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Marketing technology: Acquired by Rakuten Marketing. 2014 Slice E-commerce: E-commerce company that provides online shopping services and sells business intelligence based on digital commerce measurement. 2014 Ebates: Cashback website: US $952 million Changed name to Rakuten Rewards 2015 OverDrive, Inc. Ebook wholesale distributor US $410 million
Rakuten Advertising. Rakuten Advertising, formerly known as Rakuten Marketing, is an affiliate marketing service provider. The company, in 2005, claimed it was the largest pay-for-performance affiliate marketing network on the Internet. [1] [2] In 2005, Rakuten acquired LinkShare for US$425 million in cash, [3] making LinkShare a wholly owned U ...
Rakuten was founded as MDM, Inc. by Hiroshi Mikitani on 7 February 1997. [10] The online shopping marketplace Rakuten Shopping Mall (楽天市場, Rakuten Ichiba) was officially launched on May 1, 1997. [11] The company had six employees and the website had 13 merchants. [12] The name was changed to Rakuten in June 1999. [11]
Rakuten Rewards was founded as Ebates in 1998 in Menlo Park, California, by two former deputy district attorneys, Alessandro Isolani and Paul Wasserman. Funded by the venture capital firm Foundation Capital, Ebates.com was launched on 3 May 1999, offering up to 25% cash back from about 40 online retailers.
Rakuten. (2012–present) Website. www .kobo .com. Rakuten Kobo Inc., or simply Kobo, is a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks, e-readers and formerly tablet computers. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is a subsidiary of the Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten. The name Kobo is an anagram of book.
Groupon, Inc. is an American global e-commerce marketplace connecting subscribers with local merchants by offering activities, travel, goods and services in 13 [2] countries. Based in Chicago, Groupon was launched there in November 2008, launching soon after in Boston, New York City and Toronto. By October 2010, Groupon was available in 150 ...
The acquisition of Ebates, a website that allows customers to earn cash back when shopping online with over 2,600 retailers, gave Rakuten.com additional presence in the US e-commerce market, as well as a way to offer items such as online e-coupons. [22] [23] In March 2015, Rakuten.com partnered with Bitnet to accept bitcoin as payment. [24] [25]
List of mergers and acquisitions by Amazon. Amazon.com, Inc., is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [ 1]