SMILING broadly, President and CEO of Media Nusantara Citra (MNC), Hary Tanoesoedibjo, shook hands with Hiroshi Mikitani, President and CEO of Japan’s Rakuten at the ballroom of Grand Hyatt Hotel in Jakarta on Wednesday last week. After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the two touched the screen of an iPad to a cascade of music and the appearance of Rakuten’s logo ‘R’ in a red circle on a huge screen.

The moment marked the entry of MNC