Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

why a lot of people don't want the spying offers of Mr. Zuckerberg

"The Facebook galaxy is our major competitor," Agaoua said. "Messenger is a very different model from us. It necessitates a lot of ads, a lot of reading of everything exchanged on the platform to be able to monetize as much as possible.

WhatsApp was supposed to be different...we'll see what WhatsApp will become. If WhatsApp remains a secure private app, or if it becomes another tool of the Facebook galaxy to grab more data and make more money."

The important part is Viber says it doesn't use personal data to serve any of this content, and it will only serve these kinds of ads when you're proactively searching for something.

"The answer to a search could be sponsored in some cases," Agaoua explains. "It's advertising, but it's not advertising by pop-ups when you don't want it."  

https://www.capterra.com/p/180348/Viber/  

with new chatbot and second collection of journalism-themed stickers.

December 3, 2018

https://chats.viber.com/washingtonpost/en
 

By Kaltrina Bylykbashi
14th March 2019

Rakuten TV is looking to triple its market presence to 40 territories in 2019 via partnerships with Samsung, LG, Philips and Hisense.

Rakuten will offer integrated content within the manufacturers’ Smart TV remote controls, which directly links to the Rakuten TV streaming service.

With this move, the VOD platform says it will simultaneously increase its presence in Europe, tripling its distribution from 12 to 40 countries in 2019, and a look at increasing this in 2020.

“Having a remote-control button directly connecting to the platform aims at empowering users to access the best movies in the best quality just with one click, dramatically increasing our number of users.

https://tbivision.com/2019/03/14/...expand-to-40-territories-in-2019/
 

The research by Google and Temasek estimated that the ASEAN’s internet economy has the potential to grow to $200 billion by 2025, from $50 billion in 2017, with e-commerce accounting for $88 billion, from $10 billion in 2017.

https://etradeforall.org/...oss-border-e-commerce-with-new-framework/

Denn ob cross-border-Aktivitäten von Ichiba von Japan aus und die Beteiligung an Carousell ausreichen, sei einmal dahingestellt.
 

mir geschätzten 5% sein:

Rakuten invested upwards of $50 million in a $100 million funding round for Pinterest in 2012, according to AllThingsD. Its co-investors — Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, and FirstMark — took part in a further $225 million investment round in 2013 without Rakuten.

However, the Japanese group co-led another funding round of $186 million in 2015, according to Pitchdeck data cited by Observer. It invested in Pinterest with the idea of enabling Rakuten customers to purchase items they see on the website. The company appears to have fallen below a 5% shareholding, as it's not listed with its original investment partners as "principal stockholders" in Pinterest's IPO filing.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/...o-2019-4-1028118805
 

momentanen Marktkapitalisierung von Pinterest von mehr als 15 Milliarden immerhin ca. 750 Millionen US-Dollar  für Rakuten.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PINS?p=PINS&.tsrc=fin-srch  

Press conference announcing strategic alliance between Rakuten and PChome Online, Taiwan's leading e-commerce company.

To further raise brand awareness and expand its ecosystem in Taiwan, Rakuten has entered into a strategic alliance with PChome. On the day of the press conference, representatives from both companies took to the stage to announce details and share their expectations of the alliance.

- How is this alliance benefitting the Taiwan Rakuten Ecosystem?
- What Rakuten businesses will initially shape its development?
- What did PChome's CEO Hung-Tze Jan, Rakuten's top of APAC Hiroshi Takasawa and Vice General Manager of the Cross Border Trading Business Michio Takahashi have to say about the alliance?

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/innovation/rnn/2019/0425/n't miss this report on an exciting new step for Rakuten in Taiwan!
 

Is the rollout really replicable for legacy operators, and just about mindset?

“I don’t think there is any technical challenges at all. It does not mean that it is trivial or easy to do but what I do believe is if you start looking at workloads as software it becomes easier for us to identify problems, isolate, resolve and fix in an agile manner. If I did not have the right support from my organisation none of this stuff here you would see. We started in August last year and here in February we are almost 80% through the major software issues we have to address. So I don’t think it’s technically that complex.

“The large OEMs have a bigger problem. They have to contemplate how they will transform the organisation. I think that’s a much bigger challenge structurally than technological issues.”

http://the-mobile-network.com/2019/03/...ket-to-bring-mwc-house-down/
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What is the capex budget for the rollout?

“We talk about $5-6 billion range to build a network with the same size infrastructure as Sprint in the US. But the upgrade to 5G will be 60% cheaper because of this architecture.”

http://the-mobile-network.com/2019/03/...ket-to-bring-mwc-house-down/
 

Marktkapitalisierung von ca. 22 Milliarden Dollar und natürlich auch Fremdfinanzierung.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/S?p=S&.tsrc=fin-srch

Allerdings fehlen bei Rakuten Mobile noch die meisten Kunden zur Infrastruktur - denn bisher war man eine Nummer kleiner als Anbieter über zugekaufte Kapazitäten ohne eigenes Netz tätig.  

Eco-System von Rakuten ins Spiel:

"Using our ecosystem, we can acquire customers at a relatively lower cost,” Mikitani says. “Our operation is much leaner than our competitors, and we can enrich the service using the existing Rakuten ecosystem."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jsimms/2019/04/10/...obile/#6e0f14c13a6d
 

“We’re excited by the work that our partner Rakuten Life Insurance has done to inject a new consumer interface into their insurance application process,” said Adam Odessky, CEO and Co-founder of Sensely. “It’s gratifying to see how skillfully Rakuten Life Insurance has deployed the platform to turn their native branded-content into a powerful customer experience. We’re seeing insurance companies all over the world being quite progressive in thinking about how to bring technology to bear to enhance the applicant and member experience, and this is a great example of matching an unmet need with a technology-based solution.”

https://www.compelo.com/insurance/news/...-new-insurance-application/
 

Lyft announced today that it is hiring Tal Shaked, an engineer who previously worked at Google, to serve as its first-ever head of machine learning and artificial intelligence. According to the company, Shaked will largely be focusing on improving technologies used to match riders and drivers and finding new ways to apply machine learning to the ride sharing firm's platform. Essentially, Shaked's job will be to make Lyft's services smarter.

