Rakuten: online shopping monopoly

Rakuten is a giant. Rakuten group has an Internet shopping mall ‘Rakuten‘, a hotel reservation site ‘Rakuten Travel’, ‘Rakuten Securities’, ‘Rakuten Credit Card’ and so on. Rakuten has $1.72 billion annual sales. The mall and the travel agent has the biggest share of their markets like Amazon did on the book market. Mikitani started his… Continue reading Rakuten: online shopping monopoly

Kakaku.com: a price comparison company

Kakaku.com started from a website which lists the retail prices of Akihabara, the Japanese electric market. It quickly became a famous site which shows the best deals of electrical products. Their revenue sources are through affiliate and advertisement. Now Kakaku.com is not specialized in electric products. Their business was expanded into travel, insuarance, and foreign… Continue reading Kakaku.com: a price comparison company

OKWave expressed its USA subsidiary opens November

OKWave, which has been providing the same name “OKWave(オーケーウェーブ)”, Yahoo! Answers like Q and A community service, expressed its new USA-office plan. The Q-and-A service OKWave started in 2000/1. It is the one of the biggest Q-and-A service in Japanese. OKWave also provides its system and user-bases to other players, such like NTT groups’ portal… Continue reading OKWave expressed its USA subsidiary opens November

Niconico-Douga expressed its Taiwan version begins next week

via CNET Japan Online Video sharing/comment services Niconico-Douga will upgrade October 10th 6:00 p.m. (JST) with access/visibility related enhancement, from the owner company Niwango’s release. The release also includes that they will open Taiwan localized version of Niconico-Douga on October 18th. Niwango’s main area is cellular phone contents, but their started Niconico-Douga got popular as… Continue reading Niconico-Douga expressed its Taiwan version begins next week

IE7 Auto Update unexpectedly released to Japanese users

via Impress Watch Microsoft IE Blog opens that the Internet Explorer browser is now available on Windows Update so Windows users with Automatic Update on are going to get IE7 upgraded. But that was not expected for Japan. Microsoft explained before that Japanese version of Windows will not have IE7 automatically until 2008. So this… Continue reading IE7 Auto Update unexpectedly released to Japanese users

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