Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten surprised many when it stumped up $900 million to buy mobile messaging and calling service Viber in February. The deal was announced just five days before Facebook’s ...

Rakuten, Japan’s top online retail firm, has pulled an Amazon after it launched its own branded Android app store today. The company is promising that ‘Rakuten App Ichiba’ will not only give customers ...

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The Japanese e-commerce giant says that the maker of popular voice and messaging apps "perfectly complements" its digital strategy. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked ...

Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten announced that a major update of its Rakuten Pay mobile app will be released on March 18, according to the firm’s 2018 earnings release, published on Feb. 12. The ...

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Typically, a shopping portal allows you to earn either cash back, miles or points, but Rakuten stands out because you choose ...

Japanese retail giant Rakuten has joined Spotify in making an antitrust complaint to the European Union against Apple, this time complaining about how subsidiary Kobo has to pay a 30% commission on ...

Rakuten Card Co Ltd has announced the release of Rakuten Card Lite, the first English language app from the credit card company focused on the international community in Japan. Now available on both ...