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Rakuten will not renew its contract with WeWork, says report
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has decided not to renew its contract with WeWork when it expires next month, according to…
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Data-driven events discovery and planning startup Fever raises $35 million led by Rakuten
Fever, a startup that uses proprietary algorithms to help companies plan events, announced today that it has raised $35 million…
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Rakuten’s Viber chat app plans to charge to operate chatbots in controversial move
Viber, the messaging app owned by Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten, is poised to implement a controversial new strategy that will…
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Rakuten has SoftBank in its sights
With my research consultant and contributor Arman Tabatabai, we’ve covered two topics: Form Ds, the filing that startups usually submit…
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Envoy raises $43 million to digitize your office
The company started life five years digitizing the sign-in book with a simple iPad-based approach, and it has moved on…
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Walmart and Kobo launch Walmart eBooks, an online e-book and audiobook store
In January, Walmart partnered with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten on online grocery in Japan, as well as the sale of…
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