Rakuten, Inc. (JASDAQ: 4755) is the largest ecommerce company in Japan, and third largest ecommerce marketplace company worldwide. Rakuten provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.
Founded in 1997, Rakuten is headquartered in Tokyo, with over 10,000 employees and partner staff worldwide. Rakuten's 2011 revenues were US$ 4.7 billion, and it has a market capitalization of approximately US$14 billion. Rakuten ranks amongst the top 10 Internet companies in the world (along with Google, Amazon, eBay, Baidu, Yahoo, etc.).
Rakuten Ichiba, our Japanese ecommerce site, is named after Rakuichi-Rakuza, the first free and open marketplace in Japan. When used as a verb, raku is written with a Chinese character meaning to enjoy oneself. The same character is used in Rakuten’s name, which means “positive spirit,” because we believe that shopping should always be entertaining. These words symbolize the forward looking nature of our business, hence the name, Rakuten, Inc.
For more information, visit http://global.rakuten.com/group.
Specialties
楽天市場 ／ Internet shopping mall service "Rakuten Ichiba", 楽天トラベル ／ Online travel reservation service "Rakuten Travel", 楽天カード ／ Credit card "Rakuten Card", その他 ／ Other Internet services
New hires at Rakuten
Rakuten Activity on LinkedIn
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Rakuten has a new web developer trainee
Alvin YK Law is now web developer trainee
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Rakuten employee update:
Sungho Park (Arai) is now Software Engineer, title was previously Research Assistant at Rakuten
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Rakuten has a new Global HR
Damion Mannings is now Global HR
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Rakuten has a new GHRD employee
Delgernaran Bayar is now GHRD employee
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Rakuten has a new Sales
Akane Konishi is now Sales
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Rakuten has a new Graduate Trainee
Gabriel Iliesiu is now Graduate Trainee
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Rakuten has a new Global Human Resource Development
Takata Jun is now Global Human Resource Development
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Rakuten has a new Application Engineer
Prashant Pol is now Application Engineer
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Rakuten has a new 2012 October Entrant
Shino Happo is now 2012 October Entrant
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Rakuten has a new Trainee
Akira Remy Havermans is now Trainee
