A June 2012 report by Forrester for affiliate marketing platform Rakuten LinkShare found that affiliates are profitable for advertisers, drawing new customers, often triggering reconsideration and closing the sale.
It had to shut down Youa in May 2011 and migrated merchants to its joint venture with Japan’s Rakuten and Yaodian 100. A year later, Rakuten ended its partnership with Baidu on the “Lekutian” shopping website, citing sluggish sales.
Reuters reported in March that Baidu would shut Youa and migrate its users to Rakuten China and Yaodian100 as the search engine works on a new ecommerce platform for the market. Alibaba Groups's Etao, a vertical shopping search engine in China...
In Japan, Rakuten has around 64 million registered members and 2009 sales totaled $3.2 billion. Its core business "Rakuten Ichiba" is said to offer 50 million products sold by more than 33,000 merchants on the country's largest e-commerce site.
The move had triggered criticism from rivals Microsoft and domestic online retailer Rakuten Inc, citing the risk of unfair competition," Reuters reported. The search world is really becoming complicated.
Rakuten, Japan's largest online shopping mall operator, has asked Japan's Fair Trade Commission to review the search deal Google cut with Yahoo Japan. Search Engine Optimization Website Changes That Will Hurt Your SEO By Eric Enge
Rakuten, Japan's largest online shopping mall operator, has asked Japan's Fair Trade Commission to review the search deal Google cut with Yahoo Japan, which is an independent entity from Yahoo. The partnership deserves careful consideration because...
Also yesterday, Baidu combined with Japanese company Rakuten to launch Lekutian (which means "Happy Cool Day" in Chinese), a new Chinese online shopping mall. Google, which continues to lose search market share to rival Baidu in China, yesterday...
Japan's other top 10 online properties are: Rakuten (28.5 million); NTT Group (25.7 million); FC2 (24.6 million); Nifty Corp.million); Livedoor (22.5 million); Wikipedia (21.1 million); and GMO Internet Group (19.3 million).
For example, at the Japanese Web site Rakuten.com, the average transaction on both the personal computer (PC) and on a mobile phone is $80. Yahoo, Google, Nokia, and JumpTap offered a fascinating glimpse of developments at the major mobile search...
