).

On March 3, 2015, we notified the court that the lead plaintiff and the NQ Defendants had reached an agreement in principle to settle the claims against the NQ Defendants for $5.1 million, subject to court approval. This will not have a material impact on our financial statements as it is covered by insurance. We continue to believe that the cases against the NQ Defendants are without merit. Should the settlement agreement not be approved or concluded for any reason, we intend to defend the actions vigorously. For risks and uncertainties relating to the pending cases against us, please see “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—We have been named as a defendant in putative shareholder class action lawsuits that could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition, results of operation, cash flows and reputation.”

In October 2013, Beijing NQ Technology Co., Ltd. filed an application to Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court against Muddy Waters LLC, which issued reports containing various allegations against us.

On October 25, 2013, our board of directors formed a special committee, or the Special Committee, to conduct an independent review of certain allegations raised in a report issued by Muddy Waters LLC dated October 24, 2013 (and in subsequent reports and letters issued through January 13, 2014). The Special Committee was comprised of the four independent directors of our company at the time, Ms. Ying Han and Messrs. William Tiewei Li, Xiuming Tao and Jun Zhang, with Ms. Han serving as the chairwoman of the committee. The committee was authorized to retain independent advisors in connection with its investigation. The Special Committee subsequently retained the global law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP to conduct the independent review, and Shearman & Sterling LLP in turn engaged Deloitte & Touche Financial Advisory Services Limited as forensic accountants to assist it in the matter (together, the “Investigation Team”). On June 4, 2014, the results of the independent investigation conducted by the Special Committee were announced. The announcement described the scope of the work carried out during the more than seven month investigation, including substantive procedures performed to investigate each allegation. The Special Committee reported it did not find any evidence that we had engaged in the fraudulent conduct alleged by Muddy Waters LLC. It also noted that the Investigation Team had not been able to verify that certain devices containing electronic data that it collected and copied contained all responsive information at the time the copies were made, and that on some devices there were indications that data might be missing, for which there was not a credible explanation.

Subsequent to the release of the Special Committee’s findings, our audit committee engaged DLA Piper LLP as its outside counsel to advise it with respect to matters relating to the completion of the audit, including matters relating to the observation that some data might be missing on some devices which was identified by the Special Committee. With respect to devices as to which there were indications that data might be missing, the audit committee’s counsel retained the computer forensic consultant, Control Risks Group, to conduct a thorough examination of images made from devices that were collected and imaged during the course of the Special Committee’s investigation and hired Stroz Friedberg to review the examination protocol. As a result of this forensic examination, the audit committee’s advisers were able to recover and review many files on certain devices, which files had been deleted between the October 24 publication of the Muddy Waters report and the collection of data from those devices by the Special Committee. None were relevant to the Muddy Waters allegations. The audit committee’s advisers performed additional forensic procedures to recover documents deleted prior to system reinstallations on certain of the devices following the publication of the Muddy Waters report, and similarly recovered no documents relevant to the allegations or Special Committee’s investigation. In sum, the Audit Committee found no evidence of an effort to prevent the collection of documents or data relevant to the Special Committee’s investigation.

We have responded to requests from the Staff of both the New York Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission related to the Muddy Waters allegations and the Special Committee investigation. There are no outstanding requests, although either the SEC or NYSE Staff may make further requests and we intend to cooperate with such requests.

We have not paid dividend in the past and do not have any present plan to pay any dividend in the foreseeable future. We currently intend to retain most, if not all, of our available funds and any future earnings to operate and expand our business.

We are a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands. We may receive dividends from our PRC subsidiaries for our cash requirements, including any payment of dividends to our shareholders. PRC regulations may restrict the ability of our PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to us. See “Item 4. Information on the Company — B. Business Overview — PRC Regulation — Regulations on Dividend Distribution.” Our board of directors has complete discretion on whether to distribute dividends, subject to the approval of our shareholders. Even if our board of directors decides to pay dividends, the form, frequency and amount will depend upon our future operations and earnings, capital requirements and surplus, general financial condition, contractual restrictions and other factors that the board of directors may deem relevant. If we pay any dividends, we will pay our ADS holders to the same extent as holders of our Class A common shares, subject to the terms of the deposit agreement, including the fees and expenses payable thereunder. See “Item 12. Description of Securities Other than Equity Securities — D. American Depositary Shares.” Cash dividends on our common shares, if any, will be paid in U.S. dollars.

Except as disclosed elsewhere in this annual report, we have not experienced any significant changes since the date of our audited consolidated financial statements included in this annual report.

See “— C. Markets” and “Item 12.Description of Securities other than Equity Securities — D. American Depositary Shares.” We have a dual-class common share structure in which Class A common shares have different voting rights than Class B common shares. Class B common shares are each entitled to ten votes, whereas Class A common shares are each entitled to one vote. See “Item 3. Key Information — D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our ADSs — Our dual-class common share structure with different voting rights will limit your ability to influence corporate matters and could discourage others from pursuing any change of control transactions that holders of our Class A common shares and ADSs may view as beneficial.”

Our ADSs, each representing five Class A common shares, have been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since May 5, 2011 and trade under the symbol “NQ.” The following table provides the high and low trading prices for our ADSs on the New York Stock Exchange for the periods indicated.

We are a Cayman Islands company and our affairs are governed by our memorandum and articles of association and the Companies Law (2013 Revision) of the Cayman Islands, which is referred to as the Companies Law below. The following are summaries of material provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association in effect as of the date of this annual report insofar as they relate to the material terms of our common shares.

Our registered office in the Cayman Islands is located at Maples Corporate Services Limited, PO Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman KY1-1104, Cayman Islands, or at such other place as our board of directors may from time to time decide. The objects for which our company is established are unrestricted and we have full power and authority to carry out any object not prohibited by the Companies Law, as amended from time to time, or any other law of the Cayman Islands.

See “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees — C. Board Practices — Duties of Directors” and “— Terms of Directors and Officers.”

General Our authorized share capital consists of 1,800,000,000 common shares, with a par value of US$0.0001 each. Our common shares are divided into 1,560,000,000 Class A common shares and 240,000,000 Class B common shares. Holders of Class A common shares and Class B common shares have the same rights except for voting and conversion rights. All of our outstanding common shares are fully paid. Certificates representing the common shares are issued in registered form. Our shareholders who are nonresidents of the Cayman Islands may freely hold and vote their shares.

Dividends The holders of our common shares are entitled to such dividends as may be declared by our board of directors subject to the Companies Law.

Conversion Each Class B common share is convertible into one Class A common share at any time by the holder thereof. Class A common shares are not convertible into Class B common shares under any circumstances. If at any time our three founders, Dr. Henry Yu Lin, Mr. Xu Zhou and Dr. Vincent Wenyong Shi and their affiliates collectively own less than 5% of the total number of the issued and outstanding Class B common shares, each issued and outstanding Class B common share shall be automatically and immediately converted into one Class A common share, and we shall not issue any Class B common shares thereafter. Upon any sale, pledge, transfer, assignment or disposition of Class B common shares by a holder thereof to any person or entity which is not an affiliate of such holder, or a founder or a founder’s affiliate, each such Class B common share shall be automatically and immediately converted into one Class A common share, provided that (a) except as otherwise provided in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, a change in the beneficial ownership of Class B common shares from a holder of Class B common shares to an affiliate of such holder or to one of our founders or to a founder’s affiliate shall not cause a conversion and (b) any sale, pledge, transfer, assignment or disposition of Class B common shares by a holder thereof effected as part of the creation of any security interest or other encumbrance over such Class B common shares (including, without limitation, any transfer of legal title to such Class B common shares effected as part of the creation of any security interest or other encumbrance over such Class B common shares) shall be exempt from, and shall not trigger, the automatic conversion from Class B common shares to Class A common shares unless and until the legal title to such Class B common shares is transferred to any person or entity which is not an affiliate of such holder (or one of our founders or a founder’s affiliate) as a result of the enforcement of such security interest or other encumbrance. In addition, if at any time more than fifty percent (50%) of the ultimate beneficial ownership of any holder of Class B common shares (other than one of our founders or a founder’s affiliate) changes, each such Class B common share shall be automatically and immediately converted into one Class A common share. For the avoidance of doubt, the sale, pledge, transfer, assignment or disposition of Class B common shares by a holder thereof to any of the following shall be exempt from, and shall not trigger, the automatic conversion contemplated herein: (i) one of our founders or an affiliate of one or more our founders or (ii) an affiliate of such holder.

Voting Rights In respect of matters requiring shareholders’ vote, each Class A common share is entitled to one vote, and each Class B common share is entitled to ten votes. Voting at any shareholders’ meeting is by show of hands unless a poll is demanded. A poll may be demanded by any shareholder holding at least 10% of the shares given a right to vote at the meeting, present in person or by proxy.

A quorum required for a meeting of shareholders consists of at least one shareholder present in person or by proxy or, if a corporation or other non-natural person, by its duly authorized representative, who holds no less than one-third of our voting share capital. Shareholders’ meetings may be convened by our board of directors on its own initiative or upon a requisition to the directors by shareholders holding in aggregate at least one-third of our voting share capital. Advance notice of at least seven days is required for the convening of our annual general meeting and other shareholders’ meetings.

An ordinary resolution to be passed by the shareholders requires the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the votes attaching to the common shares cast in a general meeting, while a special resolution requires the affirmative vote of no less than two-thirds of the votes cast attaching to the common shares. A special resolution is required for important matters such as a change of name. Holders of the common shares may effect certain changes by ordinary resolution, including altering the amount of our authorized share capital, consolidating and dividing all or any of our share capital into shares of larger amount than our existing share capital, and canceling any authorized but unissued shares.

Transfer of Shares Subject to the restrictions of our memorandum and articles of association, as applicable, any of our shareholders may transfer all or any of his or her common shares by an instrument of transfer in the usual or ordinary form or any other form approved by our board.

Our board of directors may, in its sole discretion, decline to register any transfer of any common share unless (a) the instrument of transfer is lodged with us, accompanied by the certificate for the common shares to which it relates and such other evidence as our board of directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer, (b) the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of common shares, (c) the instrument of transfer is properly stamped, if required, (d) in the case of a transfer to joint holders, the number of joint holders to whom the common share is to be transferred does not exceed four, (e) the shares transferred are fully paid up and free of any lien in favor of us, or (f) a fee of such maximum sum as the New York Stock Exchange may determine to be payable, or such lesser sum as our board of directors may from time to time require, is paid to us in respect thereof.

If our directors refuse to register a transfer they shall, within two months after the date on which the instrument of transfer was lodged, send to each of the transferor and the transferee notice of such refusal. The registration of transfers may, on 14 days’ notice being given by advertisement in such one or more newspapers or by electronic means, be suspended and the register closed at such times and for such periods as our board of directors may from time to time determine, provided, however, that the registration of transfers shall not be suspended nor the register closed for more than 30 days in any year.

Liquidation On a return of capital on winding up or otherwise (other than on conversion, redemption or purchase of shares), assets available for distribution among the holders of common shares shall be distributed among the holders of the common shares on a pro rata basis or as otherwise determined by the liquidator with the sanction of an ordinary resolution of our company. If our assets available for distribution are insufficient to repay all of the paid-up capital, the assets will be distributed so that the losses are borne by our shareholders proportionately.

Calls on Shares and Forfeiture of Shares Our board of directors may from time to time make calls upon shareholders for any amounts unpaid on their shares in a notice served to such shareholders at least 14 days prior to the specified time and place of payment. The shares that have been called upon and remain unpaid on the specified time are subject to forfeiture.

Redemption of Shares Subject to the provisions of the Companies Law, we may issue shares on terms that are subject to redemption, at our option or at the option of the holders, on such terms and in such manner as may be determined by special resolution.

Variations of Rights of Shares All or any of the special rights attached to any class of shares may, subject to the provisions of the Companies Law, be varied either with the written consent of the holders of a majority of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking in priority to or pari passu with such previously existing shares.

Inspection of Books and Record Holders of our common shares will have no general right under Cayman Islands law to inspect or obtain copies of our list of shareholders or our corporate records. However, we will provide our shareholders with annual audited financial statements. See “Item 10. Additional Information — H. Document on Display.”

Register of Members Under Cayman Islands law, we must keep a register of members and there shall be entered therein:

(a) the names and addresses of the members, and a statement of the shares held by each member, and of the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid, on the shares of each member;

(b) the date on which the name of any person was entered on the register as a member; and

Under Cayman Islands law, the register of members of our company is prima facie evidence of the matters set out therein (i.e. the register will raise a presumption of fact on the matters referred to above unless rebutted), and a member registered in the register of members shall be deemed as a matter of Cayman Islands law to have legal title to the shares as set against its name in the register of members.

Anti-Takeover Provisions Some provisions of our memorandum and articles of association may discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company or management that shareholders may consider favorable, including provisions that authorize our board of directors to issue preference shares in one or more series and to designate the price, rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions of such preference shares without any further vote or action by our shareholders.

However, under Cayman Islands law, our directors may only exercise the rights and powers granted to them under our memorandum and articles of association for a proper purpose and for what they believe in good faith to be in the best interests of our company.

We have not entered into any material contracts other than in the ordinary course of business and other than those described in “Item 4. Information on the Company — A. History and Development of the Company”, “Item 7.Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions — B. Related Party Transactions — Contractual Arrangements” or elsewhere in this annual report.

See “Item 4. Information on the Company — B. Business Overview — PRC Regulation — Regulations on Foreign Exchange.”

According to Maples and Calder, our Cayman Islands legal counsel, the Cayman Islands currently levies no taxes on individuals or corporations based upon profits, income, gains or appreciation and there is no taxation in the nature of inheritance tax or estate duty. There are no other taxes likely to be material to us levied by the government of the Cayman Islands except for stamp duties which may be applicable on instruments executed in, or brought within the jurisdiction of the Cayman Islands. The Cayman Islands is not party to any double tax treaties applicable to any payments by or to our Company. There are no exchange control regulations or currency restrictions in the Cayman Islands.

We are a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, which holds 100% of our equity interests in our PRC subsidiaries either directly or indirectly through our Hong Kong subsidiary. Our business operations are principally conducted through our PRC subsidiaries. The EIT Law and its implementation rules, both of which became effective on January 1, 2008, provide that China-sourced income of foreign enterprises, such as dividends paid by a PRC subsidiary to its overseas parent that is not a PRC resident enterprise and has no establishment in the PRC, will normally be subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of 10%, unless there are applicable treaties that reduce such rate. Under the Arrangement between the PRC and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on the Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income and Capital, such dividend withholding tax rate is reduced to 5% if a Hong Kong resident enterprise owns over 25% of the PRC company distributing the dividends. As our Hong Kong subsidiary owns 100% of NQ Beijing, under the aforesaid arrangement, any dividends that NQ Beijing pays our Hong Kong subsidiary may be subject to a withholding tax at the rate of 5% if our Hong Kong subsidiary is not considered to be a PRC tax resident enterprise as described below or non-PRC tax resident enterprises with an establishment in the PRC and whose dividend incomes have connection with their establishments. However, if our Hong Kong subsidiary is not considered to be the beneficial owner of such dividends under Circular 601, such dividends would be subject to the withholding tax rate of 10%. See “Item 4. Information on the Company — B. Business Overview — PRC Regulation — Tax Regulations.”

Under the EIT Law, enterprises established under the laws of jurisdictions outside China with their “de facto management bodies” located within China may be considered to be PRC tax resident enterprises for tax purposes. If we are considered a PRC tax resident enterprise under the above definition, then our global income will be subject to PRC enterprise income tax at the rate of 25%.

The implementation rules of the EIT Law provide that (i) if the enterprise that distributes dividends is domiciled in the PRC, or (ii) if gains are realized from transferring equity interests of enterprises domiciled in the PRC, then such dividends or capital gains are treated as China-sourced income. It is not clear how “domicile” may be interpreted under the New EIT, and it may be interpreted as the jurisdiction where the enterprise is a tax resident. Therefore, if we are considered as a PRC tax resident enterprise for tax purposes, any dividends we pay to our overseas shareholders or ADS holders as well as gains realized by such shareholders or ADS holders from the transfer of our shares or ADSs may be regarded as China-sourced income and as a result become subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of up to 10%.

See “Item 3. Key Information — D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Doing Business in China — Our global income and the dividends that we may receive from our PRC subsidiaries may be subject to PRC taxes under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, which would have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.”

The following is a summary of United States federal income tax considerations relating to the ownership and disposition of our ADSs or common shares by a U.S. Holder (as defined below) of our ADSs or common shares that holds our ADSs or common shares as “capital assets” (generally, property held for investment) under the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code. This summary is based upon existing United States federal tax law as of the date hereof, which is subject to differing interpretations or change, possibly with retroactive effect. This summary does not discuss all aspects of United States federal income taxation that may be important to particular investors in light of their individual investment circumstances, including investors subject to special tax rules (for example, financial institutions, insurance companies, regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, pension plans, cooperatives, broker-dealers, partnerships and their partners, and tax-exempt organizations (including private foundations)), holders who are not U.S. Holders, holders who own (directly, indirectly or constructively) 10% or more of our voting stock, holders who acquired their ADSs or common shares pursuant to any employee share option or otherwise as compensation, investors that hold their ADSs or common shares as part of a straddle, hedge, conversion, constructive sale or other integrated transaction for United States federal income tax purposes, traders in securities that have elected the mark-to-market method of accounting for their securities or investors that have a functional currency other than the United States dollar, all of whom may be subject to tax rules that differ significantly from those summarized below. In addition, this summary does not discuss any alternative minimum tax, state, local or non-United States tax considerations any non-income tax considerations (including gift or estate tax), or the Medicare tax. Each U.S. Holder is urged to consult with its tax advisor regarding the United States federal, state, local, and non-United States income and other tax considerations of an investment in our ADSs or common shares.

For purposes of this summary, a “U.S. Holder” is a beneficial owner of our ADSs or common shares that is, for United States federal income tax purposes, (i) an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation (or other entity treated as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes) created in, or organized under the law of, the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia, (iii) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for United States federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) a trust (A) the administration of which is subject to the primary supervision of a United States court and which has one or more United States persons who have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (B) that has otherwise elected to be treated as a United States person.

If a partnership (or other entity treated as a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes) is a beneficial owner of our ADSs or common shares, the tax treatment of a partner in the partnership will generally depend upon the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. Partnerships holding our ADSs or common shares and partners in such partnerships are urged to consult their tax advisors regarding an investment in our ADSs or common shares.

It is generally expected that a holder of ADSs should be treated, for United States federal income tax purposes, as the beneficial owner of the underlying shares represented by the ADSs. The remainder of this discussion assumes that a holder of ADSs will be treated in this manner. Predicated upon such treatment, deposits or withdrawals of common shares for ADSs will not be subject to United States federal income tax.

A non-United States corporation, such as our company, will be classified as a “passive foreign investment company”, or “PFIC”, for United States federal income tax purposes for any taxable year if either (i) 75% or more of its gross income for such year consists of certain types of “passive” income or (ii) 50% or more of the value of its average quarterly assets (as generally determined on the basis of fair market value) during such year produce or are held for the production of passive income. For this purpose, cash and assets readily convertible into cash are categorized as passive assets and the company’s unbooked intangibles are taken into account for determining the value of its assets. We will be treated as owning a proportionate share of the assets and earning a proportionate share of the income of any other corporation in which we own, directly or indirectly, more than 25% (by value) of the stock. Although the law in this regard is unclear, we treat all our VIEs and their subsidiaries as being owned by us for United States federal income tax purposes, not only because we exercise effective control over such entities the operation of such entities but also because we are entitled to substantially all of the economic benefits associated with such entities, and, as a result, we consolidate the operating results of such entities in our consolidated financial statements.

Assuming that we are the owner of all our VIEs and their subsidiaries for United States federal income tax purposes, although we do not expect to be a PFIC, for United States federal income tax purposes, for the taxable year ended December 31, 2014, there is a risk that we will become a PFIC for our current taxable year ending December 31, 2015 and future taxable years because of our significant cash balances and because the value of our assets for purposes of the PFIC test will generally be determined by reference to the market price of our ADSs. Accordingly, fluctuations in the market price of our ADSs may cause us to become a PFIC for the current taxable year or future taxable years. It is also possible, that the Internal Revenue Service may challenge our classification or valuation of our goodwill and other unbooked intangibles or challenge the classification of certain of our non-passive revenues as passive royalty income, which may result in our company being, or becoming a PFIC. The determination of whether we will be or become a PFIC will also depend, in part, upon the nature of our income and assets over time, which are subject to change from year to year. There can be no assurance that our business plans will not change in a manner that will affect our PFIC status. Because there are uncertainties in the application of the relevant rules and PFIC status is a fact-intensive determination made on an annual basis, no assurance can be given with respect to our PFIC status for any taxable year.

The United States federal income tax rules that apply if we are classified as a PFIC for our current or future taxable years are generally discussed below under “Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules.” The discussion below under “Dividends” and “Sale or Other Disposition of ADSs or Common Shares” is written on the basis that we will not be classified as a PFIC for United States federal income tax purposes.

If we are classified as a PFIC for any taxable year during which a U.S. Holder holds our ADSs or common shares, and unless the U.S. Holder makes a mark-to-market election (as described below), the U.S. Holder will generally be subject to special United States federal income tax rules that have a penalizing effect, regardless of whether we remain a PFIC, on (i) any excess distribution that we make to the U.S. Holder (which generally means any distribution paid during a taxable year to a U.S. Holder that is greater than 125 percent of the average annual distributions paid in the three preceding taxable years or, if shorter, the U.S. Holder’s holding period for the ADSs or common shares), and (ii) any gain realized on the sale or other disposition, including a pledge, of ADSs or common shares. Under the PFIC rules:

If we are a PFIC for any taxable year during which a U.S. Holder holds our ADSs or common shares and any of our non-United States subsidiaries is also a PFIC, such U.S. Holder would be treated as owning a proportionate amount (by value) of the shares of the lower-tier PFIC and would be subject to the rules described above on certain distributions by a lower-tier PFIC and a disposition of shares of a lower-tier PFIC even though such U.S. Holder would not receive the proceeds of those distributions or dispositions. Each U.S. Holder is advised to consult with its tax advisor regarding the application of the PFIC rules to any of our subsidiaries.

As an alternative to the foregoing rules, a U.S. Holder of “marketable stock” in a PFIC may make a mark-to-market election for such stock to elect out of the tax treatment discussed above. The mark-to-market election is available only for “marketable stock,” which is stock that is traded in other than deminimis quantities on at least 15 days during each calendar quarter (“regularly traded”) on a qualified exchange or other market, as defined in applicable United States Treasury regulations. Our ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, which is a qualified exchange or market for these purposes. We anticipate that our ADSs should qualify as being regularly traded, but no assurances may be given in this regard. If a U.S. Holder makes a valid mark-to-market election, the U.S. Holder will generally (i) include as ordinary income for each taxable year that we are a PFIC the excess, if any, of the fair market value of ADSs held at the end of the taxable year over the adjusted tax basis of such ADSs and (ii) deduct as an ordinary loss the excess, if any, of the adjusted tax basis of the ADSs over the fair market value of such ADSs held at the end of the taxable year, but only to the extent of the net amount previously included in income as a result of the mark-to-market election. The U.S. Holder’s adjusted tax basis in the ADSs would be adjusted to reflect any income or loss resulting from the mark-to-market election. Gain on the sale or other disposition of ADSs would be treated as ordinary income, and loss on the sale or other disposition of ADSs would be treated as an ordinary loss, but only to the extent of the amount previously included in income as a result of the mark-to-market election. If a U.S. Holder makes a mark-to-market election in respect of a corporation classified as a PFIC and such corporation ceases to be classified as a PFIC, the holder will not be required to take into account the gain or loss described above during any period that such corporation is not classified as a PFIC.

Because a mark-to-market election cannot be made for any lower-tier PFICs that we may own, a U.S. Holder may continue to be subject to the PFIC rules with respect to such U.S. Holder’s indirect interest in any investments held by us that are treated as an equity interest in a PFIC for United States federal income tax purposes.

We do not intend to provide U.S. Holders with the information needed to make qualified electing fund elections, which, if available, would result in tax treatment different from the general tax treatment for PFICs as described above.

If a U.S. Holder owns our ADSs or common shares during any taxable year that we are a PFIC, the holder will generally be required to file an annual IRS Form 8621. Each U.S. Holder is advised to consult with its tax advisor concerning the United States federal income tax consequences of purchasing, holding and disposing ADSs or common shares if we are or become classified as a PFIC, including the possibility of making a mark-to-market election.

Subject to the PFIC rules discussed above, any cash distributions (including the amount of any taxes withheld) paid on our ADSs or common shares out of our current or accumulated earnings and profits, as determined under United States federal income tax principles, will generally be includible in the gross income of a U.S. Holder as dividend income on the day actually or constructively received by the U.S. Holder, in the case of common shares, or by the depositary, in the case of ADSs. Because we do not intend to determine our earnings and profits on the basis of United States federal income tax principles, any distribution paid will generally be reported as a “dividend” for United States federal income tax purposes. A non-corporate recipient of dividend income generally will be subject to tax on dividend income from a “qualified foreign corporation” at a reduced United States federal tax rate rather than the marginal tax rates generally applicable to ordinary income provided that certain holding period requirements are met.

A non-United States corporation (other than a corporation that is classified as a PFIC for the taxable year in which the dividend is paid or the preceding taxable year) generally will be considered to be a qualified foreign corporation with respect to any dividend it pays on stock (or ADSs in respect of such stock) which is readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States or, in the event that the company is deemed to be a PRC resident under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, the company is eligible for the benefits of the United States-PRC treaty. Dividends received on the ADSs or common shares are not expected to be eligible for the dividends received deduction allowed to corporations.

Our ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, which is an established securities market in the United States, and our ADSs will be considered readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States for as long as the ADSs continue to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Since we do not expect that our common shares will be listed on an established securities market in the United States, it is unclear whether dividends that we pay on our common shares that are not backed by ADSs currently meet the conditions required for the reduced tax rate. Each U.S. Holder is advised to consult its tax advisor regarding the rate of tax that will apply to such holder with respect to, dividend distributions, if any, received from us.

Dividends paid on our ADSs or common shares generally will be treated as income from foreign sources for United States foreign tax credit purposes and generally will constitute passive category income. A U.S. Holder may be eligible, subject to a number of complex limitations, to claim a foreign tax credit in respect of any foreign withholding taxes imposed on dividends received on our ADSs or common shares. A U.S. Holder who does not elect to claim a foreign tax credit for foreign tax withheld, may instead claim a deduction, for United States federal income tax purposes, in respect of such withholdings, but only for a year in which such holder elects to do so for all creditable foreign income taxes. The rules governing the foreign tax credit are complex. Each U.S. Holder is advised to consult its tax advisor regarding the availability of the foreign tax credit under their particular circumstances.

Subject to the PFIC rules discussed above, a U.S. Holder generally will recognize capital gain or loss upon the sale or other disposition of ADSs or common shares in an amount equal to the difference between the amount realized upon the disposition and the holder’s adjusted tax basis in such ADSs or common shares. Any capital gain or loss will be long-term if the ADSs or common shares have been held for more than one year and will generally be United States source gain or loss for United States foreign tax credit purposes. The deductibility of a capital loss is subject to limitations. Each U.S. Holder is advised to consult with its tax advisor regarding the tax consequences if a foreign withholding tax is imposed on a disposition of our ADSs or common shares, including the availability of the foreign tax credit under their particular circumstances.

U.S. Holders may be subject to information reporting to the Internal Revenue Service with respect to dividends on and proceeds from the sale or other disposition of our ADSs or common shares. Each U.S. Holder is advised to consult its tax advisor regarding the application of the United States information reporting rules to their particular circumstances.

