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After the soft launch of Rakuten Belanja in March, Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten has now officially opened Rakuten Belanja, their online B2B2C shopping mall in Indonesia. In partnership with PT Global Mediacom, the country’s ‘s largest media group, Rakuten Belanja...

Rakuten proper released their official Android app just last month, and now the company has announced that Rakuten Bank, Japan’s biggest e-bank, gets an Android application as well. Rakuten Bank customers can view their bank account information, track their balance, and send money to other...

He kind of announced it four weeks ago, and now Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani has confirmed his company will enter the UK and Germany by the end of this year. Details are scarce at this point, but Mikitani did say he is looking at possible acquisitions as well as joint ventures in these (and...

Rakuten is expected to acquire a stake in Tokyo-based ticket startup TicketStar, the Nikkei is reporting today. Next month, TicketStar will be issuing new shares Rakuten will buy. Rakuten Enterprise, a subsidiary that’s currently handling Rakuten’s ticket business, will be shut down and...

Japan’s largest e-commerce company Rakuten released its earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2011 today. And things are looking quite good: consolidated net sales, for example, rose 9.8% year-on-year to 86,921 million yen, despite the negative effects of the March 11 earthquake. Operating...