Naver, SoftBank's Savior Again? This Time with Coupang?
Elliott left Korea, but it didn't go very far. It chose Korea's closest neighbor, Japan, as its next stop. It is now sitting on SoftBank Group with...
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Japan Mobile: What We Expect when Rakuten Unveils Pricing Next Week
Rakuten will unveil pricing plans for its facilities-based mobile service on 3 March, with reservations to start on 4 March and the actual service...
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Z Holdings: Rakuten’s Results Make Us Worry More About Z Holdings
Rakuten Inc (4755 JP)’s domestic e-commerce GMV growth fell at a much slower rate than Z Holdings (4689 JP)’ Shopping business GMV in 3Q FY03/20....
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Japan Payment Wars: NTT Docomo and Merpay/Origami to Attempt Catch up with PayPay and Rakuten
When Origami, the only independent mobile payments provider, last month agreed to be bought by Mercari and merge its systems with Mercari’s own...
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Rakuten: Q4 Results Takeaways Include Firming up of Mobile Launch Timeline
Rakuten posted Q4/FY19 results including the first annual net loss since FY08 on the back of accelerated investment in mobile and logistics. That...
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