[0] e21 Increases Global e-business Technology Reach With Japanese Office Expansion; e21 Japan Purchases Technology Consultancy to Grow Overall Operations.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2000 e21, a leading global e-business agency, today announced the overall expansion of its e21 Japan Regional Office. In order to increase its breadth of services and operate more fully within the Japanese market, e21 Japan has recently purchased the technology consultancy portion of Space Net Co., Ltd., a three-year-old Japanese technology services company based in Tokyo. This purchase will add 40 employees to the e21 Japan office, bringing the total number of employees up to 50 in Japan and over 320 worldwide. "e21's goal is to make it easy for companies to enter the Japanese market and be successful there," said Joseph Sun, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of e21corp. "By adding 40 highly-trained technology consultants to our repertoire, we now have great advantages in the Japanese market that will make us very attractive to U.S. companies looking to do Internet business there." This purchase, along with e21's initial Japanese merger with the IT firm C-Tech in June 2000, will make e21's venture into Japan immediately profitable due to current work with clients such as Casio Computer Co., Ltd. and Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. "e21 is an e-business agency with a strong engineering tradition," said James C.J. Chang, president of e21 Japan. "The addition of 40 highly-qualified and experienced programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists and engineers to e21 further enhances our ability to offer total e-commerce solutions to our clients from front-end Web design to back-end customer relationship management and database technologies." In addition, e21 Japan offers a full range of online and offline public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most and marketing services, Web and print localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. services, online software solutions, and small business incubation incubation /in·cu·ba·tion/ (in?ku-ba´shun) 1. the provision of proper conditions for growth and development, as for bacterial or tissue cultures. 2. services in order to better transition foreign companies into the Japanese market. e21 has plans for future U.S. expansion and remains on track for a mid-2001 IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. . About e21 Founded in 1989 with annual revenues in excess of $20 million, e21 (www.e21corp.com) is one of the fastest growing global e-business solutions providers. e21 offers businesses integrated e-marketing direction, from concept to completion. With added expertise in East-West communications, e21 acts as a strategic business partner with companies looking to balance the branding power of the Internet with traditional business strategies. e21 offers its clients comprehensive e-marketing services including: Research, Strategy, Branding, Public Relations, Databases, System Integration, Web Enablement, e-Commerce, Content Management, Events, and Localization. e21 has regional offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Greater China and Japan, with offices in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Taipei and Tokyo. e21 . . . think e-Business. |
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