Hiroshi Mikitani is holding a glass of red wine and ... And Tanis moves on, unknowingly having met the billionaire who runs Rakuten, Japan’s biggest e-commerce company, which recently led ...

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 Mikitani. Kenji Hirose ... First comes core business, that centers around Rakuten Ichiba and others that is solely founded for such a business. The revenue was up 13.8% year-on-year ...

(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. “Bond ...

When Rakuten Inc. introduced an English-only policy for company communications in May 2010 as part of founder and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani's push to globalize the Japanese Web commerce firm ...

By Gavin J Blair Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Japanese e-commerce and investment giant Rakuten, condemned U.S. President Donald Trump‘s immigration ban and said the company, sometimes called 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 ...

Welcome to Rakuten’s 2021 First Quarter Financial ... But first, here’s our CEO, Mickey Mikitani, who will share the Group’s strategy. Total domestic e-commerce GMS and total shopping ...