Lyft has previously detailed some of its uses of machine learning, including figuring out how to attract more riders during otherwise slow periods and detecting fraudulent behavior. However, the company barely made any mention of AI or machine learning in its IPO filing earlier this year, only noting that data from rider and driver travel is used to optimize and improve future rides.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/01/...achine-learning-ai/?yptr=yahoo
 

Benzinga•May 2, 2019

Concerns about profitability in the ride-sharing sector are overblown, public-private partnerships are on the rise and transit and commuting platforms are the future, said several investors in a wide-ranging discussion about urban mobility.

"The fundamental question is ‘do the underlying unit economics make sense,'" said Paul Asel, managing director, NGP Capital, in a reference to Uber and Lyft Inc (NASDAQ: LYFT). "And in the long-term in my view they are going to do very well."

If investors so demanded, Lyft could become cash-flow positive today, said Asel, one of several investors who spoke to FreightWaves about transportation platforms and investing trends. "The gross margins are there – in the 40 percent range, and if you take sales and marketing out of the equation, they about break even."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...profitability-public-223339616.html
 

https://rakuten.today/blog/reiwa-japan-new-era.html  

We believe many investors have taken a wait-and-see approach, and not putting real money to work in Lyft but rather waiting 1) to see what investor reaction to Uber’s IPO will be, and 2) for Lyft to report its first quarter as a public company,” Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives wrote Friday.

What to expect

Earnings: Analysts surveyed by FactSet expect Lyft to report an adjusted loss per share of $4.85. According to Estimize, which crowdsources projections from hedge funds, academics, and others, the average projection calls for $2.49 a share in losses.

Revenue: The FactSet consensus is for $740.1 million in first-quarter revenue, while the average projection on Estimize calls for $746 million. A year ago, Lyft recorded $397.2 million in March-quarter revenue.

Stock movement: Lyft shares are off 14% from their IPO price of $72. Of the 24 analysts tracked by FactSet who cover Lyft’s stock, 14 rate it a buy, eight rate it a hold, and two call it a sell. The average price target on shares is $75.25, 21% above recent levels.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/...-03?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo
 

As previously reported, Viber messenger would introduce monetization for chatbots starting from April 1, 2019.

Developers of chatbots were expected to pay $4500 per month for 500 000 messages. However, Viber Media company clarified the details of the new policy and rejected any payment for chatbots.

The messenger’s developers said that the changes would be brought to a range of advertising options that allow a brand to establish a contact with the audience.

The messenger has created an ad strategy taking into account confidentiality and data protection. The content with such elements is subject to additional payment.

https://aiconference.com.ua/en/news/...skusstvennogo-intellekta-96676
 

The next generation of shopping, earning and spending

Established in 2015, Rakuten Affiliate Malls EU has developed and scaled its loyalty businesses in Spain and the U.K. The service allows users to earn Rakuten Super Points by shopping online at affiliate stores — points that can later be redeemed on other Rakuten services as well as exchanged for coupons and store credit with major brands like Decathlon, Sports Direct, Media Markt and Mango.
When the Affiliate Malls team was looking for ways to lay the foundation for further growth in Europe while improving efficiency for content managers and developers, help was just around the corner: Montpellier-based Rakuten Aquafadas — part of Rakuten’s technology branch and a leader in no-code mobile app platforms, cloud authoring tools and digital publishing software — offered its support.
In true cross-border spirit, teams in Barcelona, Berlin, London and Montpellier set off on a new journey, leveraging ecosystem technology and resources on what may mark a leap in EU open e-commerce operations.

https://rakuten.today/blog/borderless-business-rakuten-europe.html

 

 

 

kräftig melden, jede auch nur im Ansatz geführte Kritik führt zu sofortiger Einfach oder Mehrfachmeldung, schon sehr speziell hier, aber zum Glück gibt es ja ein objektives Und emotionales Nachbarforum, alle herzlich willkommen bei Akuten Emotiones  

ignorier diese Blindschleiche jetzt und aus. Ebenso bei W:O  

Japan eCommerce market is more concentrated to marketplaces than for example in Europe.
The leaders in the Japan retail eCommerce market are two marketplaces, the local Japanese Rakuten Ichiba and Amazon’s Japan version amazon.co.jp. The marketplaces controlled around half of the market that in year 2017 had value of 111 billion usd and is estimated to be over 120 billion usd in 2018.

Rakuten.co.jp is the biggest one with the market share of 27 %. The specialty of Rakuten is that it is a massive ecosystem which serves nearly 87 million regular customers. The retail eCommerce is a big part of the ecosystem, with several digital services from bank services and insurances to goods and they serve they customers offline too. Amazon.co.jp is the second biggest marketplace in Japan with market share of around 20 % market share.

https://www.flyinglynx.com/ecommerce-marketplaces-in-japan/
 

und wieder alle anderen Posts gemeldet, sag mal im Ernst was ist Dein Ziel? der one Person Rakuten Thread , last man Standing, last man on Earth, Ziel erreicht, mir wird das auch zu blöd hier reinzuschauen, einfach nur peinlich