Certain U.S. Holders who hold “specified foreign financial assets”, including stock of a non-U.S. corporation that is not held in an account maintained by a U.S. “financial institution”, whose aggregate value exceeds $50,000 during the tax year, may be required to attach to their tax returns for the year certain specified information. An individual who fails to timely furnish the required information may be subject to a penalty. Each U.S. Holder who is an individual is advised to consult its tax advisor regarding its reporting obligations under this legislation.

We previously filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form F-1 under the Securities Act with respect to our initial public offering of our common shares represented by ADSs.

We are subject to the periodic reporting and other informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the Exchange Act. Under the Exchange Act, we are required to file reports and other information with the SEC. Specifically, we are required to file annually a Form 20-F within four months after the end of each fiscal year which is December 31. The SEC maintains a website at www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding registrants that make electronic filings with the SEC using its EDGAR system. Copies of reports and other information, when filed, may also be inspected without charge and may be obtained at prescribed rates at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, DC. 20549. The public may obtain information regarding the Washington, D.C. Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. As a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from the rules under the Exchange Act prescribing the furnishing and content of quarterly reports and proxy statements, and officers, directors and principal shareholders are exempt from the reporting and short-swing profit recovery provisions contained in Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

We will furnish Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the depositary of our ADSs, with our annual reports, which will include a review of operations and annual audited consolidated financial statements prepared in conformity with U.S. GAAP, and all notices of shareholders’ meetings and other reports and communications that are made generally available to our shareholders. The depositary will make such notices, reports and communications available to holders of ADSs and, upon our request, will mail to all record holders of ADSs the information contained in any notice of a shareholders’ meeting received by the depositary from us.

For a listing of our subsidiaries, see “Item 4. Information on the Company — C. Organizational Structure.”

Our exposure to interest rate risk primarily relates to the interest income generated by excess cash, which is mostly held in interest-bearing bank deposits. We have not used derivative financial instruments in our investment portfolio. Interest earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk. We have not been exposed to, nor do we anticipate being exposed to, material risks due to changes in market interest rates. However, our future interest income may fall short of expectations due to changes in market interest rates.

We hold our cash and bank deposits at Chinese financial institutions located inside the PRC with high credit ratings and good reputations and international financial institutions located outside the PRC with high credit ratings from internationally-recognized rating agencies and well-acknowledged in the worldwide. We manage our credit risks by diversity of deposit banks and strict consideration in selection of these institutions by taking into account, among others, their reputation, stability, ratings and reported cash reserve.

Additionally, Chinese financial institutions are subject to a series of risk control regulation and PRC laws, which protect the third-party depositors’ rights over and interests in their depository capital. The PRC bank regulatory authorities are empowered to take over the operation and management when any PRC bank faces a material credit crisis.

The value of the RMB against the U.S. dollar and other currencies is affected by, among others, changes in China’s political and economic conditions and China’s foreign exchange policies. The conversion of RMB into foreign currencies, including U.S. dollars, is based on exchange rates set by the People’s Bank of China. The PRC government allowed the RMB to appreciate by more than 20% against the U.S. dollar between July 2005 and July 2008. Between July 2008 and June 2010, this appreciation halted and the exchange rate between the RMB and the U.S. dollar remained within a narrow band. Since June 2010, the PRC government has allowed RMB to appreciate slowly against the U.S. dollar again, although there have been periods when the U.S. dollar has appreciated against the RMB. It is difficult to predict how market forces or PRC or U.S. government policy may impact the exchange rate between the RMB and the U.S. dollar in the future.

There remains significant international pressure on the Chinese government to adopt a substantial liberalization of its currency policy, which could result in further appreciation in the value of the RMB against the U.S. dollar. To the extent that we need to convert U.S. dollars into RMB for capital expenditures and working capital and other business purposes, appreciation of the RMB against the U.S. dollar would have an adverse effect on the RMB amount we would receive from the conversion. Conversely, if we decide to convert RMB into U.S. dollars for the purpose of making payments for dividends on our common shares or ADSs, strategic acquisitions or investments or other business purposes, appreciation of the U.S. dollar against the RMB would have a negative effect on the U.S. dollar amount available to us.

A majority of our revenues and costs are denominated in RMB. At the Cayman Islands holding company level, we may receive dividends and other fees paid to us by our subsidiary and consolidated affiliated entities in China. Any significant revaluation of RMB may materially and adversely affect our cash flows, revenues, earnings and financial position, and the value of, and any dividends payable on, our ADSs in U.S. dollars. For example, an appreciation of RMB against the U.S. dollar would make any new RMB denominated investments or expenditures more costly to us, to the extent that we need to convert U.S. dollars into RMB for such purposes. Conversely, a significant depreciation of the RMB against the U.S. dollar may significantly reduce the U.S. dollar equivalent of our earnings, which in turn could adversely affect the price of our ADSs.

As an ADS holder, you will be required to pay the following service fees to the depositary bank:

As an ADS holder, you will also be responsible to pay certain fees and expenses incurred by the depositary bank and certain taxes and governmental charges such as:

The depositary fees payable upon the issuance and cancellation of ADSs are typically paid to the depositary bank by the brokers (on behalf of their clients) receiving the newly issued ADSs from the depositary bank and by the brokers (on behalf of their clients) delivering the ADSs to the depositary bank for cancellation. The brokers in turn charge these fees to their clients. Depositary fees payable in connection with distributions of cash or securities to ADS holders and the depositary services fee are charged by the depositary bank to the holders of record of ADSs as of the applicable ADS record date.

The depositary fees payable for cash distributions are generally deducted from the cash being distributed or by selling a portion of distributable property to pay the fees. In the case of distributions other than cash (i.e., share dividends, rights), the depositary bank charges the applicable fee to the ADS record date holders concurrent with the distribution. In the case of ADSs registered in the name of the investor (whether certificated or uncertificated in direct registration), the depositary bank sends invoices to the applicable record date ADS holders. In the case of ADSs held in brokerage and custodian accounts (via DTC), the depositary bank generally collects its fees through the systems provided by DTC (whose nominee is the registered holder of the ADSs held in DTC) from the brokers and custodians holding ADSs in their DTC accounts. The brokers and custodians who hold their clients’ ADSs in DTC accounts in turn charge their clients’ accounts the amount of the fees paid to the depositary banks.

In the event of refusal to pay the depositary fees, the depositary bank may, under the terms of the deposit agreement, refuse the requested service until payment is received or may set off the amount of the depositary fees from any distribution to be made to the ADS holder.

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as depositary, has agreed to reimburse us for a portion of certain expenses we incur that are related to establishment and maintenance of the ADR program, including investor relations expenses. There are limits on the amount of expenses for which the depositary will reimburse us, but the amount of reimbursement available to us is not related to the amounts of fees the depositary collects from investors. Further, the depositary has agreed to reimburse us certain fees payable to the depositary by holders of ADSs. Neither the depositary nor we can determine the exact amount to be made available to us because (i) the number of ADSs that will be issued and outstanding, (ii) the level of service fees to be charged to holders of ADSs and (iii) our reimbursable expenses related to the program are not known at this time. We did not receive any reimbursement from the depositary in the most recent fiscal year.

See “Item 10. Additional Information” for a description of the rights of securities holders, which remain unchanged.

The following “Use of Proceeds” information relates to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File Number 333-172839) for our initial public offering of 7,750,000 ADSs, representing 38,750,000 common shares, which registration statement was declared effective by the SEC on May 4, 2011. We received net proceeds of approximately US$79.0 million from our initial public offering, and as of December 31, 2013, we used all of net proceeds from our initial public offering.

In October 2013, we issued an aggregate of US$172.5 million 4.00% convertible senior notes due in 2018. We received net proceeds of approximately US$166.4 million from our issuance of the convertible senior notes, which we used for general corporate purposes, including approximately US$14.2 million and US$25.4 million for the years of 2013 and 2014, for the equity investment in newly acquired subsidiaries and associate companies engaging in businesses that are complementary to ours.

Our management, with the participation of our chief executive officers and chief financial officer, has performed an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this report, as required by Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act.

Based on that evaluation, our management has concluded that, as of December 31, 2014, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective in ensuring that the information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file and furnish under the Exchange Act was recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that the information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officers and chief financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act. Our management evaluated the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Rule 13a-15(c) of the Exchange Act, based on criteria established in the framework in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this evaluation, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2014.

We have excluded Tianjin Huayong Wireless Technology Co., Ltd. (“Huayong”), Yipai Tianxia Network Technology Co., Ltd. (“Yipai”)and Beijing Showself Technology Co., Ltd. (“Showself”) from our assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2014 because they were acquired by us in purchase business combinations during 2014. Their combined total assets represented approximately 26% of our consolidated total assets as of December 31, 2014, and their combined net revenue represented approximately 2% of our consolidated net revenue for the year ended December 31, 2014.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. In addition, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies and procedures may deteriorate.

Our independent registered public accounting firm, Marcum Bernstein & Pinchuk LLP, has audited the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2014, as stated in its report, which appears on page F-2 of this annual report on Form 20-F.

To the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors and Shareholders of NQ Mobile Inc.

We have audited NQ Mobile Inc.’s (the “Company”) internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2014, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”). The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying “Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting”. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of the inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

As described in management’s annual report on internal control over financial reporting, management has excluded Tianjin Huayong Wireless Technology Co., Ltd. (“Huayong”), Yipai Tianxia Network Technology Co., Ltd. (“Yipai”) and Beijing Showself Technology Co., Ltd. (“Showself”) from its assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2014 because they were acquired by the Company in purchase business combinations during 2014. We have also excluded Huayong, Yipai and Showself from our audit of internal control over financial reporting. Huayong, Yipai and Showself are majority-owned subsidiaries of the Company whose total assets and net revenue represent approximately 26% and 2% respectively, of the Company’s consolidated financial statements amounts as of and for the year ended December 31, 2014.

In our opinion, NQ Mobile Inc. maintained, in all material aspects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2014, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, and the related consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss), changes in equity and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 of the Company and our report dated March 31, 2015 expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during 2014 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

We have determined that Mr. Max Yao, an independent director (under the standards set forth in Section 303A of the Corporate Governance Rules of the New York Stock Exchange and Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert.”

Our board of directors has adopted a code of business conduct and ethics that applies to our directors, officers and employees, including certain provisions that specifically apply to our chief executive officers, chief financial officer, senior finance officer, controller, vice presidents and any other persons who perform similar functions for us. We filed our code of business conduct and ethics as Exhibit 99.1 to our registration statement on Form F-1, as amended, which was originally filed with the SEC on March 15, 2011. We have posted a copy of our code of business conduct and ethics on our website at http://ir.nq.com.

The following table sets forth the aggregate fees by categories specified below in connection with certain professional services rendered by PricewaterhouseCoopers ZhongTian LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm for the years ended December 31, 2012, and Marcum Bernstein & Pinchuk LLP, our current independent registered public accounting firm, for the periods indicated. We did not pay any other fees to our independent registered public accounting firm during the periods other than those indicated below.

The policy of our audit committee is to pre-approve all audit and non-audit services provided by our independent registered public accounting firm, including audit services, audit-related services, tax services and other services as described above, other than those for de minimis services which are approved by the audit committee prior to the completion of the audit. Our audit committee has approved all of our audit fees, audit-related fees and tax fees for the year ended December 31, 2014.

On July 18, 2014, we dismissed PricewaterhouseCoopers ZhongTian LLP, or PwC, as our independent registered public accounting firm, effectively immediately, and engaged Marcum Bernstein Pinchuk LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm in connection with the audit of our consolidated financial statements for the three years ended December 31, 2013, effective as of July 18, 2014. Details regarding this change in certifying accountant were previously reported under Item 16F of our annual report on Form 20-F (File. No.001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014.

Certain corporate governance practices in the Cayman Islands, which is our home country, differ significantly from the New York Stock Exchange corporate governance listing standards. For example, neither the Companies Law of the Cayman Islands nor our memorandum and articles of association requires a majority of our directors to be independent and we could include non-independent directors as members of our compensation committee and corporate governance and nominating committee, and our independent directors would not necessarily hold regularly scheduled meetings at which only independent directors are present. Currently, we do not plan to rely on home country practice with respect to any other corporate governance matter. However, if we choose to follow home country practice in the future, our shareholders may be afforded less protection than they otherwise would under the New York Stock Exchange corporate governance listing standards applicable to U.S. domestic issuers.

The consolidated financial statements of NQ Mobile Inc. are included at the end of this annual report.

1.1* Sixth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Registrant

2.1 Registrant’s Specimen American Depositary Receipt (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

2.2 Registrant’s Specimen Certificate for Common Shares (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

2.3 Form of Deposit Agreement, among the Registrant, the depositary and holder of the American Depositary Receipts (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

2.4 Third Amended and Restated Shareholders Agreement between the Registrant and other parties therein dated as of November 12, 2010 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.4 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

2.5 Indenture, dated October 16, 2013, between the Registrant and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2.5 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

2.6 4.00% convertible senior note due 2018(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2.6 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.1 Amended and Restated 2007 Global Share Plan and amendments thereto (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File. No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

4.2 2011 Share Incentive Plan, as amended (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.3 Form of Indemnification Agreement between the Registrant and its directors and officers (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

4.4 Form of Employment Agreement between the Registrant and the officers of the Registrant (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

4.5 English translation of Amended and Restated Business Operations Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2012, among NQ Beijing, Beijing Technology and the shareholders of Beijing Technology (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.6 English translation of Amended and Restated Equity Interest Pledge Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2012, among NQ Beijing and the shareholders of Beijing Technology (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.6 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.7 English translation of Exclusive Technical Consulting Services Agreement, as amended, dated as of June 5, 2007, between NQ Beijing and Beijing Technology (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

4.8 English translation of Amended and Restated Equity Disposition Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2012, among NQ Beijing, Beijing Technology and the shareholders of Beijing Technology (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.8 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.9 English translation of Patented Technology License Agreement, dated as of January 7, 2011, among Mr. Henry Yu Lin, Mr. Vincent Wenyong Shi, and Mr. Xianle Ni (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

4.10 English translation of Loan Agreements, dated as of June 5, 2007, as amended, among NQ Beijing, NQ Mobile Inc. and the shareholders of Beijing Technology (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

4.11 English translation of Loan Agreements, dated as of May 31, 2012 among NQ Beijing and the shareholders of Beijing Technology (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.11 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.12 English translation of Wireless Value-Added Application Services Channel Cooperation Agreement (Domestic), dated as of June 1, 2012, as amended, between Beijing Technology and Tianjin Yidatong Technology Development Co., Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.13 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.13 English translation of Framework Agreement on Value-Added Services for Mobile Security, dated as of January 2, 2008, between Beijing Technology and China Mobile Communications Corporation (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

4.14 English translation of Business Cooperation Agreement, dated as of May 20, 2010, between Beijing Technology and China Mobile Group Beijing Co., Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

4.15 English translation of the Capital Increase and Stock Transfer Agreement among Beijing Technology, NationSky, Shuli Hou and Wen Yang dated as of May 2, 2012 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.16 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.16 English translation of the Shareholders’ Agreement among Beijing Technology, NationSky and Shuli Hou, dated as of May 2, 2012 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.17 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.17 English translation of the Restricted Common Shares Purchase Agreement between NQ Mobile Inc. and Gather Benefit Holding Limited, dated as of May 2, 2012 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.18 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.18 English translation of the Stock Transfer Agreement among Beijing Technology, FL Mobile and the original shareholders of FL Mobile dated as of November 12, 2012 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.19 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.19 English translation of the Restricted Common Shares Purchase Agreement among NQ Mobile Inc., FL Mobile and Zhong Liang, dated as of November 12, 2012 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.20 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.20 Lock-up Agreement between NQ Mobile Inc. and RPL Holdings Limited, dated as of September 5, 2012 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.21 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2013)

4.21 English translation of the Stock Transfer Agreement among Beijing Technology, NationSky and Shuli Hou, dated as of July 15, 2013(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.21 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.22 English translation of the Restricted Shares Purchase Agreement between NQ Mobile Inc. and Gather Benefit Holdings Limited, dated as of July 15, 2013(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.22 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.23 English translation of the Stock Transfer Agreement among Beijing Technology, Huayong and Ji Zhou, dated as of December 23, 2013(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.23 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.24 English translation of the Restricted Common Shares Purchase Agreement between NQ Mobile Inc. and Ji Zhou, dated as of December 23, 2013(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.24 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.25 English translation of the Stock Transfer Agreement among Beijing Technology, Huayong, Xiaofeng Yang, Yunzhi Lin and Ji Zhou, dated as of January 25, 2014(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.25 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.26 English translation of the Restricted Common Shares Purchase Agreement between NQ Mobile Inc., Xiaofeng Yang, Yunzhi Lin and Ji Zhou, dated as of January 25, 2014(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.26 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.27 English translation of the Stock Transfer Agreement among Beijing Technology, Huayong and Xiaofeng Yang, dated as of June 10, 2014(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.27 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.28 English translation of the Restricted Common Shares Purchase Agreement between NQ Mobile Inc. and Xiaofeng Yang, dated as of June 10, 2014(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.28 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.29 English translation of Business Operation Agreement, dated as of September 11, 2013, among Beijing Wanpu Media Technologies Co., Ltd., Beijing Wanpu Century Co., Ltd. and the shareholders of Beijing Wanpu Century Co., Ltd.(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.29 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.30 English translation of Equity Interest Pledge Agreement, dated as of September 11, 2013, among Beijing Wanpu Media Technologies Co., Ltd. and the shareholders of Beijing Wanpu Century Co., Ltd.(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.30 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.31 English translation of Equity Disposition Agreement, dated as of September 11, 2013, among Beijing Wanpu Media Technologies Co., Ltd., the shareholders of Beijing Wanpu Century Co., Ltd. and Beijing Wanpu Century Co., Ltd.(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.31 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.32 English translation of Loan Agreement, dated as of September 11, 2013, among Beijing Wanpu Media Technologies Co., Ltd. and the shareholders of Beijing Wanpu Century Co., Ltd.(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.32 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.33 English translation of Exclusive Business Cooperation Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2011, between Beijing Wanpu Media Technologies Co., Ltd. and Beijing Wanpu Century Co., Ltd.(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.33 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.34 English translation of Business Operation Agreement, dated as of July 2, 2014, among FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd., FL Mobile (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and the shareholders of FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd.(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.34 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.35 English translation of Equity Interest Pledge Agreement, dated as of July 2, 2014, among FL Mobile (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and the shareholders of FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd.(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.35 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.36 English translation of Equity Disposition Agreement, dated as of July 2, 2014, among FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd., the shareholders of FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd. and FL Mobile (Beijing) Co., Ltd.(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.36 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.37 English translation of Loan Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2014, among FL Mobile (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and the shareholders of FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd.(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.37 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

4.38 English translation of Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement, dated as of July 2, 2014, between FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd. and FL Mobile (Beijing) Co., Ltd.(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.38 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

11.1 Code of Business Conduct and Ethics of the Registrant (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-172839), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2011)

12.1* Certification by Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

12.2* Certification by Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

13.1** Certification by Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

13.2** Certification by Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

16.1 Letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP (PwC) to the SEC (previously filed as Exhibit 16.1 to the annual report on Form 20-F (File. No. 001-35145), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 27, 2014)

The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this annual report on its behalf.


NQ MOBILE INC.

By:		/s/ Vincent Wenyong Shi
Name:		Vincent Wenyong Shi
Title:		Chairman, Chief Operating Officer, Acting Chief Financial Officer

To the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors and Shareholders of NQ Mobile Inc.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of NQ Mobile Inc. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, and the related consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss), changes in equity and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of NQ Mobile Inc. as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), NQ Mobile Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2014, based on the criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our report dated March 31, 2015 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

(All numbers in the following Notes are expressed in thousands, except for share and per share data)

NQ Mobile Inc. (“NQ Mobile”, or the “Company”), through its subsidiaries, its variable interest entities (“VIEs”), and the VIEs’ subsidiaries, is principally engaged in the provision of mobile Internet services in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC” or “China”) and overseas markets. NQ Mobile’s service portfolio includes mobile security, productivity and privacy protection, mobile games as well as interest-based mobile community applications (e.g. vlife wallpaper, music radio, healthcare and etc.) and advertising for the consumer market and an entire mobility solution set for the enterprise market. The Company, its wholly-owned and majority-owned subsidiaries, VIEs and wholly-owned subsidiaries of the VIEs are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Group”.

The Company was incorporated as a limited liability company under the laws of the Cayman Islands on March 14, 2007. The Company was 100% owned by RPL Holdings Limited (“RPL”). RPL is a limited liability company organized under the laws of British Virgin Islands (“BVI”), which is owned and controlled by Dr. Henry Yu Lin, Dr. Vincent Wenyong Shi, and Mr. Xu Zhou (collectively, the “Founders”).

In May 2007, the Company established NQ Mobile (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“NQ Beijing” or “NQ WFOE”) as a wholly foreign-owned enterprise in the PRC. In June 2007, the Company undertook a reorganization (the “Reorganization”) to become the ultimate holding company of the Group. Prior to the Reorganization, the Group’s business was operated by Beijing NQ Technology Co. Ltd. (“Beijing Technology”), a company wholly owned and controlled by the Founders, which commenced operations on October 21, 2005. By entering into a series of agreements (collectively, “NQ VIE Agreements”) with the Founders and NQ Beijing, Beijing Technology became a variable interest entity whose primary beneficiary is NQ Beijing. Consequently, the Company as the parent of NQ Beijing became the ultimate primary beneficiary of Beijing Technology and has consolidated financial statements of Beijing Technology and its subsidiaries. Beijing Technology was the predecessor of the Group and operated all of the business of the Group prior to the Reorganization.

Immediately before the Reorganization, FL Mobile was 100% owned by the Beijing Technology and the ultimate owners’ shareholdings of the Beijing Technology were identical to those of the Company. There was no change in ownership of FL Mobile immediately before and after the Reorganization. Accordingly, the Reorganization is accounted for as a legal reorganization of entities under common control in a manner similar to a pooling-of-interest.

FL Mobile Inc. was incorporated as a limited liability company under the laws of the Cayman Islands on January 21, 2013. FL Mobile Inc. was 100% owned by the Company until May 2014, when the Company entered into a share purchase agreement with Bison Mobile Limited, pursuant to which Bison Mobile Limited agreed to purchase up to 3.75% of equity interest in FL Mobile Inc., and the Company have the right but not the obligation to sell up to 2.13% of equity interest in FL Mobile Inc. to other third party investors. As part of this transaction, the Company conducted a corporate reorganization (the “FL Reorganization”). In July 2014, FL Mobile (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“FL Beijing”), the wholly foreign-owned enterprise of FL Mobile Inc. through FL Mobile Hong Kong Limited (“FL HK”), entered into a series of contractual agreements (collectively, “FL VIE Agreements”) with FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd. (“FL Mobile”) and its shareholders, pursuant to which FL Beijing exercises effective control over FL Mobile and its subsidiaries and has the right to receive substantially all of their economic benefits. As a result of the FL Reorganization, FL Beijing became the primary beneficiary of FL Mobile thus the Company has consolidated the financial statements of FL Mobile and its subsidiaries through FL Mobile Inc.. Meanwhile, FL Mobile Inc. acquired 100% equity interest in Best Partners Ltd. (“Best Partners”) from the Company. FL Mobile Inc. issued shares representing 4.94% of its equity interest to Bison Mobile Limited and other third party investors pursuant to the share purchase agreements entered into prior to December 31, 2014. This transaction was closed in the fourth quarter of 2014. See Note 14 – “Mezzanine Equity”.

Immediately before the FL Reorganization, FL Mobile was 100% owned by the Beijing Technology and the ultimate owners’ shareholdings of the Beijing Technology were identical to those of the Company. There was no change in ownership of FL Mobile immediately before and after the FL Reorganization. Accordingly, the FL Reorganization is accounted for as a legal reorganization of entities under common control in a manner similar to a pooling-of-interest. In December 2014, the Company entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with Tack Fiori International Group Limited (“Tack Fiori”) (Stock code: 928.HK), a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability and listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “HK Stock Exchange”). As contemplated under the MOU, Tack Fiori proposes to purchase 100% of the equity interests in, and assume all liabilities of, FL Mobile Inc. by paying a total consideration of between US$570 million and US$630 million, payable by way of allotment and issue of certain number of new shares of Tack Fiori at an issue price per new share which shall represent a discount of 10% to 20% to the average closing price per share of Tack Fiori as quoted on the HK Stock Exchange for the last thirty consecutive trading days up to and including the day immediately prior to the date of the MOU, to NQ Mobile and other shareholders of FL Mobile Inc., which shall be documented by a sale and purchase agreement to be negotiated and executed by and among Tack Fiori, NQ Mobile and other shareholders of FL Mobile Inc. (the “Proposed FL Transaction”). The MOU contemplates that, after the completion of the Proposed FL Transaction, NQ Mobile and/or its affiliates shall become the controlling shareholders of Tack Fiori. The Proposed FL Transaction shall be conditional upon the fulfillment of certain conditions, including but not limited to the obtaining of all necessary third party, governmental and regulatory consents, approvals and waivers. No binding contract will exist between the parties unless and until they sign and deliver one or more definitive agreements.

As of December 31, 2014, details of the Company’s major subsidiaries***, VIEs and the VIEs’ subsidiaries are as follows.

PRC laws and regulations prohibit or restrict foreign ownership of companies from providing mobile value added services, mobile games and mobile advertising in the PRC where certain licenses are required for the provision of such services. To comply with these PRC laws and regulations, the Company provides services subject to such restrictions through the VIEs and its subsidiaries in China. To provide the Company with the expected residual returns of the VIEs and their subsidiaries, the Group entered into a series of contractual arrangements, such as power of attorney and exclusive equity purchase option agreement with the VIEs and the shareholders of the VIEs to enable the Company, through the Group’s subsidiaries (“Primary Beneficiaries”), which give the Primary Beneficiaries the rights to direct the activities that most significantly affect the economic performance of the VIEs and to acquire the equity interests in the VIEs when permitted by the PRC laws, respectively to:

In September 2013, the Company completed the acquisition of Best Partners and its subsidiaries, which primarily engage in advertising activities based on mobile-advertising platform in the PRC and are also subjected to restrictions from PRC laws and regulations for providing internet content services. Effective upon acquisition of Best Partners by the Company, Wanpu Century became the VIE of Wanpu Beijing, of which 100% equity interest was owned by the Company through Best Partners. See Note 4 – “Business Combination”. Through a series of contractual agreements among Wanpu Beijing, Wanpu Century, and the shareholders of Wanpu Century (“Wanpu VIE Agreements” and, together with NQ VIE Agreements and FL VIE Agreements, the “VIE Agreements”), the Group has effective control over Wanpu Century, receive substantially all of the economic benefits and absorb substantially all of the risks of the Wanpu Century, and has an exclusive option to purchase all of the equity interests in the Wanpu Century through Wanpu Beijing.

As a result of the FL Reorganization completed in July 2014, the Company became the ultimate primary beneficiary of FL Mobile and its subsidiaries, which primarily engage in advertising activities and mobile games in the PRC and are also subject to restrictions from PRC laws and regulations for providing internet content services. Consequently, FL Mobile became the VIE of FL Beijing, of which 100% equity interest was ultimately owned by FL Mobile Inc through FL Mobile Hong Kong Limited. Through FL VIE Agreements, the Company has effective control over FL Mobile and its subsidiaries, receives substantially all of the economic benefits and absorbs substantially all of the risks of FL Mobile and its subsidiaries, and has an exclusive option to purchase all of the equity interests in FL Mobile and its subsidiaries through FL Beijing.

