Yahoo Auctions in Japan
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Case Details:
Case Code : BSTR309
Case Length : 17 Pages
Period : 1999-2008
Organization : Yahoo
Pub Date : 2009
Teaching Note :Not Available
Countries : Japan
Industry : Internet & e-commerce
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Background Note
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Yahoo
Yahoo was founded by two Stanford University Ph.D. students, Jerry Yang (Yang) and David Filo (Filo), in 1994 in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Yahoo initially started out as
"Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," a website that featured a directory of other websites. In late 1994, the duo changed the name of the site to Yahoo...
Softbank Corporation
SoftBank was started by Masayoshi Son (Son) in 1981 as Japan SoftBank. Its first venture was PC software retailing. SoftBank's first client was Joshin Denki Co., one of the leading PC retailers in Japan. In 1982, Son ventured into publishing and launched two magazines
- Oh!PC and Oh!MZ...
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Yahoo in Japan
Yahoo Japan was incorporated in January 1996, and in April 1996, a joint venture
was signed between SoftBank and Yahoo according to which both the companies
agreed to develop and manage the Japanese versions of Yahoo's websites, and
conduct other businesses (Refer to Table II for the objectives of Yahoo Japan).
SoftBank initially held a 60% stake and Yahoo held the remaining 40% in the
company...
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Yahoo Japan Auctions
Though online auctions were popular across the world, they came late to the Japanese market. Initially, Yahoo Japan was not enthusiastic on offering online auction services.
Inoue was skeptical about starting online auctions as the Japanese were generally status-conscious and he doubted whether they would buy used goods from strangers. However, in April 1999, Inoue had a meeting with Yang during which they discussed eBay's impending entry into the Japanese market... |
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