{"id":5229,"date":"2009-08-16T16:40:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T07:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2009-08-16T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T07:40:39","slug":"top-20-japans-most-valuable-web-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/top-20-japans-most-valuable-web-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20: Japan’s most valuable web companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a year ago, I wrote an article<\/a> on Asiajin that contained a list of Japan\u2019s most valuable web companies by market capitalization. A lot has happened since then (thanks to the exchange rate we now have 12 large-cap companies instead of six, for example), so let’s see how the list looks today.
\nI am using information from Netindex<\/a> as reference, compare each company’s rank with last year’s position and provide English links in any case possible.
\nNotes:<\/em>
\nThe service also lists up companies that operate in non-Internet related fields as well.
\nNo responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information.
\nList (rank and market cap in 2008 in brackets):<\/strong>
\n1. SoftBank<\/a> – $23.7 billion (2. in 2008 with $21.9 billion) – Telecommunications and web services
\n2. Yahoo! Japan<\/a> – $19 billion (1.\/$21.9 billion)
\n3. Rakuten<\/a> – $8.3 billion (3.\/$6.1 billion) – Online shopping mall
\n4. Matsui<\/a> – $2.6 billion (5.\/$2.1 billion) – Financial services
\n5. GREE<\/a> – $1.9 billion (not listed in August 2008) – Mobile social gaming
\n6. DeNA<\/a> – $1.5 billion (4.\/$2.3 billion) – Mobile web business and E-Commerce
\n7. kabu.com<\/a> – $1.2 billion (8.\/$980 million) – Financial services (online only)
\n8. ACCESS<\/a> – $1.2 billion (14.\/$520 million) – Mobile software and web development
\n9. eAccess<\/a> – $1.1 billion (10.\/$740 million) – Broadband IP communication services
\n10. mixi<\/a> – $1 billion (7.\/$980 million) – Social network and online employment services
\n11. Kakaku.com<\/a> – $1 billion (12.\/$720 million) – Online price comparison
\n12. Monex Group<\/a> – $1 billion (6.\/$1.2 billion) – Financial services
\n13. CyberAgent<\/a> – $654 million(9.\/$880 million) – Web media and advertising
\n14. Gourmet Navigator<\/a> – $640 million (13.\/$520 million) – Online restaurant information
\n15. Cookpad<\/a> – $469 million (not listed in August 2008) – Online recipes
\n16. Internet Initiative Japan<\/a> – $463 million (11.\/$740 million) – Internet connectivity services
\n17. GMO Internet<\/a> – $430 million (15.\/$480 million) – Internet infrastructure and media business
\n18. Dwango<\/a> – $345 million (19.\/$330 million) – Web content and systems provider
\n19. MTI<\/a> – $303 (not in the top 20 last time) – Mobile web content
\n20. en-japan<\/a> – $282 million (18.\/$340 million) – Online recruitment
\nMobile web content providers Index Holdings<\/a> (now 23.) and Zappallas<\/a> (now 21.) dropped out of the top 20. Online marketing agency Opt<\/a> fell from 16 to 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a year ago, I wrote an article on Asiajin that contained a list of Japan\u2019s most valuable web companies by market capitalization. A lot has happened since then (thanks to the exchange rate we now have 12 large-cap companies instead of six, for example), so let’s see how the list looks today. I am… Continue reading Top 20: Japan’s most valuable web companies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}