E-Commerce
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TV Tokyo To Start A Reality Show, Can You Live Only By Amazon Products
A Japanese television station TV Tokyo announced that they would air a new show featuring online commerce site Amazon Japan, “Kaiteki! Amazon Seikatsu”(It’s nice! Amazon Life) from …
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Rakuten To Dissolve Lekutian In China, Joint-Mall With Baidu
Japan’s largest e-mall company Rakuten today announced [J] that they would shut down its Chinese e-mall Lekutian(rakuten.cn) planned in May, 2012. Rakuten jointly established Lekutian with …
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Jeff Bezos Wants Amazon Japan's Sales To Grow 30%, Bring Kindle Over This Year
There can be no doubt that with a US$15 billion market cap, 75 million user accounts in Japan alone, and over 10,000 employees worldwide, the 800-pound gorilla in Japan’s e-commerce sector is …
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Mixi And DeNA Launches Social Commerce Platform Mixi Mall
Mixi and DeNA announced today that they launch a new social commerce service Mixi Mall As you might know, the two of Japan’s top three social networking services, Mixi and Mobage are run by …
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Sumitomo To Export Online Pharmacy Soukai Drug To China And Indonesia
Sumitomo Corporation announced on March 7 that their online pharmacy Soukai Drug (soukai = briskness in Japanese) is going to expand into China and Indonesia this year. Their Shanghai and Jakarta …
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Research: Japanese E-Commerce Sites Expects Twitter The Most For Social Media Promotion
Shibuya-based Mobile web oriented HR agency Sapotant issued a research [J] on what social media buttons Japanese e-commerce websites are displaying to their customers (n=100). 48% of Japanese …
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Rakuten Enters Indonesia With "Rakuten BELANJA ONLINE"
Rakuten just doesn’t stop internationalizing. In May, we reported about the joint venture the Japanese e-commerce giant (market cap at the Tokyo Stock Exchange: $10 billion) entered with …