The Group has adopted the guidance of accounting for VIEs, which requires certain VIEs to be consolidated by the primary beneficiary of the entities. The Group’s management evaluated the relationships among the Company, NQ Beijing and Beijing Technology, as well as the relationships among the Company, Wanpu Beijing, and Wanpu Century, FL Beijing, and FL Mobile, and the economic benefits flow of the applicable contractual arrangements. The Group concluded that NQ Beijing is the primary beneficiary of Beijing Technology, Wanpu Beijing is the primary beneficiary of Wanpu Century, and FL Beijing is the primary beneficiary of FL Mobile. As a result, the results of operations, assets and liabilities of these VIEs and their subsidiaries have been included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Exclusive Technical Consulting Services Agreement between NQ Beijing and Beijing Technology. Under the exclusive technical consulting services agreement, NQ Beijing has the exclusive right to provide to Beijing Technology the technical consulting services related to Beijing Technology’s business operation. NQ Beijing owns the intellectual property rights developed by either NQ Beijing or Beijing Technology in the performance of this agreement. Beijing Technology pays to NQ Beijing quarterly service fees, determined unilaterally by NQ Beijing due to its control over Beijing Technology. The amount of service fees to be charged to Beijing Technology are determined at the sole discretion of NQ Beijing by considering, among others, the technical complexity of the services, the actual costs that may be incurred for providing the services, and the operations of Beijing Technology. As of December 31, 2014, the retained earnings in Beijing Technology was US$4,924 after being charged the service fees by NQ Beijing. The service fees are eliminated upon consolidation. This agreement is effective until NQ Beijing ceases to exist or is terminated at NQ Beijing’s sole discretion by giving 30 day’s advanced notice to Beijing Technology.

The exclusive technical consulting services agreement between FL Beijing and FL Mobile has substantially same terms as the contractual agreement between NQ Beijing and Beijing Technology. As of December 31, 2014, the retained earnings in FL Mobile was US$31,267 after being charged the service fees by FL Beijing. The service fees are eliminated upon consolidation. The term of the agreement will remain effective until FL Beijing ceases to exist or is terminated at FL Beijing’s sole discretion by giving 30 day’s advanced notice to FL Mobile.

Exclusive Business Cooperation Agreement between Wanpu Beijing and Wanpu Century. Under the exclusive business cooperation agreement, Wanpu Beijing has the exclusive right to provide business support and technical services such as product development, system integration and maintenance, technology consulting, etc., to Wanpu Century in exchange for a service fee. In addition, Wanpu Beijing owns the intellectual property rights developed by both Wanpu Beijing and Wanpu Century. The amount of service fees to be charged to Wanpu Century are determined at sole discretion of Wanpu Beijing by considering, among others, the technical complexity of the services, the actual costs that may be incurred for providing the services, and the operations of Wanpu Beijing. As of December 31, 2014, the aggregate of retained earnings in Wanpu Century was US$7,246. The agreement has a term of ten years and is renewable on the same terms at Wanpu Beijing’s sole discretion.

Business Operation Agreements between NQ Beijing and the shareholders of Beijing Technology, between Wanpu Beijing and the shareholders of Wanpu Century and between FL Beijing and the shareholders of FL Mobile. Under the business operation agreements, the registered shareholders of the VIEs may not enter into any transactions that could materially affect the assets, liabilities, interests or operations of the VIEs, without prior written consent from NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing or FL Beijing, as applicable. In addition, the shareholders of each VIE irrevocably appointed NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing and FL Beijing, as applicable, to vote on their behalf on all matters, including matters relating to the transfer of any or all of their respective equity interests in the relevant VIE and appointments of the directors, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, and other senior management of the relevant VIE. Each of these agreements will remain in effect till the date when NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing or FL Beijing, as applicable, is dissolved, and can be terminated at the sole discretion of NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing or FL Beijing with advanced written notices, as applicable.

Powers of Attorney executed by the shareholders of Beijing Technology in favor of NQ Beijing, by the shareholders of Wanpu Century in favor of Wanpu Beijing and by the shareholders of FL Mobile in favor of FL Beijing. Each of these powers of attorney irrevocably authorizes NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing or FL Beijing, as applicable, to vote on behalf of the registered shareholders of each VIE on matters stipulated by laws and the Article of Association of the relevant VIE. Each of these Powers of Attorney shall remain effective from the date it is signed to the date when NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing or FL Beijing, as applicable, is dissolved in accordance with the laws of the People’s Republic of China, unless the Business Operations Agreement for the same VIE is terminated in advance.

Equity Disposition Agreements between NQ Beijing and the shareholders of Beijing Technology, between Wanpu Beijing and the shareholders of Wanpu Century and between FL Beijing and the shareholders of FL Mobile. Each of these equity disposition agreements irrevocably granted to NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing or FL Beijing, as applicable, or their designated parties, an exclusive option to purchase, to the extent permitted by the PRC law, any part or all of the equity interests in the relevant VIE from the registered shareholders. The exercise price for the options to purchase the equity interests is the minimum amount of consideration permissible under PRC law. The options are exercisable at any time at the sole discretion of NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing or FL Beijing, as applicable, during the term of agreements. Each of the registered shareholders agrees not to transfer, pledge or dispose of its equity interests in the VIEs in any way before NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing or FL Beijing, as applicable, exercise their options in full or deliver the written approval. Each agreement has a term of 10 years and renewable on the same terms at the sole discretion of NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing or FL Beijing, as applicable.

Loan Agreements and Amended Loan Agreements between NQ Beijing and the shareholders of Beijing Technology and between the Company and the shareholders of Beijing Technology. Under these agreements, an aggregate of interest-free loans of RMB46,123 from NQ Beijing and 6% interest loan of US$250 from the Company were extended to the registered shareholders of Beijing Technology for sole purpose of contributing the registered capital to Beijing Technology in exchange for 100% of the equity interest in Beijing Technology. Without the prior consent of the Company and NQ Beijing, the registered shareholders of Beijing Technology cannot approve any transaction including merger, acquisition, new investments and etc., significantly affecting the registered shareholders’ rights of Beijing Technology. The loans have original terms of 10 years and are repayable if the Company and NQ Beijing decide to exercise their exclusive purchase option under Equity Disposition Agreements. The amendments requires that the loans can be settled fully only by the shareholders transferring the equity interests of Beijing Technology according to Equity Disposition Agreements to the Company and NQ Beijing.

Each of the loan agreements between Wanpu Beijng and FL Beijing and the respective shareholders of Wanpu Century and FL Mobile have substantially the same terms as the contractual agreements between NQ Beijing, Beijing Technology and the shareholders of Beijing Technology, except that the amount of the loans extended to the respective shareholders is RMB1,000 and RMB 13,500, respectively.

Equity Interest Pledge Agreements between NQ Beijing and the shareholders of Beijing Technology, between Wanpu Beijing and the shareholders of Wanpu Century and between FL Beijing and the shareholders of FL Mobile. Under the equity interest pledge agreements, the registered shareholders of the VIEs pledged all of their respective equity interests in the VIEs to secure the VIEs’ obligations under the relevant Exclusive Technical Consulting Services Agreement, Exclusive Business Cooperation Agreements, Business Operation Agreements and Equity Disposition Agreements described above. Each shareholder agrees not to sell, mortgage or dispose of any of the VIEs’ equity interest it holds without prior written consent from NQ Beijing, Wanpu Beijing or FL Beijing, as applicable. These agreements are terminable only when the VIEs’ obligations under the other agreements are fully settled.

Amended and Restated Business Operation Agreement, Amended and Restated Equity Interest Pledge Agreement and Amended and Restated Equity Disposition Agreement between NQ Beijing and shareholders of Beijing Technology, entered into on June 6, 2012, reflected the increase of the registration capital of Beijing Technology from RMB10 million to RMB50 million. All the other terms remain the same as the original agreements.

The Ministry of Commerce of PRC (“MOC”) published a discussion draft of the proposed Foreign Investment Law (the “Draft”) in January 2015 aiming to, upon its enactment, replace the trio of existing laws regulating foreign investment in China. The Draft embodies an expected PRC regulatory trend to rationalize its foreign investment regulatory regime in line with prevailing international practice and the legislative efforts to unify the corporate legal requirements for both foreign and domestic investments. The MOC is currently soliciting comments on the Draft and substantial uncertainties exist with respect to its enactment timetable, interpretation and implementation. The Draft, if enacted as proposed, may materially impact the viability of our current corporate structure, corporate governance and business operations. The Draft expands the definition of foreign investment and introduces the principle of “actual control” in determining whether a company is considered an FIE.

Under the Draft, variable interest entities that are controlled via contractual arrangement would be deemed as FIEs, if they are ultimately “controlled” by foreign investors. Therefore, for any companies with a VIE structure in an industry category that is on the “negative list,” the VIE structure may be deemed legitimate only if the ultimate controlling person(s) is/are of PRC nationality (either PRC companies or PRC citizens). Conversely, if the actual controlling person(s) is/are of foreign nationalities, then the variable interest entities will be treated as FIEs and any operation in the industry category on the “negative list” without market entry clearance may be considered as illegal. Moreover, for the enterprises which are not incorporated under the laws of China (foreign investors) but are “controlled” by Chinese investors, they may submit documentary evidence to apply for identifying their investment as the investment by Chinese investors when they applying for the market entry clearance to engage in any investment as set out in the “negative list” in China. The competent authorities of foreign investment will grant the review opinion on whether the said investment is identified as the investment by Chinese investors.

In conclusion, if the Draft enacted as proposed, it is possible that the Company’s conduct of certain of its operations and businesses through the VIEs could be found by PRC authorities to be in violation of PRC laws and regulations prohibiting or restricting foreign ownership of companies that engage in such operations and businesses. If such a finding were made, regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over the licensing and operation of such businesses would have broad discretion in dealing with such a violation, including levying fines, confiscating the Company’s income, revoking the business or operating licenses of the affected businesses, requiring the Company to restructure its ownership structure or operations, or requiring the Company to discontinue all or any portion of its operations. Any of these actions could cause significant disruption to the Company’s business operations, and have a material adverse impact on the Company’s cash flows, financial position and operating performance. The Company’s management considers the possibility of such a finding by PRC regulatory authorities to be remote.

In addition, it is possible that the VIE Agreements would not be enforceable in China if PRC government authorities or courts were to find that such agreements contravene PRC laws and regulations or are otherwise not enforceable for public policy reasons. In the event that the Company is unable to enforce any of these agreements, the Company would not be able to exert effective control over the affected VIEs and consequently, the results of operations, assets and liabilities of the affected VIEs and their subsidiaries would not be included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. If such were the case, the Company’s cash flows, financial position and operating performance would be materially adversely affected. The Company’s agreements with respect to its consolidated VIEs are approved and in place. The Company’s management believes that such agreements are enforceable, and considers it a remote possibility that PRC regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over the Company’s operations and contractual relationships would find the agreements to be unenforceable under existing laws.

Due to the same reportable segments, the financial information of Beijing Technology and its subsidiaries as well as Wanpu Century and FL Mobile and its subsidiaries were presented in aggregate as follows, which were included in the accompanying consolidated financial statements:

The VIEs contributed an aggregate of 59%, 71% and 83% of the consolidated revenues for the year ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. As of December 31, 2013 and 2014, the VIEs, without the recourse to the Company, accounted for an aggregate of 50% and 71%, respectively, of the consolidated total assets, and 26% and 32%, respectively, of the consolidated total liabilities. The consolidated assets of VIEs mainly comprised of recognized and unrecognized revenue-producing assets. The recognized revenue-producing assets include goodwill and intangible assets acquired through business acquisitions, purchased servers and office facilities. The balances of these assets as of December 31, 2014 were included in the line of “Total non-current assets” in the table above. The unrecognized revenue-producing assets mainly consist of intellectual property, which had no recorded value.

Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining the acquired business with the business of the Company. Intangible assets acquired through business acquisition are comprised of customer relationships, non-compete agreements, revenue sharing agreements, user base, technologies and games. Please refer to Note 4 – “Business Combination” for goodwill and intangible assets acquired through business combination.

In accordance with the VIE Agreements, the Company has power to direct activities of the VIEs and their subsidiaries, and can have assets transferred out of the VIEs and their subsidiaries without any restrictions. Therefore, the Company considers that there is no asset in the consolidated VIEs and their subsidiaries that can be used only to settle obligations of the consolidated VIEs except for registered capitals of US$8,917 and PRC statutory reserves of US$ 2,424, of their VIEs and VIEs’ subsidiaries, as of December 31, 2014. As the VIEs and their subsidiaries are incorporated as limited liability companies under the PRC Company Law, and as such the creditors of liabilities of these PRC incorporated VIEs have recourse only to the assets of these entities. Accordingly, the creditors of all the liabilities of the Company’s consolidated VIEs do not have recourse to the Company’s general credit.

Currently, there is no contractual arrangement that could require the Company to provide additional financial support to the VIEs. As the Company is conducting mobile value added services, enterprise mobility, advertising business and other services through the VIEs and their subsidiaries in the PRC, the Company may provide such support on a discretional basis in the future, which could expose the Company to a loss.

There are no VIEs where the Company has variable interests but is not the primary beneficiary.

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of the Company, its subsidiaries, its VIE for which the Company is the ultimate primary beneficiary, and the VIE’s subsidiaries.

These consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a historical cost basis to reflect the financial position and results of operations of the Company, its subsidiaries, VIEs and VIEs’ subsidiaries in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”).

Commencing January 1, 2013, due to the expansion of the Company’s business and diversification of revenue streams, revenue presentation was reclassified into categories of (i) mobile value added services, which includes original revenue stream of consumer mobile security, mobile games, and live mobile social video platform; (ii) enterprise mobility; (iii) advertising services; and (iv) other services. The comparative figures, for the year ended December 31, 2012, have been reclassified to conform to the current presentation.

Subsidiaries are those entities in which the Company, directly or indirectly, controls more than one half of the voting power; or has the power to govern the financial and operating policies, to appoint or remove the majority of the members of the board of directors, or to cast a majority of votes at the meeting of directors.

A VIE is an entity in which the Company, or its subsidiary, through contractual arrangements, bears the risks of, and enjoys the rewards normally associated with, ownership of the entity, and therefore, the Company or its subsidiary is the primary beneficiary of the entity.

All significant inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.

Certain prior year amounts in the consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform with the current year presentation. These reclassifications have not changed the results of operations of prior periods.

The Company accounts for its business combinations using the purchase method of accounting in accordance with ASC 805: Business Combinations. The purchase method accounting requires that the consideration transferred to be allocated to the assets, including separately identifiable assets and liabilities the Company acquired based on their estimated fair values. The consideration transferred of an acquisition is measured as the aggregate of the fair values at the date of exchange of the assets given, liabilities incurred, and equity instruments issued as well as the contingent considerations and all contractual contingencies as of the acquisition date. The costs directly attributable to the acquisition are expensed as incurred. Identifiable assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities acquired or assumed are measured separately at their fair value as of the acquisition date, irrespective of the extent of any non-controlling interests. The excess of (i) the total of cost of acquisition, fair value of the non-controlling interests and acquisition date fair value of any previously held equity interest in the acquired entity over (ii) the fair value of the identifiable net assets of the acquired entity, is recorded as goodwill. If the cost of acquisition is less than the fair value of the net assets of the subsidiary acquired, the difference is recognized directly in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.

The determination and allocation of fair values to the identifiable assets acquired, liabilities assumed and non-controlling interests is based on various assumptions and valuation methodologies requiring considerable management judgment. The most significant variables in these valuations are discount rates, terminal values, the number of years on which to base the cash flow projections, as well as the assumptions and estimates used to determine the cash inflows and outflows. The Company determines discount rates to be used based on the risks inherent in the related activity’s current business model and industry comparisons. Terminal values are based on the expected life of assets, forecasted life cycle and forecasted cash flows over the relevant period.

In a business combination achieved in stages, the Company re-measures its previously held equity interest in the acquired entity at its acquisition-date fair value and recognizes the resulting gain or loss in earnings.

The preparation of these consolidated financial statements in conformity with US GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses and the related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. Management makes its estimates based on historical experience and on various other assumptions it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant accounting estimates reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements mainly include the allowance for doubtful accounts, the valuation allowance of deferred tax assets, the estimated useful lives of long-lived assets, the impairment assessment of long-lived assets and equity investments, the valuation and recognition of share-based compensation, and goodwill and fair value of identifiable assets and liabilities acquired through business combination.

Cash and cash equivalents represent cash on hand, demand deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments placed with banks, which have original maturities of three months or less and are readily convertible to known amounts of cash.

Term deposits represent time deposits placed with banks with original maturities of more than three months and equal or less than one year. Interest earned is recorded as interest income in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income during the period.

Cash that is deposited in the bank but restricted for a specific purpose and therefore not available for immediate and general use by the Company is classified as restricted cash, which is presented separately from cash and cash equivalents on the consolidated balance sheet. The deposited balance is included in the Group’s bank account for guarantee of certain business purpose under an agreement until being used for the designated purpose or withdrawn due to expiration of the guarantee. As of December 31, 2013 and 2014, the Company had a restricted cash balance which is set aside for a period of 6 months of nil and US$3,767, respectively.

Short term investments refer to the available-for-sale investments made in financial instruments with guaranteed return of principal upon maturity with a variable interest rate indexed to the performance of underlying assets. In accordance with ASC 825, for investments in financial instruments with a variable interest rate indexed to the performance of underlying assets, the Company elected the fair value method at the date of initial recognition and carried these investments subsequently at fair value.

In the fourth quarter of 2014, the Company invested US$37,588 (equivalent to RMB230,000) in a financial instruments managed by a bank in the PRC. The terms of the financial product are thirteen to twenty-eight days. The financial instruments matured in December 2014. The Company earned investment income of US$65 on the financial instruments, which was included in realized gain on available-for-sale investments in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.

An allowance for doubtful accounts is recorded in the period in which a loss is determined to be probable based on an assessment of specific evidence indicating doubtful collection, historical experience, account balance aging and prevailing economic conditions. Accounts receivable balances are written off after all collection efforts have been exhausted and the potential for recovery is considered remote. The following table presents movement of the allowance for doubtful accounts:

Inventories, consisting of products and devices available for sale, are accounted for using first in first out method, and are valued at the lower of cost or market. This valuation requires the Group to make judgments, based on currently available information, about the likely method of disposition, such as through sales to individual customers, returns to product vendors, or liquidations, and expected recoverable values of each disposition category.

The Company’s equity investments are comprised of privately-held companies and limited partnerships. The Company uses the cost method to account for investments in shares that are not common stock or in-substance common stock, or investments in shares that are common stock or in-substance common stock, but over which the Company does not have significant influence. The Company uses the equity method to account for common stock equivalent equity investments in private-held companies over which the Company has significant influence but does not own a majority equity interest or otherwise control. The Company also uses the equity method to account for investments in limited partnerships unless the Company’s equity interest is so minor that the Company may have virtually no influence over the partnerships operating and financial policies.

In accordance with ASC subtopic 325-20 (“ASC 325-20”), Investments-Other: Cost Method Investments, the Company carries the cost method investments at cost and only adjusts for other-than-temporary impairment and distributions of earnings. Management regularly evaluates the impairment of the cost method investments based on performance and financial position of the investee as well as other evidence of market value. Such evaluation includes, but is not limited to, reviewing the investee’s cash position, recent financing, projected and historical financial performance, cash flow forecasts and financing needs.

In accordance with ASC subtopic 323-10 (“ASC 323-10”), Investments-Equity Method and Joint Ventures: Overall, the Company initially records its equity method investments at cost and any excess of the cost of the investment over the proportional fair value of the underlying tangible and intangible assets and liabilities of the investee is recognized as equity method goodwill, which is included in the equity method investment on the consolidated balance sheets. The Company subsequently adjusts the carrying amount of the investment to recognize the Company’s proportionate share of each equity investee’s net income or loss into consolidated statements of comprehensive income after the date of investment The Company will discontinue applying equity method if an investment (and additional financial supports to the investee, if any) has been reduced to zero.

Sales of equity interests of an investee by the Company is accounted for as gains or losses equal to the difference at the time of sale between selling price and carrying amount of the equity interests sold.

The Group assesses its equity investments for other-than-temporary impairment by considering factors including, but not limited to, current economic and market conditions, operating performance of the companies, including current earnings trends and undiscounted cash flows, and other company-specific information. The fair value determination, particularly for investments in privately-held companies, requires significant judgment to determine appropriate estimates and assumptions. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could affect the calculation of the fair value of the investments and determination of whether any identified impairment is other-than-temporary. Other-than-temporary impairment loss is recognized in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income equal to the excess of the investment’s carrying value over its fair value at the balance sheet date of the reporting period for which the assessment is made. The fair value would then become the new cost basis of such investment.

Property and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and impairment. Depreciation is provided on a straight-line basis over the following estimated useful lives:

Expenditure for repairs and maintenance is expensed as incurred. The gain or loss on disposal of property and equipment is the difference between the net sales proceeds and the carrying amount of the relevant assets and is recognized in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.

Goodwill is the excess of the consideration transferred over the fair value of the acquired assets and assumed liabilities in a business combination.

The Company tests goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level on an annual basis as of November 1 and between annual tests when an event occurs or circumstances change that could indicate that the asset might be impaired. Commencing in September 2011, in accordance with the FASB revised guidance on “Testing of Goodwill for Impairment,” a company first has the option to assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. If the company decides, as a result of its qualitative assessment, that it is more-likely-than- not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, the quantitative impairment test is mandatory. Otherwise, no further testing is required. The quantitative impairment test consists of a two-step goodwill impairment test. The first step compares the fair value of each reporting unit to its carrying amount. If the fair value of each reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, goodwill is not considered to be impaired and the second step will not be required. If the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, the second step compares the implied fair value of goodwill to the carrying value of a reporting unit’s goodwill. The implied fair value of goodwill is determined in a manner similar to accounting for a business combination with the allocation of the assessed fair value determined in the first step to the assets and liabilities of the reporting unit. The excess of the fair value of the reporting unit over the amounts assigned to the assets and liabilities is the implied fair value of goodwill. This allocation process is only performed for purposes of evaluating goodwill impairment and does not result in an entry to adjust the value of any assets or liabilities. An impairment loss is recognized for any excess in the carrying value of goodwill over the implied fair value of goodwill.

Intangible assets, comprising computer software, domain name use right, revenue sharing agreements, customer relationship, non-compete agreements, user base, technology, game and other finite-lived intangible assets, which are separable from the fixed assets, are stated at cost less accumulated amortization. Amortization is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets.

The carrying amounts of long-lived assets other than goodwill are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is evaluated by a comparison of the carrying amount of assets to future undiscounted net cash flows expected to be generated by the assets. Such assets are considered to be impaired if the sum of the expected undiscounted cash flow is less than carrying amount of the assets. The impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amounts of the assets exceed the fair value of the assets. No impairment of long-lived assets was recognized for any of the periods presented.

In accordance with ASC subtopic 470-20, the convertible debts are initially carried at the principal amount of the convertible debts. Debt premium or discounts, which are the differences between the carrying value and the principal amount of convertible debts at the issuance date, together with related debts issuance cost, are subsequently amortized using effective interest method as adjustments to interest expense from the debt issuance date to its first redemption date. Convertible debts are classified as a current liability if they are or will be callable by the Company or puttable by the debt holders within one year from the balance sheet date, even though liquidation may not be expected within that period.

The Group’s reporting currency is the U.S. dollar (“US$”). The functional currency of the Company, and the Company’s overseas subsidiaries is US$, while the functional currency of the Company’s PRC subsidiaries, VIE and VIE’s subsidiaries is RMB. In the consolidated financial statements, the financial information of the Company’s subsidiaries, VIE and VIE’s subsidiaries has been translated into US$. Assets and liabilities are translated at the exchange rates on the balance sheet date, equity amounts are translated at historical exchange rates, and revenues, expenses, gains and losses are translated using the average rate for the year. Translation adjustments are reported as foreign currency translation adjustments and are shown as a separate component of other comprehensive income or loss in the consolidated statements of changes in equity and comprehensive income (loss).

Transactions denominated in currencies other than the functional currency are translated into prevailing functional currency at the exchange rates prevailing at the dates of the transactions. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into the functional currency using the applicable exchange rates at the balance sheet dates. The resulting exchange differences are included in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).

Mezzanine Equity consists of non-controlling interests in FL Mobile Inc. and a put option pursuant to which the non-controlling shareholders will have the right to put their equity interests in FL Mobile Inc. to the Company at a pre-determined price if FL Mobile Inc. does not complete a qualified listing. The put option will expire within three month after the first anniversary of the closing date. Since the occurrence of the put is not solely within the control of the Company, the Company classifies the non-controlling interest as mezzanine equity instead of permanent equity in the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In accordance with ASC subtopic 480-10, the Company calculates, on an accumulative basis from the acquisition date, (i) the amount of accretion that would increase the balance of non-controlling interest to its estimated redemption value over the period from the date of the issuance to the earliest redemption date of the non-controlling interest and (ii) the amount of net profit attributable to non-controlling shareholders of FL Mobile Inc. based on their ownership percentage. The carrying value of the non-controlling interest as mezzanine equity will be adjusted by an accumulative amount equal to the higher of (i) and (ii). See Note 14 – “MEZZANINE EQUITY.”

The Group recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred and/or service has been performed, the price is fixed or determinable and collection is reasonably assured.

In accordance with ASC 605-45, the Company adopts net presentation method for its revenue, under which revenues are net of business tax, related surcharges and value added tax.

Revenues presented in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income include revenues from mobile value added services that are comprised of consumer mobile security, mobile games and live mobile social video platform, advertising services, enterprise mobility and other services.

Consumer mobile security revenues are derived principally from providing premium mobile security and productivity services to end users. The basic functions of security and productivity services, including anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spam, privacy protection, data backup and recovery are free of charge. The customers are charged for updating the anti-virus database on a pay-per-use basis or paying a fee to subscribe to the premium security and productivity services including continuous update of anti-virus database, continuous update of the semantics of anti-spam, and advanced privacy protection on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually basis. The Group recognizes revenue for premium services considered to be software-related (e.g., mobile security services) in accordance with industry specific accounting guidance for software and software-related transactions. For premium services where the customer does not take possession of fully-functioning software (e.g., mobile productivity services), the Group recognizes revenue pursuant to ASC 605, Revenue Recognition. Provided collectability is probable, revenue is recognized over the usage period which is the same for software-related services and services where software is incidental to the provision of the services. Basic functions and customer support are provided to end users free of charge, whether they subscribe to services or not. Customer arrangements may include premium mobile security and productivity services which are multiple elements. Revenue on arrangements that include multiple elements is allocated to each element based on the relative fair value of each element. Fair value is generally determined by vendor-specific- objective-evidence (“VSOE”). For all the periods presented, the usage period for the elements in arrangements that include multiple elements is the same. No allocation was performed as there is no impact from the allocation on revenue recognized.

The payment channels include wireless carriers and service providers, independent distributors of prepaid cards, and third-party payment processors.

Wireless carriers and service providers. The Group, via service providers, cooperates with wireless carriers to provide consumer mobile security services to the customers. In China, service providers have the exclusive licenses to contract with wireless carriers in offering consumer mobile security services to the end users and they are mainly responsible for assisting in the billing of consumer mobile security services. Wireless carriers are mainly responsible for billing, collection and customer support relating to the end users. Under certain circumstances, the Group itself is a service provider and contract directly with wireless carriers.

Fees paid for premium service are charged to the customers’ telephone bills and shared between us and wireless carriers. The sharing percentage is fixed and determined by wireless carriers. The Group does not enter into arrangements directly with the wireless carriers except when the Group acts as a service provider and the wireless carriers are not acting as an agent for us in the transactions. Therefore, the revenue recognized is net of the amounts retained by the wireless carriers.

The Group recognizes and report consumer mobile security services revenues on a gross basis based on service providers’ portion of the billings as the Group has the primary responsibility for fulfillment and acceptability of the consumer mobile security services and are considered a principal in the transactions. The amounts attributed to services providers’ share are determined pursuant to the arrangements between services providers and us and are recognized as costs of revenues.

