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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...t-report-q2-earnings-130901252.html
Consumer lender Insikt rebrands as Aura
February 12 2019, 6:00am EST
A San Francisco company that touts itself as a more consumer-friendly alternative to payday lenders has changed its name in an effort to establish a closer connection to its customers.
The 6-year-old lender, which was formerly called Insikt, announced Tuesday that its new name is Aura. It is also dropping Lendify, the moniker that it previously used as its consumer-facing brand.
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/...lender-insikt-rebrands-as-aura
La japonesa ha invertido 232 millones de euros en capital, a lo que se suma los 36 millones de un préstamo convertible cerrado a finales de 2017.
Era un auténtico misterio. Cabify, la mayor startup española por valoración, guardaba bajo llave el reparto de sus acciones. No lo reportaba a los registros españoles, pues su matriz se mantiene en Delaware(Estados Unidos). Pero su máximo accionista, el grupo japonés Rakuten, sí lo ha hecho. La compañía controla el 47% de la española desde su holding en Luxemburgo. Lo hace después de invertir en tres años más de 232 millones de euros, junto con 35 millones de un préstamo convertible.
https://www.infotaxi.net/...7-de-cabify-con-su-holding-en-luxemburgo/
Aug 2, 2019
Rakuten Inc., which paid the Golden State Warriors $60 million for a three-year jersey sponsorship in 2017, is looking to extend the partnership as the National Basketball Association finalists head into the final season of their deal.
The logo patch, on a player’s left shoulder and 2.5 inches (6.35 cm) on each side, is key to raising Rakuten’s brand awareness in the United States, said Amit Patel, who heads the e-commerce giant’s Americas operations, in an interview on Friday.
While it’s too early to evaluate the sponsorship’s impact on revenue, the Japanese giant has seen brand recognition among U.S. basketball fans jump 300 percent since the second season, according to Patel. The next NBA season begins in October.
“We certainly want to play the long game,” Patel said, speaking on the sidelines of the Rakuten Optimism event in Yokohama. “We continue to evaluate the opportunity and look for ways to extend its life.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/...s-jumps/#.XUSfAXduIdU
Find out more about Rakuten’s unique and transformative approach to building a new kind of mobile telecommunications network.
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Da die Aktion nur begrenzt ist, ist m.E. auch ein sowohl als auch denkbar.
"We're just looking for them to basically deliver against expectations," D.A. Davidson and Co. analyst Tom White told TheStreet. Analysts polled by FactSet are looking for an adjusted loss per share of $1.07 on revenue of $810 million. Last quarter, Lyft posted an adjusted net loss per share of $9.02, short of Wall Street's expectations of $10.53, although revenue of $776 million beat analysts' expectations of $738.5 million. Analysts expect total rides of 208.7 million, compared to 195.1 million rides last quarter.
Lyft must "build some trust with investors that this is a company investors can get comfortable with forecasting financials," White said. Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives wrote in a recent note that he expects their second-quarter results to be a "key step in the right direction for both Lyft and Uber going forward to gain much needed credibility from the Street."
https://www.thestreet.com/markets/...-need-to-show-investors-15042310
PUBLISHED THU, AUG 1 2019 2:04 AM EDT
Saheli Roy Choudhury
Japanese tech conglomerate Rakuten will roll out 5G services in June 2020, its CEO said Thursday.
Hiroshi Mikitani, Rakuten’s CEO and chairman, said the company does not have to create a brand new network to roll out 5G services.
“We are going to deploy what we call mobile edge computing. In Japan, we are going to have over 4,000 edge servers,” Mikitani told CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal on Thursday at the Rakuten Optimism conference in Yokohama, Japan.
For its part, Rakuten plans to enter Japan’s mobile phone market in October by rolling out a new 4G-enabled network. It will compete in the country against the likes of NTT Docomo, KDDI and SoftBank.
While traditional mobile networks rely on a large amount of expensive hardware, Rakuten claims its product will be “the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network. That implies the mobile network requires fewer physical components and, therefore, it is cheaper to build, more cost-effective and can be upgraded quickly.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/01/...une-2020-ceo-hiroshi-mikitani.html
„He has also been the president of professional soccer club Vissel Kobe, also owned by Rakuten, since October 2017. The club logged operating profits of 9.66 billion yen ($89.3 million), a J. League record, in fiscal 2018. That was thanks to an increase in sponsor income after the acquisition of former Spain and Barcelona star Andres Iniesta. Tachibana was instrumental in convincing Iniesta to join the team.“
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/...uten-sports-teams
The team, owned by online retailing giant Rakuten, averaged more than 27,000 spectators per game through May 27, up about 50% from its average of 17,793 in 2013, when the Golden Eagles won their first Japan Series championship.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/...uten-sports-teams
Rakuten has about 13 million active (US)-users who earn rewards for purchasing products from participating merchants.
The bank would be headquartered in Utah and could handle users’ deposits, according to Lee Carter, Rakuten head of banking and potential ILC CEO. The company also wants to give members a credit card to make purchases in the future and also earn rewards.
