Will Pinterest’s Newest Investors Enable Payments and Purchases?

By  |  May 17, 2012
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Japanese eCommerce firm Rakuten invested $100 million in Pinterest this week, and says it hopes to bring new commerce solutions to the popular image-sharing site.

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    “We want to enable our users to pin their own images with our [identification technology],” said CEO Hiroshi Mikitani in an interview with TechCrunch. “Users can click and buy with it, and in the future we can create more new services.”

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