Japan Buys Silicon Valley

Posted by Bill Belew on May 9th, 2006 in Japan | No Comments

I saw an interesting figure in today’s San Jose Mercury News.

The top 150 companies in Silicon Valley had a combined market value on Friday of $1.18 Trillion Dollars. That’s Google + Intel + Yahoo + Sun Microsystems + 146 other top companies = $1.18 trillion.

Well,  if all the average Japanese households got together and went to the bank they could buy all of Silicon Valley TWICE. 

Japan has a lot of money in the bank.

Why aren’t more companies going after the Japanese market?

What do you think?

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  1. james roper says

    09/05/2006

    i think in some ways it is easier to sell crap to america. we all just gotta have it, the whole bigger and better mentality.

  2. mark cerezo says

    09/05/2006

    Im thinking they dont know about targeting the japanese market or they dont have a division over in japan.

  3. Daniel Neal says

    09/05/2006

    i think that america just thinks they are the best and they dont need foreign companies. If it was me i would jump on that gravy train right now.