However, confirming what Venture Capitalists know well, Japan still is the second-largest mobile market in terms of revenues, plus the second-largest advertising market with an accelerating pick-up in e-commerce, especially among high-spending young adults (even Rakuten, a high-flying Japanese domestic e-commerce site, is flush with cash and looking to expand to foreign markets).
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They've done a spectacular job for their clients and we continue--we're very excited about, one, we're excited about the region and two, we're excited to have a team of that quality doing real, on the ground research throughout China, which is, now, if you sort of look at the larger Chinese market, it's the second-largest market in the world, and there just aren't--there are many more world-class U.S. teams than there are world-class Chinese teams.
China is its second-largest market after the U.S. so image and reputation matter greatly.
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China is currently Apple's second-largest market, with more than 17, 000 outlets selling its products.
His machines are four times as expensive as competing testers made in China, his second-biggest market.
For instance, India's drug companies are shut out of Japan, the world's second-biggest market for pharmaceuticals.
China is the second-largest market in the world for PCs and by 2012 will be number one.
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That makes China the second-largest market in Asia after Japan (which is still about twice as big).
The second-home market has mushroomed, and with it, a population of folks whose tastes extend beyond Dairy Queen.
About 55% of Tango users are in the U.S. Korea is the second-largest market, with 2 million users.
Thus Los Angeles, the second-largest market in the U.S., has been without an NFL team for a decade.
Again, Americans buy more than anyone else, but China, where sales grew by 87% last year, has rapidly become its second-largest market.
Agilent has already moved much of its chemical analysis business to China, which is Agilent's second-largest market for those products.
There is also a huge second-hand market for lederhosen, but unfortunately, the older the outfit, the more expensive it is.
"China is currently our second-largest market, I believe it will become our first, " Tim Cook told the Xinhua News Agency.
Goldman is at once one of the NYSE's largest clients, its second-largest market maker and a shareholder, with a 4.6% stake.
Most end up, say the police, either stripped for their parts or given new identities and sold on the second-hand market.
One issue that is important to many buyers is how the value of electric cars will hold up in the second-hand market.
That should rise to 250m by 2004, says Scott Stevens, a director of Motorola, making China the second-largest market in the world.
The outlook for the U.S., the second-largest market, is uncertain, analysts said.
"We were looking to get into a second-tier market, " he says now.
China, where few ordinary citizens have a credit card (indeed, where credit-card-style revolving consumer lending is illegal), is MasterCard's second-largest market after America.
Sales in that country, now Rolls's second-biggest market, surged by 600% and in India by 400% (overall, 90% of the firm's output is destined for foreign tarmac).
Its Korean dealerships would give GM a foothold in Asia's second-largest market, where it sold exactly one car in the first two months of 1998.
After seven consecutive playoff appearances, the team finished in last place every year from 1988 to 1992 and was wasting away in the league's second-smallest market.
The apology, in the form of a letter written in Chinese and posted to Apple's Chinese website Monday, underscores the increasing importance of the Chinese consumer in what has become the company's second-largest market.
P. privileges. (Exclusive Resorts, Case's luxury-residence club, will own and operate some of the units.) Since 30 percent of Miraval's guests are return customers, it seems a safe bet that there's a ready-made second-home market here.
But buying the Dodgers now comes with a unique opportunity to launch a potentially lucrative regional sports network in the country's second-largest market, or sign a new local broadcast deal with the current broadcaster, News Corp.
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