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Rakuten Group, Inc., Rakuten Payment, Inc., Uber Japan Co., Ltd., and Uber Eats Japan, Inc. have revealed plans to augment their strategic alliance by incorporating Rakuten ID. This joint venture connects Uber, a prominent mobility and delivery platform in…
After a six-year hiatus, Rakuten, a well-known e-commerce platform in Japan, has made a successful return to profitability. This significant achievement is attributed to the consistent growth seen across all primary business sectors and an all-time high…
In a bold step towards redefining digital interactions, Rakuten Group, Inc. and Rakuten Mobile, Inc. have officially launched Rakuten AI. This innovative artificial intelligence agent is now accessible through the Rakuten Link app and a beta web application,…
Rakuten Group, Inc. has recently been selected to participate in the third term of the Generative AI Accelerator Challenge (GENIAC), an initiative backed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the New Energy and Industrial Technology…
In a significant move poised to reshape cross-border retail, Rakuten Group, Inc. has opened the doors of its Rakuten Ichiba platform to Singaporean businesses, allowing them to sell directly to Japanese consumers. This expansion, which removes previous…
In a groundbreaking initiative, Rakuten Mobile, AWL, Inc., and Rakuten Vissel Kobe have joined forces under the auspices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ Regional Digital Transformation (DX) Promotion Package Project, managed by the…
MobiFone, one of Vietnam’s top mobile network operators, has taken a significant leap into the future by collaborating with Japan’s Rakuten Symphony to introduce the country’s first open radio access network (Open RAN). This pioneering initiative not only…
In a bold strategic move, Rakuten Group, Inc. has announced plans to consolidate five of its wholly-owned subsidiaries—Rakuten Mart, Inc., Rakuten Ticket, Inc., Rakuten Car Inc., Rakuten STAY, Inc., and Monzen Corporation Japan—into its parent company. This…
The project, partially funded by the NICT, aims to address the limitations of current international standards for network specifications that were established before the advent of cloud-native networks. These existing standards are inadequate for the…
Cisco and Rakuten Mobile, Inc. today announced a major milestone for Rakuten Mobile’s network infrastructure in support of efforts to build a better, more inclusive internet for the future. Rakuten Mobile operates the world first’s fully cloud-native mobile…
Japanese e-commerce and tech company Rakuten has sold a 13% share amounting to $2.2 billion to Japan Post, Tencent and Walmart. Japan Post will invest $1.4 billion into Rakuten, thereby owning 8.3% of the company’s total share to become its fourth-largest…
Nokia and Japan’s newest mobile network operator Rakuten Mobile are working together to enable the operator’s implementation of a fully automated operations environment for the 5G era. Nokia will operate Rakuten Mobile’s virtualized core network to manage…
Rakuten has partnered with Seiyu to launch Japan’s first autonomous delivery robots service with JD in Umikaze Park. Using the Rakuten Drone app, Umikaze Park visitors can place their orders from the Seiyu Livin Yokosuka Store and receive the products…
A Japanese collective including Yamato Transport and Rakuten will partner with the Japanese government in a road test of autonomous delivery robots. A government-appointed team will monitor the testing to identify potential issues, with a special focus on…
Cisco is primarily known for its switches and routers for service providers and enterprises. It has not been a big competitor in the radio access networking space against vendors such as Ericsson and Nokia. But on its fiscal third-quarter 2019 earnings call…
Japan’s telecom ministry has allocated 5G mobile spectrum to incumbent operators NTT Docomo, KDDI, and Softbank, as well as local e-commerce giant Rakuten. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has approved the allocation of spectrum after…