“We want to have a fair opportunity to serve our clients,” Carter said. “And we want the opportunity to provide additional financial services to them.”
https://www.pymnts.com/news/banking/2019/...g-for-us-banking-charter/
The Spanish company Cabify has long been clear that monthly plans have a future in the company. This was explained in May by the President of the firm for Europe, Mariano Silveyra.
In a presentation of the Sima Pro conference, of the Real Estate Exhibition in Madrid, Silveyra advanced the possibility that users have monthly or annual subscription models available in which a pre-set package of hours is included. However, he did not set a date:
The manager, who defended that in the future the vehicles will be part of an "intelligent" network that will manage supply and demand, went further and said that Cabify will offer options to travel "individual or combined."
Both plans, Uber and Cabify, would have many similarities with Netflix— also with other technology such as Spotify, which has popularized the rates for its video on demand model that, in some way, replaces the pay per view in series or movies (equivalent in Cabify and Uber to pay for each journey that is made).
https://www.onlinemarketplaces.com/articles/...tion-payment-solutions
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Events app Fever books $35m in funding round led by Rakuten
James Warrington
Events platform Fever has secured $35m (£28.8m) in fresh investment following a funding round led by Japanese internet giant Rakuten.
Fever, which lists entertainment events in more than a dozen cities worldwide, said the cash injection will fund investment in technology and expansion in new markets.
The London and Madrid-headquartered company also owns viral social media channel Secret Media Network, which reaches half the population of London each week through its Secret London site. Fever last year expanded to Manchester, Paris, Los Angeles and Lisbon.
“We have been impressed by Fever’s growth and success in reaching large digital audiences in major cities such as New York, Madrid and London – and most importantly the quality and leadership of their young team,” said Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel, managing partner at Rakuten Capital.
“Fever’s innovative solutions uniquely position the company to capitalise on the fast-growing experience economy and have proven very valuable to digital marketers.”
https://www.cityam.com/...-books-35m-in-funding-round-led-by-rakuten/
Das 2015 gegründete spanische Start-up Glovo ist einer der am schnellsten wachsenden Lieferpartner für Bestellungen der Welt, wobei er alles von Lebensmitteln bis Pharmazeutika und Geschenke innerhalb einer Stunde liefert. Glovo ist in 26 Ländern und über 186 Städten präsent.
https://www.fruchtportal.de/artikel/...service-fr-lebensmittel/039750
Movo opens in Valencia after receiving the necessary permits from the Valencia City Council.
Specifically, it took one month for the division of scooters— Cabify and Movo— to land in Valencia after the revision of the Mobility Ordinance.
In all this context, Movo has also expanded to Valencia, Malaga and Madrid, from the distribution of Carmena scooters— where it has just over 1500 scooters after the purchase of SJV Consulting units - are also part of the Cabify division's portfolio. In this way, it becomes one of the companies with the most points of operations in the entire sector of electric scooters in Spain; including Mexico.
With the same prices as in Madrid, €1.70 for trips of up to 15 minutes, then €1 for each additional 5 minutes, the Cabify company will most likely have to compete with more players in the coming weeks. According to Valencia Plaza, there will be six companies that are in talks with the City Council. In addition to Movo, Bolt, Reby, Bird Tier and Wind are working in the region.
https://www.onlinemarketplaces.com/articles/...-of-its-new-regulation
Executive Exit is a Distraction for Lyft Stock, but Not a Crisis
Josh Enomoto
August 2, 2019
Lyft stock represents one of the most transformative investments available today. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of Americans who use ride-sharing services have increased dramatically. Moreover, this transition has occurred very quickly.
For example, 36% of American adults today have taken a ride with LYFT or Uber. But in late 2015, only 15% had used such services.
Moreover, this unsurprisingly is a demographic phenomenon. Roughly half of those aged 18 to 29 have used ride-sharing services. Also, people with an annual income of $75,000 or higher are much more likely to use LYFT or Uber than those who earn far less.
And ultimately, this segment in our broader demographic is the relevant class: young, upwardly mobile, and technologically savvy. That’s the driving force behind Lyft stock. McNeill’s departure, while significant, isn’t worth losing sight of this powerful narrative.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...straction-lyft-stock-090108581.html
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Rakuten Inc reported an unexpected quarterly loss on Thursday, hit by the depressed value of its investment in ride-hailing firm Lyft Inc and heavy spending on a new wireless service.
The company said it booked a 1.8 billion yen ($17 million) operating loss in the April-June quarter compared with a 61.6 billion yen profit in the same period a year earlier. The market had expected a 5.2 billion yen profit, according to the average of five analysts compiled by Refinitiv.
Rakuten, whose billionaire founder and Chief Executive Hiroshi Mikitani has a seat of Lyft's board, recorded a 28.4 billion yen unrealised loss on its stake in the ride-hailing firm for April-June, as it had warned in July. It recorded a 110 billion yen gain in the previous quarter.
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