Rakuten TV

Wuaki.tv S.L.U.

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Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Electronic commerce
Founded	2010
Founder	Jacinto Roca, Josep Mitja
Headquarters	Barcelona , Spain
Area served	Austria France Germany Ireland Italy UK
Key people	Jacinto Roca (CEO) Josep Mitja (COO) Jordi Miro (CTO)
Products	Video on demand films and tv movies
Parent	Rakuten
Website	http://www.wuaki.tv

Wuaki.tv is a video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service, offering thousands of hours of high quality movies and TV series for subscription (only in Spain) rental and purchase. Wuaki.tv’s extensive catalogue includes content from major Hollywood studios including Warner Bros., Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, and local distributors and independent labels, giving consumers access to new releases, blockbusters, classic movies, local independent movies and TV series on the device of their choosing.

Wuaki.tv’s content can be streamed to Internet-connected PCs, laptops, Chromecast, gaming consoles, tablets, iPhones and Smart TVs.

The company is headquartered in Barcelona and currently operates in Spain, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Austria and Ireland and is following an aggressive EU roll out plan.

In June 2012 – Rakuten, the world’s third largest e-commerce company, acquired Wuaki.tv. Today Wuaki.tv has over 2,5 million registered users

References

http://tech.eu/features/4395/wuaki-tv-rakuten-profile/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/12/following-amazon-and-netflix-rakuten-is-expanding-its-wuaki-video-service-across-europe-first-stop-uk/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2361935/Wuaki-claims-UKs-site-offer-streaming-AND-paid-films-place.html http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2012-06-13/el-gigante-japones-rakuten-compra-la-startup-espanola-wuaki_771074/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/10/wuaki-moves-ahead-of-netflix-with-offline-downloads-starting-first-with-mobile-devices/