Rakuten plans a significant expansion in India, investing at least $100 million and increasing its workforce by 8% to bolster its global op...

From around 100 employees in 2016, to housing 2000 people in its largest office outside Tokyo, the Indian arm of Rakuten, the Japanese tech...

The new facility has a 2,000-strong staff with space to accommodate over 1,000.

Located at Cubbon Park, Rakuten - Crimson House Bengaluru is a 20-storeyed building with a capacity for housing over 3,000 employees.

Google, JAFCO Asia, January Capital, ICMG Partners, Reddy Futures Fund and existing investors Beenext and Surge, the accelerator programme ...

SixthSense, which will be available on a subscription model, will help provide end-to-end visibility of the entire IT environment, from dev...

Rakuten is expanding its research and development (R&D) footprint in India by doubling its workforce in Bangalore.

India's fifth-largest IT services provider, Tech Mahindra, has sold its entire stake in US-based Altiostar Networks to Rakuten for $45 mill...

Through the agreement, Tech Mahindra will also provide managed IT, security and network services to Rakuten Mobile in Japan, and there are ...

Japan’s Rakuten Mobile and Germany’s Telefonica Deutschland said telecom operators should not look at developing everything on their own an...

Last year, Rakuten had about 300 employees, which has since grown to about 450. The company’s chief information officer said that more empl...

Fujitsu Consulting, which runs its biggest global delivery centre in India is now looking at leveraging this to repurpose products from Jap...

The India arm serves as a research and development centre for the Japanese company and is crucial to several of its strategic initiatives.

Sunil Gopinath joined Rakuten India in 2016 as Senior Vice President of Products and Technology and has led efforts to establish the produc...

Sachin Dalal, cofounder of BSE-listed ecommerce firm Infibeam, will spearhead Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten’s thrust into Indian shores.

Promising as the Indian ecommerce market seems, it would be challenging for Rakuten or any other newcomer to establish itself in the space.

Viber, which was sold to Japan's e-commerce major Rakuten in February, is open to acquisitions in India for technology and deeper market ac...