To recognize consumer mobile security services revenues, the Group relies on wireless carriers and service providers to provide us with the billing confirmations for the amount of services they have billed to their mobile customers. At the end of each reporting period, when the wireless carriers or service providers are yet to provide us the monthly billing confirmations, the Group uses information generated from internal system as well as the historical data to estimate the amounts of collectable consumer mobile security services fees and to recognize revenue. Historically, there have been no significant adjustments to the revenue estimates.

Prepaid cards. The Group sells prepaid cards to customers through independent distributors. The customers can use the prepaid cards to subscribe to the premium services offered by the group. Once the customers activate the premium services using the prepaid cards, the Group starts to recognize revenues on a straight-line basis over the service period. The unused cash balances remaining in users’ accounts are recorded as a liability in deferred revenue. While the Group has primary responsibility for fulfillment and acceptability, the Group does not have control of, and generally does not know, the ultimate selling price of the prepaid cards sold by the distributors, and therefore, net proceeds from the distributors form the basis of revenue recognition.

Third-party payment processors. The customers can also subscribe to premium services directly through the Company’s website and the billings are handled by third-party payment processors. Under these circumstances, the Group has the primary responsibility for fulfillment and acceptability of the service and recognizes the revenue on a gross basis. The amounts attributed to third-party payment processors are recognized as costs of revenue.

Mobile game operations. The Group generates mobile games revenues from operating and publishing mobile games developed by third parties and itself. The Group enters into exclusive or joint operation agreements with developers for licensed mobile game applications. The Group distributes the games on Apple’s App Store, Android platforms, FL Mobile’s platforms and other channels (collectively, “Platforms”). Game players can download the free-to-play games and pay to acquire virtual currency which can be redeemed in the game for in-game virtual items.

The Group sells both consumable and durable virtual goods in games. Consumable goods are items that are used up one-time, while durable goods are items accessible to the user over an extended period of time. For games under joint operation, the Group recognizes revenue from the sales of both consumable goods and durable goods at once when the virtual items are delivered. For games under exclusive operations, the Group recognizes revenue from the sales of consumable goods when the goods are used up. The Group recognizes revenue from the sales of durable goods ratably over the estimated average playing period of paying users.

The Groups estimates the playing periods of paying users based on available data obtained since September 2012. On a quarterly basis, the Groups determines the estimated average playing period for paying players on a game by game basis, beginning at the time of a payer’s first purchase in that game and ending on a date when that paying player is no longer playing the game. The Group then calculates the average of the time periods from the first purchase date to the date the player is expected to cease playing the game for each game player to determine the total average playing period for that game.

The Group determines that a paying player will cease playing a game once the Inactive Period has occurred. The Group defines the Inactive Period as the time period after which if a paying player has not logged onto a game, the possibility that he/she will continue to play the game in the future is very low. To determine the Inactive Period, the Group regularly analyzes the paying players’ activities on games to determine when the paying players stop playing the games. For the players who have not logged onto a game for 50 days as of the period end, the Group deems them inactive players. For the players who have not logged onto a game for less than 50 days as of the period end, the Group deems that they will cease to play the game after 90 days from the last date when they logged onto the game before the period end.

Currently estimated average playing periods of the mobile games are three months, based on current available game player information. The Group regularly reassesses these estimates and may revise such estimates in the future as additional game data becomes available and if and when future data indicates a change in playing patterns or behaviors.

Pursuant to agreements signed between the Group and game developers and between the Group and Platforms, revenues from the sale of game currency to be used for the purchase of virtual items are shared among the Group, game developers and Platforms for third-party developed games and between the Group and Platforms for self-developed games, based on a pre-agreed ratio for each game.

The determination of whether to record these revenues using gross or net method is based on an assessment of various factors. The primary factors are whether the Group is acting as the principal in offering services to the game players or as an agent in the transaction, and the specific requirements of each agreement.

For third-party developed games operated under exclusive operation agreements and self-developed games, the Group recognizes revenue based on the gross amount billed to customers (i.e., inclusive of the amount retained by Platforms and the amounts paid to game developers under revenue-sharing arrangements if any), because the Group is able to determine pricing for the virtual items sold and is the primary obligor to the customers. The amount paid to Platforms and game developers are recorded as cost of services.

For third-party developed games operated under joint operation agreements, the game developer is considered the primary obligor to the customers and has latitude in establishing price. The Group accounts for such sales on a net basis by recognizing the commission it retains from each sale (i.e., revenue net of the amount retained by Platforms and the amounts paid to game developers under revenue-sharing arrangements).

To determine whether the Platform plays a role of primary obligor or an agent, the Group has considered ASC 605-45-45 and concluded that the Platform is an agent in the sale of in-game virtual items to the customers because it 1) is not responsible for the fulfillment of in-game virtual items and does not take overall responsibility of the services provided to the customers, 2) does not have pricing latitude and only receives a fixed commission, 3) does not have inventory risk, 4) does not change the virtual items sold or determine specifications of the game or the virtual items sold, and 5) does not have credit risk. In the case of self-developed games and third-party developed games under exclusive operation by the Group, Platforms are the agents of the Group. In the case of third-party developed games under joint operation, Platforms are the agents of the game developers.

Mobile game licensing. The Group licenses its self-developed games to other third-party game operators and generally receives revenue in forms of initial license fees, non-refundable minimum guarantee, monthly revenue-based fees under revenue-sharing arrangement or a combination. The initial license fee is generally a fixed amount and recognized ratably over the term of the license. The non-refundable minimum guarantee is generally a fixed amount and recognized once the fees are collected. The revenue-based fees under revenue-sharing arrangement are generally equal to a fixed percentage of the revenues generated by the game operators from the sale of virtual items and are recognized when the game operators provide the Group the monthly billing confirmation.

The Group operates a live mobile social video community, namely Showself Live Broadcast( ). The community contains thousands of real time video rooms (the “Room”) with user-created content provided by hosts and online users, and broadcasted to the Rooms’ viewers. The Group is responsible for providing a technological infrastructure to enable the hosts, online users and viewers to interact through live mobile social online video platforms.

All the Rooms can be accessed for free. The Group mainly derives the revenue from sales of virtual currency which can be used to purchase virtual presents in the Rooms.

The Group’s operating entities primarily cooperate with independent third-party distributors to sell the Group’s virtual currency through the distribution agreements with these distributors. Pursuant to the distribution agreements, each distributor is responsible for sales of virtual currency for the Group’s community through developing and engaging sales agents who directly sell the virtual currency to users. The Group has discretion to determine the price of the virtual currency sold to sales agents or users. In addition, the Group takes overall responsibility of the content or performances provided by hosts in the Group’s community. Consequently, the Group recognizes revenue on a gross basis pursuant to ASC 605-45.

The Group also utilizes third-party payment collection channels, which charges us the payment handling cost for users to purchase the virtual currency directly from it. The payment handling costs are recorded in cost of sales. Upon sales of virtual currency, we typically have an implied obligation to provide the services which enable the virtual currency to be used on our platform. The Group recognizes revenue ratably over the estimated average playing period of paying users.

The Groups estimates the playing periods of paying users based on available data obtained since the Company launched the platform in April 2014. On a quarterly basis, the Groups determines the estimated average playing period for paying players, beginning at the time of a payer’s first purchase on our platform and ending on a date when that paying player is no longer active. The Group then calculates the average of the time periods from the first purchase date to the date the player is expected to cease playing on our platform to determine the total average playing period.

The Group determines that a paying player has ceased playing on our platform once the player reached an Inactive Period. The Group defines the Inactive Period as the length of time after which if a paying player has not logged into the community, the possibility that he/she will continue to play on our platform in the future is very low. To determine the Inactive Period, the Group regularly analyzes paying players’ activities in the community. For the players who have not logged on our platform for 50 days as of the period end, the Group deems them inactive players. Currently estimated average playing periods are within three months, based on current available paying users’ information. The Group regularly reassesses these estimates and may revise such estimates in the future as additional data becomes available and if and when future data indicates a change in playing patterns or behaviors.

Online advertising revenues. The Group promotes third-parties’ games and applications through NQ security applications and interest-based online community applications in a variety of forms including but not limited to offer-walls, push-notification, and content integrations. Advertising fees are generally charged to advertisers on the cost per action (“CPA”) basis. The desired actions to be performed include but are not limited to activation, download, click, registration or opt-ins, which are determined by the advertisers. The revenues are generally recognized when the end users activate the applications, register accounts or deliver their opt-ins.

The Group also provides advertising services by embedding the advertisement in applications developed by third-party content providers. The Group signs agreements with advertisers and content providers separately. The determination of whether to record these revenues using gross or net method is based on an assessment of various factors. The primary factors are whether the Group is acting as the principal in offering services to advertisers or as an agent in the transaction, and the specific requirements of each agreement. After considering the Company’s obligations and risks, latitude in establishing price, determination of service specifications and etc., the Group concludes that the Group is the primary obligor in the contracts with advertisers. The fees are charged to advertisers on the CPA basis. The revenues are recognized by us on a gross basis pursuant to ASC 605-45, including payments to content providers. The advertising fees paid to the third-party content providers are recognized as costs of services.

Moreover, the Group provides advertisement placements on the Company’s websites and interest-based communities. The Group enters into pay-for-time (“CPT”) contracts with advertisers, under which the fixed price and advertising services are established upfront and charged ratably over the contractual period of display.

Offline pre-installation revenues. The Group provides with the pre-installation services to promote various applications in mobile phones. The revenues are recognized when the end users activate the applications or become active users within certain periods, pursuant to the contracts.

Enterprise mobility revenues are derived principally from hardware sales to enterprise users, technology and software development, and commission income shared from mobile network operators, all of which are provided on a stand-alone basis in the years of 2013 and 2014.

The revenue from sale of hardware is recognized upon the time of delivery. Hardware is considered delivered to customers once customers acknowledge the receipt of the hardware delivered and the title and risk of loss have been transferred. For most of the hardware sales, these criteria are met at the time customers’ sign off the delivery notes.

The Group recognizes the revenue from technology and software development upon the delivery and acceptance by customers of the standard proprietary software or tailored enterprise software, which involves significant production, modification, or customization. These software arrangements generally include the right to post contract customer support (“PCS”). The Group recognizes the technology and software development revenues immediately after the Group delivers the software since PCS is assessed insignificant after considering the facts of (i) no additional charges are incurred for PCS; (ii) all PCS are normally for a period of 6 months to 1 year; (iii) the estimated cost for such services is insignificant based on historical records; and (iv) the Group does not offer upgrades or enhancements to the software during PCS period and these services are expected to continue to be infrequent. The Group adopts completed-contract method to account for revenues from technology and software development, given the substantive acceptance terms in arrangements and short duration of development.

Commission income is derived from bringing enterprise users to the mobile network operators and is determined based on fixed percentages of actual charges to the enterprise users as agreed with the mobile operators. Commission incomes are recognized in the month in which the service is provided to the enterprise users. For the amount of revenues to be recognized, the Group firstly estimates the amount of service fee and recognizes revenue based on the fixed commission rates as stipulated on the contract that multiply the estimated customer charges. When the Group later receives the statements of actual charge issued by the mobile network operators, the Group records a true-up adjustment. Based on the historical experience, there had not been any material adjustments incurred.

Other services revenues are derived principally from providing technology development and training services. The Group recognizes these revenues when performance is completed.

Cost of revenues primarily consists of customer acquisition cost paid to third party business partners based on number of end users referred by them, which are expensed when earned by third party business partners, fees paid to the handset makers and promotion agents for them to preload the Group’s software and fees paid to or retained by SPs and third party payment processors for their services relating to the billing of the Group’s consumer mobile security revenues. Cost of revenues also includes the hardware procurement cost for enterprise mobility business, as well as fees paid to third-party content providers for advertising services and mobile game operations. Staff costs of those departments directly involved in providing mobile value added services, enterprise mobility and advertising services, as well as other services are also included in cost of revenues.

Marketing and Advertising costs consist primarily of costs for the promotion of corporate image and product marketing. The Group expensed all marketing and advertising costs as incurred. Marketing and advertising costs for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 are US$8,546, US$13,318 and US$11,293, respectively.

Research and development related expenses consist primarily of payroll-related expenses incurred for new product development and product enhancements. The Group expenses all costs incurred for the development of mobile security and productivity software, technology and software for enterprise customers, and technology of mobile platforms when incurred prior to the establishment of technological feasibility. Once the software has reached technological feasibility with a proven ability to operate in the market, all subsequent software development costs shall be capitalized until that software is marketed. The amount of costs qualifying for capitalization has been immaterial and, as a result, the Group did not capitalize any research and development costs for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Leases where substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership of the assets remain with the leasing company are accounted for as operating leases. Payments made under operating leases are charged to the consolidated statements of comprehensive income on a straight line basis over the lease periods.

The gain on change of interest in an associate represents the difference at the time of change of interest in an associate between the transfer price and carrying amount of the interest transferred. The Group recognized a gain of US$943 from the change of equity interest in FL Mobile in the year ended December 31, 2012. See Note 4 – “Business Combination”. No sale of interest in an associate occurred in the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2014.

Government grant is recorded as a liability in deferred revenue when receive upfront, and recognize as other income or reduction of related expense in the period when (i) all of the conditions attached to the subsidy are satisfied or it is not subject to future return or reimbursement, and (ii) the subsidies have been received or become receivable with reasonable assurance. The Group recorded subsidies from the PRC government of US$40, US$761 and US$852, in other income for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

Full-time employees of the Group in mainland China are entitled to staff welfare benefits including medical care, welfare subsidies, unemployment insurance and pension benefits through a PRC government-mandated multi-employer defined contribution plan. The Group is required to accrue for these benefits based on certain percentages of the employees’ salaries. The Group is required to make contributions to the plans out of the amounts accrued. The PRC government is responsible for the medical benefits and the pension liability to be paid to these employees and the Group’s obligations are limited to the amounts contributed.

The Group recorded employee benefit expenses of US$1,845, US$4,393 and US$7,274 for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

The Group grants share options and restricted shares to its selected employees, directors and non-employee consultants. Awards granted to employees with service conditions attached are measured at the grant date fair value and are recognized as an expense using graded vesting method, net of estimated forfeitures, over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period. The estimate of forfeitures will be adjusted over the requisite service period to the extent that actual forfeitures differ, or are expected to differ, from such estimates. Changes in estimated forfeitures will be recognized through a cumulative catch-up adjustment in the period of change and will also impact the amount of share-based compensation expense to be recognized in future periods.

Non-controlling interest represents the equity interest in subsidiaries that is not attributable, either directly or indirectly, to the Company’s shares in such subsidiaries. The non-controlling interest is presented in the consolidated balance sheets, separately from equity attributable to the shareholders of the Company. Non-controlling interest in the results of the Company is presented on the face of the consolidated statements of comprehensive income as an allocation of the total profit or loss for the periods between non-controlling shareholders and the shareholders of the Company.

The Company accounted for shares repurchased as treasury shares under the cost method and includes such treasury shares as a component within shareholders’ equity in accordance with ASC 505-30, and the treasury shares acquired are shown separately in the shareholders’ equity as the Company has not yet decided on the ultimate method of disposition for those shares. When the treasury stock is retired, or repurchased for reissue, an excess of repurchase price over par value may be allocated into additional paid-in capital.

Current income tax is provided on the basis of income for financial reporting purpose, adjusted for income and expense items which are not assessable or deductible for income tax purpose, in accordance with the regulations of the relevant tax jurisdictions. Deferred income tax is accounted for using the liability approach which requires the recognition of income tax payable or refundable for the current year and deferred income tax liabilities and assets for the future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in the Group’s financial statements or tax returns. Deferred income tax is determined based on the differences between the financial reporting and tax basis of assets and liabilities and is measured using the currently enacted income tax rates and laws. The effect on deferred income tax assets and liabilities of a change in income tax rates is recognized in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income in the period when such changes are enacted. A valuation allowance is provided to reduce the carrying amounts of deferred income tax assets if it is considered more likely than not that a portion or all of the deferred income tax assets will not be realized.

The Group adopts a more likely than not threshold and a two-step approach for the measurement of tax position and financial statement recognition. Under the two-step approach, the first step is to evaluate the tax position for recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained, including the resolution of related appeals or litigation process, if any. The second step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more than 50% likely of being realized upon settlement.

The Company has elected to classify interest related to an uncertain tax position (if and when required) to interest expense, and classify penalties related to an uncertain tax position (if and when required) as part of other expense in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income. For the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, the Company did not have any material interest or penalties associated with tax positions nor did the Company have any significant unrecognized uncertain tax positions.

The Company’s PRC subsidiaries, VIEs and the VIEs’ subsidiaries in China are required to make appropriations to certain non-distributable reserve funds.

In accordance with the laws applicable to China’s Foreign Investment Enterprises, the Company’s subsidiaries that are foreign investment enterprises in China have to make appropriations from their after-tax profit (determined under the Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises promulgated by the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC GAAP”)) to reserve funds including (i) general reserve fund; (ii) enterprise expansion fund; and (iii) staff bonus and welfare fund. The appropriation to the general reserve fund must be at least 10% of the after-tax profits calculated in accordance with PRC GAAP. Appropriation is not required if the reserve fund has reached 50% of the registered capital of the respective companies. Appropriations to the other two reserve funds are subject to discretion of respective companies.

In accordance with China Company Laws, the Company’s PRC subsidiary, VIEs and the VIEs’ subsidiaries that are domestic companies must make appropriations from their after-tax profit (determined under PRC GAAP) to non-distributable reserve funds including (i) statutory surplus funds; and (ii) discretionary surplus fund. The appropriation to the statutory surplus fund must be at least 10% of the after-tax profits calculated in accordance with PRC GAAP. Appropriation is not required if the surplus fund has reached 50% of the registered capital of the respective companies. Appropriation to the discretionary surplus fund is made at the discretion of respective companies.

The use of the general reserve fund, statutory surplus fund and discretionary surplus fund are restricted to the offsetting of losses or increase of registered capital of the respective companies. These reserves are not allowed to be transferred to the Company in any forms of cash dividends, loans or advances, nor can they be distributed except under liquidation.

For the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, profit appropriation to the general reserve fund and the statutory surplus fund (“statutory reserve”) totaled US$2,938, US$6,698 and US$941, respectively, and there was no profit appropriation to other reserve funds for any of those years.

Basic earnings (loss) per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year. Diluted earnings per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares and potential common shares outstanding during the period for options and restricted shares under treasury stock method and for convertible debts under if-convertible method, if dilutive. Potential common shares are not included in the denominator of the diluted earnings per share calculation when inclusion of such shares would be anti-dilutive, such as in a period in which a net loss is recorded. Earnings per share is computed on Class A common shares and Class B commons shares together, because both classes have the same dividend rights and the same participation rights in the Company’s undistributed earnings.

Parties are considered to be related if one party has the ability, directly or indirectly, to control the other party or exercise significant influence over the other party in making financial and operating decisions. Parties are also considered to be related if they are subject to common control or significant influence, such as a family member or relative, stockholder, or a related corporation.

Comprehensive income is defined as the change in equity of the Group during a period from transactions and other events and circumstances excluding those resulting from investments by and distributions to shareholders. Accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss), as presented on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets, consists of cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment and unrealized gain or loss from available-for-sale investments.

Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise engaging in business activities about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the Group’s chief operating decision-maker (“CODM”), Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, in deciding how to allocate resources and assess performance.

The Company’s organizational structure is based on a number of factors that the CODM uses to evaluate, view and run the Company’s business operations, which include, but are not limited to, customer base, homogeneity of products and technology. The Company’s operating segments are based on its organizational structure and information reviewed by the Company’s CODM to evaluate the operating segment results.

Before 2012, the Group principally engaged in consumer mobile security and other services and operated and managed this business as a single segment. In 2012, the Group expanded its business by the acquisition of NationSky in enterprise mobility services and the acquisition of FL Mobile and its subsidiary, Red, in mobile games and advertising services. In 2013 and 2014, the Group enhanced its business in enterprise mobility services and other services by a series of acquisitions, and generates revenue from the operations of such businesses. See Note 4 – “Business Combination” for more details.

The Company has determined that the business segments that constitute its primary reportable segments are consumer and enterprise. The consumer segment primarily consists of mobile value added services, which includes mobile security services, mobile games and live mobile social video platform, advertising services and other services. The enterprise segment mainly consists of technology and software development services and hardware sales aggregated under enterprise mobility revenues.

The Company’s financial instruments include cash equivalents, term deposits, short-term investments, accounts receivable, certain other current and non-current assets, accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities and other non-current liabilities. For fair value measurement, U.S. GAAP establishes a three-tier hierarchy which prioritizes the inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value:

Level 1—observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.

Level 2—other inputs that are directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace.

Level 3—unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activity.

The fair value hierarchy also requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. See Note 11 – Fair value measurements.

In May of 2014, the FASB issued Topic 606, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers”. This topic clarifies the principles for recognizing revenue and develops a common revenue standard for U.S. GAAP and IFRS. Simultaneously, this topic supersedes the revenue recognition requirements in Topic 605, Revenue Recognition, and most industry-specific guidance throughout the Industry Topics of the Codification. The core principle of the guidance requires an entity to recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. To achieve that core principle, an entity should apply the five steps: 1) identify the contract(s) with a customer; 2) identify the performance obligations in the contract; 3) determine the transaction price; 4) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; 5) recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation. The amendments are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within that reporting period. Early application is not permitted. This amendments shall be applied retrospectively either to each prior reporting periods or with the cumulative effect of initially applying this amendments recognized at the date of initial application. There is no impact on the consolidated financial statements for current reporting periods since early adoption is not permitted. The Group is in process of evaluating the cumulative effect on the consolidated financial statements of adopting this guidance so as to transit to the new revenue recognition guidance in the year of 2016.

In June of 2014, the FASB issued guidance on “Stock Compensation –Accounting for Share-Based Payments When the Terms of an Award Provide That a Performance Target Could Be Achieved after the Requisite Service Period”. The amendments clarify that a performance target that affects vesting and that could be achieved after the requisite service period should be treated as a performance condition. As such, the performance target should not be reflected in estimating the grant-date fair value of the award. No matter when the performance target becomes probable of being achieved, the compensation cost should be recognized in the period in which it becomes probable that the performance target will be achieved and should represent the compensation cost attributable to the period(s) for which the requisite service has already been rendered. The amendments are effective for annual periods and interim periods within those annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015. Earlier adoption is permitted. The Group had evaluated that there is no impact on the consolidated financial statements of adopting this guidance.

In August 2014, the FASB issued Presentation of Financial Statements – Going Concern. This standard requires management to evaluate for each annual and interim reporting period whether it is probable that the reporting entity will not be able to meet its obligations as they become due within one year after the date that the financial statements are issued. If the entity is in such a position, the standard provides for certain disclosures depending on whether or not the entity will be able to successfully mitigate its going concern status. This guidance is effective for annual periods ending after December 15, 2016 and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016. Early application is permitted. The Company does not anticipate that this adoption will have a significant impact on its financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

As of March 15, 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) has issued ASU No. 2014-01 through ASU 2015-02, which are not expected to have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements upon adoption.

The Group holds its cash and bank deposits at Chinese financial institutions located inside the PRC with high credit ratings and good reputations and international financial institutions located outside the PRC with high credit ratings from internationally-recognized rating agencies and well-acknowledged in the worldwide. The Company manages its credit risks by diversity of deposit banks and strict consideration in selection of these institutions by taking into account their reputation, stability, ratings, reported cash reserve and etc.

Additionally, Chinese financial institutions are subject to a series of risk control regulation and PRC laws, which protect the third-party depositors’ rights over their depository capital and related interests. The PRC bank regulatory authorities are empowered to take over the operation and management when any PRC bank faces a material credit crisis.

Only two customers, Tianjin Yidatong Technology Development Co., Ltd. (“Yidatong”) and Customer D, accounted for 22% and 11% respectively, of the Group’s total net revenues in 2012. Only Yidatong accounted for 10% of the Group’s total net revenues in 2013, and no individual customer accounted for more than 10% of the Group’s total net revenues in 2014. The Company had no further business cooperation with Yidatong since July 2014. Only Yidatong accounted for more than 10%, actually 14%, of the Group’s net accounts receivables as of December 31, 2013, and no individual customer counted for more than 10% of the Group’s net accounts receivables as of December 31, 2014.

Revenues from consumer mobile securities accounted for approximately 74%, 42% and 17% of the Group’s total net revenues for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Revenues from mobile games accounted for approximately 11% and 14% of the Group’s total net revenues for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Revenues from advertising services accounted for approximately 10%, 19% and 22% of the Group’s total net revenues for the years ended 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Revenues from enterprise mobility including hardware sales and software development accounted for approximately 14%, 27% and 45% of the Group’s total net revenues for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

Revenue derived from the PRC account for approximately 60%, 73% and 87% of the Company’s total net revenues for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

The Group conducts its business in both the PRC and overseas. A majority of the Group’s operating transactions are denominated in RMB and a significant portion of the Group’s assets and liabilities is denominated in RMB. RMB is not freely convertible into foreign currencies. The value of the RMB is subject to changes based on the PRC central government policies and to international economic and political developments. In the PRC, certain foreign exchange transactions are required by law to be transacted only by authorized financial institutions at exchange rates set by the People’s Bank of China (“PBOC”). Remittances in currencies other than RMB by the companies in China must be processed through PBOC or other China foreign exchange regulatory bodies which require certain supporting documentation in order to affect the remittance.

On May 11, 2012, the Group acquired 55% of the equity interests in NationSky, which is engaged in enterprise mobility services, for cash consideration of US$3,157 and 2,300,000 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which was US$4,196. The Group began to consolidate NationSky’s financial statements on June 1, 2012. The purpose of the acquisition was to expand into the enterprise mobility market.

On the acquisition date, the fair value of share consideration is measured based on the market price of the Company’s share on the acquisition date. The valuations used in the purchase price allocation were determined by the Company with the assistance of an independent third party valuation firm with the income approach applied. The allocation of the consideration for assets acquired, liability assumed and non-controlling interest based on their fair value was as follows:

Total identifiable intangible assets acquired upon acquisition mainly include customer relationships of US$1,310 with an estimated useful life of 6.6 years, revenue sharing agreements of US$2,462 with estimated useful life of 7.6 years, non-compete agreement of US$347 with estimated useful life of 6.6 years, and platform technology to develop the customized mobile applications of US$939 with estimated useful life of 5 years.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to enterprise unit. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of NationSky with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other, and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The fair value of non-controlling interest in NationSky has been determined in the valuation mainly based on the number of shares held by non-controlling shareholders and the equity value close to the acquisition date, taking into consideration a 20% discount for lack of control. The equity value close to the acquisition date was implied by the fair value of cash and shares transferred on the acquisition date as consideration for the acquisition.

The amount of net revenue and net income of NationSky included in the Group’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2012 are US$12,552 and US$1,184, respectively.

Prior to the acquisition, NationSky did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statements of NationSky for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Thus the Company’s management believes the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impracticable.

On July 15, 2013, the Group acquired all of the remaining equity interest of NationSky held by the non-controlling shareholder, representing 45% of the outstanding share capital of NationSky, for an aggregate cash consideration of approximately US$11,024 and 8,352,940 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which is US$16,355. Effective upon July 15, 2013, NationSky became the wholly owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology.

In June 2014, the Company announced a share purchase agreement pursuant to which the Company agreed to transfer the equivalent of approximately 3.4% of the equity interest in NationSky to Beijing Guorun Qilian Venture Capital Center (LP). This transaction was subsequently cancelled on March 2, 2015. The Company continued to hold 100% of NationSky through Beijing Technology as of the date of this annual report.

