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TOKYO, March 28, 2024 – Rakuten Group, Inc. (4755: Tokyo) today announced the personnel change, which was approved at a Board of Directors meeting held today ..read more
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Tokyo, March 28, 2024 - Rakuten Group, Inc. today announced the launch of "Service Inclusion," an initiative that aims to promote the development of inclusive services designed for a diverse range of customer needs. As the first step in this initiative, Rakuten’s beauty salon reservation site, Rakuten Beauty, has unveiled its Inclusive Salon Project, offering LGBTQ+ friendly*1 customer service guidance for beauty salons starting from today ..read more
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Rakuten Group, Inc. has released high performance open Japanese large language models (LLMs): a foundation model*1 Rakuten AI 7B and an instruct model*2 Rakuten AI 7B Instruct to the open source community. Rakuten has also released a chat model*3 Rakuten AI 7B Chat based on a version of the instruct model and fine-tuned on chat data for conversational text generation ..read more
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Rakuten Group, Inc. (Head office: Setagaya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, Chairman and CEO: Hiroshi Mikitani; hereinafter the “Company”) that the Board of Directors today resolved (i) to make a proposal at the 27th Annual General Shareholders Meeting to be held on March 28, 2024 to partially amend its Articles of Incorporation (hereinafter the “Amendment”) and (ii) to make a shelf registration for Series 1 Bond-type Class Shares ..read more
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Rakuten Group, Inc. (hereafter “the Company”) announces that at a Board of Directors meeting held today, it approved non-consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. Due to the significant differences with the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, the Company is providing an overview as follows ..read more
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Tokyo, February 27, 2024 – Rakuten Mobile, Inc., today announced that it will deploy base stations using mobile network radios developed by Nokia Solutions & Networks G.K. in the 700 MHz band, also known as the "platinum band," *1 which was allocated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on October 23, 2023. Leveraging the expertise gained by building the world’s first fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network compatible with Open RAN, Rakuten Mobile aims to promptly start operating base stations in the 700MHz band ..read more
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Barcelona, February 26, 2024 - Rakuten Symphony, a subsidiary of the leading internet services company, Rakuten Group, and Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications operator and VEON Group’s wholly owned subsidiary, have announced the signing of a Letter of Intent (LoI) that confirms Kyivstar’s interest in procuring and deploying Rakuten Symphony's Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) technology in its network ..read more
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Rakuten Group, Inc. (“Rakuten”) announced today the results and final settlement of its previously announced tender offers (the “Offers”) to purchase for cash for a combined aggregate purchase price (exclusive of accrued and unpaid interest) of any and all of the following series of notes issued by it ..read more
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Rakuten Group, Inc. and OpenAI L.L.C. today announced that the two companies are partnering to develop and deliver cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed for the telecommunications industry ..read more
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Tokyo, February 15, 2024 - Rakuten Group, Inc. today announced that it will support the fashion show for fashion brand Marimekko during Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO 2024 A/W, scheduled for March 11 to March 16, 2024, through the “by R” project to support Japanese fashion brands*1 ..read more