Citibank, DLJ Securities, Bridge News, Microsoft (5% of KABU.COM)...
on 01.3.27 10:42 AM, Daniel Scuka at daniel@japaninc.net wrote:
> I forgot to add....
>
> Any of the US/Canadian players here now and already producing
> content/services on i-mode will be ideally placed to "export" their
> new-found knowledge back home. For example, look at TD Waterhouse. They
> invested beaucoup $$ + time/effort into learning how to provide securities
> trading on i-mode in Japan. Now that they know how to do it here, it's a
> (relatively) straightforward matter of replicating the site back home. The
> data feed that provides the disclosure info on the companies being traded is
> already set up, they know about formatting, network protocol, and other
> tech limitations (e.g. setting session time-outs so as not to loose a trade
> just because your car drives through a tunnel), and they've already
> convinced the high-priced help in HQ that i-mode is a necessary additional
> channel through which to maintain client contact. The formatting, site
> design & building, and backend integration services, as we all know, can be
> provided by any one of a hundred Web design or tech consulting outfits
> located up and down the West coast.
>
> I don't wish to sound like a cheering section for TD Waterhouse, but they
> are a solid, archetypal example of a firm that's figured out i-mode, and
> even if they haven't yet realized they can export this back to the US, they
> can, and it's only a matter of time 'til firms like this do so (did someone
> say Disney, Northwest, or Bloomberg?).
>
> --Daniel
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