12-04-2007, 11:27 AM
Quote:EBay Inc and Yahoo Japan will link up their auction sites to make cross-border bidding easier, in a deal that will give U.S. auction titan eBay another chance to woo lucrative Japanese consumers...
EBay and Yahoo Japan, which together have about 4 trillion yen ($36 billion) in annual successful bids, will first launch a Japanese-language site on which Yahoo Japan users can bid for eBay items, spokesmen from the two firms said.
The companies will introduce the site, called Sekaimon or "Gateway to the world," at a news conference at 11 a.m. (0200 GMT) in Tokyo. The Web address is http://www.sekaimon.com ...
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