always good to see more merchants on board, especially in e-commerce. unfortunately, they are peanuts compared to Dell, and smaller yet than some of the giants we hope to attract someday.
? huh ? maybe just that one part of Rakuten is... but Rakuten is made up of many parts
Together they make up to be the third largest online retailer in the world atm, behind eBay and Amazon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_companiesRank Company Industry Revenue FY Employees Market cap Headquarter Refs
1 United States Amazon E-commerce $74.45 2014 117,300 $160.49 Seattle, WA, USA [1]
2 United States Google Search $59.82 2014 47,756 $380.64 Mountain View, CA, USA [2]
3 United States eBay E-commerce $16.05 2014 31,500 $68.51 San Jose, CA, USA [3]
4 China Tencent Social $9.91 2014 25,517 $65.01 Shenzhen, China [4]
5 United States Facebook Social $7.87 2014 6,337 $160.03 Menlo Park, CA, USA [5]
6 Japan Rakuten E-commerce $5.56 2014 10,867 $13.06 Tokyo, Japan [6][7]7 United States Priceline.com Travel $5.26 2014 8,000 $35.58 Norwalk, CT, USA [8][9]
8 United States Yahoo Web portal $4.68 2014 12,200 $35.58 Sunnyvale, CA, USA [10]
9 China Baidu Search $3.54 2014 21,800 $29.75 Beijing, China [11][12]
10 United States Salesforce.com Cloud computing $3.05 2014 12,000 $25.85 San Francisco, CA, USA [13][14]
Certainly more than peanuts if/when the rest of their consortium starts to accept BTC