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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mikitani launched e-commerce startup Rakuten in mid-1997, just before Amazon went public. But his vision of online shopping had little in common with the standard being set by Jeff Bezos.

(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 ...

Outside Japan, however, Rakuten barely rates. It’s almost unknown in the U.S. and Europe, where Amazon.com rules, and Alibaba had already outpaced it in China well before 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.

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).

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 ...

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, 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 ...