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<title>Rakuten and impact.com Announce Alliance to Scale the Global Partnership Economy</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Rakuten International and impact.com today announced a strategic alliance to modernize the affiliate and performance marketing ecosystem.</description>
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<title>Giftify's CardCash Announces Distribution Partnership with Capital One Shopping, Expanding Platform to Tens of Millions of Consumers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Partnership, launching April 1 through the Rakuten affiliate network, surfaces CardCash discounted gift card inventory to Capital One Shopping’s savings-focused user base at high-intent shopping moments across Q2 2026 SCHAUMBURG, IL, April 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Giftify, Inc. (NASDAQ: GIFT) (the “Company”), the owner and operator of CardCash.com, Restaurant.com, and Takeout7.com, and a leader in the incentives and rewards industry, today announced a new distribution partnership between Car</description>
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<title>Rakuten Mobile Extends Partnership with Netcracker for AI-Enabled Digital BSS to Support its Mobile Network in Japan</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>WALTHAM, Mass., March 31, 2026--Rakuten Mobile extends partnership with Netcracker for the next-generation, cloud-ready and AI-enabled Digital BSS to support all customers in Japan.</description>
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<title>VEON’s Beeline Uzbekistan and Rakuten Symphony Partner for Open RAN, AI Collaboration</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>VEON’s Beeline Uzbekistan and Rakuten Symphony Partner for Open RAN, AI Collaboration Beeline Uzbekistan CEO Andrey Pyatakhin (left) and Rakuten Symphony President Sharad Sriwastawa (right) signing a Memorandum of Understanding at MWC 2026, accompanied by VEON Group CEO Kaan Terzioglu (back row, left) and Beeline Uzbekistan CTO Gediz Sezgin (back row, right) Tokyo, Tashkent and Barcelona , March 4, 2026 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator, and Rakuten Group, Inc. today announce</description>
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<title>Rakuten Symphony Completes Interoperability Tests with Samsung’s vRAN and vCore on Rakuten Cloud</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>TOKYO, March 03, 2026--Rakuten Symphony, Inc. today announced the successful interoperability testing of Samsung’s cloud-native virtualized RAN (vRAN) and virtualized Core (vCore) running on the Rakuten Cloud-Native Platform. The validation shows that Samsung’s vRAN and vCore software stacks operate seamlessly on the Rakuten Cloud-Native Platform with near-perfect interoperability results, achieved with zero code changes on either side.</description>
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<title>MWC 2026: Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage Now Built into Google Distributed Cloud Connected Servers</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>TOKYO, March 02, 2026--Rakuten Symphony, Inc. today announced that Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage is now built into Google Distributed Cloud Connected Servers, making Rakuten’s software-defined storage a standard, pre-integrated component of Google Distributed Cloud Connected Server deployment.</description>
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<title>Rakuten Announces Optimism 2026 in the US</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Rakuten International announces Rakuten Optimism, its U.S. flagship marketing conference, taking place May 5-6, 2026, at the iconic Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona. Centered on the theme "Fueling Meaningful Connections," the two-day event will bring together more than 1,000 marketing leaders and professionals to explore the transformation of affiliate and retail marketing in an AI-driven, performance-first era.</description>
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<title>Better Money, Built In: OnePay Announces New Rewards Partnership with Rakuten Card Linked Offer Network</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>More offers, more ways to earn – where you already manage money.</description>
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<title>Rakuten Advertising Unveils Innovation Labs to Accelerate AI Innovation in Affiliate Marketing</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Rakuten Advertising, the leading global affiliate marketing network, today announced the launch of Innovation Labs — a product collaboration hub dedicated to accelerating the development and application of AI to generate greater ad spend efficiency to target and engage customers across Rakuten Advertising's world-leading affiliate publisher network. Now available in Rakuten Advertising's Insights & Analytics portal, Innovation Labs provides advertisers and publishers with a space to explore and</description>
