This "merger of equals" would create Japan's second largest company after Toyota.

Japan's largest Internet company announced that it is acquiring Tradoria GmbH, Germany's largest online shopping firm.

We are seeing the trend of younger more internationalized CEOs being promoted from outside the inner sanctum.

Failures helped us learn: to compete you have to be a software company or have a friendly one very close at hand.

External certified directors instead of shareholder activism for more professional corporate governance in Japan.

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Crowd sourcing, also known as group buying, is a whole new Internet business model.