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Rakuten’s Q3 growth from China jumps 101%. The Tokyo-based company plans to open a store soon on Chinese marketplace JD.com. The falling value of the Japanese yen and China’s relaxed cross-border e-commerce policies have helped Rakuten Inc., Japan’s dominant…
Taiwan’s largest convenience store chain, 7-Eleven, says it will work with local shopping website MyDay to have online purchases from overseas delivered to its 5000-plus stores around Taiwan. The convenience store introduced the delivery service on Wednesday…
Nearly half of Asia’s shoppers said they prefer to do their Christmas shopping online this year, according to a new survey conducted by internet services company Rakuten. Of 2500 shoppers polled in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan, 47 per…
In a region where masses of users are newly armed with smartphones and more spending power, Southeast Asia is a new gold mine for tech enterprises. China’s quickly saturating market for all things tech has pushed Asia-bound start-ups to seek new territory,…
Japan’s leading eCommerce portal Rakuten has launched Rakubin – a new rapid delivery service which promises goods in as little as 20 minutes – 2 hours a day. The new service has made its debut in the Tokyo suburbs of Shibuya, Setagaya, Minato and Meguro. It…
apan’s Rakuten and Gentosha Inc. recently launched GINGER mirror, a free online fashion magazine for women linked with e-commerce. GINGER mirror is a free online fashion magazine optimized for smartphones aimed at busy women in their late 20s and 30s who wish…
Japanese eCommerce titan Rakuten has taken a stake in Chinese online shopping discounts site Fanli. The stake, less than 10 per cent, comes in the form of an undisclosed amount of series C funding into the start-up. The announcement states that Fanli is now…
Japanese eCommerce giant Rakuten will start to accept bitcoin, the ‘cryptocurrency’ on its global marketplaces. TechinAsia.com reports the payment format will begin its roll out in America and then spread to Rakuten Germany and Rakuten Austria. Bitnet, an…
Japanese eCommerce giant Rakuten is to pay US$410 million in cash to buy OverDrive, a leading eBook and audiobook content marketplace and sharing economy pioneer. Cleveland, US-based OverDrive was founded in 1986 and supplies the world’s largest catalog of…
Rakuten Belanja Online, the local affiliate of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, seeks to woo Indonesia’s small- and medium-sized enterprises by providing e-commerce courses as part of its growth strategy in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Global…
Indonesians, Taiwanese and Singaporeans are far more likely to splurge on Valentine’s Day than shoppers in Germany or the UK, a survey reveals. Japan’s home-grown global online retailer Rakuten has surveyed 7000 people across the globe to gauge attitudes to…
Rakuten Inc. recently announced that it would discontinue its new-graduate hiring quota, and will begin to hire new-graduates and mid-career engineers throughout the year. Since 2010, the company has been accelerating its global expansion, and by making…
