Rakuten crying about being pummeled by Yahoo/Google tie up, more in this article here...
Pretty good gameplan, US Yahoo tieing up wid Bing and Japan tieing up with google really tightens the competition.
Rakuten was also going to fire any staff that didn't speak English/Japanese to make them more international, so you can see how they are butt hurt that the comp would be against them.
Yahoo Japan is already giving Rakuten a run for their monies, but with google in the mix, you can see why they ran to the Monopoly Man.
If only Japanese ppl played monopoly when they were kids, Rakuten would have took Park Place and Boardwalk when they first landed on them.