Nifty Corporation

NIFTY Corporation
ニフティ株式会社

Type	Public (TYO: 3828)
Industry	Information and communication industry
Founded	February 4, 1986
Headquarters	Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Takashi Imamura (今村 隆?), president[1]
Revenue	3.7 billion 46.779 million yen
Employees	556 (March 31, 2007)
Website	NIFTY Corporation (@ nifty)

@nifty (ニフティ^?), also known as NIFTY Corporation (ニフティ株式会社^?), is one of the leading internet service providers in Japan, and a subsidiary of Fujitsu.^[2] The company was the largest online service provider, Nifty Serve, in Japan. With the spread of the Internet, it started internet service in 1996. In 1999, it absorbed Fujitsu's ISP, InfoWeb. In 2006, the online service was closed due to decrease of users. The company went public in December 2006.

References

1. ^ About Us (会社概要). NIFTY Corporation. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
2. ^ "GRIC unwires @nifty, Japan's largest Internet service provider - Business - GRIC Communications extends service relationship with NIFTY Corp - Brief Article". BNET. November 2002. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NZB/is_11_4/ai_95104277. Retrieved 2008-02-06.