Rakuten is downsizing its international presence once again after Japan’s top e-commerce firm announced plans to shutter its e-commerce businesses in three countries in Europe. The move to close ...

Japan's Rakuten Mobile has opened up its Rakuten Open RAN Customer Experience Center in the UK. The new center forms a collaborative effort between Japan and the UK to work towards the European ...

Rakuten will close its UK online marketplace in August following a review of its European operations. The website closure comes five years after the Japanese company bought Play.com for £25m in 2011 ...

Rakuten Mobile outlined ambitions to launch an open RAN test facility in the UK by March 2023, aiming to unlock business opportunities across the European and Middle Eastern regions. In a statement, ...

Rakuten, a massive consumer and business-focused Internet service company, this morning announced that it has acquired e-commerce site Play.com, one of the UK’s largest online retailers. Under the ...

Before Amazon became the online behemoth it is today, it used to go toe-to-toe with another big web retailer: Play.com. The site initially specialised in DVDs, video games and music -- selling ...

Rakuten Symphony has launched its Open RAN Customer Experience Centre in the UK It already has a cloud-based radio access network in place with tech from Symphony, NEC and Nokia Symphony hopes to ...

Rakuten announces plans to focus investment on France and Germany and restructure e-commerce marketplace operations in UK, Spain and Austria Rakuten continues to have a strong presence across Europe ...