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Rakuten has more than 28,000 employees worldwide, operating in 30 countries and regions, [3] and its revenues totalling US $12.8 billion as of 2021. [4] Rakuten was the official sponsor of the Spanish football club FC Barcelona from 2017 until 2022, [5] [6] and the Golden State Warriors of the NBA as of 2022.
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 ...
[16] [17] This was considered Rakuten's attempt to enter the American e-retail market, [16] and to compete globally with e-commerce competitors such as Amazon.com and eBay. [3] At the time, Rakuten in Japan had 64 million members, [16] and Buy.com had 14 million customers, mostly located in the US and Europe. Half its products were sold ...
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 .
Instagram, a photo and video-sharing website and app, is owned by Meta. Instagram launched Oct. 6, 2010, and was acquired by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion. Who owns Snapchat?
Amazon logo The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle. Amazon.com, Inc. is an American conglomerate headquartered in Seattle, Washington.Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [1]
In April 2019, ShopBack announced that it has closed a US$45 million round led by new investors Rakuten Capital and EV Growth, bringing their total funding to US$85 million. The investment will see Amit Patel, who leads Rakuten-owned cashback service Ebates, and Willson Cuaca (Managing Partner of EV Growth and East Ventures), join the board. [17]
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.