Mikitani plans to leverage the 100 million customers in Japan already using Rakuten’s e-commerce, credit cards, internet banking, online trading and content to also sign up for the mobile ...

(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 ...

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.

Mikitani sees users of the site’s infinitely scrolling galleries eventually “pinning” images with a Rakuten ID, which is like an iTunes account number and already used by 80 million people ...

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 propaganda.

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 nation struggles with a nascent ...

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 ...

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).

Rakuten, Mikitani said, is re-writing the rules of ecommerce. They have created a very different business model. “This is about shopping customer appreciation and retention,” said Mikitani. Rakuten’s ...

The $225-million deal makes Rakuten the NBA’s exclusive distribution partner in ... "We want to be a household name like Google and Facebook," Mikitani told ESPN in early September about the ...

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 ...