Rakuten
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Google Japan Reported To Migrates To Roppongi Hills
Nikkei Fudousan Market Info (fudousan = real estate) reported [J, magazine subscription required] that Google Japan plans to move their office from Shibuya Cerulean Tower to Roppongi Hills (Roppongi …
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January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 1)
Last week our RSS subscribers passed over 5,000, which is a good milestone. Twitter followers also increased to 400. Following @asiajin also will notify our latest articles. Thank you so much. Here is …
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Rakuten Allies With Baidu To Promote Their E-commerce Business in Mainland China
Japan’s biggest, and the world second largest e-commerce company Rakuten, which is also known by its active overseas activities in last years as a Japanese originated web company, announced its …
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Japan's Index Corp. To Launch (Apparently Gigantic) Virtual Mall In China
Tokyo-based (and JASDAQ-listed) Index Corp. has decided to shake hands with Chinese retail giant Hualian to launch and run a large virtual shopping mall. Somehow surprisingly, Index, a leading mobile …
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Rakuten Subsidises Electronic Money Service Edy
BitWallet, Inc. [J], a company has been running Edy [J] since 2001, will allocate new stocks to a third party at the end of this year, about 3 billion yen of which will be bought by Rakuten. Rakuten …
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Marriage Fraud Case Forces Rakuten To Push Back Service Release
Recently in Tokyo, there was a marriage fraud case that a woman is suspected of having murdered her several boyfriends. According to several news media, due to the effect of the case, Japan’s …
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Rakuten Introduces Akamai For Japan's Largest Online Mall
Akamai’s Japan subsidiary(Akamai Kabushiki Gaisha) announced that Rakuten now uses their “Dynamic Site Solutions” for Rakuten Ichiba(=market), Rakuten’s flagship service …



