See the full coverage here. Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani doesn’t shy away from risks. His $5.5 billion bet is his biggest one to date: a startup using a new technology to disrupt the nation’s ...

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 ...

“You?” “We do e-commerce in Japan and the U.S.,” Mikitani answers nonchalantly. He sips his wine. And Tanis moves on, unknowingly having met the billionaire who runs Rakuten, Japan’s ...

Hiroshi Mikitani, whose Rakuten Group Inc. is losing billions of dollars to break into Japan’s wireless market, said he’s devoting a fifth of his time to a US-based biotech startup for cancer ...

You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos of Japan. Both lead hugely successful Internet commerce companies with a commanding presence in their home markets. But to call Mikitani’s ...

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

However, Hiroshi “Mickey” Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten, pre-announced the details during his keynote at Mobile World Congress on Tuesday (with a video of it posted earlier today here).

TOKYO, April 7 (Reuters) - Hiroshi Mikitani, chief executive of Japanese e-commerce group Rakuten Inc, said on Wednesday it was "too risky" to hold the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this summer, as the ...

“We invented this marketplace model, and our international competitors basically followed,” says Hiroshi Mikitani, Rakuten’s founder and chief executive officer. Outside Japan ...

KYIV, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Hiroshi Mikitani, the founder and chief executive of Rakuten Group (4755.T), on Saturday touted the ability of his company's Viber messaging platform to counter Russian ...

(Bloomberg) -- Hiroshi Mikitani, whose Rakuten Group Inc. is losing billions of dollars to break into Japan’s wireless market, said he’s devoting a fifth of his time to a US-based biotech ...