On June 8, 2013, the Group acquired 100% of the equity interests in NQ Shenzhen for cash consideration of US$809 and 1,314,815 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which was US$2,125. NQ Shenzhen is primarily engaged in development of education platform and education software and providing education service by internet and multi-media mediums. The Group began to consolidate NQ Shenzhen’s financial statements on June 30, 2013. The purpose of the acquisition was to add a new category of software services to the Group’s growing product portfolio and expand the business into youth education industry.

On the acquisition date, the fair value of share consideration is measured based on the market price of the Company’s share on the acquisition date. The valuations used in the purchase price allocation were determined by the Company with the assistance of an independent third party valuation firm with the income approach applied. The allocation of the consideration for assets acquired and liability assumed based on their fair value was as follows:

Total identifiable intangible assets acquired include customer relationships of US$243 with an estimated useful life of 3 years and platform technology of US$356 with an estimated useful life of 5 years.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to enterprise segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of NQ Shenzhen with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The amount of net revenue and net losses of NQ Shenzhen included in the Group’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2013 are US$297 and US$19, respectively.

Prior to the acquisition, NQ Shenzhen did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. The Group determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statement of NQ Shenzhen for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of NQ Shenzhen’s and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider NQ Shenzhen on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

On October 15, 2013, the Group acquired 100% of the equity interests of Ruifeng for a fixed cash consideration of US$2,403 and 1,825,349 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which was approximately US$7,593. Ruifeng is primarily engaged in enterprise mobility system development and iOS training services. The purpose of the acquisition was to enhance the research and development capability in enterprise mobility and acquire the expertise for system and application development. The Group began to consolidate Ruifeng’s financial statement on November 1, 2013.

On the acquisition date, the fair value of share consideration is measured based on the market price of the Company’s share of the equity interest on the acquisition date. The valuations used in the purchase price allocation were determined by the Company with the assistance of an independent third party valuation firm with the income approach applied. The allocation of the consideration for assets acquired and liability assumed based on their fair value was as follows:

Total identifiable intangible assets acquired mainly consist of (i) training license authorized by Apple of US$1,221 with an estimated useful life of 2.7 years; and (ii) mobile application technology of US$521, including mobile applications development, mobile system management, mobile marketing platform, etc, with an estimated useful life of 4.2 years.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to enterprise segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of Ruifeng with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other, and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The amount of net revenue and net losses of Ruifeng included in the Group’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2013 are US$88 and US$630, respectively.

Prior to the acquisition, Ruifeng did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statement of Ruifeng for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of Ruifeng’s and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider Ruifeng on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

On January 10, 2014, the Group acquired 100% equity interest in Beijing Trustek for a cash consideration of US$1,639, 2,845,529 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which is US$8,229. Beijing Trustek is primarily engaged in providing enterprise mobility solutions and services, including hardware supplies, system management, application development, business intelligence and maintenance services. The purpose of the acquisition was to acquire business relationship in the healthcare industry and enhance market share in enterprise mobility. The Group began to consolidate Beijing Trustek’s financial statement on January 10, 2014.

On the acquisition date, the fair value of share consideration is measured based on the market price of the Company’s share of the equity interest on the acquisition date. The valuations used in the purchase price allocation were determined by the Company with the assistance of an independent third party valuation firm with the income approach applied. The allocation of the consideration for assets acquired, liability assumed and previously held equity interests based on their fair value was as follows:

Total identifiable intangible assets acquired upon acquisition mainly include Apple authorization of US$1,213 with an estimated useful life of 3 years, and customer relationship of US$410 with an estimated useful life of 4 years.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to enterprise segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of Beijing Trustek with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other, and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The amount of net revenue and net income of Beijing Trustek included in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2014 are US$62,569 and US$ 2,774, respectively.

Prior to the acquisition, Beijing Trustek did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statement of Beijing Trustek for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of Beijing Trustek’s and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider Beijing Trustek on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

On September 1, 2010, Beijing Technology signed an agreement under which Beijing Technology paid US$2,462 to FL Mobile, which was engaged in the promotion services of mobile applications in China, in exchange for 1) 33% of the equity interests in FL Mobile, and 2) the prepaid customer acquisition cost. The Group estimated separately the fair value of its equity investment and the fair value of the prepaid customer acquisition cost. Based on their relative fair value, the Group allocated US$1,007 as equity investment and US$1,455 as prepaid customer acquisition cost. The prepaid customer acquisition cost is being amortized until November 30, 2012 based on the number of estimated users developed for each reporting period under this program. The investment was accounted for under the equity method of accounting due to the Group’s inability to control FL Mobile prior to November 30, 2012.

In July 2012, the Company, through Beijing Technology, and all other shareholders of FL Mobile transferred 20% of the equity interest in FL Mobile to a new shareholder, in exchange for the transfer of certain intangible assets. Accordingly the equity interest of the Company on FL Mobile was decreased from 33% to 26.4%. The fair value of the intangible assets being valued were higher than the carrying amount of the equity interest which the Company transferred, which resulted in a gain of US$943 recorded by the Company as changes of interest in an associate for the year ended December 31, 2012.

On November 30, 2012, the Group acquired Red and the remaining equity interests in FL Mobile for the consideration of 12,346,647 common shares of the Company with certain sales restrictions, the fair value of which was US$16,421. As a result of this acquisition, the Group also made Red a wholly owned subsidiary of FL Mobile. The Company began to consolidate the consolidated financial statements of FL Mobile commencing on December 1, 2012. The purpose of the acquisition was to offer mobile games and interest-based community applications to the customers through FL Mobile’s platform.

On the acquisition date, the fair value of share consideration is measured based on the market price of the Company’s share on the acquisition date. The valuations used in the purchase price allocation were determined by the Company with the assistance of an independent third party valuation firm with the income approach applied. The allocation of the consideration for assets acquired, liability assumed and previously held equity interests based on their fair value was as follows:

In accordance with ASC 805 in a business combination achieved in stages the Group re-measured its previously held equity interest in FL Mobile on its acquisition-date fair value using the discounted cash flow method and recognized a gain of US$2,882 in other income for the year ended December 31, 2012. The significant inputs used in the valuation of the Group’s previously held equity interests in FL Mobile include (i) an assumed discount rate of 25%; (ii) an assumed terminal value based on a long-term sustainable growth rate of 3%; (iii) an assumed discount for lack of marketability of 25%; and (iv) the operating projections which are estimated based on historical pattern, future business plan and expected market growth rate.

Total identifiable intangible assets acquired upon acquisition mainly include customer relationships of US$80 with an estimated useful life of 4 years, user base of US$2,433 with an estimated useful life of 1.5 years, technology of various mobile platforms for mobile games downloading and knowledge sharing of US$2,273 with an estimated useful life of 4 years, and the self developed game acquired from Red of US$191 with an estimated useful life of 0.6 years.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to consumer segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of FL Mobile and Red with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other, and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The amount of combined net revenue and combined net income of FL Mobile and Red included in the Group’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2012 are US$707 and US$184, respectively.

Prior to the acquisition, FL Mobile and Red did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statement of FL Mobile and Red for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of consolidated financial performance of FL Mobile and Red and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider FL Mobile and Red as an aggregate on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

On March 21, 2013, the Group acquired 51% of the equity interest in Fanyue, which is primarily engaged in off-line user acquisition services, for cash consideration of US$88 and 808,146 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which was US$1,490. The purpose of this acquisition is to expand business to off-line mobile advertising businesses. The Group began to consolidate Fanyue’s financial statements on March 21, 2013.

Identifiable intangible assets acquired upon acquisition represent customer relationships of US$335 with an estimated useful life of 2.8 years.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to consumer segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of Fanyue with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other, and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The fair value of non-controlling interest in Fanyue has been determined in the valuation mainly based on the number of shares held by non-controlling shareholders and the equity value under non-controlling basis close to the acquisition date. The equity value under non-controlling basis was determined using discounted cash flow method considering the 6% premium to the discount rate of 25% used in controlling basis to reflect lack of control associated with non-controlling interest shareholders.

Prior to the acquisition, Fanyue did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statements of Fanyue for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of Fanyue’s and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider Fanyue on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

On September 13, 2013, FL Mobile entered into an agreement to acquire all of the remaining equity interest of Fanyue held by the non-controlling shareholders, representing 49% of the outstanding share capital of Fanyue, for aggregate cash consideration of approximately US$86 and 5,359,490 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which is US$23,410. Effective upon September 13, 2013, Fanyue became the wholly owned subsidiary of the Group.

The amount of net revenue and net income of Fanyue included in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2013 are US$9,107 and US$1,618, respectively.

On September 6, 2013, the Group acquired 100% of the equity interests in Best Partners and its subsidiary Wanpu Beijing for 6,150,342 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which was approximately US$20,960. Best Partners is primarily engaged in mobile internet advertising and provides advertising services for smart phones operated under android and iOS systems by various forms, such as offer-wall advertising. Due to the restrictions of PRC laws and Regulation on Service Provider license, Best Partners runs its business mainly through its VIE Wanpu Century. The purpose of the acquisition was to enhance the Company’s performance in mobile internet advertising. As a result of management assessment, Wanpu Beijing is the primary beneficiary of Wanpu Century and Beijing Celles New Media Advertisement Co. Ltd. Therefore, the Group begins to consolidate the financial results of Best Partners, Wanpu Beijing and its VIE on September 1, 2013.

On the acquisition date, the fair value of share consideration is measured based on the market price of the Company’s share on the acquisition date. The valuations used in the purchase price allocation were determined by the Company with the assistance of an independent third party valuation firm with the income approach applied. The allocation of the consideration for assets acquired and liability assumed based on their fair value was as follows:

Total identifiable intangible assets acquired mainly consist of customer relationships of US$3,339, which have an estimated weighted average useful life of 3.3 years.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to consumer segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of Best Partners with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other, and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The amount of net revenue and net income of Best Partners included in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2013 are US$6,220 and US$1,596, respectively.

Prior to the acquisition, Best Partners did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statement of Best Partners for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of Best Partners’ and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider Best Partners on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

On September 24, 2013, the Group acquired 100% of the equity interests of Tianya for a fixed cash consideration US$163 and 2,932,850 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which was approximately US$13,702, plus additional variable share consideration up to a maximum of 2,932,850 shares that are contingent upon the achievement of specified performance targets through September 2015. Tianya primarily engages in search engine marketing in mobile healthcare industry and promotions of healthcare organizations in mobile healthcare applications. The purpose of the acquisition was to expand the Company’s business in mobile healthcare industry and to enhance the performance in mobile advertising business. The Group begins to consolidate Tianya’s financial statement on October 1, 2013.

On the acquisition date, the fair value of share consideration is measured based on the market price of the Company’s share on the acquisition date. The valuations used in the purchase price allocation were determined by the Company with the assistance of an independent third party valuation firm with the income approach applied. The allocation of the consideration for assets acquired and liability assumed based on their fair value was as follows:

Total identifiable intangible assets acquired mainly consist of customer relationships valued at US$1,073 with an estimated useful life of 3.3 years and technology valued at US$553 with an estimated useful life of 5 years.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to consumer segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of Tianya with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other, and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The amount of net revenue and net income of Tianya included in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2013 are US$1,017 and US$276, respectively.

Prior to the acquisition, Tianya did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statement of Tianya for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of Tianya’s and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider Tianya on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

In September of 2012, the Group acquired 18.9% of equity interest in Yinlong, which was mainly engaged in mobile music search and voiceprint recognition software services for a cash consideration of US$1,712. The equity investment was accounted for under the cost method, as the Group has no control or significant influence over Yinlong prior to November 11, 2013.

On November 11, 2013, the Group acquired additional 36.1% of the equity interests of Yinlong, accumulated to 55% of equity interest in Yinlong in aggregate, for a fixed cash consideration of US$2,664 and 1,409,666 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which was approximately US$3,803. The purpose of the acquisition was to acquire the core technology and mobile audio-based products of Yinlong. The Group began to consolidate Yinlong’s financial statements on December 1, 2013.

On the acquisition date, the fair value of share consideration is measured based on the market price of the Company’s share on the acquisition date. The valuations used in the purchase price allocation were determined by the Company with the assistance of an independent third party valuation firm with the income approach applied. The allocation of the consideration for assets acquired, liability assumed, previously held equity interests and non-controlling interests based on their fair value was as follows:

Total identifiable intangible asset acquired consists of core technology of voiceprint identification of US$2,118 with an estimated useful life of 5 years.

In accordance with ASC 805 in a business combination achieved in stages the Group re-measured its previously held equity interests in Yinlong on its acquisition-date fair value using the discounted cash flow method and recognized a gain of US$942 in other income for the year ended December 31, 2013. Significant inputs used in the income approach calculation include (i) an assumed discount rate of 24.5%; (ii) an assumed terminal value based on a long term sustainable growth rate of 3%; and (iii) the operating projections which are estimated based on historical pattern, future business plan and expected market growth rate.

The fair value of non-controlling interest in Yinlong has been determined in the valuation mainly based on the number of shares held by non-controlling shareholders and the equity value under non-controlling basis close to the acquisition date. The equity value under non-controlling basis was determined using discounted cash flow method considering the 3.6% premium to the discount rate of 24.5% used in controlling basis to reflect lack of control associated with non-controlling interest shareholders.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to consumer segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of Yinlong with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other, and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The amount of net revenue and net losses of Yinlong included in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2013 are nil and US$314, respectively.

On May 14, 2014, the Group acquired all of the remaining equity interest of Yinlong held by the non-controlling shareholder, representing 45% of the outstanding share capital of Yinlong, for an aggregate cash consideration of approximately US$312, 30,400,835 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which is US$62,200, plus additional variable share consideration up to a maximum of 7,600,208 shares that are contingent upon the achievement of specified performance targets through 2015 and 2016. Effective upon May 14, 2014, Yinlong became the wholly owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology.

Prior to the acquisition, Yinlong did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statement of Yinlong for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of Yinlong’s and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider Yinlong on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

In September of 2013, the Group acquired 10% of the equity interests in Huayong, which is primarily engaged in the research and development, customizing and marketing of live wallpapers for smart phone using Android system, for a cash consideration of US$2,060. Meanwhile, the Group injected additional cash US$5 along with all other shareholders proportionately for capital increase. In December of 2013, the Group acquired additional 29.01% of equity interest in Huayong for a cash consideration of US$34,634 and 3,039,449 common shares valued at US$7,015. As of December 31, 2013, the equity investment was accounted for under the cost method, as the Group has no control or significant influence over Huayong prior to January 25, 2014.

On January 25, 2014, the Group acquired additional 18.99% of the equity interests in Huayong, accumulated to 58% of equity interest in Huayong in aggregate, for a cash consideration of US$249 and 12,930,378 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which was approximately US$40,808. The purpose of the acquisition was to acquire Huayong’s products, enhance business relationship with mobile manufacturers and optimize business resources between NQ and its subsidiaries. The Group began to consolidate Huayong’s financial statements on January 25, 2014.

On the acquisition date, the fair value of share consideration is measured based on the market price of the Company’s share on the acquisition date. The valuations used in the purchase price allocation were determined by the Company with the assistance of an independent third party valuation firm with the income approach applied. The allocation of the consideration for assets acquired, liability assumed and previously held equity interests based on their fair value was as follows:

Total identifiable intangible assets acquired upon acquisition mainly include core technology of mobile animation engine of US$4,309 with an estimated useful life of 5 years, mobile applications of US$721 with an estimated useful life of 1.5 years, user base of US$1,343 with an estimated useful life of 1.5 years, and the partnership with cellphone manufacturers of US$6,423 with and estimated useful life of 4 years.

In accordance with ASC 805 in a business combination achieved in stages the Group re-measured its previously held equity interest in Huayong on its acquisition-date fair value using the discounted cash flow method and recognized a loss of US$308 in the current year. The significant inputs used in the valuation of the Group’s previously held equity interests in Huayong include (i) an assumed discount rate of 28%; (ii) an assumed terminal value based on a long-term sustainable growth rate of 3%; and (iii) the operating projections which are estimated based on historical pattern, future business plan and expected market growth rate.

The fair value of non-controlling interest in Huayong has been determined in the valuation mainly based on the number of shares held by non-controlling shareholders and the equity value under non-controlling basis close to the acquisition date. The equity value under non-controlling basis was determined using discounted cash flow method. A control premium of 25% is considered when determining the equity value, to reflect lack of control associated with non-controlling interest shareholders.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to consumer segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of Huayong with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other, and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The amount of net revenue and net losses of Huayong included in the Company’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2014 are US$471 and US$892, respectively.

Prior to the acquisition, Huayong did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statement of Huayong for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of Huayong’s and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider Huayong on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

In June of 2014, the Group acquired additional 10% of the equity interest of Huayong held by the non-controlling shareholder, for an cash consideration of approximately US$114 and 18,450,000 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which is USD$28,155.

On May 15, 2014, the Group acquired 70% equity interests of Yipai, which mainly engaged in image recognition and related advertising services, for the cash consideration of US$7,041 and 33,900,000 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which was US$49,291. The Group began to consolidate Yipai’s financial statements on May 15, 2014. The purpose of the acquisition was to acquire the image recognition technology and explore the advertising with traditional media on mobile internet platform, using image searching as an entry.

Total identifiable intangible assets acquired mainly include Trade name of US$1,622 with an estimated useful life of 10 years, Completed technology of US$3,115 with an estimated useful life of 5 years and Covenant not-to-compete (“CNTC”) of US$178 with an estimated useful life of 5 years.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to enterprise segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of Yipai with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The fair value of non-controlling interest in Yipai has been determined in the valuation mainly based on the number of shares held by non-controlling shareholders and the equity value close to the acquisition date, taking into consideration a 30% discount for lack of control. The equity value close to the acquisition date was implied by the fair value of cash and shares transferred on the acquisition date as consideration for the acquisition.

The amount of net revenue and net losses of Yipai included in the Group’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2014 are US$995 and US$789, respectively.

Prior to the acquisition, Yipai did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statement of Yipai for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of Yipai’s and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider Yipai on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

In September of 2013, the Group acquired 20% of the equity interests in Showself, which provides live mobile social video platform on mobile internet, for a cash consideration of US$500 and 885,478 common shares valued at US$3,004 on the investment date. The equity investment was accounted for under the cost method, as the Group has no control or significant influence over Showself prior to May 15, 2014.

On May 15, 2014, the Group acquired additional 45% of the equity interest in Showself, accumulated to 65% of equity interest in Showself in aggregate, for cash consideration of US$78 and 29,950,000 common shares of the Company, the fair value of which was US$43,547. The purpose of the acquisition was to bring a new service into the Group’s product portfolio. The Group begins to consolidate Showself’s financial statement on May 15, 2014.

On the acquisition date, the fair value of share consideration is measured based on the market price of the Company’s share on the acquisition date. The valuations used in the purchase price allocation were determined by the Company with the assistance of an independent third party valuation firm with the income approach applied. The allocation of the consideration for assets acquired, liability assumed, previously held equity interests and non-controlling interests based on their fair value was as follows:

In accordance with ASC 805 in a business combination achieved in stages the Group re-measured its previously held equity interest in Showself on its acquisition-date fair value using the discounted cash flow method and recognized a gain of US$10,083 in other income for the year ended December 31, 2014. The significant inputs used in the valuation of the Group’s previously held equity interests in Showself include (i) an assumed discount rate of 22%; (ii) an assumed terminal value based on a long-term sustainable growth rate of 3%; and (iii) the operating projections which are estimated based on historical pattern, future business plan and expected market growth rate.

Total identifiable intangible assets acquired mainly consist of (i) Agency relationship of US$1,574 with an estimated useful life of 5.7 years; (ii) Trademark of US$2,158 with an estimated useful life of 10 years; (iii) Gaming in development of US$1,557 with an estimated useful life of 2.7 years; and (iv) User name of US$1,460 with an estimated useful life of 2.7 years.

The excess of the purchase price over the tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill relating to enterprise segment. Goodwill primarily represents the expected synergies from combining operations of Showself with those of the Group, which are complementary to each other and intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition. In accordance with ASC350, goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment and is not deductible for tax purposes.

The fair value of non-controlling interest in Showself has been determined in the valuation mainly based on the number of shares held by non-controlling shareholders and the equity value close to the acquisition date, taking into consideration a 30% discount for lack of control. The equity value close to the acquisition date was implied by the fair value of cash and shares transferred on the acquisition date as consideration for the acquisition.

The amount of net revenue and net losses of Showself included in the Group’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income/loss from the acquisition date to December 31, 2014 are US$4,309 and US$1,013, respectively.

Prior to the acquisition, Showself did not prepare its financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. The Company determined that the cost of reconstructing the financial statement of Showself for the periods prior to the acquisition outweighed the benefits. Based on an assessment of the financial performance of all companies acquired by the Group and a comparison of Showself’s and the Group’s financial performance for the fiscal year prior to the acquisition, the Group did not consider Showself on its own to be material to the Group. Thus the Group’s management believes that the presentation of pro forma financial information with respect to the results of operations of the Group for the business combination is impractical.

The Group has interest-free bridge loan balances of US$8,074 and US$1,961 to potential investees in consideration of future acquisitions or investments on these investees, as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

Prepayments to business partners represent prepaid customer acquisition costs, advanced advertising and promotion fees, prepaid revenue sharing costs to third-party game developers associated with game operation, and any deposits for rentals and office-related supplies and etc. The increase of the balance in 2014 was resulted from rapid business expansion and acquisition.

In December of 2012, NQ Guotai was set up. The Group would invest RMB99,000 (US$16,238) through Tianjin QingYun, a subsidiary of Beijing Technology, in NQ Guotai in exchange for 49.5% of the equity interest. Tianjin Qingyun is a limited partner of NQ Guotai. On April 9, 2013, Beijing Wuyue Tianxia Investment Consulting Ltd, the general partner of NQ Guotai, withdrew its investment and transferred its 0.5% of the equity interest of NQ Guotai to Tianjin Qingyun for cash consideration of RMB1,000 (US$164). Meanwhile, Wangqin Guotai (Beijing) Capital Fund Management Ltd. was appointed as the new general partner and injected capital of RMB2,000 (US$328) to NQ Guotai. As of June 30, 2013, the Group fully injected the capital of RMB100,000 (US$16,402) and obtained 49.505% of equity interest in NQ Guotai. The Group accounted for the investment by equity method as the Group does not have control over NQ Guotai after considering various factors such as the board seats the Group has in the general partner of NQ Guotai. According to ASC 946, NQ Guotai meets all characteristic of an investment company and adopts fair value approach to account for its investments due to the sole purpose for returns from capital appreciation and investment income. The Group evaluated the fair value of each investment conducted by NQ Guotai by considering the development stage of each investment, work force, customer and vendor relationships, financial conditions including historical financial statements and future financial forecasts, risk factors, comparable companies in the same industry, time of investments to balance sheets date and price of recent investment by new investors, with various approaches applied, such as income approach, market approach or replacement cost approach, as appropriate. The Group records its unrealized investment income or loss at each reporting period end according to the fair value change of NQ Guotai’s investment and recognized nil and US$2,411 for years ended December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

In September of 2013, the Group, through NationSky, acquired 28.76% of equity interest of GEMA for a cash consideration of US$285. GEMA is primarily engaged in global enterprise mobility device management services. The Group had significant influence over GEMA. Therefore, the equity method is adopted to account for its investment in GEMA. An independent third-party valuation firm was hired to evaluate the fair value of assets and liabilities of this equity investment. The investment cost allocation comprises of (i) US$58 of share of net tangible assets acquired; (ii) US$46 of share of identified intangible assets with 10 years of estimated useful life; and (iii) US$181 of equity investment goodwill. As of December 31, 2014, the Group’s equity interest in GEMA was diluted to 26.01% due to incoming of a new investor.

In June of 2012, the Group acquired 30% of the equity interests in Pansi, which is primarily engaged in applications and services of mobile platform, for a cash consideration of US$2,864. As the Group does not have significant influence over Pansi, the Group accounts for the equity investment using the cost method. In 2014, the Group’s management reviewed the Group’s equity investments for impairment in accordance with ASC 320 Investments-Debt and Equity Securities (ASC 320), 320-10-35, Subsequent Measurement, and concluded that the estimated fair value of the investment in Pansi is significantly less than its carrying value and the impairment is other-than-temporary, taking the performance and financial position of the investee as well as other evidence of market value into consideration. Therefore, the Group provided for an impairment loss of US$2,942 to reduce the carrying value of this investment to $nil.

In June of 2012, the Group acquired 25% of the equity interests in Shifang, which is primarily engaged in research and development of mobile internet browsers and web navigational site, for a cash consideration of US$2,386. As the Group does not have significant influence over Shifang, the Group accounts for the equity investment using the cost method. In 2014, the Group’s management reviewed the Group’s equity investments for impairment in accordance with ASC 320 Investments-Debt and Equity Securities (ASC 320), 320-10-35, Subsequent Measurement, and concluded that the estimated fair value of the investment in Shifang is significantly less than its carrying value and the impairment is other-than-temporary, taking the performance and financial position of the investee as well as other evidence of market value into consideration. Therefore, the Group provided for an impairment loss of US$2,451 to reduce the carrying value of this investment to $nil.

In August of 2012, the Group acquired equity interests in Hissage, a provider of mobile messaging solution that provides with mobile push notification and messaging service across various radio access technologies and wireless carriers, for a cash consideration of US$500 and 3,821,655 common shares with fair value of US$5,916. As of December 31, 2013 and 2014, the number of shares the Group holds represented 35.14% equity interest in Hissage.

In August of 2012, the Group acquired 15.7% of the equity interests in SIINE, a designer, manufacturer and marketer of user interface tools for Web, Connected TV, Gaming and Mobile devices for a cash consideration of US$600. As the Group does not have significant influence over SIINE, the Group accounts for the equity investment using the cost method. In 2014, the Group’s management reviewed the Group’s equity investments for impairment in accordance with ASC 320 Investments-Debt and Equity Securities (ASC 320), 320-10-35, Subsequent Measurement, and concluded that the estimated fair value of the investment in SIINE is significantly less than its carrying value and the impairment is other-than-temporary, taking the performance and financial position of the investee as well as other evidence of market value into consideration. Therefore, the Group provided for an impairment loss of US$600 to reduce the carrying value of this investment to $nil.

In May of 2013, the Group acquired 35.22% of the equity interests in Asia Smart, which is a new media company, for a cash consideration of US$2,000 and 1,152,013 common shares with fair value of US$1,901. As of December 31, 2013 and 2014, the Group’s equity interest in Asia Smart was diluted to 34.16% due to incoming of new investors.

In June of 2013, the Group acquired 20% of the equity interests in Hetu, which is a mobile game developer, for a cash consideration of US$16 and 1,150,385 common shares with fair value of US$1,722 on the investment date. As of December 31, 2013 and 2014, the Group’s equity interest in Hetu was diluted to 18.18% due to incoming of new investors.

In September of 2013, the Group acquired 20% of the equity interests in Showself, which provides live mobile social video platform on mobile internet, for a cash consideration of US$500 and 885,478 common shares valued at US$3,004 on the investment date. In May of 2014, the Group acquired additional 45% of equity interests, accumulative to 65% of equity interests in Showself. The Group started to consolidate Showself from May 2014. Please see “Note 4 – Business Combination” for further information.

In September of 2013, the Group acquired 10% of the equity interests of Huayong, which primarily is engaged in the research and development, customizing and marketing of live wallpapers for smart phone using Android system, for a cash consideration of US$2,060. Meanwhile, the Group injected additional cash US$5 along with all other shareholders proportionately for capital increase. In December of 2013, the Group acquired additional 29.01% of equity interest of Huayong for a cash consideration of US$34,634 and 3,039,449 common shares valued at US$7,015. In January of 2014, the Group acquired additional 18.99% of equity interests, accumulative to 58% of equity interests in Huayong. The Group started to consolidate Huayong from January 2014. Please see “Note 4 – Business Combination” for further information.

