Who is Rakuten? What is Bitnet? And at what local bitcoin meet up, and where?
Please give more details so that we could all assess the information. It would also be nice if you could provide urls of the story if they are available.
A simple google search will give you who these companies are, and regards the story it hasnt been released yet, its due out Monday. Do you really need spoon feed
He was asking a pretty fair question to be completely honest, when someone mentions Steam or Ebay, people will recognize it, but Rakuten, have no idea...
From Wikipedia:
Rakuten, Inc is a Japanese electronic commerce and Internet company based in Tokyo, Japan.
And
https://bitnet.io/