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OverDrive was sold to Rakuten, a Japanese company today for $410 million. It’s a cash deal and is scheduled to close next month (April 2015). Overdrive will be part of Rakuten USA. Rakuten is an e-commerce company headquartered in Japan. Here’s a list...

Rakuten In another aggressive acquisition, Japan’s Rakuten paid $900 million in cash for Viber, a global messaging company. The Cyprus-based Viber is a voice-call application, which is a new and important arena for Rakuten. It gives Rakuten the...

T he Japan-based parent company of ebook retailer Kobo announces it will acquire OverDrive in a $410 million cash deal with Insight Venture Partners, OverDrive’s majority shareholder since 2010. A leading distributor of digital content in the library...

TOKYO–Rakuten Inc (4755:Tokyo), one of the world’s largest Internet services companies, announced today its acquisition of pioneering messaging and VoIP company, Viber. Rakuten will acquire Viber for a total consideration of $900 million...

Chairman and Chief Executive of e-commerce operator Rakuten Inc Hiroshi Mikitani (L) and Viber Media Chief Executive Talmon Marco Viber, the instant messaging and VoIP platform, has been bought by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten. Several days after...