Yahoo Japan Corp said on Thursday it aimed to unseat Rakuten Inc as Japan's largest Web-based shopping mall operator by next summer.
Shopping remains one of the few areas of Internet-related business in which Yahoo Japan is not the domestic leader.
bill
12:48 am on Oct 24, 2003 (gmt 0)
Thanks bakedjake. Yahoo Japan has been doing quite well this year financially. A lot of the effort they put into their ADSL business and IP telephones is starting to pay off. Their online shopping in the past wasn't too impressive, but it looks like a lot more effort is being put into that area. It will be tough to unseat Rakuten as they have been the market leader since before there was a market. They were the ones to put up some of the first online mall sites. They struggled for years to gain acceptance, but once the online trend swung in their favor they were comfortably entrenched at the top with a myriad of online and offline contracts under their belt. It will be interesting to see where this effort by Yahoo leads. Online shopping in Japan is still a little behind the curve compared to the West, so it can only be good for the local consumers.
whats up skip
10:04 am on Oct 26, 2003 (gmt 0)
Yahoo Japan share price up by 218% since April. Must be all that money I have been spending on Google Adwords.
ron_ron
4:32 am on Nov 3, 2003 (gmt 0)
I signed up for Rakuten about 3 months ago and am not doing well on it. I have another site that generally ranks number one on GoogleJapan that is doing ten times as well. I realize I have not had the new Rakuten site long but it doesn't look like it is going anywhere. I realize Rakuten is a powerfull site but at least I am missing the boat.
