{"id":530,"date":"2008-08-02T23:20:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T14:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2008-08-02T23:20:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T14:20:45","slug":"top-20-of-japans-most-valuable-web-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/top-20-of-japans-most-valuable-web-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 of Japan&#8217;s most valuable web companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following list shows an up-to-date list of Japan&#8217;s most valuable web companies by market capitalization. It&#8217;s interesting to see 6 of them are large-cap (with 2 being very close). But 3 of these companies rather belong to the realm of financial services (the list includes companies, which are not exclusively engaged in Internet-related business).<br \/>\nThe data comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/netindex.jp\/ja\">Netindex<\/a>. Netindex offers an <a href=\"http:\/\/netindex.jp\/en\">English version<\/a>, which is not working at the moment.<br \/>\nI included English links whenever possible. No responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information.<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.yahoo.co.jp\/en\/\">Yahoo! Japan<\/a> ($21.9 billion)<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softbank.co.jp\/en\/index.html\">Softbank<\/a> ($19.6 billion) &#8211; Telecommunications and Web business (top shareholder of Yahoo! Japan)<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rakuten.co.jp\/info\/ir\/english\/\">Rakuten<\/a> ($6.1 billion) &#8211; Online shopping mall<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dena.jp\/en\/index.html\">DeNA<\/a> ($2.3 billion) &#8211; Mobile web business and E-Commerce<br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsui.co.jp\/ir\/en\/index.html\">Matsui<\/a> ($2.1 billion) &#8211; Financial services<br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monexgroup.jp\/eng\/index.htm\">Monex Group<\/a> ($1.2 billion) &#8211; Financial services (online only)<br \/>\n7. <a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/\">mixi<\/a> ($980 million) &#8211; Social network and online employment services<br \/>\n8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kabu.com\/company\/\">kabu.com<\/a> ($980 million) &#8211; Financial services (online only)<br \/>\n9. <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.cyberagent.co.jp\/ir_e\/index.html\">CyberAgent<\/a> ($880 million) &#8211; Web media and advertising<br \/>\n10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaccess.net\/en\/company\/index.html\">eAccess<\/a> ($740 million) &#8211;    Broadband IP communication services<br \/>\n11. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iij.ad.jp\/en\/index.html\">Internet Initiative Japan<\/a> ($740 million) &#8211; Internet connectivity services<br \/>\n12. <a href=\"http:\/\/kakaku.com\/info\/profile.htm\">Kakuku.com<\/a> ($720 million) &#8211; Online price comparison<br \/>\n13. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnavi.co.jp\/company\/english\/profile\/index.html\">Gourmet Navigator<\/a> ($520 million) &#8211; Online restaurant information<br \/>\n14. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.access-company.com\/about\/index.html\">ACCESS<\/a> ($520 million) &#8211; Mobile software and web development<br \/>\n15. <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.gmo.jp\/en\/\">GMO Internet<\/a> ($480 million) &#8211; Internet infrastructure and media business<br \/>\n16. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opt.ne.jp\/english\/index.html\">Opt<\/a> ($420 million) &#8211; Online marketing and advertising<br \/>\n17. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zappallas.com\/index.html\">ZAPPALLAS<\/a> ($380 million) &#8211; Mobile software and web content development<br \/>\n18. <a href=\"http:\/\/corp.en-japan.com\/en\/index.html?PHPSESSID=b6d2bf3403aaea7b8a7df0002e61aaa0\">en-japan<\/a> ($340 million) &#8211; Online recruitment<br \/>\n19. <a href=\"http:\/\/info.dwango.co.jp\/english\/index.html\">Dwango<\/a> ($330 million) &#8211; Web content and systems provider<br \/>\n20. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.index-hd.com\/english\/index.html\">Index Holdings<\/a> ($325 million) &#8211; Mobile web content provider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following list shows an up-to-date list of Japan&#8217;s most valuable web companies by market capitalization. It&#8217;s interesting to see 6 of them are large-cap (with 2 being very close). But 3 of these companies rather belong to the realm of financial services (the list includes companies, which are not exclusively engaged in Internet-related business).&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/top-20-of-japans-most-valuable-web-companies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top 20 of Japan&#8217;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":[5,9,11,17],"tags":[2216,2342,3436,3942,4161],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-company","category-event-report","category-japan","tag-market-capitalization","tag-mixi","tag-softbank","tag-value","tag-yahoo-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\/530","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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}