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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]
Renamed Rakuten Brazil 2011 Tradoria E-commerce Germany — Rebranded as Rakuten Deutschland 2011 Play.com: E-commerce United Kingdom: £25 million Converted into the points-based loyalty program Rakuten.co.uk [5] 2012 Kobo: E-book reader Canada: US$315 million Converted into the points-based loyalty program Rakuten.co.uk [6] 2012 Wuaki.tv: VOD ...
Rakuten also launched e-commerce sites in Germany, Brazil, France, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea, Austria, Russia, Canada and the United Kingdom. [15] [21] [22] On September 9, 2014, Rakuten announced the purchase of San Francisco–based online rebate site Ebates.com for $1 billion in cash. The acquisition of Ebates ...
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 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 TV is a video-on-demand (VOD) and free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) platform, providing movies and TV series for subscription, rental, and purchase as well as FAST channels with a mix of local and global content. [1]
Rakuten Rewards was founded as Ebates in 1998 in Menlo Park, California, by two former deputy district attorneys, Alessandro Isolani and Paul Wasserman. [5] Funded by the venture capital firm Foundation Capital, [6] Ebates.com was launched on 3 May 1999, offering up to 25% cash back from about 40 online retailers.
The company was founded in 2001 by Representative Director and President Yuki Naito, who was a student at Kyoto University at the time. [2] In 2006, Drecom went public, and was listed on the Mothers (Tokyo Stock Exchange) section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange starting on February 9 of that year.