Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten (US$15 billion market cap, about 80 million user accounts in Japan) has started featuring Pinterest on some of its biggest websites yesterday. Big R caused a major splash in back in May when it led a massive US$100 million investment in the American startup. Rakuten CEO Mikitani was quoted as… Continue reading Rakuten Starts Featuring Pinterest On Its Japanese Marketplace And Other Properties
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Rakuten Introduces Akamai For Japan’s Largest Online Mall
Akamai’s Japan subsidiary(Akamai Kabushiki Gaisha) announced that Rakuten now uses their “Dynamic Site Solutions” for Rakuten Ichiba(=market), Rakuten’s flagship service holding 30,000 online shops. According to Internet Watch [J], Rakuten has been using Akamai for their Infoseek Rakuten(search), e-Bank, Rakuten ShowTime(movie) and Rakuten Taiwan. Akamai Japan commented that this is the first case among Japanese… Continue reading Rakuten Introduces Akamai For Japan’s Largest Online Mall