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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
empowering
on 12/08/2014, 17:53:31 UTC

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. Smiley


? 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_companies

Rank    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