Southeast Asia’s Carousell snags investment from Naspers-owned OLX
It’s taken some time to come around, but Naspers — the early Tencent investor that’s also behind the world’s top
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ShopBack, a cashback startup in Asia Pacific, raises $45M from Rakuten and others
ShopBack, a Singapore-based startup that offers cashback and consumer rewards in Asia Pacific, has closed a $45 million round led
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Why longer term sheets are better
Recently in a conversation, the length of term sheets came as a topic (I assure you, it was a riveting
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Rakuten’s Viber chat app plans to charge to operate chatbots in controversial move
Viber, the messaging app down by Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten, is poised to implement a controversial new strategy that will
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JD.com’s drones take flight to Japan in partnership with Rakuten
Chinese e-commerce company JD.com is taking its drone delivery system to Japan. Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce giant, just announced a
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Rakuten has SoftBank in its sights
This week, I’ve tried to do something new at TechCrunch with this experimental column — getting obsessed about a topic
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eBay boosts its Japanese business with an acquisition
eBay is ramping up its presence in Japan via its latest investment in Asia. The U.S. online retail giant announced
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Rakuten will roll its $9B loyalty program into a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency, Rakuten Coin
Back in 2016, Amazon’s Japanese rival Rakuten acquired Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup that it had previously invested in, to
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Techstars is launching its first accelerator program in Asia in partnership with Rakuten
Techstars is bringing its global accelerator program to Asia for the first time in partnership with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten
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