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Japan's largest Internet company Rakuten Inc., announced today it has started to accept Bitcoin as a payment option on its American portal Rakuten.com. The company said this first integration should ...

The initial rollout integrates Rakuten AI into Rakuten Link, its communication app for Rakuten Mobile subscribers, and it will also be usable as a web app in beta. It will be free of charge, and ...

Tokyo-based e-commerce company Rakuten, is planning to acquire the intellectual property assets of Bitcoin payment processor, BitNet. Rakuten Inc, has already started to negotiate with the ...

Rakuten is a shopping rewards business that strives to save consumers money on purchases. The company offers cashback or rebate rewards to its customers for shopping through its platform. Rakuten ...

Rakuten Group's fintech business segment is benefiting from Japan's transition to a cashless society. Uncertainty remains over the mobile business segment's ability to meet its EBITDA profitability ...

Rakuten has entered into an agreement to acquire PopShops, a Seattle-based data and analytics company, for an undisclosed amount of money. The terms of the acquisition were not made public but, ...

Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce powerhouse with ambitions to take on Amazon, is today kicking off a new feature on its U.S. site Rakuten.com that it hopes will help the company better differentiate ...

Major Japanese online broker Rakuten Securities and subsidiary of Internet services provider Rakuten Inc., has announced the addition of CFD trading services on stock indices and commodities. The new ...

If you are a frequent online shopper, you might know about Rakuten Canada. Rakuten is a cash back website that provides bona fide monetary rewards to its shoppers when they make purchases via their ...

Japanese Forex and CFD broker Rakuten Securities will enlarge its CFD lineup from mid-May 2021. The company will add commodity CFDs to its offering, effective May 17, 2021. The first commodity CFDs to ...