Yahoo! Japan

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yahoo! Japan

logo
legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
ISIN JP3933800009
founding 1996
Seat Minato , Tokyo , JapanJapanJapan 
management Manabu Miyasaka (President and CEO )
Number of employees 9,177
sales 652,327,000,000 yen (5.2 billion euro )
Branch Internet
Website www.yahoo.co.jp
As of March 31, 2016

The Yahoo KK ( Japanese ヤ フ ー 株式会社 , Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha , English Yahoo Japan Corporation ), also Yahoo! Japan , is a joint venture of US-based Yahoo ! and the Japanese company Softbank . She operates the Japanese Internet portal Yahoo! Japan, which is the most visited website in Japan. Yahoo! Japan have been traded in the Japanese Nikkei 225 since 2005 .

Since 2005, Yahoo! Japan the Fukuoka Dome , which was named Fukuoka Yahoo! from 2005 to 2013. Japan Dome and 2013 in Fukuoka Yafuoku! Dome was renamed after the Japanese name of the auction platform Yahoo! Auctions ( ヤ フ ー オ ー ク シ ョ ン , Yafū Ōkushon ).

Since 2010, Yahoo! Japan no longer has its own search engine, but uses the search results from the Google search engine; In return, Google receives personal data from Yahoo! Japan users.

While Yahoo! rapidly losing popularity in the rest of the world, the Japanese portal was able to maintain its dominance in the Japanese online market. Yahoo! Japan is not part of the sale of Yahoo! 's operations due to differences in ownership. (US) to Verizon 2016 and will therefore remain independent.

In September 2018, Yahoo! Japan entered into a cooperation with Alipay .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corporate Data
  2. ↑ a b Annual Report 2016
  3. ↑ Hawks Town. ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed September 28, 2016 (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hawkstown.com
  4. ↑ http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp
  5. ↑ a b Wendy Lee: Yahoo Japan's future still looks bright - unlike its US counterpart. San Francisco Chronicle , May 13, 2016 (English)
  6. ↑ Mitsuru Obe and Akihide Anzai: Alipay partners with Yahoo Japan to expand mobile payments reach. In: asia.nikkei.com . September 5, 2018, accessed December 3, 2018 .