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eBay dominated worldwide markets for auctions. Yahoo entered the Japanese online auction market just five months before eBay, yet eBay never matched Yahoo's lead and it eventually pulled out of the Japanese market, ceding a multi-billion dollar market to its rival. Why didn't the network effects-derived value from eBay's other markets help it in Japan?

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