Nifty Corporation, stylized as and , is one of the leading

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s in

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, and a subsidiary of

Fujitsu is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the la ...

. The company was the largest

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, Nifty Serve, in Japan. With the spread of the Internet, it started internet service in 1996. In 1999, it absorbed

's ISP, InfoWeb. In 2006, the online service was closed due to a decline in users. The company went public in December 2006.

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