How Rakuten freed itself of Hadoop investment in two years
The US arm of the Japanese e-commerce giant has moved away from Hadoop to cut hardware costs and ease the management of its estate.
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Red Hat to keep its partner-agnosticism post-acquisition, CSPs moving to less-popular solutions
Partners have “nothing to fear” from an IBM-owned Red Hat and communication services providers are moving towards less popular solutions.
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Rakuten bolsters e-books by gobbling up distributor OverDrive
Rakuten is trying to inject some black ink into its struggling e-book business with the acquisition of OverDrive Holdings, one of the largest providers of e-books for rent to libraries and schools.
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Online mall Rakuten to accept bitcoin in US, Germany
Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten will become the latest online shopping mall to take bitcoin, with its services in the U.S., Germany and Austria accepting the digital currency.
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Rakuten buys shopping site Ebates for $1 billion
Japanese online shopping giant Rakuten has added another company to its cart with the acquisition of Ebates, a cash-back shopping website.
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Rakuten to buy Internet messaging app Viber for $900 million
Japan's Rakuten will acquire instant messaging and calling app developer Viber Media for US$900 million, the e-commerce giant said Friday, highlighting its moves to penetrate new markets.
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Japan's Rakuten continues Amazon pursuit, will buy US logistics firm
Rakuten, Japan's largest online retailer, is acquiring a U.S. logistics firm as it continues to build out its infrastructure to compete with foreign rivals like Amazon.com.
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Rakuten CEO: Our values may keep us from beating Amazon
The founder and CEO of one of the world's largest e-commerce sites says his firm's moral principles may keep it from defeating rival Amazon.com in the long run.
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Taking aim at Amazon, Japan's Rakuten launches brand in US
Visitors to what used to be Buy.com will see a few changes on the front page this week -- including a pronunciation guide for its new name.
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Rakuten acquires French logistics firm to speed European e-commerce deliveries
Japan's Rakuten said Tuesday it will acquire a French logistics company that will allow it to provide same-day deliveries in Paris as well as next-day services across Europe.
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Japan's Rakuten to acquire e-book retailer Kobo
Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten said on Tuesday that it plans to acquire Canadian e-book and e-reader company Kobo in a bid to expand in the area of media downloads for consumers.