In September of 2014, the Group acquired 20% equity interest of Zhijian, which primarily engaged in mobile game developments, for cash consideration of US$1,789.

In September of 2014, the Group acquired 15% equity interest in Launcher, which primarily engaged in launcher research and customization, for cash consideration of US$2,451.

As of December 31, 2014, the Group used the cost method to account for these investments above since the equity interests the Group holds in these entities did not have risk and reward characteristics that are substantially similar to common share or in-substance common shares.

The impairment charge is recorded if the carrying amount of the equity investment exceeds its fair value and this condition is determined to be other-than-temporary, The Group performed an impairment test on both equity method and cost method investments whenever events or changes in business circumstances indicate that an other-than-temporary impairment has occurred, by considering current economic and market conditions, operating performance, development stages and technology development, and engaged an independent third-party valuation firm to estimate the fair value of certain cost method investments, as appropriate. The Group recorded nil and US$5,993 in impairment charge to the carrying value of its investments under the cost method for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2014.

The depreciation expense for property and equipment was US$644, US$1,223 and US$2,352 for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

The amortization expense related to intangible assets for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 was US$983, US$4,735 and US$11,855, respectively.

Computer software is amortized over 5 years in average using straight-line method. Domain name (NQ.com) licensed from third party is amortized over 10 years, the same as the term of the contract, under the straight-line method.

The acquired intangible assets from business combination are recognized and measured at fair value with assistance from independent third-party valuers and are amortized as expenses using the straight-line approach over the estimated economic useful lives as follows:

The weighted-average amortization period for total net intangible assets of US$33,890, as of December 31, 2014, will be 4.66 years. As of December 31, 2014, estimated amortization expenses for future periods were expected to be as follows:

The changes in carrying value of goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2014 are as follows:

The Company test goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level on an annual basis as of November 1, and between annual tests when an event occurs or circumstances change that could indicate that the asset might be impaired. As of November 1, 2014, the Company tested impairment of goodwill at the level of reporting units, which comprise of security and others, mobile games and advertising and enterprise mobility.

Commencing in September 2011, in accordance with the FASB revised guidance on “Testing of Goodwill for Impairment,” a company has the option to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. For those reporting units where it is determined that it’s more likely than not that their fair values are less than the units’ carrying amounts, the Company will perform the first step of a two-step quantitative goodwill impairment test. After performing the assessment, if the carrying amounts of the reporting units are higher than their fair values, the Company will perform the second step of the two-step quantitative goodwill impairment test.

In performing the assessment, the Company took into consideration all of the events and circumstances listed in ASC 350, in addition to other entity-specific factors. For the first reporting unit where it was determined that it was more likely than not that its fair value was less than the unit’s carrying amount after performing the qualitative assessment, the Company performed the first step of a two-step quantitative goodwill impairment test. For the two-step goodwill impairment test, the Company estimated the fair value with the income approach, and considered factors that included expected future cash flows, growth rates and discount rates. The fair value of the first reporting unit exceeded its carrying amount, and therefore goodwill related to the reporting unit was not impaired and the Company was not required to perform further testing. The Company performed qualitative assessments for the remaining reporting units. Based on the requirements of ASU 2011-08, the Company evaluated all relevant factors, weighed all factors in their totality and concluded that it was not more-likely-than-not the fair values were less than the carrying amounts of the remaining reporting units, and further impairment testing on goodwill was unnecessary.

The management was not aware of the occurrence of any significant events or circumstance changes from the assessment date to December 31, 2014, that would be more likely than not to reduce the fair value of reporting units below their carrying values. The Company concluded that goodwill was not impaired for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2014.

The Group measured its financial assets including cash, term-deposits, restricted cash, and equity investments in an investment company at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2013 and 2014.

The following table sets forth the financial instruments, measured at fair value, by level within the fair value hierarchy as of December 31, 2013 and 2014:

A summary of changes in fair value of Level 3 assets for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2014 is as follows:

The Company utilized the discounted cash flow (DCF) method to determine the fair value of the investment in NQ Guotai. Significant unobservable input used in the DCF model was the weighted average cost of capital of 23%. For investment made by NQ Guotai with recent financing, the Company utilized the option pricing model (the “OPM”) to allocate the total equity value to each class of equity. Estimates of the volatility for the OPM were 45.7% based on the historical volatility of ordinary shares of a group of comparable, publicly-traded companies. Interest rate used in OPM is based on US Sovereign Strips plus country risk spread at time close to the liquidation events as of valuation date of 2.3%. Estimates of expected life used in OPM were based on the estimated time to liquidation events of 4.75 years.

The Company’s term deposits include deposits with original maturities of more than three months but equal or less than one year. These term deposits are classified within Level 2, because there generally were no quoted prices as of the reporting dates in active markets for identical time deposits and therefore, in order to determine their fair value, the Company had to use observable inputs other than quoted prices in active markets for identical term deposits. The carrying amounts of term deposits approximate to their fair values due to their short-term maturities.

The Company’s restricted cash include cash that is deposited in the bank but restricted for guarantee of certain business purpose under an agreement for 6 months and therefore not available for immediate and general use. These restricted cash is classified within Level 2, because there generally were no quoted prices as of the reporting dates in active markets for identical time deposits and therefore, in order to determine their fair value, the Company had to use observable inputs other than quoted prices in active markets for identical restricted cash. The carrying amounts of restricted cash approximate to their fair values due to short-term restricted.

The Group uses equity method to account for equity investment in NQ Guotai and fair value method to account for investments conducted by NQ Guotai. The fair value of investments made by NQ Guotai is determined by various approaches, including the income approach, market approach and the replacement cost approach, as appropriate. The major qualitative and quantitative inputs in valuation of fair value are development stage, work force, customer and vendor relationships, risk factors, financial conditions including historical financial statements and future financial forecasts, comparable companies in the same industry, time of investments to balance sheet date and price of recent investment by new investors. The fair value of the equity investments conducted by NQ Guotai represents level 3 valuations as the assumptions used in valuing the investments were not directly or indirectly observable in the market and involved a lot of management judgment. See Note 7 – “Equity Investments”.

The Group measured certain financial assets, including equity method investments excluding investment in the investment company and cost method investments, at fair value on a nonrecurring basis and recorded these assets at fair value only when impairment is recognized. The Group’s non-financial assets, such as intangible assets, goodwill and property and equipment, would be measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis and recorded these assets at fair value only when other-than-temporary impairment is recognized. These assets are considered Level 3 assets because the Group used unobservable inputs to determine their fair values.

The following are other financial instruments not measured at fair value in the balance sheets but for which the fair value is estimated for disclosure purposes.

Accounts receivable and certain other current assets are financial assets with carrying values that approximate to fair value due to their short term nature. Short-term accounts payable and accrued liabilities are financial liabilities with carrying values that approximate fair value due to their short term nature. The Group estimated fair values of other short-term receivables and payables using the discounted cash flow method. The Company classifies the valuation technique as Level 3 of fair value measurement, as it uses estimated cash flow input which is unobservable in the market.

Long-term payables and other non-current assets are financial liabilities and assets with carrying values that approximate fair value due to the change in fair value after considering the discount rate, being immaterial.

On June 7, 2007, the Board of Directors of the Company passed a resolution to adopt the 2007 Global Share Plan (the “2007 Share Plan”) that provides for the granting of options to selected employees, directors and non-employee consultants to acquire common shares of the Company at exercise prices determined by the Board or the administrator appointed by the Board at the time of grant. Upon this resolution, the Board of Directors and shareholders authorized and reserved 10,000,000 common shares for the issuance under the 2007 Share Plan. On December 15, 2007, the Board of Directors passed a resolution to increase the number of shares reserved for issuance under the Plan to 21,176,471 common shares. On April 26, 2010, December 15, 2010 and February 28, 2011, the Board of Director of the Company passed resolutions to increase the number of shares reserved for issuance under the 2007 Share Plan to 26,415,442, 36,415,442 and 44,415,442 common shares, respectively. As of December 31, 2013 and 2014, no awards remain available for future grants under the 2007 Share Plan.

On March 15, 2011, the Board of Directors of the Company passed a resolution to adopt the 2011 Share Incentive Plan (the “2011 Share Plan”) that provides for the granting of options, restricted shares or restricted share units (collectively the “Awards”) to selected employees, directors, and non-employee consultants to acquire common shares of the Company. The exercise prices of the options are determined by the Board or the administrator appointed by the Board at the time of grant. Upon this resolution, the Board of Directors and shareholders authorized and reserved 13,000,000 common shares for the issuance under the 2011 Share Plan. The Company may grant Awards that entitle holders to up to 13 million shares (the “Authorized Grant Pool”). For every year thereafter, starting in 2012, the Company may add up to a certain number of shares to the Authorized Grant Pool (the “Annual Increase Amount”). The Annual Increase Amount is defined as the number of shares underlying all awards granted in the previous year that are still outstanding. As of December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, Awards available for future grants under the 2011 Share Plan amounted to 5,944,731, 2,954,350 and 11,512,160 commons shares respectively.

All Company’s Awards will be exercisable only if Award holder continues employment or non-employee consultant provides service through each vesting date. Granted Awards follow any of the following vesting schedules below:

1. 25% of the Awards will become vested on the first-year anniversary of the vesting commencement date;

2. 1/48 of the Awards will become vested each month on the same day of the month as the vesting commencement date over a three-year period thereafter, until fully vested (4 years) or vesting terminates pursuant to terms of the 2007 Share Plan or 2011 Share Plan.

1. 100% of the Awards will become vested on the first-year anniversary of the vesting commencement date.

1. 100% of the Awards will become vested when granted and not subject to any vesting terms.

1. 1/16 of the Awards will become vested each calendar quarter on the same day of the quarter as the vesting commencement date over a four-year period thereafter, until fully vested (4 years) or vesting terminates pursuant to terms of 2007 Share Plan.

1. 1/24 of the Awards will become vested each calendar quarter on the same day of the quarter as the vesting commencement date over a six-year period thereafter, until fully vested (6 years) or vesting terminates pursuant to terms of 2007 Share Plan.

1. 25% of the Awards will become vested when granted and not subject to any vesting terms;

2. 3/48 of the Awards will become vested each quarter on the same day of the quarter as the vesting commencement date over a three-year period thereafter, until fully vested (3 years) or vesting terminates pursuant to terms of 2011 Share Plan.

1. 1/24 of the Awards will become vested each month on the same day of the month as the vesting commencement date over a two-year period thereafter, until fully vested (2 years) or vesting terminates pursuant to terms of 2011 Share Plan.

1. 25% of the Awards will become vested on the first-year anniversary of the vesting commencement date;

2. 3/48 of the Awards will become vested each quarter on the same day of the quarter as the vesting commencement date over a three-year period thereafter, until fully vested (4 years) or vesting terminates pursuant to terms of 2011 Share Plan.

1. 25% of the Awards will become vested when granted and not subject to any vesting terms;

2. 1/12 of the Awards will become vested each quarter on the same day of the quarter as the vesting commencement date over a three-year period thereafter, until fully vested (3 years) or vesting terminates pursuant to terms of 2011 Share Plan.

1. 50% of the Awards will become vested at the end of the first quarter of 2014;

2. 50% of the Awards will become vested at the end of the second quarter of 2014;

1. 50% of the Awards will become vested when granted and not subject to any vesting terms;

2. 3/24 of the Awards will become vested each year on the same day of the vesting commencement date over a four-year period thereafter, until fully vested (4 years) or vesting terminates pursuant to terms of 2011 Share Plan.

1. 25% of the Awards will become vested on each anniversary of the vesting commencement date over a four-year period thereafter, until fully vested (4 years) pursuant to terms of 2011 Share Plan.

On October 28, 2013, the Group entered into Amendment of Service Agreement with each external consultant to clarify their duties and penalties of default of Service Agreement. Upon the execution of such amendment, a performance commitment was established. As such, 1,451,680 unvested options and 4,850,635 unvested restricted shares in total to non-employee consultants were remeasured based on the fair value of respective awards on modification date. There are no incremental expenses related to this amendment.

On January 8, 2012, the Group granted 10, 000,000 restricted shares of the Company to the Co-Chief Executive Officer (“Co-CEO”) of the Company. Of the 10,000,000 restricted shares, 6,000,000 restricted shares will vest over four years provided that he continues his employment with the Company. 25% of the 6,000,000 restricted shares will vest on the first-year anniversary of the employment commencement date and 1/48 of 6,000,000 restricted shares will vest each month over a three-year period thereafter. The remaining 4,000,000 restricted shares are subject to the achievement of either specific performance or market conditions for each of the next four years. The value of the restricted shares under the market or performance conditions was calculated based on their grant date fair values without considering the possibility that the service conditions or performance conditions will be achieved. As all the criteria for establishing grant date were met, the fair value of share-based compensation being recognized for these restricted shares was measured on January 8, 2012.

For the 6,000,000 restricted shares that are subject only to the service condition, the related compensation expenses are being recognized using graded vesting method over the next four years. For the 4,000,000 restricted shares subject to either performance or market condition, the Company has first determined whether or not it was probable that the performance condition would be achieved. The fair value of the restricted shares calculated reflecting the market condition represents the minimum amount that is recognized as compensation cost assuming the requisite service is completed, even if the performance or market condition is not met.

Pursuant to the employment agreement among NQ US, the Company and Co-CEO, the Company shall establish a new entity, NQ Global and shall issue 15% equity interest in NQ Global (“NQ Global Shares”) to the Co-CEO for a nominal value. The NQ Global Shares have an embedded put option where the Co-CEO has the right in his sole discretion, to require the Company to purchase a portion or all of NQ Global Shares owned by the Co-CEO (“Put Option”) at their fair market value on the exercise date. While the NQ Global Shares are fully vested upon their issuance, the Put Option will vest and become exercisable at the rate of 25% of the underlying shares upon each of the first four annual anniversaries of the employment commencement date. All the key terms and conditions were substantially agreed among the counterparties in February 2012 and therefore the grant date was established at that time. Since these NQ Global Shares were fully vested upon grant, the entire compensation expenses of US$451 were recognized on the grant date. The fair value of 15% equity interest in NQ Global is determined based on the income approach.

On May 8, 2012, the Company modified the employment agreement among NQ US, the Company and the Co-CEO so that Co-CEO gave up his 15% equity interest in NQ Global and the related Put Option. Concurrently, the Company granted 9,000,000 restricted shares of the Company to the Co-CEO. Of the 9,000,000 restricted shares, 3,500,000 restricted shares are subject to a four-year service condition and the remaining 5,500,000 restricted shares are subject to the achievement of either specific performance or market conditions for each of the next four years. This was determined to be a modification to the original award granted to the Co-CEO. As a result, the incremental compensation expense of US$14,019, calculated as the excess of the fair value of the 9,000,000 restricted shares over the fair value of 15% equity interest in NQ Global on the modification date, was recognized from May 8, 2012 over the vesting period.

As a result, the Company totally granted 19,000,000 restricted shares, considering the 10,000,000 restricted shares that the Company granted to the Co-CEO on January 8, 2012. Of the 19,000,000 restricted shares, 9,500,000 restricted shares are subject to a four-year service condition and the remaining 9,500,000 are subject to the either specific performance or market conditions for the next four years.

The restricted shares of 9,500,000 subject to either specific performance or market conditions that become vested and non-forfeitable are up to 11,875,000 since they shall be determined on the last day of each fiscal year based on the percentage achievement of fiscal year performance goal. As of December 31, 2012, the Company determines that it is not probable that the performance conditions will be achieved for all the 9,500,000 restricted shares. As a result, the related compensation expense calculated based on the fair value on the grant date that reflects the market condition is recognized over the requisite service period using graded vesting method.

Of the 9,500,000 restricted shares that are subject to the achievement of either specific performance or market conditions, 2,521,755 restricted shares were granted and vested on December 31, 2012, since the market condition for the year ended December 31, 2012 was achieved.

On April 3, 2013, an amendment was signed among the Company, the NQ US and the Co-CEO, under which the market conditions were removed and the performance conditions was revised for the restricted shares that will vest in 2013 through 2015. This was determined to be a modification to the awards granted to the Co-CEO. There was no incremental compensation related to this modification, based on the difference between the fair value of the modified awards and the fair value of the original award immediately before the modification.

Compensation expense of US$12,330, US$6,428 and US$3,291 were recognized relating to the 19,000,000 restricted shares for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Total unrecognized compensation expenses relating to these restricted shares amounted to US$1,415 as of December 31, 2014 and are expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.0 years as of December 31, 2014.

In May 2012, the Company granted 2,875,000 restricted shares to the selling shareholder of NationSky as a result of acquiring 55% equity interest in NationSky, of which 1,725,000 restricted shares are subject to a four-year service condition. 25% of 1,725,000 will vest on the first anniversary of the acquisition date and 1/48 of 1,725,000 will vest each month over a three-year period thereafter. The remaining 1,150,000 restricted shares are subject to both service and performance conditions from year 2012 through year 2013 and will vest immediate when the performance conditions are satisfied. In July 2013, the Company granted 3,705,882 restricted shares to the selling shareholder of NationSky as a result of acquiring the remaining 45% equity interest, all of which are subject to both service and performance conditions from the year 2013 through the year 2014 and will vest immediate when the performance conditions are satisfied.

In November 2012, the Company granted 18,519,971 restricted shares to the selling shareholder of FL Mobile and Red, of which 6,173,324 restricted shares are subject to a four-year service condition. Every 25% of 6,173,324 rescheduled to vest at the end of each calendar year commencing from year of the acquisition over a four-year period. The remaining 12,346,647 restricted shares are subject to both performance and service conditions from year 2013 to year 2014 and will vest immediately when the performance conditions are satisfied. In 2013, the Company also granted 3,169,734 restricted shares, which vested immediately, to FL Mobile to reward its outstanding performance in 2013.

In March 2013, the Company granted 2,020,365 restricted shares to the selling shareholder of Fanyue for acquiring 51% of the equity interest in Fanyue, of which 808,145 restricted shares are subject to a four-year service condition. Every 25% of 808,145 will vest at the end of each calendar year commencing from year of the acquisition over a four-year period. The remaining 1,212,220 restricted shares are subject to both performance and service conditions from the year 2013 through year 2014 and will vest immediately when the performance conditions are satisfied. In September 2013, the Company granted 2,296,930 restricted shares and a variable number of restricted shares up to the maximum of 15,365,703 to the selling shareholder of Fanyue as a result of acquiring the remaining 49% equity interest, all of which are subject to both service and performance conditions from the year 2014 through the year 2015.

In September 2013, the Company granted 4,100,228 restricted shares and a variable number of restricted shares up to the maximum of 6,833,713 to the selling shareholders of Best Partners, of which 1,537,586 restricted shares are subject to a three-year service condition and will vest ratably over three-year period on each anniversary of the acquisition date. The remaining restricted shares are subject to both service conditions and performance conditions and will vest immediately when the performance conditions are satisfied.

In October 2013, the Company granted 969,977 restricted shares and a variable number of restricted shares up to the maximum of 2,781,696 to the selling shareholders of Ruifeng, of which 387,991 restricted shares are subject to a four-year service condition and will vest ratably over a four-year period on each anniversary of the acquisition date. The remaining restricted shares are subject to both performance and service conditions from the year 2013 through the year 2015 and will vest immediately when the performance conditions are satisfied.

In November 2013, the Company granted 2,888,000 restricted shares to the selling shareholders of Yinlong due to achievement of performance conditions and service conditions, which will vest ratably each fiscal quarter over a two-year period, commencing from the next fiscal quarter after performance conditions are satisfied. In May 2014, the Company granted 428,570 restricted shares to the selling shareholders of Yinlong due to the achievement of performance conditions and service conditions and in connection with acquiring the remaining 45% of the equity interest in Yinlong, which restricted shares will vest immediately when the performance and service conditions are satisfied.

In January 2014, the Company granted 948,510 restricted shares and a variable number of restricted shares up to the maximum of 3,252,030 restricted shares to the selling shareholders of Trustek for acquiring 100% of the equity interest in Trustek. These 4,200,540 restricted shares are subject to both performance and service conditions from the year 2014 through year 2015 and will vest immediately when the performance and service conditions are satisfied.

In May 2014, the Company granted 1,614,290 restricted shares to the selling shareholders of Yipai for acquiring 70% of the equity interest in Yipai. These 1,614,290 restricted shares are subject to both performance and service conditions from the year 2014 through year 2016 and vest immediately when the performance and service conditions are satisfied.

For restricted shares granted in connection with the above acquisition activities, the value of the restricted shares is determined on the fair value of the acquisition date, on which all criteria for establishing the grant dates were satisfied. The value of restricted shares subject to service condition attached is recognized as the compensation expense using the graded-vesting method. The value of restricted shares with performance conditions attached is recognized as compensation expense using the graded-vesting method only when the achievement of performance conditions becomes probable. The Company performs assessment of probability on a quarterly basis and recognizes the compensation expenses on a prospective basis.

The Company recognized compensation expenses of US$1,549, US$30,222 and US$70,710 for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. The total unrecognized compensation expenses relating to these restricted shares amounted to US$44,050 as of December 31, 2014 and are expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.1 years as of December 31, 2014.

The following tables summarize the Group’s share option activities for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014:

The aggregate intrinsic value in the table above represents the difference between the Company’s closing stock price on the last trading day of each year end and the exercise price. The total intrinsic values of options exercised during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 were US$2,707, US$7,136 and US$5,129, respectively.

Management is responsible for determining the fair value of options granted to employees and non-employees and considered a number of factors including valuations. As disclosed in Note 2(aa), the Group’s share-based compensation cost is measured at the fair value of the award as calculated under the Binomial option-pricing models.

The Company estimated the risk free rates based on the yield to maturity of China government bonds denominated in US$ as at the option respective valuation dates. Exercise multiple is estimated as the ratio of fair value of stock over the exercise price as at the time the option is exercised, based on a consideration of research study regarding exercise pattern based on historical statistical data. Multiples of 2 to 3 were used for the options granted in valuation analysis. Life of the stock options is the contract life of the option. Based on the option agreements, the contract life of the option is 10 years from respective grant date. The expected volatility at the date of grant date and each option valuation date was estimated based on historical volatility of comparable companies for the period before the grant date with length commensurate with the expected term of the options. The Group has no history or expectation of paying dividends on its common shares. The Group estimated the fair value of the common shares using the income approach or market approach when valuing options granted before IPO while closing prices of the Company’s publicly traded shares were adopted when valuing options granted in post-IPO period.

The Company recognizes share-based compensation expense net of an estimated forfeiture rate and therefore only recognizes compensation cost for those shares expected to vest over the service period of the award. The estimation of the forfeiture rate is based primarily upon historical experience of employee turnover. The Group estimated the forfeiture rate to be 16.5% and 0% for share options granted to employees and senior management, respectively, as of December 31, 2014.

The Company recorded options related share-based compensation expenses of US$8,266, US$8,536 and US$3,803 for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively, attributed using graded-vesting method over the requisite service period. Total fair values of options vested are US$7,438, US$5,961 and US$6,208, for employees and US$546, US$851 and US$1,751, for non-employee consultants during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Weighted average grant date fair values per option during the years are US$0.9066, US$0.9051 and US$0.6700, for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. The Group did not capitalize any of the share-based compensation expenses as part of the cost of any asset for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

As of December 31, 2014, there were US$2,590 unrecognized compensation expenses related to non-vested options. The expenses are expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.8 years.

The following tables summarize the Group’s restricted share activities for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014:

The fair value of restricted shares was determined by the closing sale price of the shares as quoted on the stock exchange market on the grant date. The total fair value of restricted shares vested during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 were US$4,010, US$39,517 and US$270,601 respectively, based on the fair value of the respective vesting dates.

The Group recognized restricted share related share-based compensation expenses of US$16,277, US$46,868 and US$80,041 for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. As of December 31, 2014, total unrecognized compensation expense relating to the unvested shares was US$48,798. The expense is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.2 years using the graded-vesting attribution method. The Group did not capitalize any of the share-based compensation expenses as part of the cost of any asset for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

In May 2014, the Company entered into share purchase agreements with Bison Mobile Limited and other third party investors, pursuant to which Bison Mobile Limited agreed to purchase up to 3.75% of equity interest in FL Mobile Inc., and the Company have the right but not the obligation to sell up to 2.13% of equity interest in FL Mobile Inc. to other third party investors. FL Mobile Inc. issued shares representing 4.94% of the equity interest to Bison Mobile Limited and other third party investors pursuant to the share purchase agreements entered into prior to December 31, 2014 for an aggregate consideration of US$21,603.

Under the share purchase agreements, the non-controlling shareholders will have the right to put their equity interest in FL Mobile Inc. to the Company at a pre-determined price if FL Mobile Inc. fails to conduct a qualified listing, within twelve months after the closing date. The put option will expire within three months after the first anniversary of the closing date. Since the occurrence of the put is not solely within the control of the Company, the Company classifies the non-controlling interest as mezzanine equity instead of permanent equity in the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

As of December 31, 2014, the estimated redemption value of the mezzanine equity was $21,854 pursuant to the share purchase agreements. For the year ended December 31, 2014, the accretion charge was $251, and was recorded as net income attributable to the mezzanine classified non-controlling interest shareholders in the statements of comprehensive income. See Note 2 (r)-“Mezzanine Equity”.

A Pilot Program for transition from the imposition of Business Tax to the imposition of VAT for revenues from certain industries was launched in Shanghai on January 1, 2012. Effective from September 1, 2012, the Pilot Program was expanded from Shanghai to eight other cities and provinces in China, including Beijing. Advertising revenue and other revenue from technology development and services became subject to the VAT on and after September 1, 2012 at a rate of 6%. Commencing June 1, 2014, the Pilot Program was expanded to telecommunication enterprises, and the VAT rate for value-added telecommunication services is 6%.

Prior to the Pilot Program, the Group’s operations in the PRC are subject to 3% or 5% Business Tax. Related surcharges are 12% of Business Tax. Both Business Tax and the related surcharges are recognized when the revenue is earned.

After the Pilot Program, the Group’s mobile value added services operated by domestic subsidiaries became subject to the VAT on and after June 1, 2014 at a rate of 6%. Related surcharges are 12% of VAT. Both VAT and the related surcharges are recognized when the revenue is earned.

Prior to the Pilot Program, in addition to Business Tax and related surcharges, the Group was subject to VAT at a rate of 17% for enterprise mobility revenue derived from hardware sales.

After the Pilot Program, the Group’s advertising revenue, revenues from technology development and services and revenue from value-added telecommunication services are subject to 6% VAT. The Group’s enterprise mobility revenues derived from hardware sales remain subject to VAT at a rate of 17%.

The Enterprise Income Tax Law also imposes a withholding income tax of 10% on dividends distributed by a FIE to its immediate holding company outside of China. A lower withholding income tax rate of 5% is applied if the FIE’s immediate holding company is registered in Hong Kong or other jurisdictions that have a tax treaty arrangement with China. Such withholding income tax was exempted under the previous income tax law. On February 22, 2008, the Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation jointly issued a circular which stated that for FIEs, all profits accumulated up to December 31, 2007 are exempted from withholding tax when they are distributed to foreign investors. Based on the interpretation of the current tax laws, management believes that the Company and all its non-PRC subsidiaries are not considered as a “resident enterprise” in China for corporate income tax purposes, but it cannot be certain that the relevant PRC tax authorities will agree with this determination.

As of December 31, 2013 and 2014, the Company did not record any withholding tax on the retained earnings of its FIEs in the PRC as the Company intends to reinvest all earnings in China since 2008 to further expand its business in China, and its FIEs do not intend to declare dividends on the retained earnings made since 2008 to their immediate foreign holding companies.

Under the common tax laws of the Cayman Islands, the Company is not subject to tax on its income, or capital gains, in addition, upon payment of dividends by the Company to its shareholders, no Cayman Islands withholding tax will be imposed.

