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"In the Japanese e-auction game, eBay has been thoroughly trounced by Yahoo Japan. In fact, the contest isn't even close. Yahoo Japan--the country's largest portal--has 95% of the online-auction market, where last year $1.6 billion worth of goods were traded. By contrast, eBay Japan--whose only business is auctions and whose parent dominates online auctions in the U.S.--has a measly 3% of the Japanese market."1 - BusinessWeek2, in 2001. "A new partnership between eBay and Yahoo Japan returns the online auctioneer to a country where Yahoo dominates the Internet landscape. Five years ago, eBay left Japan, unable to breach Yahoo's stranglehold on the national Internet user community. The return of eBay to Japan via an agreement with Yahoo fills in a gap in eBay's international business."3 - WebProNews4, in 2007.
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1] Ken Belson, Rob Hof and Ben Elgin, "How Yahoo! Japan Beat eBay at its Own Game,"www.businessweek.com, June 4, 2001. |
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