Rakuten
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Rakuten Switches Portal Search Backend To Google
Rakuten, Japan’s huge online mall, announced on 10th that they are to use Google search on their portal Infoseek Rakuten. Infoseek Rakuten has been using Yahoo! Japan search backend, and …
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Rakuten Releases Android App
Rakuten, huge Japanese online shopping mall company, launched a free Android App following to an iPhone app in February. The Android app has a barcode reader function, with which customers can scan …
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Rakuten Goes To UK And/Or Germany By The End Of This Year, CEO Said
According to Mainichi [J], Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani reportedly told that they will open their e-mall business either or both of UK and Germany this year. Rakuten is planning to move into 4 new …
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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 …
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CyberAgent Rumored To Buy Off Tokyo-Based Baseball Team Yakult Swallows
Japanese sports newspaper Nikkan Sports reported [J] on December 4th, Saturday morning that Tokyo Yakult Swallows, one of 12 professional baseball team in Japan’s top league Nippon Professional …
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Japan's Top Search Keywords in 2010 By Yahoo! Japan
It is a year-end buzzword ranking season. Yahoo! Japan, Japan’s most popular search portal, though the backend search engine has been gradually switching to Google’s one (everyday more …
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Rakuten Brings "Super Points" Loyalty Program To Buy.Com
Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten, which currently boasts a market cap of US$9.7 billion, has been relatively quiet after having acquired US-based Buy.com earlier this year (for US$250 …