Entities incorporated in Hong Kong are subject to Hong Kong profit tax at a rate at 16.5% since the beginning of 2008.

In the year of 2014, NQ US applies cost-plus method to compute the taxable income and is subject to a graduated federal corporate income tax rate. The mark-up rate applied to total cost under cost-plus method and federal corporate income tax rate for the year ended December 31, 2014 were 6% and 34%, respectively. NQ US paid income taxes of approximately US$329 for the year ended December 31, 2014.

On March 16, 2007, the National People’s Congress adopted the new Corporate Income Tax Law (the “New CIT Law”), which became effective from January 1, 2008 and replaced the previous separate income tax laws for domestic enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises by adopting a uniform income tax rate of 25%. Preferential tax treatments continue to be granted to entities that are qualified as “high and new technology enterprises strongly supported by the State”, or conducted business in encouraged sectors. An enterprise qualified as a “high and new technology enterprise” is entitled to a preferential income tax rate of 15%.

On August 3, 2005, the State Bureau of Taxation adopted the preferential tax treatments for the entities obtained the software enterprise qualification, after the New CIT Law became effective, entities qualifying software enterprise continued to be entitled to 2 years tax exemption from the first profitable year followed by 3 years preferential tax rate of 12.5%.

In addition, under the New CIT Law, dividends, interests, rent, royalties and gains on transfers of property payable by a foreign-invested enterprise in the PRC to its foreign investor who is a non-resident enterprise will be subject to withholding tax, unless such non-resident enterprise’s jurisdiction of incorporation has a tax treaty with the PRC that provides for a reduced rate of withholding tax. The withholding tax rate is 5% for the parent company in Hong Kong if the parent company is the beneficial owner of the dividend and approved by the PRC tax authority to enjoy the preferential tax benefit. The withholding tax rate is 10% for the parent company incorporated in other countries which do not have any tax treaty with the PRC. Such a withholding tax imposed on the dividend income received from the Company’s PRC entities will reduce the Company’s net income. On February 22, 2008, the Ministry of Finance and State Tax Bureau jointly issued a circular which stated that for foreign invested enterprises, all profits accumulated up to December 31, 2007 are exempted from withholding tax when they are distributed to foreign investors.

The high and new technology enterprises certificate under the New CIT Law is effective for a period of 3 years, during which the entity is entitled to enjoy a preferential tax rate of 15%. Certain PRC subsidiaries, including Beijing Technology, obtained the high and new technology certificate and the related tax holiday will expire in 2015 and 2016.

The software enterprise under the NEW CIT Law is entitled to enjoy preferential income tax treatment of income tax exemption for the first two years when it became profitable, followed by three years preferential income tax rate of 12.5%. NQ Beijing, NQ Tongzhou and FL Mobile obtained the soft enterprise certificate and the related tax holiday will expire in 2016 and 2017. Certain subsidiaries of VIEs were qualified as software enterprises, and they did not become profitable as of December 31, 2014.

An entity could re-apply for the high and new technology enterprises or software enterprise certificate when the prior certificate expires. Historically, all of the Company’s subsidiaries and VIEs successfully re-applied for the certificates when the prior ones expired.

The New CIT Law also provides that an enterprise established under the laws of foreign countries or regions but whose “de facto management body” is located in the PRC be treated as a resident enterprise for PRC tax purposes and consequently be subject to the PRC income tax at the rate of 25% for its global income. The Implementation Rules of the New CIT Law merely define the location of the “de facto management body” as “the place where the exercising, in substance, of the overall management and control of the production and business operation, personnel, accounting, properties, etc., of a non-PRC company is located.” Based on a review of surrounding facts and circumstances, the Company does not believe that it is likely that its operations outside the PRC should be considered a resident enterprise for PRC income tax purposes. However, due to limited guidance and implementation history of the New CIT Law, should the Company be treated as a resident enterprise for PRC income tax purposes, the Company will be subject to PRC income tax on worldwide income at a uniform income tax rate of 25% retroactive to January 1, 2008.

For the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, the Company did not have any material interest or penalties associated with tax positions nor did the Company have any significant unrecognized uncertain tax positions, and this analysis is not expected to change significantly over the next 12 months.

The following table presents the components of income (loss) before provision for income taxed generated by domestic or foreign operations for the periods indicated:

The current and deferred portions of income tax expense included in the Group’s consolidated statements of comprehensive income are as follows:

Reconciliation between the PRC statutory CIT rate of 25% for 2012, 2013 and 2014 and the Company’s effective tax rate is as follows:

The combined effects of the income tax expense exemption and reduction available to us are as follows:

Deferred income tax was measured using the enacted income tax rates for the periods in which they are expected to be reversed. Significant components of the Group’s deferred income tax assets and liabilities consist of as follows:

As of December 31, 2014, the Group had net operating losses of approximately US$26,252, primarily derived from entities in the PRC and Hong Kong, which can be carried forward after certain reconciliation per tax regulation to offset future net profit for income tax purposes. The PRC net operating loss will expire beginning January 1, 2018; and the Hong Kong net operating loss can be carried forward without an expiration date. In general, the PRC tax authorities have up to five years to conduct examinations of the tax filings. Accordingly, the PRC subsidiaries’ tax years 2010 through 2014 remain open to examination by the PRC tax authorities.

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted (loss)/earnings per share indicated for the periods presented:

6,735,642 and 33,678,210 common shares resulting from the assumed conversions of 4% Convertible Senior Notes (Note 17) were excluded from the calculation of diluted net (loss)/earnings per share for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2014, as their effect is anti-dilutive.

In October 2013, the Company issued US$172.5 million in aggregate principle amount of 4.00% Convertible Senior Notes due October 15, 2018 (the “Notes”) at par. The Notes may be converted, under certain circumstances, based on an initial conversion rate of 39.0472 American depository shares (“ADSs”) per US$1,000 principal amount of the Notes (which represents an initial conversion price of US$25.61 per ADS).

The Notes are the Company’s general unsecured obligations that rank (1) senior in right of payment to all of the Company’s indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes, (2) equal in right of payment with all of the Company’s liabilities that are not so subordinated, (3) effectively junior to any of the Company’s secured indebtedness to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness, and (4) structurally junior to all indebtedness and other liabilities of the Company’s subsidiaries and consolidated affiliated entities.

The main terms of the Notes and corresponding assessment of the accounting treatments are summarized as follows:

Redemption at the option of the holders. The holders may require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of the Notes for cash on October 15, 2016, or upon a Fundamental Change (As defined in Exhibit 2.6), at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the repurchase date or fundamental change purchase date.

In accordance with ASC 815-10-15-83, the redemption option exercisable on October 15, 2016 or upon a Fundamental Change meets the definition of a derivative instrument. However, it does not meet the requirement of bifurcation because it is considered clearly and closely related to its debt host in accordance with ASC 815-15-25-1, since the Notes were issued at par and will be settled at par plus accrued and unpaid interest if the debt holders elect to exercise the redemption option. Additionally, the Notes holder would recover all of their initial investment and there are no interest rate scenarios under which the redemption option would double the Notes holder’s initial rate of return.

Redemption at the option of the Company. On or after October 20, 2016, the Company may redeem all or portion of the Debts for cash, at its option, if the last reported sale price of its ADSs has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive trading day period ending on, and including, the trading day immediately prior to the date the Company provided the notices of redemption (the “embedded redemption feature”). The Company must provide notice of redemption not less than 30 nor more than 60 calendar days before the redemption date to the trustee, the paying agent and each holder of the debts. The redemption price will equal 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, to, but excluding the redemption date.

In accordance with ASC 815-10-15-83, the embedded redemption feature (“Call option”) meets the definition of a derivative instrument. Since the exercisability of the call option is contingent upon the stock price other than interest risk and credit risk, the call option meets the requirement of bifurcation in accordance with ASC 815-15-25-41.

The Company continues to believe bifurcation of the contingent call option is acceptable under ASC 815-15. However, considering the SEC comment letters dated January 15, 2014 and March 3, 2014 as well as subsequent discussion with the SEC Staff on this matter, the Company agreed that an acceptable alternative treatment is not to bifurcate the contingent call option and understood this treatment is a prevailing practice. The Company believes bifurcation of the call option adds additional complexities to its financial reporting without adding significant value to the readers of its financial statements. To enhance comparability, the Company has decided to change the method of its accounting for the embedded call option and will not separately account for the embedded call option in its 2013 financial statements.

Conversion. The conversion rate is initially 39.0472 ADSs per US$1,000 principal amount, which represents a conversion price of approximately US$25.61 per ADS, subject to adjustment under certain circumstances for issuance of share dividends, issuance of rights or warrants, subdivisions or combination of capital stock, indebtedness, or assets, cash dividends and issue tender or exchange offers. The Notes are convertible at any time prior to maturity. In addition, upon a Make-Whole Fundamental Change (As defined in Exhibit 2.6), the Company will, under certain circumstances, increase the applicable conversion rate for a holder that elects to convert its Notes in connection with such a Make-Whole Fundamental Change.

In accordance with ASC 815-10-15-83, the conversion option meets the definition of a derivative instrument. However, bifurcation of conversion option from the debt host is not required because the conversion option meets ASC 815 scope exception, as the conversion option is considered indexed to the Company’s own stock and classified in stockholders’ equity.

There was no beneficial conversion feature attributable to the Notes as the set conversion price of the Notes was greater than the fair value of the common share price at the date of issuance.

The debt holders have the option to convert the Notes to shares upon the Make-Whole Fundamental Change. The number of shares issuable upon conversion in connection with the Make-Whole Fundamental Change will be increased. The Company will assess the contingent beneficial conversion feature at the time when the Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs.

Accounting for Convertible Senior Notes and issuance cost are summarized as follows:

The Company has accounted for the Notes in accordance with ASC 470-20, as a single instrument as a non-current liability. The Notes are initially carried at the gross cash received at the issuance date.

The net proceeds the Company received from the issuance of the Notes were US$166,395. The Company will pay cash interest at an annual rate of 4.00% on the Notes, payable semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year, beginning on April 15, 2014.

Debt issuance costs were US$6,834, which comprises of underwriter fees, professional fees paid to accounting and legal consultants and other miscellaneous expenses occurred specifically for the debts. Debt issuance costs are initially capitalized as deferred charges in other non-current assets and are amortized as interest expenses over the period of three years from the inception date of the Notes to the first redemption date, using the effective interest method.

The interest expense included in the consolidated statements of operations is as follows:

As of October 26, 2014, the Company had accrued the additional interest of US$386 at the rate of 0.5% per annum, due to the Company’s failure to file its form 20-F on time.

On May 5, 2011, the Company completed its IPO of a total of 7,750,000 ADS with a gross proceed of US$89,125 and the Variation of Capital described above was effective as of the same date. Immediately following the closing of the IPO, the Company had 38,750,000 outstanding Class A common shares represented by 7,750,000 ADSs and all of the Company’s 114,637,272 outstanding Preferred Shares were converted into Class B common shares immediately as of the same date.

Holders of Class A common shares and Class B common shares have the same rights except for the following:

(a) Holders of Class A common shares are entitled to one vote per share, while holders of Class B common shares are entitled to ten votes per share.

(b) Each Class B common share is convertible into one Class A common share at any time by the holder thereof. Class A common shares are not convertible into Class B common shares under any circumstances.

(c) Upon any transfer of Class B common shares by a holder thereof to any person or entity which is not an affiliate of such holder and which is not any of the founders or any affiliates of the founders of the Company, such Class B common shares shall be automatically and immediately converted into equal number of Class A common shares.

On June 28, 2013, the Company entered into share purchase arrangements to make a private placement of 7,500,000 Class A common shares to Atlantis Investment Management Ltd. On July 16, 2013, Atlantis Investment Management Ltd., through certain of its managed funds, purchased from the Company 7,500,000 Class A common shares for a total cash consideration of US$12,000.

The common shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of the share-based awards were 67,232,942, 75,313,987 and 86,562,934 for years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

On November 25, 2012, the board of directors authorized the Company to repurchase up to an aggregate of US$20,000 of the Company’s shares. Effective as of June 30, 2013, the board of directors authorized expanding the share repurchase plan from US$20,000 to US$35,000 and extending the plan for another six months until May 26, 2014. Under the modified share repurchase plan, the Company may repurchase up to US$35,000 worth of its outstanding ADSs over the period from November 26, 2012 through May 26, 2014. As of May 26, 2014, the Company repurchased 6,738,245 common shares on the open market with an aggregate price of approximately US$12,440.

On December 23, 2014, the board of directors authorized the Company to repurchase up to an aggregate of US$80,000 of the Company’s shares over the next 12 months. As of December 31, 2014, the Company repurchased 12,885,235 common shares under this authorization on the open market with an aggregate price of approximately US$11,312.

During 2014, the Company repurchased 14,977,235 common shares on the open market with an aggregate price of approximately US$15,726. In addition, 2,468,830 common shares were re-issued from treasury stock.

Accumulated other comprehensive income solely comes from foreign currency translation, the balance of which reflected on the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2013 and 2014 are US$8,039 and US$8,379, respectively.

The Group’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) has been identified as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer who review financial information of the operating segments based on US GAAP amounts when making decisions about allocating resources and assessing performance of the Group.

Prior to 2012, the Group principally engaged in consumer mobile security and other services and operated and managed its business as one single segment, with information provided to the Company’s CODM at the net income (loss) level. Commencing from the Second quarter of 2012, the Group expanded its business through acquisitions into mobile games, advertising services, enterprise mobility and live mobile social video platform.

To optimize the management of operations, the Company’s CODM categorizes consumer mobile security, mobile games, advertising, live mobile social video platform and other services into Consumer segment and reviews the operating performance at net income (loss) level. Enterprise mobility, which mainly includes hardware sales and technology and software development, constitutes of Enterprise segment by itself. Its operating performance is also reviewed by the Company’s CODM on net income (loss) level.

The table below sets forth related parties having transactions for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, or balances as of December 31, 2013 and 2014 with the Group.

Details of major related party balances as of December 31, 2013 and 2014 and main transactions for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 are as follows:

The Group has entered into various operating lease agreements principally for its office spaces in Mainland China and the United States. Rental expenses under operating leases for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 were US$1,336, US$2,522 and US$4,449, respectively.

The future obligations for operating leases as of December 31, 2014 are as follows:

On October 25, 2013, a putative shareholder class action lawsuit against the Company, Kostuk v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 12712 (D. Mass.), was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Shortly thereafter, six more putative shareholder class action suits against the Company and certain current and former directors and officers of the Company were filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York: Ho v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7608 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on October 28, 2013); Ghauri v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7637 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on October 29, 2013); Pang v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7685 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on October 30, 2013); Hiller v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7713 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on October 30, 2013); Gangaramani v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7858 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on November 5, 2013); Martin v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 8125 (S.D.N.Y.) (filed on November 14, 2013). On December 2, 2013, another putative shareholder class action suit against the Company and certain current and former directors and officers of the Company, Hsieh v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 1048 (E.D. Tex.), was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. On January 6, 2014, Kostuk v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 12712 (D. Mass.), was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff. On April 9, 2014, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York consolidated the six putative shareholder class action suits filed in that court under the caption, In re NQ Mobile, Inc. Securities Litigation, Civil Action No. 13 CIV 7608 (S.D.N.Y.) (“In re NQ Mobile, Inc. Securities Litigation”), and appointed a lead plaintiff. On May 13, 2014, Hsieh v. NQ Mobile, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 13 CIV 1048 (E.D. Tex.), was transferred from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was accepted by the Southern District of New York as related to the consolidated putative shareholder class action, In re NQ Mobile, Inc. Securities Litigation.

On July 21, 2014, the lead plaintiff in In re NQ Mobile, Inc. Securities Litigation filed a Consolidated Class Action Complaint (the “Consolidated Complaint”) against the Company, former co-chief executive officer Henry Yu Lin, co-chief executive officer Omar Sharif Khan, chief operating officer and acting chief financial officer Vincent Wenyong Shi, former chief financial officer Suhai Ji, former chief financial officer Kian Bin Teo (collectively the “NQ Defendants”), and the Company’s former auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers ZhongTian LLP and its affiliate, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited. Similar to the previously filed complaints, the Consolidated Complaint alleges that various press releases, financial statements and other related disclosures made by the Company during the alleged class period contained material misstatements and omissions, in violation of the federal securities laws, and that such press releases, financial statements and other related disclosures artificially inflated the value of the Company’s ADSs. The Consolidated Complaint states that the lead plaintiff seeks to represent a class of persons who allegedly suffered damages as a result of their trading activities related to the Company’s ADSs from March 6, 2013 to July 3, 2014, and, similar to previous complaints filed in the putative class actions, alleges violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78(b) and 78t(a), and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, 17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5 (2013).

On March 3, 2015, the Company notified the court that the lead plaintiff and the NQ Defendants had reached an agreement in principle to settle the claims against the NQ Defendants for $5.1 million, subject to court approval. This will not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements as it is covered by insurance. The Company continues to believe that the cases against the NQ Defendants are without merit. Should the settlement agreement not be approved or concluded for any reason, the Company intends to defend the actions vigorously. For risks and uncertainties relating to the pending cases against the Company, please see “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—We have been named as a defendant in putative shareholder class action lawsuits that could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition, results of operation, cash flows and reputation.”

In October 2013, Beijing NQ Technologies Co., Ltd. filed an application to Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court against Muddy Waters LLC, which issued reports containing various allegations against the Company.

The Company records accruals for certain of its outstanding legal proceedings or claims when it is probable that a liability will be incurred and the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated. The Company evaluates, on a quarterly basis, developments in legal proceedings or claims that could affect the amount of any accrual, as well as any developments that would make a loss contingency both probable and reasonably estimable. The Company discloses the amount of the accrual if it is material.

When a loss contingency is not both probable and estimable, the Company does not record an accrued liability but discloses the nature and the amount of the claim, if material. However, if the loss (or an additional loss in excess of the accrual) is at least reasonably possible, then the Company discloses an estimate of the loss or range of loss, if such estimate can be made and material, or states that such estimate is immaterial if it can be estimated but immaterial, or discloses that an estimate cannot be made. The assessments of whether a loss is probable or reasonably possible, and whether the loss or a range of loss is estimable, often involve complex judgments about future events. Management is often unable to estimate the loss or a range of loss, particularly where (i) the damages sought are indeterminate, (ii) the proceedings are in the early stages, or (iii) there is a lack of clear or consistent interpretation of laws specific to the industry-specific complaints among different jurisdictions. In such cases, there is considerable uncertainty regarding the timing or ultimate resolution of such matters, including eventual loss, fine, penalty or business impact, if any.

In January of 2015, the Group entered into a debt-to-equity agreement with Hesine Technologies, Inc. (“Hesine”) and Hesine Technologies International Worldwide Inc. (“Hissage”) to convert the loan to Hesine, which is amount to RMB29,333 (US$4,728), to equity shares. After this transaction, the Group will hold 48.34% of equity interest of Hissage. The Group is still in process of assessing the accounting treatment of this transaction.

In March of 2015, FL Mobile entered into an investment agreement with Ningbo Taiyue Wutong Investment Management Limited (“Taiyuewutong”) as a limited partner. Under this agreement, FL Mobile would invest RMB20,000 (US$3,269) to exchange for 17.54% of the equity interest of Ningbo Taiyue Wutong Investment Limited Partnership (“Taiyue Fund”). The Group is still in process of assessing the accounting treatment of this transaction.

In January and February of 2015, the Group repurchased 1,689,000 common shares on the open market with an aggregate price of approximately US$1,299.

On January 30, 2015, the Company granted 2,079,020 restricted shares with a total value of US$1,426 to an employee. The value of the restricted share is calculated based on the grant date fair value.

In March of 2015, FL Mobile entered into two bridge loan agreements with two PRC entities with amounts of RMB12,000 (US$1,961) and RMB12,000 (US$1,961) , respectively. Both of the loans have annual interest rates of 5% and will be matured six months after the lending date if no share purchase agreements are signed within six months after the lending date. These two PRC entities are both online game content providers. The Group is still in process of assessing the accounting treatment of this transaction.

(e) Amendment to the Share Purchase Agreements with Bison Mobile Limited and other third party investors

In March of 2015, the Company entered into an amendment agreement to Share Purchase Agreements with Bison Mobile Limited and other third party investors which further amended each of the references to “Qualified IPO” in the agreements to “Qualified Listing.” For the purpose of share purchase agreements, a Qualified Listing means any transaction that results in the listing of the business of FL Mobile Inc. on an internationally recognized stock exchange, including but not limited to a traditional, underwritten initial public offering on an internationally recognized stock exchange, sale of FL Mobile Inc. or its business to a company already listed on an internationally recognized stock exchange, or a reverse merger transaction pursuant to which FL Mobile Inc. sells substantially all its equity interests or assets in exchange for the controlling shares in a company already listed on an internationally recognized stock exchange.

Relevant PRC statutory laws and regulations permit payments of dividends by the Company’s PRC subsidiaries, VIE and VIE’s subsidiaries only from their retained earnings, if any, determined in accordance with PRC GAAP. In addition, the Company’s subsidiary, VIE and VIE’s subsidiaries in China are required to make annual appropriations of 10% of after-tax profit to general reserve fund or statutory surplus fund. As a result of these PRC laws and regulations, the Company’s PRC subsidiary, VIE and VIE’s subsidiaries are restricted in their abilities to transfer net assets to the Company in the form of dividends, loans or advances. Total restricted net assets of the Company’s PRC subsidiary, VIE and VIE’s subsidiaries were US$93,496 or 16.7% of the Company’s total consolidated net assets as of December 31, 2014. Even though the Company currently does not require any such dividends, loans or advances from the PRC subsidiaries, VIE and VIE’s subsidiaries for working capital and other funding purposes, the Company may in the future require additional cash resources from its PRC subsidiaries and VIEs due to changes in business conditions, to fund future acquisitions and developments, or merely declare and pay dividends to or distributions to the Company’s shareholders.


Title of Each Class		Name of Exchange on Which Registered
Class A common shares, par value US$0.0001 per share		New York Stock Exchange*


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INTRODUCTION			1

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS			2

PART I			3

ITEM 1.	IDENTITY OF DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND ADVISORS		3
ITEM 2.	OFFER STATISTICS AND EXPECTED TIMETABLE		3
ITEM 3.	KEY INFORMATION		3
ITEM 4.	INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY		40
ITEM 4A	UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS		58
ITEM 5.	OPERATING AND FINANCIAL REVIEW AND PROSPECTS		58
ITEM 6.	DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES		84
ITEM 7.	MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS		95
ITEM 8.	FINANCIAL INFORMATION		99
ITEM 9.	THE OFFER AND LISTING		101
ITEM 10.	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION		102
ITEM 11.	QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK		110
ITEM 12.	DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES OTHER THAN EQUITY SECURITIES		111

PART II			113

ITEM 13.	DEFAULTS, DIVIDEND ARREARAGES AND DELINQUENCIES		113
ITEM 14.	MATERIAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE RIGHTS OF SECURITY HOLDERS AND USE OF PROCEEDS		113
ITEM 15.	CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES		113
ITEM 16.	[RESERVED]		115
ITEM 16A.	AUDIT COMMITTEE FINANCIAL EXPERT		115
ITEM 16B.	CODE OF ETHICS		115
ITEM 16C.	PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES		115
ITEM 16D.	EXEMPTIONS FROM THE LISTING STANDARDS FOR AUDIT COMMITTEES		116
ITEM 16F.	CHANGE IN REGISTRANT’S CERTIFYING ACCOUNTANT		116
ITEM 16G.	CORPORATE GOVERNANCE		116
ITEM 16H.	MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE		117

PART III			118

ITEM 17.	FINANCIAL STATEMENTS		118
ITEM 18.	FINANCIAL STATEMENTS		118
ITEM 19.	EXHIBITS		118


	For the Year Ended December 31,
	2010			2011			2012			2013			2014
	(in thousands of dollars, except for share, per share and per ADS data)
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income Data:
Net revenues:
Service Revenues
Mobile value added services		15,268			36,202			68,335			103,519			106,103
Advertising services		—			4,306			8,889			36,623			72,903
Enterprise mobility		—			—			3,249			14,174			16,035
Other services		2,427			163			1,992			3,559			4,641
Product Revenues
Enterprise mobility		—			—			9,303			38,827			132,642

Total net revenues		17,695			40,671			91,768			196,702			332,324

Cost of revenues
Cost of services		(5,193	)		(8,057	)		(16,773	)		(43,557	)		(98,235	)
Cost of products sold		—			—			(8,966	)		(37,371	)		(128,416	)

Total cost of revenues ⁽¹⁾		(5,193	)		(8,057	)		(25,739	)		(80,928	)		(226,651	)

Gross profit		12,502			32,614			66,029			115,774			105,673

Operating expenses:
Selling and marketing expenses ⁽¹⁾		(4,436	)		(7,955	)		(17,396	)		(25,810	)		(29,962	)
General and administrative expenses ⁽¹⁾		(14,750	)		(14,024	)		(36,776	)		(77,026	)		(131,001	)
Research and development expenses ⁽¹⁾		(2,959	)		(5,095	)		(9,585	)		(17,437	)		(25,665	)

Total operating expenses		(22,145	)		(27,074	)		(63,757	)		(120,273	)		(186,628	)

(Loss)/Income from operations		(9,643	)		5,540			2,272			(4,499	)		(80,955	)

Interest income/(expense)		234			1,342			3,193			411			(5,360	)
Realized gain/(loss) on available-for-sale investments		(102	)		29			—			5			65
Impairment on equity investments		—			—			—			—			(5,967	)
Foreign exchange (loss)/gain, net		(46	)		3,011			67			1,784			(391	)
Gain on change of interest in an associate		—			—			943			—			—


	For the Year Ended December 31,
	2010			2011			2012			2013			2014
	(in thousands of dollars, except for share, per share and per ADS data)
Other income, net		135			306			3,364			2,083			19,514

(Loss)/Income before income taxes		(9,422	)		10,228			9,839			(216	)		(73,094	)

Income tax expense		(401	)		(97	)		(420	)		(1,117	)		(5,518	)
Share of (loss)/profit from an associate		(7	)		119			543			—			—

Net (loss)/income		(9,830	)		10,250			9,962			(1,333	)		(78,612	)

Net loss/(income) attributable to the non-controlling interest		3			1			(532	)		(523	)		2,125
Net income attributable to the mezzanine classified non-controlling interest		—			—			—			—			(251	)

Net (loss)/income attributable to NQ Mobile Inc.		(9,827	)		10,251			9,430			(1,856	)		(76,738	)

Accretion of redeemable convertible preferred shares		(1,533	)		(535	)		—			—			—
Beneficial conversion feature of redeemable convertible preferred shares		(5,693	)		—			—			—			—
Allocation of net income to participating preferred shareholders		—			(1,595	)		—			—			—

Net (loss)/income attributable to common shareholders		(17,053	)		8,121			9,430			(1,856	)		(76,738	)

Net (loss)/income		(9,830	)		10,250			9,962			(1,333	)		(78,612	)

Other comprehensive income
Foreign currency translation adjustments		689			1,249			390			4,808			362
Disposal of available-for-sale investments		(42	)		—			—			—			—

Comprehensive (loss)/income		(9,183	)		11,499			10,352			3,475			(78,250	)

Comprehensive loss/(income) attributable to the non-controlling interest		3			1			(532	)		(523	)		2,103
Comprehensive income attributable to the mezzanine classified non-controlling interest		—			—			—			—			(251	)

Comprehensive (loss)/income attributable to NQ Mobile Inc.		(9,180	)		11,500			9,820			2,952			(76,398	)

