Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket
For now, WeChat's rivals outside China including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Viber and Line are behind the curve on this front, although some have started on the road to becoming larger platforms. "The very reason chat apps are expanding beyond communications is to create a sustainable monetisation strategy," said Neha Dharia, a senior analyst with a focus on messaging at London-based research firm Ovum. "Chat apps are moving away from being simply a provider of communication tools "
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Das Writing Services has instigated a new-fangled association with Viber pertaining to an introduction of chat stories by the later in their apps. Embracing this responsibility, DWS has allocated the job to their professional chat writing services team to produce results of the highest quality.
Kolkata, India, January 19, 2018 --(PR.com)-- Extending their affiliations in multiple genres of content development, Das Writing services, a leading name in the content development industry has instigated their associations with Viber. Talking of the backbone of this tie up, development of chat stories emerged as the prime protagonist here.
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What is the role of chat bots in Viber's activity? It is considered an area in which you specialize, but as of now, the technology is not really taking off.
"Chat bots are an important technology, but the way they began, mostly by Facebook, which developed the door for everyone to develop a chat bot, has resulted in many poor chat bots that drew a strong counter-response. Millions of chat bots were created, and the vast majority was useless. At Viber, we decided on a different strategy; instead of opening the field to external developers, we're trying to be very selective.
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Despite being the fourth largest ecommerce market globally, Japan remains a relatively untapped market for western brands, due to local trade restrictions. However, this is a market which is brimming with potential and with Rakuten Ichiba’s new initiatives to help western retailers sell into the market, there has never been a better time to invest in Japan.
https://wearepentagon.com/2017/05/16/marketplace-rakuten-ichiba/
Lyft grows gangbusters in 2017, bringing competition to Uber
The US-based ride-hailing company gave 375.5 million rides in 2017, more than double the amount it gave a year earlier.
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TBI Bank customers can now apply for lending via the bank’s new public Viber chat account. With the idea for better connectivity, fast and convenient interaction, the service is available to all Viber users since 25th of January.
Online loan application and the ability to obtain up-to-date information are among the main features of the automated chat account. Users may request a telephone call (Call Back) from TBI bank’s operator. From the chat main menu you can easily search for the exact location of the nearest TBI Bank office, find active links to various banking services, ongoing campaigns and online banking
https://tbibank.bg/en/about-tbi-bank/news/...ication-functionality-89
TBI Bank is owned by TBIF Financial Services, a 4finance Holding company.
https://tbibank.bg/en/about-tbi-bank/about-us
P/E Ratio 20.60
Bloomberg (BEst) PEG Ratio 0.8110
Price to Book Ratio 2.0642
Price to Sales Ratio 1.5435
https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/4755:JP
Looking to cut through the noise of other apparel ads, PacSun knew they needed new audiences to boost their website traffic and sales to be a contender. These couldn’t be just any new audiences; they needed to be audiences that would become loyal customers.
To reach these consumers, PacSun worked with Rakuten Marketing to create a customized acquisition strategy that largely expanded the data source PacSun used and provided high-quality prospects with a greater propensity to convert."
https://rakutenmarketing.com/data-driven-success
https://www.ft.com/content/9bc49da4-023f-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5
Its Kobo Plus subscription with Bol.com in the Netherlands
Its adoption of the Exclusive Books customers in South Africa
Its acquisition of the Vancouver-based Shelfie technology
Its partnership with France’s Fnac retail operation in Spain
Testing ebook-and-print bundling in Australia
And even its earlier efforts at coordinated efforts in the US and UK with the American Booksellers Association, London’s Booksellers Association, and Southwest Airlines
The new arrangement between Tokyo’s Rakuten–Kobo’s parent–and Walmart brings Kobo’s e-reading devices to the stores along with ebooks and audiobooks.
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Panelist Masaya Mori, global head of the Rakuten Institute of Technology, noted that new technologies are impacting the insurance business in three ways: first, internet advertising using machine learning is being used for customer acquisition and personalization; second, artificial intelligence technologies such as chatbots and image recognition are helping insurance customers with applications and other tasks; and third, mobile devices are helping insurers better understand and support customer lifestyles.
“Through these technologies we can optimize insurance products and predict the churn rate (the rate at which customers will cancel a policy), which is another way of using big data,” Mori said, adding that deep learning technologies, a major focus of the recently created Rakuten Life Insurance Technology Laboratory, are quickly being adopted in the industry.
https://rakuten.today/blog/apps-ai-blockchain-insurance-industry.html
"We launched Rakuten Institute of Technology in 2006 as the dedicated R&D organization for the Rakuten group. Since then, anticipating that the constant scaling up of internet services will result in a shift from simple linear growth to a radically different paradigm, we have proposed a vision of the “Third Reality” to aim at novel research & development for the business. In a sense, our interest in the subject is not merely academic. It is the creative mind-set that drives us to open up an entirely new frontier.”
Rakuten Institute of Technology is now located in Tokyo, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Boston, engaging in cross-location projects and supporting the globalization of the Rakuten group.
https://rit.rakuten.co.jp/about/
October 13 (SeeNews) – Viber, a leading messages app globally, is expected to generate up to five times higher revenues from operations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) next year, a senior company official said on Friday. "Based on the pace at which the number of smartphone users in the region increases, we expect our client base in CEE to grow by a further 10-15%," Atanas Raykov, director business development CIS and CEE, told SeeNews on the sidelines of a regional conference organised by United Partners and the International Public Relations Association in Sofia. "Between 70 and 85% of all smartphone users in Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia are our clients," Raykov noted. One of the highlights of Viber's development strategy for the region next year will be e-commerce. "We see a lot of interesting things going on in e-commerce," Raykov said. "We want to tap on the experience of our parent company, which is one of the global tech leaders in e-commerce."
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TOTAL DISCLOSED FUNDING
$43.20m
LAST ROUND VALUATION ESTIMATE
$235.63m
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September 28, 2017
CafeX Communications makes software that makes it easier for people to facilitate. Earlier this summer, CafeX announced Cosmos, the latest version of its omnichannel customer service solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365. Cosmos helps provides mobile customer support and permits companies to more easily integrate their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies within Microsoft Dynamics 365 through a ‘bring your own chatbot’ approach that improves customer service and reduces operational costs.
https://telecomreseller.com/2017/09/28/...soft-adopts-teams-strategy/
New York – November 16, 2016 – CafeX Communications®, a leading supplier of real-time communication solutions for mobile and web applications, announced plans to significantly expand its presence in Asia. The company has reached an exclusive agreement with Rakuten Communications Corporation, a top provider of business telecommunications systems and services, to distribute CafeX’s award-winning portfolio of digital customer engagement and web collaboration solutions throughout Japan.
https://www.cafex.com/en/press/...ations-fuel-market-expansion-japan/
CafeX Closes $18M Series C Funding Led by Rakuten, parent of Rakuten Communications
Jan. 26, 2017
New York – January 26, 2017 – CafeX Communications®, a leading supplier of real-time digital engagement solutions, announced that it has closed on $18M in Series C funding. The round was led by Rakuten, Inc., parent company of Rakuten Communications, the Japan-based provider of enterprise telecommunications services and solutions.
https://www.cafex.com/en/press/...n-parent-of-rakuten-communications/
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