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Top 13 Asian eCommerce Marketplaces

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billion in 2017 to $200 billion by 2026. Founded by Scott Blum in 1997 as buy.com, Rakuten was rechristened in 2010 after a takeover by Japanese firm Rakuten. In 2017, the brand had acquired 180 million products from four million entrepreneurs across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

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It is forecasted that by 2026, demand will mainly be linked to the rise in clean energy technology, in particular for neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets –– critical components for electric and hybrid vehicles as well as wind turbines. That is, until 2010 when China publicly announced new quotas reducing REE exports by approximately 40%.