Net (loss)/earnings per Class A and Class B common shares
Basic		(0.34	)		0.05			0.04			(0.01	)		(0.19	)
Diluted		(0.34	)		0.04			0.04			(0.01	)		(0.19	)
Net (loss)/earnings per ADS ⁽²⁾
Basic		(1.72	)		0.23			0.20			(0.03	)		(0.95	)
Diluted		(1.72	)		0.21			0.18			(0.03	)		(0.95	)
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding
Basic		49,683,230			173,373,462			235,257,651			273,981,547			403,443,828
Diluted		49,683,230			193,537,974			255,722,551			273,981,547			403,443,828


	For the Year Ended December 31,
	2010		2011		2012		2013		2014
	(in thousands of dollars)
Cost of revenues		19		130		214		370		263
Selling and marketing expenses		102		1,923		2,342		2,310		1,430
General and administrative expenses		12,299		7,895		20,534		50,708		81,129
Research and development expenses		146		724		1,453		2,016		1,022


	As of December 31,
	2010			2011		2012		2013		2014
	(in thousands of dollars)
Summary Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:
Cash and cash equivalents		17,966			69,510		18,862		179,718		152,984
Total current assets		44,611			156,258		199,856		417,292		420,285
Total assets		48,404			160,482		247,718		609,362		833,808
Total current liabilities		5,562			12,231		32,286		93,883		93,238
Total liabilities		5,749			12,231		34,369		269,206		274,897
Mezzanine equity		—			—		—		—		21,854
Total shareholders’ (deficit)/equity		(8,323	)		148,251		213,349		340,156		537,057


	For the Three Months Ended December 31,
	2010		2011		2012		2013
	(in millions)
Average monthly active user accounts (excluding FL Mobile average monthly active user accounts)		25.4		52.3		97.7		136.0
FL Mobile average monthly active user accounts		—		—		12.5		20.4
Total average monthly active user accounts		25.4		52.3		110.2		156.4
Average monthly paying user accounts		3.2		5.6		8.9		—
Average monthly premium user accounts		—		—		—		15.6


	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2012						2013						2014
	US$			%			US$			%			US$			%
	(in thousands of dollars, except for percentages)
Net Revenues⁽¹⁾
Service Revenues ⁽¹⁾
Mobile value added services		68,335			74.5			103,519			52.6			106,103			31.9
Advertising services		8,889			9.7			36,623			18.6			72,903			21.9
Enterprise mobility		3,249			3.5			14,174			7.2			16,035			4.9
Other services		1,992			2.1			3,559			1.8			4,641			1.4
Product Revenues
Enterprise mobility		9,303			10.2			38,827			19.8			132,642			39.9

Total net revenues		91,768			100.0			196,702			100.0			332,324			100.0

Cost of revenues
Cost of services		(16,773	)		(18.2	)		(43,557	)		(22.1	)		(98,235	)		(29.6	)
Cost of products sold		(8,966	)		(9.8	)		(37,371	)		(19.0	)		(128,416	)		(38.6	)

Total cost of revenues ⁽²⁾		(25,739	)		(28.0	)		(80,928	)		(41.1	)		(226,651	)		(68.2	)

Gross profit		66,029			72.0			115,774			58.9			105,673			31.8

Operating expenses
Selling and marketing expenses ⁽²⁾		(17,396	)		(19.0	)		(25,810	)		(13.1	)		(29,962	)		(9.0	)
General and administrative expenses ⁽²⁾		(36,776	)		(40.1	)		(77,026	)		(39.2	)		(131,001	)		(39.4	)
Research and development expenses ⁽²⁾		(9,585	)		(10.4	)		(17,437	)		(8.9	)		(25,665	)		(7.8	)

Total operating expenses		(63,757	)		(69.5	)		(120,273	)		(61.1	)		(186,628	)		(56.2	)

Income/(Loss) from operations		2,272			2.5			(4,499	)		(2.3	)		(80,955	)		(24.4	)

Interest income/(expense)		3,193			3.5			411			0.2			(5,360	)		(1.6	)
Realized gain on available-for-sale investments		—			—			5			0.0			65			0.0
Impairment on equity investments		—			—			—			—			(5,967	)		(1.8	)
Foreign exchange gain/(loss), net		67			0.1			1,784			0.9			(391	)		(0.1	)
Gain on change of interest in an associate		943			1.0			—			—			—			—
Other income, net		3,364			3.7			2,083			1.1			19,514			5.9

Income/(Loss) before income taxes		9,839			10.8			(216	)		(0.1	)		(73,094	)		(22.0	)

Income tax expense		(420	)		(0.5	)		(1,117	)		(0.6	)		(5,518	)		(1.7	)


	For the Year Ended December 31, 2014
	Consumer			Enterprise			Consolidated
	(in thousands of US$)
Net Revenues
Service revenues
Mobile value added services		106,103			—			106,103
Advertising services		72,903			—			72,903
Enterprise mobility		—			16,035			16,035
Other services		4,641			—			4,641
Product revenues
Enterprise mobility		—			132,642			132,642

Total Net Revenues		183,647			148,677			332,324


Cost of revenues		(92,172	)		(134,479	)		(226,651	)

Gross profit		91,475			14,198			105,673

Operating expenses
Sales and marketing expenses		(25,307	)		(4,655	)		(29,962	)
General and administrative expenses		(126,491	)		(4,510	)		(131,001	)
Research and development expenses		(17,905	)		(7,760	)		(25,665	)

Total operating expenses		(169,703	)		(16,925	)		(186,628	)

(Loss) from operations		(78,228	)		(2,727	)		(80,955	)

Interest (expense)/ income		(5,382	)		22			(5,360	)
Realized gain on available-for-sale investments		65			—			65
Investment impairment		(5,967	)		—			(5,967	)
Foreign currency exchange (loss)/gain, net		(391	)		—			(391	)
Other income/(expense), net		18,389			1,125			19,514

(Loss)/Income before income taxes		(71,514	)		(1,580	)		(73,094	)

Income tax (expenses)/benefit		(5,766	)		248			(5,518	)

Net loss		(77,280	)		(1,332	)		(78,612	)

	For the Year Ended December 31, 2013
	Consumer			Enterprise			Consolidated
	(in thousands of US$)
Net Revenues
Service revenues
Mobile value added services		103,519			—			103,519
Advertising services		36,623			—			36,623
Enterprise mobility		—			14,174			14,174
Other services		3,559			—			3,559
Product revenues
Enterprise mobility		—			38,827			38,827

Total Net Revenues		143,701			53,001			196,702

Cost of revenues		(41,430	)		(39,498	)		(80,928	)

Gross profit		102,271			13,503			115,774

Operating expenses
Sales and marketing expenses		(23,143	)		(2,667	)		(25,810	)
General and administrative expenses		(74,966	)		(2,060	)		(77,026	)
Research and development expenses		(15,063	)		(2,374	)		(17,437	)

Total operating expenses		(113,172	)		(7,101	)		(120,273	)

(Loss)/Income from operations		(10,901	)		6,402			(4,499	)

Interest income		393			18			411
Realized gain on available-for-sale investments		5			—			5


Foreign currency exchange gain/(loss), net	1,784		—		1,784
Other income/(expense), net	2,073		10		2,083

(Loss)/Income before income taxes	(6,646	)	6,430		(216	)

Income tax expense	(555	)	(562	)	(1,117	)

Net (loss)/income	(7,201	)	5,868		(1,333	)


	For the Year Ended December 31, 2012
	Consumer			Enterprise			Consolidated
	(in thousands of US$)
Net Revenues
Service revenues
Mobile value added services		68,335			—			68,335
Advertising services		8,889			—			8,889
Enterprise mobility		—			3,249			3,249
Other services		1,992			—			1,992
Product revenues
Enterprise mobility		—			9,303			9,303

Total Net Revenues		79,216			12,552			91,768

Cost of revenues		(16,352	)		(9,387	)		(25,739	)

Gross profit		62,864			3,165			66,029

Operating expenses
Sales and marketing expenses		(16,917	)		(479	)		(17,396	)
General and administrative expenses		(35,977	)		(799	)		(36,776	)
Research and development expenses		(8,995	)		(590	)		(9,585	)

Total operating expenses		(61,889	)		(1,868	)		(63,757	)

Income from operations		975			1,297			2,272

Interest income/(expense)		3,207			(14	)		3,193
Foreign currency exchange gain/(loss), net		67			—			67
Gain on change of interest in an associate		943			—			943
Other income/(expense), net		3,374			(10	)		3,364
Income before income taxes		8,566			1,273			9,839

Income tax expense		(331	)		(89	)		(420	)

Share of profit from an associate		543			—			543

Net income		8,778			1,184			9,962


	Payment Due by Period
	Total		Less Than 1 Year		1-3 Years		3-5 Years		More Than 5 Years
	(in thousands of dollars)
Operating Lease Obligations ⁽¹⁾		14,015		5,902		7,566		547		—
Long-term borrowings ⁽²⁾		200,100		6,900		13,800		179,400		—


Name	Age		Position/Title
Vincent Wenyong Shi, Ph.D		37	Chairman, Chief Operating Officer, Acting Chief Financial Officer
ZeminXu		51	Director, Co-Chief Executive Officer, President
Omar Sharif Khan		40	Director, Co-Chief Executive Officer
Xu Zhou		46	Director
Jun Zhang		50	Independent Director
William Tiewei Li		51	Independent Director
Max Yao		44	Independent Director
Justin Chen		44	Independent Director
Roland Wu		38	Independent Director
Chun Ding		43	Independent Director
Gavin Kim		39	Chief Product Officer
Matthew Mathison		37	Vice President, Capital Markets


Operating Division	Number of Employees		Percentage of Total
General and administration		245		14.1	%
Research and development		773		44.4	%
Operations		298		17.1	%
Business development		426		24.4	%

Total		1742		100	%


	Class A Common Shares Beneficially Owned				Class B Common Shares Beneficially Owned				Total Common Shares Beneficially Owned				Total Voting Power
	Number		% ⁽¹⁾		Number		% ⁽²⁾		Number ⁽³⁾		% ⁽⁴⁾		% ⁽⁵⁾
Directors and Executive Officers:**
Vincent Wenyong Shi ⁽⁶⁾		1,197,500		0.3		54,602,941		100.0		55,800,441		12.4		58.1
Zemin Xu ⁽⁷⁾		—		—		*		*		*		*		*
Omar Sharif Khan ⁽⁸⁾		6,814,460		1.7		—		—		6,814,460		1.5		0.8
Xu Zhou ⁽⁹⁾		438,220		0.1		50,352,941		100.0		50,791,161		11.4		56.0
Jun Zhang ⁽¹⁰⁾		*		*		—		—		*		*		*
William Tiewei Li ⁽¹¹⁾		*		*		—		—		*		*		*
Max Yao		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Justin Chen		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Roland Wu		—		—		—		—		—		—		—
Chun Ding ⁽¹²⁾		23,399,830		5.9		—		—		23,399,830		5.2		2.6
Gavin Kim ⁽¹³⁾		*		*		—		—		*		*		*
Matthew Mathison⁽¹⁴⁾		*		*		—		—		*		*		*
All Directors and Executive Officers as a group		33,962,036		8.5		55,602,941		100.0		89,564,977		19.8		61.9
Principal Shareholders:
RPL Holdings Limited ⁽¹⁵⁾		—		—		50,352,941		100.0		50,352,941		11.3		55.9
GSR Ventures Funds ⁽¹⁶⁾		7,189,600		1.8		10,000,004		19.9		17,189,604		3.8		11.9
CRCM Institutional Master Fund (BVI), Ltd. ⁽¹⁷⁾		23,399,830		5.9		—		—		23,399,830		5.2		2.6
Capital Ventures International⁽¹⁸⁾		15,919,600		4.0		—		—		15,919,600		3.6		1.8


	Trading Price
	High		Low
	US$		US$
2011 (from May 5, 2011)
Full Year		11.90		3.46
2012
Full Year		12.70		5.07
2013
Full Year		25.90		5.92
First Quarter		10.68		5.92
Second Quarter		9.90		7.05


Third Quarter	24.10	8.10
Fourth Quarter	25.90	7.58
2014
Full Year	22.33	3.45
First Quarter	22.33	13.40
Second Quarter	18.39	5.58
Third Quarter	8.44	3.45
Fourth Quarter	10.69	3.45
October	10.69	6.54
November	7.88	6.60
December	7.12	3.45
2015
January	4.73	3.22
February	4.31	3.31
March (through March 15)	4.1	3.42


Service		Fees
• Issuance of ADSs, including issuances resulting from a distribution of shares or rights or other property		Up to US$0.05 per ADS issued

• Cancellation of ADSs, including the case of termination of the deposit agreement		Up to US$0.05 per ADS cancelled

• Distribution of cash dividends or other cash distributions		Up to US$0.05 per ADS held

• Distribution of ADSs pursuant to share dividends, free share distributions or exercise of rights.		Up to US$0.05 per ADS held

• Distribution of securities other than ADSs or rights to purchase additional ADSs		A fee equivalent to the fee that would be payable if securities distributed to you had been common shares and the common shares had been deposited for issuance of ADSs

• Depositary services		Up to US$0.05 per ADS held on the applicable record date(s) established by the depositary bank

• Transfer of ADSs		US$1.50 per certificate presented for transfer


	Page
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		F-2
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2013 and 2014		F-3
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income / (Loss) for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014		F-4
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014		F-5
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014		F-6
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements		F-7


			As of December 31,
	Notes		2013			2014
			US$			US$
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents				179,718			152,984
Term deposits				103,331			116,284
Restricted cash				—			3,767
Accounts receivable, net of allowance of US$3,918 and US$8,892 as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively				81,908			88,691
Inventory		5		8,443			13,135
Deferred tax assets, current portion				1,131			1,288
Prepaid expenses and other current assets (including US$8,914 and US$6,781 of prepayment to related parties as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)		6		42,761			44,136

Total current assets				417,292			420,285

Non-current assets:
Equity investments, net		7		81,972			35,249
Property and equipment, net		8		3,615			5,984
Intangible assets, net		9		18,533			33,890
Goodwill		10		76,020			320,424
Deferred tax assets, non-current portion		15		278			167
Other non-current assets (including US$344 and US$352 of prepayment to related parties as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)				11,652			17,809

Total Assets				609,362			833,808

LIABILITIES, MEZZANINE EQUITY AND EQUITY
LIABILITIES
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable* (including accounts payable of US$54 and US$0 to a related party and accounts payable of the consolidated variable interest entities without recourse to the Company of US$10,411 and US$22,428 as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)				11,726			24,050
Receipt in advance* (including receipt in advance of the consolidated variable interest entities without recourse to the Company of US$5,210 and US$12,551 as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)				5,383			12,552
Deferred revenue* (including deferred revenue of the consolidated variable interest entities without recourse to the Company of US$9,671 and US$11,255 as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)				21,072			14,922
Consideration payable of acquiring an associate/investee* (including consideration payable of acquiring an associate of consolidated variable interest entities without recourse to the Company of US$25,217 and US$817 as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)				25,217			817
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities* (including accrued expenses and other current liabilities of US$0 and US$6,633 to a related party and accrued expenses and other current liabilities of the consolidated variable interest entities without recourse to the Company of US$12,153 and US$25,198 as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)		12		26,401			35,239
Tax payable* (including tax payable of the consolidated variable interest entities without recourse to the Company of US$3,907 and US$5,576 as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)		15		4,084			5,658

Total current liabilities				93,883			93,238

Non-current liabilities:
Convertible debts		17		172,500			172,500
Deferred tax liabilities, non-current* (including deferred tax liabilities, non-current of the consolidated variable interest entities without recourse to the Company of US$2,301 and US$8,859 as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)		15		2,755			9,159
Other non-current liabilities				68			—

Total Liabilities				269,206			274,897

Commitments and contingencies		23
Mezzanine equity		14		—			21,854

EQUITY
NQ Mobile Inc.’s shareholders’ equity
Class A common shares
(US$0.0001 par value, 1,560,000,000 shares authorized; 255,067,961 shares issued and 255,977,553 outstanding as of December 31, 2013, and 400,793,283 shares issued and 406,607,679 outstanding as of December 31, 2014, respectively)		18		26			42
Class B common shares
(US$0.0001 par value, 240,000,000 shares authorized; 53,956,491 and 50,352,971 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)		18		5			5
Additional paid-in capital				337,879			571,606
Statutory reserve				9,636			10,577
Treasury stock at cost (4,646,245 and 17,154,650 shares, respectively, as of December 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively)		19		(8,028	)		(19,196	)
Accumulated deficit				(13,805	)		(91,484	)
Accumulated other comprehensive income		20		8,039			8,379

Total NQ Mobile Inc.’s shareholders’ equity				333,752			479,929

Non-controlling interest				6,404			57,128

Total equity				340,156			537,057

Total Liabilities, Mezzanine equity and Equity				609,362			833,808


	Attributable to NQ Mobile Inc.’s Shareholders’ Equity
	Common Shares
	Number of Shares			Amount		Additional Paid-in Capital			Statutory reserve		Treasury Stock			Accumulated deficit			Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income		Non- Controlling Interest			Total Equity
				US$		US$			US$		US$			US$			US$		US$			US$
Balance as of January 1, 2012		216,618,463			22		157,064			—		—			(11,743	)		2,841		67			148,251


Exercise of options and restricted shares issued, net of shares withheld for employee taxes		18,520,900			1		287			—		—			—			—		—			288
Share-based compensation (Note 13)		—			—		24,543			—		—			—			—		—			24,543
Issuance of shares in connection with acquisitions (Note 4)		14,646,647			1		20,616			—		—			—			—		—			20,617
Stock repurchase (Note 19)		(1,088,790	)		—		—			—		(1,346	)		—			—		—			(1,346	)
Appropriation to statutory reserve		—			—		—			2,938		—			(2,938	)		—		—			—
Issuance of shares in connection with equity investment (Note 8)		3,821,655			—		5,916			—		—			—			—		—			5,916
Foreign currency translation adjustment		—			—		—			—		—			—			390		—			390
Fair value of 45% non-controlling interests of NationSky at acquisition (Note 4)		—			—		—			—		—			—			—		4,795			4,795
Deregistration of Fuzhou Netqin		—			—		—			—		—			—			—		(67	)		(67	)
Net income attributable to NQ Mobile Inc.		—			—		—			—		—			9,430			—		—			9,430
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest		—			—		—			—		—			—			—		532			532

Balance as of December 31, 2012		252,518,875			24		208,426			2,938		(1,346	)		(5,251	)		3,231		5,327			213,349


Exercise of options and restricted shares issued, net of shares withheld for employee taxes		21,388,649			2		2,363			—		—			—			—		—			2,365
Share-based compensation (Note 13)		—			—		55,404			—		—			—			—		—			55,404
Issuance of shares in connection with acquisitions (Note 4)		25,856,650			3		46,434			—		—			—			—		554			46,991
Stock repurchase (Note 19)		(3,557,455	)		—		—			—		(6,682	)		—			—		—			(6,682	)
Issuance of shares in connection with equity investment (Note 8)		6,227,325			1		13,613			—		—			—			—		—			13,614
Issuance of common shares net of issuance cost (Note 18)		7,500,000			1		11,639			—		—			—			—		—			11,640
Appropriation to statutory reserves		—			—		—			6,698		—			(6,698	)		—		—			—
Foreign currency translation adjustment		—			—		—			—		—			—			4,808		—			4,808
Net loss attributable to NQ Mobile Inc.		—			—		—			—		—			(1,856	)		—		—			(1,856	)
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest		—			—		—			—		—			—			—		523			523

Balance as of December 31, 2013		309,934,044			31		337,879			9,636		(8,028	)		(13,805	)		8,039		6,404			340,156


Exercise of options and restricted shares issued, net of shares withheld for employee taxes		32,434,966			3		(3,138	)		—		4,558			—			—		—			1,423
Share-based compensation (Note 13)		—			—		83,844			—		—			—			—		—			83,844
Issuance of shares in connection with acquisitions (Note 4)		129,568,875			13		153,021			—		—			—			—		52,827			205,861
Stock repurchase (Note 19)		(14,977,235	)		—		—			—		(15,726	)		—			—		—			(15,726	)
Appropriation to statutory reserves		—			—		—			941		—			(941	)		—		—			—
Foreign currency translation adjustment		—			—		—			—		—			—			340		22			362
Net loss attributable to NQ Mobile Inc.		—			—		—			—		—			(76,738	)		—		—			(76,738	)
Net loss attributable to non-controlling interest		—			—		—			—		—			—			—		(2,125	)		(2,125	)

Balance as of December 31, 2014		456,960,650			47		571,606			10,577		(19,196	)		(91,484	)		8,379		57,128			537,057


Name	Date of Incorporation or Acquisition	Place of Incorporation	Relationship	Principal Activities
Subsidiaries
NQ International Ltd. (“NQ HK”) *	April 26, 2010	Hong Kong	Wholly-owned subsidiary	Consumer mobile security services in overseas markets
NQ Mobile US Inc. (“NQ US”)**	November 5, 2010	United States	Wholly-owned subsidiary	Consumer mobile value added services and advertising services in US and overseas markets.
NQ Mobile (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“NQ Beijing” or “NQ WFOE”)	May 15, 2007	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary	Consumer mobile security services in PRC and overseas markets, and technology consulting and services
NQ (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“NQ Tongzhou”)	January 5, 2013	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary	Software design and development for computer and mobile devices and other technology consulting services
Best Partners Ltd. (“Best Partners”)	September 6, 2013	Cayman Islands	Wholly-owned subsidiary of FL Mobile Inc.	Mobile advertising services
Beijing Wanpu Media Technologies Co., Ltd. (“Wanpu Beijing” or “Wanpu WFOE”)	September 6, 2013	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Partners	Advertising services based on mobile internet platform in the PRC
NQ Mobile KK (“NQ Japan”)	August 12, 2013	Japan	85%-owned subsidiary	Consumer mobile security services, mobile games, internet advertising and sale of enterprise mobility products in Japan
Beijing NQ Mobile Co., Ltd. (“NQ Yizhuang”)	September 29, 2014	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary	Consumer mobile security services in PRC and overseas markets, and technology consulting and services
FL Mobile Inc.	January 21, 2013	Cayman Islands	95.06%-owned subsidiary	Mobile advertising and mobile games services
FL Mobile (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“FL Beijing”)	June 3, 2013	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary of FL Mobile Hong Kong Limited	Mobile advertising and mobile games services
Variable Interest Entities
Beijing Technology	October 21, 2005	The PRC	VIE of NQ Beijing	Consumer mobile security services in PRC market and research and development
Beijing Wanpu Century Co., Ltd. (“Wanpu Century”)	September 6, 2013	The PRC	VIE of Wanpu Beijing	Advertising services based on mobile internet platform in the PRC
FL Mobile Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd. (“FL Mobile”)	November 30, 2012	The PRC	VIE of FL Beijing	Mobile games and advertising
Subsidiaries of VIEs
Qingyun (Tianjin) Financial Management Co., Ltd. (“Tianjin Qingyun”)	February 21, 2012	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology	Financial management services
Beijing NationSky Network Technology Co., Ltd. (“NationSky”)	May 11, 2012	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology	Enterprise mobility services
Beijing Fanyue Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Fanyue”)	March 21, 2013	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary of FL Mobile	Off-line user acquisition services
Beijing Tianya Co., Ltd. (“Tianya”)	September 24, 2013	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology	Mobile healthcare application developments and search engine marketing in healthcare industry
Chengdu Ruifeng Technology Co., Ltd. (“Ruifeng”)	October 15, 2013	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology	Enterprise mobility system development and iOS training program
Shanghai Yinlong Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Yinlong”)	November 11, 2013	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology	Mobile music search, matching and recognition software services
Beijing Trustek Technology Co., Ltd. (“Beijing Trustek”)	January 10, 2014	The PRC	Wholly-owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology	Enterprise mobility solutions and services
Tianjin Huayong Wireless Technology Co., Ltd. (“Huayong”)	January 31, 2014	The PRC	68%-owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology	Research and development of live wallpapers
Beijing Showself Technology Co., Ltd. (“Showself”)	May 15, 2014	The PRC	65%-owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology	Development and operation of live mobile social video platform
Yipai Tianxia Network Technology Ltd. (“Yipai”)	May 15, 2014	The PRC	70%-owned subsidiary of Beijing Technology	Mobile intelligent interactive advertising services


	Balance at Beginning of Year		Charged to Expenses		Write-Offs Net of Recoveries			Balance at End of Year
	US$		US$		US$			US$
Allowance for doubtful accounts
2012		636		459		—			1,095
2013		1,095		3,027		(204	)		3,918
2014		3,918		4,974		—			8,892


	Estimated useful lives of the assets
Computer equipment		3 years
Leasehold improvements		Shorter of lease terms and estimated useful lives
Electronic equipment		3 years
Office equipment		5 years
Motor vehicles		5 years


	As of May 11, 2012
	US$
Cash consideration		3,157
Shares consideration		4,196
Total consideration transferred		7,353
Cash		3,892
Other tangible assets		4,482
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		5,058
Liability assumed		(3,367	)
Goodwill		2,083
Fair value of non-controlling interest		(4,795	)
Total		7,353


	As of June 30, 2013
	US$
Cash consideration		809
Shares consideration		2,125
Total consideration transferred		2,934
Cash		66
Other working capital		51
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		599
Goodwill		2,218
Total		2,934


	As of November 1, 2013
	US$
Cash consideration		2,403
Shares consideration		7,593
Total consideration transferred		9,996
Cash		15
Other current assets		1,949
Fixed assets		735
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		1,742
Goodwill		9,050
Payables to third party business partners		(2,663	)
Other liability assumed		(832	)
Total		9,996


	As of January 10, 2014
	US$
Cash consideration		1,639
Share consideration		8,229
Total		9,868
Cash and marketable security		3,591
Other current assets		4,830
Fixed assets		58
Other long term assets		249
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		1,623
Goodwill		6,294
Liability assumed		(6,777	)
Total		9,868


	As of November 30, 2012
	US$
Fair value of previously held 26.4% equity interests		5,568
Consideration transferred		16,421
Total		21,989
Cash		490
Other tangible assets		4,167
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		4,977
Liability assumed		(3,493	)
Goodwill		15,848
Total		21,989


	As of March 21, 2013
	US$
Cash consideration		88
Shares consideration		1,490
Total consideration transferred		1,578
Cash		192
Other working capital		476
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		335
Goodwill		1,694
Fair value of non-controlling interest		(1,119	)
Total		1,578


	As of September 1, 2013
	US$
Shares consideration		20,960
Total consideration transferred		20,960
Cash		358
Other current assets		736
Fixed assets		165
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		3,339
Goodwill		16,362
Total		20,960


	As of October 1, 2013
	US$
Cash consideration		163
Shares consideration		13,702
Contingent consideration		685
Total consideration transferred		14,550
Cash		420
Other current assets		479
Fixed assets		29
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		1,626
Goodwill		15,253
Liability assumed		(3,257	)
Total		14,550


	As of December 1, 2013
	US$
Fair value of previously held 18.9% equity interest		2,694
Cash consideration		2,664
Shares consideration		3,803
Total		9,161
Cash		386
Other current assets		1,218
Fixed assets		52
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		2,118
Goodwill		12,382
Liability assumed		(533	)
Fair value of non-controlling interest		(6,462	)
Total		9,161


	As of January 25, 2014
	US$
Fair value of previously held 39.01% equity interests		43,406
Cash consideration		249
Share consideration		40,808
Total		84,463
Cash		294
Other current assets		2,974
Fixed assets		98
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		12,796
Goodwill		97,657
Liability assumed		(5,544	)
Fair value of non-controlling interest		(23,812	)
Total		84,463


	As of May 15, 2014
	US$
Cash consideration		7,041
Share consideration		49,291
Total		56,332
Cash		2
Other current assets		6,711
Fixed assets		14
Identifiable intangible assets acquired		4,916
Goodwill		63,497
Liability assumed		(1,908	)
Fair value of non-controlling interest		(16,900	)
Total		56,332