History
1993 - 2000
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2000
Launched auction business platform
Launched first convenience-store-based payment and fulfillment platform business (Registered business model patent jointly with Lawson)
Established G-Port as a joint enterprise with Shaddy, the leading catalog gift company in Japan
JASDAQ, Initial Public Offering of Digital Garage
Developed and launched first convenience-store-based payment and fulfillment system
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1999
Introduced open-source application server, Zope
Established the Electric Commerce Institute to provide marketing, e-commerce consulting, and Internet-related research services
Launched Web Nation: EC Site offering music and entertainment related products. Developed fully automated supply chain (Fulfillment and payment systems) (developed with the cooperation of TIS, Yamato Transport Co., Ltd?and Lilac Co, Ltd)
Registered business patent for above system (October 2002, service transferred to IQI)〉Introduced Open-source Zope
Launched E-commerce site with automated logistical system (including: Inventory status confirmation, delivery detail selection, etc.)
Jointly developed e-commerce portal for convenience store chains with Lawson -
1998
Localized and adapted of the popular rock-music site from the U.S. (Internet broadcast of Fuji-Rock Festival)
"Fit- Kansei": Web User Survey System with Cluster Analysis jointly developed with the Communication Science Institute
Launched first online CD shop in Japan
Began music-related database service
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1997
Localization and sales of Ultraseek search technology began (Now sold under "Autonomy Ultraseek" brand)
Provided robot-based (spider-based) search technology for corporate and government use
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1996
Introduced the world's first commercial Internet provider to Japanese market
Localized and launched Infoseek search engine service in Japan (In 1999 sold to Disney Group)
Established Digital Advertising Consortium, a consortium of advertising agencies specializing in Digital Media advertising
Japan's first robot-based search engine
Established of first consortium in advertising industry
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1995
Internet World Expo '96, the world's first "cyber-space expo" connecting 80 countries. In charge of technical aspects for Japan
World. Jr. Summit: event connected children from 40 countries by the Internet, hosted by Isao Okawa. Digital Garage provided technical services
Supported Internet streaming media event, and managed public Internet access spaces (Internet World Expo, 96)
"Internet Café in Shibuya"(with IBM)
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1994
Began homepage creation business (eccosys, From Garage)
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1993
Created Japan's first personal homepage "TOMIGAYA"