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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.
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] The name was changed to Rakuten in June 1999. [11]
[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 ...
The company was purchased by Amazon in 2007 for an undisclosed amount. [129] [130] At the time of the acquisition, Brilliance was producing 12–15 new titles a month. [130] It operates as an independent company within Amazon. In 1984, Brilliance Audio invented a technique for recording twice as much on the same cassette. [131]
Company Amazon began search for Amazon HQ2, a second company headquarters to house up to 50,000 employees. [149] [150] 2018 January 18 Company Amazon narrows down the choices of its second headquarters location to 20 places. [151] 2018 January 22 Company Amazon opens a cashier-less grocery store to the public. [152] 2018 September 19
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. The name Kobo is an anagram of book. [3] [4]
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.