Japan's Rakuten opens center in India

Japanese electronic commerce and Internet company Rakuten Inc today opened a new development and operations center in India, in collaboration with US-based information technology (IT) consulting firm PROLIM Global Corporation.

The new center, which is located in Bangalore, will supplement Rakuten's knowledge-base and staffing retention, the company said in a press release.

"For Rakuten, the talent and expertise of both its full-time and partner staff are an invaluable resource. However, while the company retains the knowledge and expertise of its full-time personnel, it is more challenging to achieve this with partner staff, who are often only involved on a project-by-project basis," Rakuten said in a release.

"The new center will play an important role in addressing this issue by supplementing the India development operations with a build-operate-transfer framework, which will help retain personnel, increase the knowledge-base and give partner staff more opportunities to support other Rakuten Group companies and projects around the world."

The company currently has development centers at Beijing in China, San Francisco on the US and Singapore.