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Hiroshi Mikitani, founder, chairman and CEO of Rakuten. Rakuten was founded as MDM, Inc. by Hiroshi Mikitani on 7 February 1997. [10] The online shopping marketplace Rakuten Shopping Mall (楽天市場, Rakuten Ichiba) was officially launched on May 1, 1997. [11] The company had six employees and the website had 13 merchants. [12]
Hiroshi Mikitani (三木谷浩史, Mikitani Hiroshi) (born March 11, 1965) is a Japanese billionaire business magnate and writer. He is the founder and CEO of Rakuten, Inc. He is also the president of Crimson Group, chairman of the football club Vissel Kobe, chairman of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and a board member of Lyft.
On January 10, 2013, Rakuten announced the official rebranding of Buy.com to Rakuten.com Shopping, [18] which became effective on January 31, 2013. [19] On the site, rebranded as Rakuten.com, there were a series of unique virtual storefronts for shoppers to browse and connect online, [ 17 ] with the focus on providing high quality, unique ...
Rebranded as Rakuten Marketing then as Rakuten Advertising. [1] [2] 2010 PriceMinister: Online retailer France: €200 million [3] 2010 Buy.com: Online retailer United States: US$250 million [4] 2011 Ikeda E-commerce Brazil — Renamed Rakuten Brazil 2011 Tradoria E-commerce Germany — Rebranded as Rakuten Deutschland 2011 Play.com: E-commerce ...
Razmig Hovaghimian is an American entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of the international online streaming video site Viki, and senior executive officer of global content, board observer and Entrepreneur in residence at Japanese ecommerce company Rakuten. [1]
Rakuten Kobo Inc., or simply Kobo, is a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks, e-readers and formerly tablet computers. It is headquartered in Toronto , Ontario , Canada and is a subsidiary of the Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten .
Rakuten Viki is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. It streams videos similar to other services, but also allows users to subtitle content available in 200 languages as well as providing original programming.
Josh James is an American entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of Domo, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. [2] He also previously co-founded and served as CEO of Omniture , a web analytics company.