Mercari, a peer-to-peer marketplace app, has claimed the title of Japan’s first pre-IPO startup unicorn after raising 8.4 billion yen (about $75 million) at a valuation of over $1 billion. This is the ...

Online flea market operator Mercari Inc. has released its first global app for overseas buyers to simplify its cross-border ...

Mercari, a Japanese startup with a mobile flea market app, raised at least $6.5 billion on its first day of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, as the marketplace looks to expand in the U.S. to take ...

Mercari is a rapidly expanding presence in the Japanese consumer landscape. Four years after its launch in February 2013, this peer-to-peer app for buying and selling goods by smartphone has topped 50 ...

Japanese online market operator Mercari says it has released a global app based on artificial intelligence that allows local ...

This year has seen a rash of startups from Asia coming over to the United States, many of them from China, including online direct sales company JD.com, microblogging service Sina Weibo, Chinese ...

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Japan's online consumer-to-consumer secondhand goods trading market is about JPY 2.2 trillion (roughly 28.9% of total used goods value). The market is further split into two segments: auction (JPY 1 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese peer-to-peer marketplace app operator Mercari has applied to list its shares with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which could be the biggest initial public offering (IPO) this ...

Japan's online consumer-to-consumer secondhand goods trading market is about JPY 2.2 trillion (roughly 28.9% of total used goods value). The market is further split into two segments: auction (JPY 1 ...

TOKYO—Japanese flea-market app Mercari Inc.’s valuation soared to $6.5 billion on its first day of trading, as investors celebrated the eBay Inc. rival’s debut in a country that is nearly bereft of ...