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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]
Company Business Country Value Comments References 2002 MyTrip.net Online auction United States — Merged with Rakuten Travel 2005 LinkShare: Online auction United States — 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
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.
Blum still owned approximately 48% of the company at the time of the IPO. Stock values dropped in the year following Buy.com's initial public offering, and it was delisted from the NASDAQ Stock Market for failing to maintain a stock price above $1 per share.
As of March 2010, Indigo Books & Music owned 58% of Kobo Inc. [6] Rakuten acquired the company from these owners in January 2012. [7] [8] On 23 May 2016, Waterstones announced it had sold its eBook business to Rakuten Kobo Inc., and as of 14 June 2016, users were required to access their eBooks via Kobo's eBook site. [9]
Rakuten Viber, or simply Viber, is a cross-platform voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) software application owned by Japanese multinational company Rakuten, provided as freeware for the Google Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and Linux platforms. [1]
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. Mobile and desktop browsers: Works best with the latest version of Chrome, Edge, FireFox and Safari. Windows: Windows 7 and newer Mac: MacOS X and newer Note: Ad-Free AOL Mail ...
It is owned by the Japanese company, Rakuten. Rakuten TV's VOD catalogue includes content from studios around the world, including Warner Bros. , Disney , and Sony Pictures , local distributors, and independent labels producing both locally and globally oriented content.