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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc, controlled by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, will buy call and messaging app provider Viber Media Inc for $900 million in a deal that ...

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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 ...

Rakuten and Rewards Network, the largest dining loyalty program in the U.S., are teaming up for Rakuten Dining, a new partnership program offering consumers an introductory 5 percent Cash Back on ...

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