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<title>VEON’s Beeline Kazakhstan and Rakuten Symphony Collaborate to Advance Next-Generation Connectivity and Digital Infrastructure</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Beeline Kazakhstan and Rakuten Symphony signing ceremony Beeline Kazakhstan Telecommunication Services CEO Jabbor Kayumov and Rakuten Symphony President Sharad Sriwastawa at the signing ceremony held at Rakuten Crimson House in Tokyo, Japan. Almaty, Dubai and Tokyo, December 23, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), and Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE: 4755), announced today that Beeline Kazakhstan Holding, VEON’s digital operator in Kazakhstan, and Rakuten Symphony, a sub</description>
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<title>Airspan Networks Delivers Industry’s First Commercial Open RAN Deployment Stemming from NTIA Grant</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>PLANO, Texas, December 11, 2025--Airspan Networks Holdings LLC ("Airspan"), a leading global provider of wireless network solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Rakuten Mobile to provide Open RAN compliant radios to be deployed across Rakuten’s nationwide mobile network in Japan.</description>
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<title>Bilt and Rakuten Launch Partnership to Power Smart Rewards this Holiday Shopping Season</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>NEW YORK, November 06, 2025--Holiday shoppers, get ready: Bilt and Rakuten just launched a powerful new partnership that starts TODAY, letting over 5 million Bilt Members redeem Cash Back rewards from Rakuten for Bilt Points just by shopping at thousands of stores. This incredible partnership arrives perfectly timed for Black Friday and the biggest shopping season of the year, so that you can earn rewards on every holiday purchase from more than 3,500 retailers.</description>
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<title>Holiday Shoppers Split on Spending as Retailers Double Down on Incentives</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Rakuten, the leading Cash Back shopping platform, today unveiled new research conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Rakuten that highlights a sharply divided outlook for holiday shopping this year with just over one-fourth of shoppers (28%) planning to spend less, while a similar share (26%) expect to spend more. This divide is even more pronounced among households with children, which are gearing up to spend at nearly twice the rate of child-free households (38% vs. 19%), despite citing increas</description>
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<title>New Reeracoen × Rakuten Insight APAC Study Finds Singapore Ahead in Flexibility and ESG as Workforce Expectations Are Rising Across the Region.</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 23:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>As workforce expectations continue to evolve across Asia-Pacific in 2025, a significant new study by recruitment firm Reeracoen and research agency Rakuten Insight Global positions Singapore as a regional leader in workplace flexibility and sustainability-driven employment. At the same time, the study reveals emerging gaps between what talent expects and what employers are prepared to offer, both regionally and locally.</description>
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<title>Getting Paid for Shopping Just Got Even Easier, Rakuten.ca Launches Interac e-Transfer Payouts</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>TORONTO, July 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Getting paid for shopping just got a major upgrade. Rakuten.ca is thrilled to introduce Interac e-Transfer as a brand-new, faster, and more secure way for members to cash in on their Cash Back - straight to their bank accounts in minutes via email. Interac e-Transfer is Canada’s trusted, real-time bank-to-bank digital money transfer service, allowing Rakuten members to receive their Cash Back directly into their bank account using only an email address.</description>
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<title>New Rakuten American Express® Card, Powered by Imprint, Offers an Extra Four Percent Cash Back on Rakuten Purchases</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Rakuten, the leading Cash Back shopping platform, today announced the launch of the Rakuten American Express® Card in the U.S., exclusively for Rakuten members. The Rakuten Card, powered by Imprint, turns shopping into an even more rewarding experience, offering cardholders industry-leading Cash Back rewards with no annual fee, along with unique offers, experiences, and protections from the American Express network.</description>
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<title>Rakuten Advertising Launches Industry-First Solutions for Greater Affiliate Transparency and Creator Growth</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Rakuten Advertising, the leading global affiliate marketing network, revealed several new solutions helping advertisers and publishers navigate affiliate marketing industry challenges and demands. Announced at Rakuten Optimism 2025, these new solutions provide publishers with enhanced data transparency, help advertisers remain brand-safe and compliant, and bridge the gap between creator and affiliate marketing. These new solutions include:</description>
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