Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Japan's top three mobile carriers and Rakuten apply for 5G band allocation
Feb 26, 2019

The country’s three major mobile carriers and e-commerce operator Rakuten Inc. have applied for the allocation of a mobile phone frequency band to introduce next-generation 5G wireless services, the communications ministry said Tuesday.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will review plans by NTT Docomo Inc., KDDI Corp., SoftBank Corp. and Rakuten before seeking final approval by an advisory panel to the minister on April 10, it said.

Some of the carriers plan to start 5G services, capable of delivering speeds some 100 times faster than the current 4G networks, on a trial basis later this year, with full-scale rollout expected in 2020.
The next-generation mobile networks are considered essential for new technologies such as autonomous driving and the “internet of things.”

Rakuten plans to launch its 4G service in October and is building a network that can also be used for 5G communications.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/...ocation/#.XHeKGndFwdU
 

Rakuten Lifull Stay announces new vacation rental marketplace

27 February 2019

Rakuten Lifull Stay Inc., the vacation rental brainchild of Rakuten Inc. and Lifull Co. Ltd., has recently launched WillStyleStay, a rental marketplace for single-family detached houses in Japan.
The project is being offered in collaboration with real estate consultant HyAs & Co.

Tokyo-based HyAs, which was founded in 2005, provides consultancy for property construction and development. It also provides sales promotion support.

Rakuten Lifull Stay, co-owned by Rakuten Inc. and Lifull Co. Ltd. since it was founded in 2017, operates two rental marketplaces: VacationStay and MonthlyHomes.

https://www.onlinemarketplaces.com/articles/...ion-rental-marketplace
 

However, Rakuten has a radically different approach, said Mikitani.

Rakuten believes that 5G will enable disruptive entrants to build cloud-based 5G-ready networks, deploying all services via software in the cloud, breaking each service down in to micro-service components to deploy new applications rapidly and nimbly.

“Every booth [here] is talking about 5G…with a cloud core,” he said. However, Rakuten is taking an end-to-end virtualised cloud-based approach, without specialised hardware anywhere in the network, he said. “From day one, we will be 5G ready,” he said.

He said that Rakuten would deploy “close to 1%” of the dedicated hardware of incumbent players.
This means that Rakuten’s costs will be much lower than traditional players. “Most likely our investment is going to be less than half of traditional companies, just for 4G,” he said. Adding 5G, the saving compared with other players will be more in the order of 70%, he claimed.

https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2019/02/27/...upt-mobile-at-low-cost/
 

Tareq Amin went on to explain that the base stations Rakuten is deploying in Japan have far less kit than those in a conventional cellular network. Each Rakuten site comprises a simplified radio antenna, a remote radio head and a fiber connection. There is no cabinet packed with elaborate electronics. “In my previous job, we had 571 SKUs [different pieces of hardware]. Today, we have four,” Amin noted during an event hosted by Netcracker, another Rakuten partner. That makes the network far more flexible and easier to maintain and upgrade: Simplification translates into much lower operating costs, as well as lower capital spending.

Rakuten estimates its total cost of ownership will be significantly lower than that of a typical cellular network. Although Rakuten’s new network will have thousands of edge data centers, it will be managed by an uncommonly small team. “The level of automation you need to make this work is phenomenal,” Amin stressed.

https://rakuten.today/blog/..._medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS+Reader
 

How to create a poll inside Viber Groups – 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtljMxoQwkA
 

Mr. Zuckerberg gefällt oder nicht und welche Geschichten über Viber auch immer verbreitet werden.

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/...tzer-ids-bei-viber/

Diese Statistik zeigt die Anzahl Unique IDs bei Viber in ausgewählten Monaten zwischen März 2015 und Dezember 2018. Im Dezember 2018 lag die Anzahl der Unique IDs des Chat-Dienstes für Smartphones und Desktop-PCs, mit dem auch telefoniert werden kann, bei rund 1,07 Milliarden.
 

„Während Rakuten daran arbeitet, das weltweit erste End-to-End Cloud-basierte Mobilfunknetz aufzubauen, bringt uns die Partnerschaft mit Mavenir bei der Entwicklung von Sprach- und Messaging-Diensten der nächsten Generation einen Schritt näher an die Einführung eines beispiellosen Netzwerks“, sagte der CTO von Rakuten Mobile Network,Tareq Amin. „Die Förderung disruptiver Innovationen wie dieser im Telekommunikationssektor wird uns in die Lage versetzen, unseren Kunden in Japan flexible, stabile und wettbewerbsfähige Dienste anzubieten.“

Durch die Verwendung der RCS-Lösung von Mavenir wird Rakuten in der Lage sein, seinen Kunden Rich-Messaging-Dienste der nächsten Generation anzubieten, die auf den sich weiterentwickelnden GSMA UP RCS-Standards basieren. Zu den Diensten gehören sitzungsbasiertes Messaging an RCS-fähige Clients, das es Abonnenten ermöglicht, Instant Message (IM), Group Chat und File Share zu nutzen und Multi-Device-Szenarien zu unterstützen, die auf RCS-Standards basieren und Sprach- und Video-QoS unterstützen.

https://www.onvista.de/news/...hsten-generation-ausgewaehlt-192147143
 

It's a completely virtualised network based on Cisco telco cloud, Cisco orchestration."
Everson said that when Rakuten first announced its intentions to build a mobile network, many in the industry didn't know it would work.

"Now what we're showing is that all they have to have out at the cell site is basically the radio and the antenna equipment," he said.

