NEW TRUMP ERA The Yahoo Finance guide to Trump 2.0 Dusseldorf - Delayed Quote • EUR Rakuten Group Inc (RAK.DU) Follow Compare 5.52 -0.04 (-0.65%) As of 4:30:58 PM GMT+1. Market Open. All News Press Releases SEC Filings All SEC Filings Corporate Changes & Voting Matters Periodic Financial Reports Proxy Statements Tender Offer/Acquisition Reports Offering Registrations Rakuten Billionaire Defends Costly Mobile Foray With Big AI Bet (Bloomberg) -- Rakuten Group Inc.’s chief dismissed skeptics who call the Japanese e-commerce pioneer’s mobile foray a mistake and said the telecom arm is central for future growth through artificial intelligence.Most Read from BloombergHow Sanctuary Cities Are Preparing for Another Showdown With TrumpNYC Commuters Get New Way to Dodge Traffic: $95 Helicopter RidesWhat LA’s Fires Mean for the City’s Housing ShortageDeadly Landslide of Garbage Displays Uganda's Missed OpportunityScaramucci, Ackma Rakuten’s Mikitani Wants to Sell Bonds to Japanese Investors (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani said that his Rakuten Group Inc. is keen to sell more bonds to Japanese investors to help diversify funding that has been focused on overseas debt markets. 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Mizuho Financial Group to buy 15% of Rakuten Card for $1 billion Japan's Mizuho Financial Group will take a 15% stake in Rakuten Group subsidiary Rakuten Card for 165 billion yen ($1.06 billion) in a further deepening of the two companies' strategic alliance, they said on Wednesday. The two groups agreed late last year for Mizuho to raise its stake in group firm Rakuten Securities to nearly half as Rakuten Group struggled financially, dragged down by its unprofitable mobile network unit. Rakuten said the sale of the Rakuten Card stake would result in a special profit of 159.35 billion yen at the unconsolidated level in the financial year ending in December. Rakuten Reveals Key Consumer Behaviors and Motivators This Holiday The company’s two reports dig into consumer sentiments on saving and a disconnect between retailers and shoppers. Rakuten Advertising Expands AI-Powered Partnership Discovery to APAC Market with New Brand Search Functionality Rakuten Advertising, the leading global affiliate marketing network, announced the launch of its AI-driven Partnership Discovery solution for advertisers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) market. This innovative solution, which has already transformed how advertisers find new partners in the US and UK, will empower advertisers in the Rakuten Advertising APAC network to identify the most effective publisher partners for high-performance affiliate campaigns. Rakuten Advertising Wins "Best Performance Marketing Solution" in 2024 MarTech Breakthrough Awards Program Rakuten Advertising, the leading global affiliate marketing network, today announced that it has won the "Best Performance Marketing Solution" award in the seventh annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by MarTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global marketing, sales and advertising technology industry. Rakuten Slides Most Since May on Fintech Reorganization Delay (Bloomberg) -- Rakuten Group Inc.’s shares slid as much as 6.7% in their biggest intraday drop since May on delays to the Tokyo-based online shopping mall operator’s plans to combine its fintech operations.Most Read from BloombergUS Reporter to Be Freed by Russia in Major Prisoner SwapKamala Harris Wipes Out Trump’s Swing-State Lead in Election Dead HeatAckman’s IPO Dream Implodes From $25 Billion to Zero in WeeksIran’s Leader Orders Retaliatory Strike on Israel, NYT SaysIsrael Says It’s Confirm Rakuten Card rolls out English language app to enhance user accessibility The new Rakuten Card Lite app enables customers to review credit card statements and change payment settings in English ASCO24: Rakuten’s photoimmunotherapy and Keytruda combo shows efficacy in HNSCC A Phase III trial evaluating Rakuten’s photoimmunotherapy in combination with Keytruda in recurrent HNSCC is planned for H2 this year. EXCLUSIVE: Rakuten Launches Invite-only Membership Program for Luxury Shopping The new Rakuten+ program will bring its cash back incentives to high-value shoppers as the company aims to foster lifelong loyalty. Rakuten Advertising's Affiliate Intelligence Delivers AI-Driven Capabilities to the Affiliate Industry Rakuten Advertising, the leading global affiliate marketing network, revealed product and organizational updates to realize the company's Affiliate Intelligence vision. Focused on expanding the use of data and AI to aid human intelligence, Affiliate Intelligence is an ongoing initiative to stimulate growth in advertiser and publisher relationships with solutions that build on innovative insights and strong industry partnerships to enable exceptional campaign performance. Rakuten and eBay to trial demand for used Japanese fashion in US The partnership will consider a full-scale launch based on the reaction to the trial. Rakuten, eBay team up to test US market for used Japanese fashion goods Japan's Rakuten Group is partnering with eBay to test U.S. demand for used Japanese fashion goods, made all the cheaper with the yen trading near a 34-year low. The tie-up, which started on May 8 with just seven vendors on Rakuten's second-hand goods unit Rakuma, aims to capitalise on the currency effect and also a move toward bargain hunting as cost-of-living pressures around the world crimp spending. In exchange for commissions on sales, eBay lists Rakuma's selected goods for sale on its site, while a Rakuten-contracted vendor handles shipping and customer service in the U.S. Rakuten logs 15th quarter of losses on mobile woes despite record financial unit profit TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Rakuten on Tuesday logged its fifteenth consecutive quarter in the red as losses at its mobile service network unit outweighed a record performance from its financial unit. Its financial unit which offers online banking, brokerage, credit card and insurance services, logged an operating profit of 39.3 billion yen, up 47% from a year earlier, as its customer base grew. Rakuten has offered generous joining bonuses for new customers, who gain further discounts and perks across the other services in Rakuten's ecosystem, helping generate subscriber growth but limiting the unit's profits. 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