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Today we launched Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo. As an avid book lover, I couldn’t be more excited about the options now available to Walmart customers.

Walmart’s New Digital Book Offering is Worth Exploring

August 22, 2018

Today we launched Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo. As an avid book lover, I couldn’t be more excited about the options now available to Walmart customers.

Walmart’s New Digital Book Offering is Worth Exploring

August 22, 2018

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NEWS AND VIEWS FROM AROUND THE RAKUTEN GROUP

In this next stage of retail, Rakuten is here to offer retailers a new kind of help. I call it: Rakuten Merchant Cloud Strategy.

Rakuten Merchant Cloud and reasons to be optimistic

September 15, 2018

Draymond Green visited Rakuten’s Tokyo headquarters, taking part in a very special fan event, as part of a tour facilitated by the NBA and Rakuten TV

Rakuten welcomes NBA champion Draymond Green to Tokyo with fan event

September 12, 2018

Rakuten To Power Spartan In New Global Partnership

September 10, 2018

2018 has been a year of great change for Priceminister. In March, the company rebranded to Rakuten Priceminister, before transitioning to Rakuten France.

How Rakuten rebranded: From PriceMinister to Rakuten France

September 6, 2018

Vissel Kobe midfielder Andres Iniesta had a reunion of sorts on August 26 when he met with players from Barcelona’s youth academy in Japan.

Iniesta meets with Barca Youth Academy, Looks ahead to Asian Champion’s League

September 2, 2018

Rakuten TV and the NBA team up with World Caricature Champion Dai Tamura

August 31, 2018

I'll be talking to Ryan Holiday at Rakuten Optimism 2018, to dig into the thinking that has made him a key advisor to clients like Google, TASER & Complex

In Conversation with Ryan Holiday: Optimism, Stoicism and Building Companies that Last

August 27, 2018

To celebrate this Rakuten icon turning five, the Rakuten Panda has opened a pop-up cafe in one of Tokyo’s trendiest neighborhoods.

Pop-up panda cafe charms Rakuten fans in Tokyo's Omotesando neighborhood

August 23, 2018

Rakuten Social Accelerator will help find innovative solutions to social problems by connecting social entrepreneurs and NPOs with Rakuten resources.

Rakuten Social Accelerator is not your regular startup incubator

August 21, 2018

On Sep 7, Rakuten will host the first-ever Rakuten Optimism Conference in San Francisco--a one-day event packed full of inspiring speakers, insightful...

7 reasons to get excited about Rakuten Optimism 2018

August 17, 2018

Hiroshi Mikitani answers audience questions: I recently asked a question on LinkedIn: “What would you like to know about me or Rakuten?” It was humbling to have received so many responses.

The big questions you wanted to ask

August 17, 2018

Japan heatwave: What Japan is buying to beat the heat

August 8, 2018

Influencer marketing isn't new, but it has changed a lot in the past few years because of shifting online trends, social media and consumer preferences.

Ready yourself for the future of influencer marketing: Shopstyle

August 7, 2018

Through One Delivery, Rakuten plans to manage deliveries from start to finish, working through both Rakuten’s own logistics network and external partners.

One brand, One Delivery, mobile: CEO talks with Japan merchants

August 3, 2018

Rakuten has teamed up with the Tokyo Electric Power Company and Japanese mapping company Zenrin to develop a system of drone highways...

Rakuten wants to help create world’s first ‘drone highways’

August 1, 2018

On a hot and humid night at Noevir Stadium in Kobe more than 26,000 fans came out to watch legendary midfielder Andres Iniesta make his Vissel Kobe debut.

Andres Iniesta makes his Vissel Kobe debut: the fan perspective

July 26, 2018

Ten standout startups have been selected to join Techstars for our 2018 Rakuten Accelerator program in Singapore. Your first look at the class of 2018...

Introducing the class of 2018: Rakuten Accelerator startups revealed

July 26, 2018

Why I’m working to conquer cancer: A note from our Chairman

July 24, 2018

What can marketers learn from the runaway success of the Walking Dead? We caught up with executive producer David Alpert to find out.

Walking Dead Producer David Alpert on the keys to building a ferocious fandom

July 20, 2018

The Taiwan Rakuten Ichiba team celebrates the Taiwan launch of Rakuten Super Points in 2017.

Rakuten celebrates a decade in Taiwan: An interview with Grace Lo, founding member and CEO

July 17, 2018