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In February 2002, eBay exited Japan due to competition from Yahoo! Japan and began operations in Taiwan with the acquisition of NeoCom Technology for $9.5 million. [20] [21] In June 2006, eBay turned over its operations in Taiwan to a joint venture partner. [22] PayPal San Jose Headquarters. eBay acquired PayPal on October 3, 2002 for $1.4 billion.
Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. [2]There are currently only two localizations of the service active in Taiwan and Japan; Yahoo! has discontinued the service in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Ireland.
Qoo10 was founded as a subsidiary of Qoo10 Pte. Ltd., in 2010 by Giosis Pte. Ltd., [4] a joint venture between Gmarket founder Ku Young Bae and eBay. [5] Gmarket was founded in South Korea in 2000 as a subsidiary of Interpark. In December 2007, Gmarket was established in Japan [citation needed]. Gmarket was next established in Singapore in ...
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Yahoo! Japan was a founding member of the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE, at the time named Japan e-business association), a Japanese e-business association led by Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani, in February 2010; Rakuten later withdrew from the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) in June 2011 and made moves to make JANE become a rival to Keidanren.
Mercari, Inc. (TYO: 4385) is a Japanese e-commerce company founded in 2013. [1] Their main product, the Mercari marketplace app, was first launched in Japan in July 2013, and has since grown to become Japan's largest community-powered marketplace with over JPY 10 billion in transactions carried out on the platform each month.
Yahoo! Japan acquired the naming rights for the Fukuoka Dome in 2005, renaming the dome as the "Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome". The "Yahoo Dome" is the home field for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, a professional baseball team, majorly owned by SoftBank. Since 2010, Yahoo! Japan's search engine has been based on Google's search technology.
In May 2010, Buy.com was acquired by Rakuten, Inc., the largest e-commerce retailer in Japan, [3] [15] for $250 million in cash. [16] [17] This was considered Rakuten's attempt to enter the American e-retail market, [16] and to compete globally with e-commerce competitors such as Amazon.com and eBay. [3]