Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
October 21, 2012 06:14 am GMT

A Quarter Of Japanese eCommerce Giant Rakutens $5BYear Revenue Is Mobile, And Its Growing 3-400% YY

logo_rakutenToday, at Y Combinator's Startup School at Stanford University, Rakuten Founder and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani took the stage to talk about the company's culture, acquisitions and its crazy growth over the last year.Mikitani said that Rakuten was currently seeing about $5 billion/year in revenues and that 25 percent of that revenue was coming from mobile mobile phones, both feature and smartphones. Forty percent of those transactions emanated from feature phones (yes, you heard that right), with 60 percent coming from smartphones.

Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qk3ht9fRy6c/

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Techcrunch

TechCrunch is a leading technology blog, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

More About this Source Visit Techcrunch