When customers opt-in, websites can give them a more personalized experience and more targeted specials, Yoshimura says.

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Yoshimura to support its argument for eliminating distributed, customer-sited generation from DR programs.

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Justin Yoshimura, cofounder and CEO of 500Friends, built the service because he previously started two ecommerce companies and saw the need.

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The services increase the size of purchases and frequency of purchases, increasing repeat purchase rates to as high as 60%, Yoshimura says.

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Sakuji Yoshimura, head of Cyber University, says that the technology will allow those with jobs or who have disabilities greater access to education.

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It was designed by Junzo Yoshimura, a pupil of Antonin Raymond, who worked on the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and with Frank Lloyd Wright on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

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