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Recruit is one of those huge companies that people don't know about outside of Japan, another one being Rakuten. These companies (as well as Tencent, Baidu, etc
by sgdesign 14y ago
Recruit is one of those huge companies that people don't know about outside of Japan, another one being Rakuten. These companies (as well as Tencent, Baidu, etc.) are starting to set their sights on Silicon Valley and I think you're going to see some pretty aggressive moves from them as they try to catch up with (or outright buy out) US companies.
- LeonidasXIV 14y agoIn the case of Rakuten it currently looks like a total disaster, the global Rakuten site is only a tad bit less ugly than the japanese one and machine translated, rendering it more or less useless. I'm sure Amazon.co.jp wouldn't fare well in Japan either if they were doing such a half-assed job as the english Rakuten site.
- nandemo 14y agoFor what is worth, Rakuten is #1 at online retail in Japan. Amazon.co.jp is #2 but the difference is pretty significant.
- nekgrim 14y agoRakuten bought play.com (uk site) and priceminister.com (french site) recently. In Paris, the priceminister ads in the subway have Rakuten's name on them. So I think Rakuten has already started to expand.