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Why is Yahoo Japan worth so much?
by thejosh 11y ago
Why is Yahoo Japan worth so much?
- rtpg 11y agoBecause Yahoo Japan is pretty popular in Japan, and they offer a lot of relatively successful services. Not that it's ginormous, but for example, eBay never really happened in Japan because Yahoo Auctions was already a thing. Yahoo Japan also runs an ISP
- patio11 11y agoRevenue for the fiscal year ending 3/31/2015 was ~$3.5 billion; EBIDTA $1.8 billion. 70% attributable to advertising. Like most large Japanese Internet companies they have a bit of an empire building complex going on, and do everything from running the local equivalent of eBay to selling ISP service.
- ekianjo 11y agoYahoo Japan is a different company from Yahoo Global, and they offer tons of local domestic services. They even run the equivalent of Ebay in Japan (ebay does not operate in Japan).
- gurkendoktor 11y agoSame in Taiwan, where Yahoo has cooperated and merged with local businesses and still is (as far as I can tell) a household name for auctions and their webmail service (as Yahoo!奇摩).
- ekianjo 11y agoInteresting, so Yahoo Taiwan is independent from the mothership as well ? Is it still popular there?
- tedd4u 11y agoNo, Taiwan is part of the mothership.
- gurkendoktor 11y agoA bit of googling suggests that it is still popular (I've seen it mostly as a browser homepage) - http://www.insightxplorer.com/ix/news/news_07_27_15.html http://www.insightxplorer.com/ix/news/news_07_27_15.html But Taiwan only has ~23m people vs Japan's ~130m...