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Nextag is an independent price comparison service website for products, travel, and education.〔(About Nextag ) Retrieved on 2014-11-13〕 Categories include: Baby, Books, CDs and DVDs, Clothing and Accessories, Collectibles and Art, Computers & Software, Electronics, Flowers & Plants, Food & Wine & Baskets. Health & Beauty, Home & Garden, jewelry and watches, office products, sports and outdoors, and video games and toys.〔(Nextag Products ) Retrieved on 2014-11-13〕 It started originally as a website where buyers and sellers could negotiate prices for computers and electronics products. The current business model with a focus on comparison shopping has existed since 2000.〔Marshall, Matt. ("Surviving, Thriving. Ojha's Determination Helps Rescue Nextag from Dot-Com Crash“ ). ''San Jose Mercury News''. 8. April 2005. Retrieved on 2008-09-23〕 Nextag has a total of over 30 million users each month that makes online purchases using their site, with 80% of them being unique.〔(Nextag Merchants ) Retrieved on 2014-11-13〕 Nextag sees itself as "the #1 independent site for comparison shopping."〔(Nextag Facebook About ) Retrieved on 2014-11-13〕 In June 2007, Providence Equity Partners purchased a two-thirds majority of the company. In March 2015, Nextag was acquired by Regent Equity Partners, a global private equity firm based in Los Angeles, California. Nextag provides merchants with various services including automated ROI tracking system, promotional messaging platform for easy implementation of voucher codes and marketing messages, and Buyer Reviews and Trusted Seller program.〔 Nextag's headquarters are in Redwood City, California.〔(Businessweek Profile ) Retrieved on 2014-11-13〕 Additional offices are in Hamburg, Germany, Los Angeles, California, Tokyo, Japan, and Gurgaon, India.〔(CrunchBase profile ) Retrieved on 2014-11-13〕 == Awards and recognition == It was ranked by ''Time'' magazine as one of the fifty best websites of 2008. ''Time'' magazine called Nextag the "plainest comparative-shopping site on the Web", but commended it for quick and comprehensive shopping search results. Nextag not only provided customers with product reviews, but also, it provided the price history for each product. Other notable achievements include being listed in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500/Fast 50, Red Herring Top 100, San Francisco Business Times Fast 100, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal Fast 50.〔(NexTag(R) Named Among the Top Fastest Growing Companies in 2005 ) Retrieved on 2014-11-13〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「NexTag」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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