Interesting, considering their market reach and merchant numbers, and the fact they already operate in financial services , also they own viber and play.com buy.com and are invested in pintrest.
Also
Aquafadas
Alpha Direct Services
Dot Commodity, Inc.
Fusion Communications Corp.
Keiba Mall, Inc.
Kenko.com. Inc.
Kobo Inc.
LinkShare Japan K.K.
Net's Partners, Inc.
O-net, Inc.
Play.com
Priceminister S.A.S
PT.Rakuten-MNC
Rakuten Auction Inc.
Rakuten Austria GmbH
Rakuten Baseball, Inc.
Rakuten Bank, Ltd.
Rakuten Brasil Internet Service Ltda.
Rakuten Card Co., Ltd
Rakuten Deutschland GmbH
Rakuten Edy, Inc.
Rakuten EMOBILE, Inc.
Rakuten Enterprise Inc.
Rakuten Insurance Planning Co., Ltd.
Rakuten Investment Management, Inc.
Rakuten Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
Rakuten Linkshare (formerly LinkShare Corporation)
Rakuten Logistics, Inc.
Rakuten Loyalty (formerly FreeCause)[57]
Rakuten Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
Rakuten MediaForge, Inc.
Rakuten Research, Inc.
Rakuten Securities, Inc.
Rakuten Shashinkan, Inc.
Rakuten.com Shopping (formerly Buy.com)
Rakuten ShowTime, Inc. (Japan)[58]
Rakuten Travel, Inc.
Shareee, Inc.
Signature Japan Co., Ltd.
Taiwan Rakuten Ichiba, Inc.
TARAD Dot Com Co., Ltd.
TicketStar Inc.
Wuaki.tv
Viber
Viki
Webgistix
An interesting mix of online retail ,banking, credit and payments, comms,internet services ,travel - by all accounts a e-commerce giant.
Nice.
One by one they are coming...and bitpay or no bitpay, if they are ultimately accepting dollars or not... each and everyone of these giants that come onboard will advertise Bitcoin and increase the public awareness and adoption rates, and continue to cement Bitcoin into the public psyche...
Good news looking forward to them confirming and for the other big fish to get their acts together.
This is a list of the world's largest internet companies by revenue and market capitalization (wikipedia)
Annual revenue of company in USD billions in previous fiscal year
Rank Company Industry Revenue FY Employees Market cap
1 Amazon E-commerce $74.45 2014 117,300 160.49
2 Google Search $59.82 2014 47,756 $380.64
3 eBay E-commerce $16.05 2014 31,500 $68.51
4 Tencent Social $9.91 2014 25,517 $65.01
5 Facebook Social $7.87 2014 6,337 $160.03
6
Rakuten E-commerce $5.56 2014 10,867 $13.06
7 Priceline.com Travel $5.26 2014 8,000 $35.58
8 Yahoo Web portal $4.68 2014 12,200 $35.58
9 Baidu Search $3.54 2014 21,800 $29.75
10 Salesforce.com Cloud computing $3.05 2014 12,000 $25.85