The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), the country’s antitrust watchdog, searched the Tokyo headquarters of eCommerce giant Rakuten on Monday (Feb. 10) over complaints about...
Japan’s Rakuten has taken a huge loss on Lyft shares, according to Reuters. The company said it expects to lose 103 billion yen ($947 million)...
Rebates and cash-back offers sound great in theory — the customer purchases something they wanted anyway, and get a small incentive payment to reward them...
Rakuten In Store Network, an advertising platform to help push in-store sales and traffic with rewards programs linked to cards, has announced a partnership with...
Instant payments have use cases ranging from quickly paying gig workers for services rendered to refunding a shopper returning a purchase to speeding up insurance...
Retailers have long enticed consumers with rebates, cash back and other rewards. Savvy shoppers have found these traditional programs to be lucrative, but long wait...
Checks are still used for 75 percent of rebate payouts, but the tide may finally be turning. Online rebate providers are experimenting with new payout...
Consumers are no longer willing to wait for even the simplest of disbursements. Whether they’re waiting to receive government payments, wages or rebate checks from...
Event startup Fever announced it has raised $35 million in a funding round led by Rakuten Capital. Atresmedia, Accel, and former chairman of U.S. investments...