Buy.com Changes name to Rakuten.com
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- dbloc
Why in the hell?!
- letterhead0
probably because ®Rakuten is much more of a catchy name
- Easier to remember too. >_>
Ill forget the name in 5 minutes.CygnusZero4
- Easier to remember too. >_>
- moldero0
lol
Your Estimated Site Worth Is:
$60.00
- ukit20
Maybe they plan on selling buy.com. It's got to be worth at least a million or more.
- probably already bought with a condition that they have 6 mos to bridge the brand overprophetone
- probably already sold off with a condition that they have 6 mos to bridge the brand overprophetone
- what the?prophetone
- utopian0
How do you spell that again?
Seven unrecognizable characters thrown together that creates a meaningless word...compared to "buy"....
Dumb fucks!
- monospaced0
Lakuten
- prophetone0
uhhh... they have the amazingly simplified 'buy.com' but then they rebrand it to something confusing like shoryuken... i mean rekooten.com... i mean, how is it spelled?
- and the headline in some website is gone be "Rekooten Rebooting buy.com"vaxorcist
- Miguex0
apparently Rakuten is (on a global level) way bigger than buy.com (which was only big in the US).
http://global.rakuten.com/
- dbloc0
Rakuten: The biggest e-commerce site you haven't heard of
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013…
- prophetone0
i have to be honest, i have logged on to the internet a few times these past 20 years and i have never heard of these dudes, crazy considering how big it is, supposedly
- Miguex0
so basically the thread title should be something more like:
mundane e-commerce site buy.com gets shattered to pieces and eaten by world giant Ratkuten.com
- Beeswax0
Rakuten used to be a shitty affiliate network. When the hell they became an e-commerce site?
- albums0
thread should be... I believe I'm so privileged, I shouldn't have to type rakuten.com, but only buy.com
- albums0
Doesn't sell a wide enough range of brands yet anyway.
