They do a lot of things, mostly related to online retailing in Japan. They bought Ebates, presumably to get all the shopping data they collect, it wasn’t really a pivot. (Also they’d been doing financial-ish stuff like rewards programs before apparently. I went and read their Wikipedia article when I saw this post.)
jayandp@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They also bought Kobo, a Kindle competitor that I actually like. (Partially because you can still easily remove their DRM).
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The hardware is better, too. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I go back to a Kindle.