Kara Swisher interviews Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Rakuten, the Japanese online retail giant, about the future of e-commerce and why he placed a $50 million bet on hot social book-marking site Pinterest ...

Billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani said that his Rakuten Group is keen to sell more bonds to Japanese investors to help diversify funding that has been focused on overseas debt markets. "Bond investors ...

But that mobile arm and its 8 million-plus users help train an AI poised to expand the conglomerate’s business, according to billionaire founder Hiroshi Mikitani. The amount of exclusive data ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Tech Insider recently caught up with Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani at our IGNITION 2015 event. We asked him why he takes his executives mountain climbing instead of ...

But that mobile arm and its 8 million-plus users help train an AI poised to expand the conglomerate’s business, according to billionaire founder Hiroshi Mikitani.

Even with Hiroshi Mikitani, chairman and CEO of Rakuten Group, the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE) has struggled to make its presence felt. JANE has lobbied politicians for a decade to ...

Hiroshi “Mickey” Mikitani, the chairman and CEO of Tokyo-based e-commerce retailing company Rakuten Group Inc., pledged Feb. 27 to donate 1 billion yen ($8.7 million) to the Ukrainian ...