"None of the real processing happens there, and so all they need is a construction person to go out there, not the higher-level technician, but just the construction person to hang the antenna, plug it in, and it's literally plug and play back to the network, so they plug that cable in, it goes back to the OSS and the OSS says, 'I know you', kicks off our orchestration system, which pushes the RAN software out to an edge cloud node -- they have 4,000 edge cloud nodes, they're all built on Cisco virtualisation technology  -- pushes the software out there, brings up all the radio software, and connects to the antenna and fires up the network, and we actually have it doing it in a couple of minutes versus days of coordination.

"Rakuten is way beyond a proof of concept, it's a real live network that they're aggressively moving forward with."

The mobile network will also be 5G ready, according to Cisco, with 5G-enabled IPv6 transport and mobile backhaul.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/...tech-behind-rakutens-mobile-network/
 

Lyft lost $911 million on $2.1 billion last year, sees revenue growing faster than losses

Lyft is likely to be among the first of a hefty class of 2019 public offerings.

Lyft announced in December it had confidentially filed for an IPO, but declined to add financial specifics then.

Reuters reported earlier that Lyft expects to be valued between $20 billion and $25 billion in its IPO.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/01/lyft-s-1-ipo.html
 

Derartige Zahlen hatte ich in etwa erwartet.

Was mich noch mehr interessieren würde ist, ob meine Schätzung für die Beteiligung von Rakuten an Lyft in Höhe von ca. 12% in etwa zutrifft.

Wer dazu neue Informationen von heute findet, sollte das hier reinstellen.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/01/tech/lyft-ipo/index.html  

habe ich heute keinen Bock:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1759509/...849/d633517ds1.htm
 

5% Stockholders:
                                                                                                                                                      §
Rakuten Europe S.à r.l. 31,395,679 13.05
          §        
General Motors Holdings LLC 18,664,446   7.76
       
Entities affiliated with Fidelity 18,544,716 7.71
         
Entities affiliated with Andreessen Horowitz 15,040,924 6.25
          §        
Entities affiliated with Alphabet Inc. 12,828,964 5.33

Quelle: siehe letztes Posting


 

Hat schon jemand die Dividende erhalten? Ich wundere mich ein wenig, dass die mir noch nicht gutgeschrieben wurde.  

ich mich richtig erinnere, auch erst Mitte bis Ende März der Fall.

Diese Peanuts werde ich mit Sicherheit wieder in  Aktien von Rakuten anlegen.  

des Anteils an Lyft von 13,05% nur ein wenig im Kurs steigt, kann ich Euch auch nicht erklären, denn einen Anstieg des Kurses von ca. 10% hatte ich schon erwartet.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1759509/...849/d633517ds1.htm

Aber für alle, die meinen noch nicht ausreichend in diesem Wert engagiert zu sein, ist das meines Erachtens ein gute Zukaufchance.
 

überteuerten und überzockten Werten steckt, deren Verkaufserlöse man so umschichten kann.  

Here Are the Big Winners Hitching a Ride on Lyft's IPO Plan

Bloomberg•March 2, 2019

(Bloomberg) -- A Japanese retail billionaire, rather than a Silicon Valley wunderkind, is the biggest beneficiary of Lyft Inc.’s impending initial public offering.

Hiroshi "Mickey" Mikitani’s e-commerce group Rakuten Inc. owns 13.1 percent of the ride-hailing company, offering documents show. That would be worth more than $2.9 billion if Lyft goes public with a valuation in the middle of its anticipated range of $20 billion to $25 billion.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...s-hitching-ride-lyft-233830100.html
 

Marking another major milestone for Rakuten Mobile Network, the company announced the official opening of a new next generation 5G network lab in Tokyo with Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions.
The Rakuten Cloud Innovation Laboratory, which opened its doors on February 20, 2019, is a unique, fully automated testing facility that aims to foster innovation across mobile network, IT digital architecture, cloud and enterprise applications.

Rakuten primed to lead 5G revolution

While traditional telecoms race to prepare themselves for the coming 5G revolution, their reliance on legacy telecom hardware is holding them back. In contrast, Rakuten has no outdated infrastructure to maintain, and thus the company does not need to face the challenge of transforming their network from 3G or 4G to 5G.

“5G is the universal growth code that will fuel growth across industry verticals and domains,” added CP Gurnani, managing director and CEO of Tech Mahindra. “The Tokyo 5G lab is just the beginning of what Rakuten and Tech Mahindra can achieve to define the 5G Economics of future.”

“From day zero,” Rakuten Mobile Network chief technology officer (CTO) Tareq Amin explained, “Rakuten network is 5G ready.”

https://rakuten.today/blog/...p;utm_term=Wired+%28Conde+Nast%29_Wired
 

die US-Giganten nicht den japanischen Zahlungsverkehr:

New Rakuten Pay App

Update of current Rakuten Pay App with all payment solutions embedded into one platform - Release scheduled on March 18, 2019

Rakuten Points and Rakuten Cash can be used for payment

Credit Card (Rakuten Card / Visa/ Master) is linked background

Barcode & QR code Payment

RakutenEdy
(FeliCaBased e-money)

Rakuten Point Card barcode

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/investors/

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Für mich ist entscheidend, dass die Verluste langsamer wachsen ald die Umsätze. Halt das an, wird man die Gewinnzone erreichen – es sei denn, dass Sättigung vorher eintritt. Wenn man den Prognosen trauen kann, sind wird davon aber noch sehr wet entfernt, sodass ich nicht am Erreichen der Gewinnzone zweifele.

Daher halte ich auch die nachstehende Überschrift nicht passend, da hier eine relative Größe (Erlöswachstum) mit einer absoluten Größe (Verlausausweirung in absoluten Zahlen) geenannt werden – denn der Anteil der Verluste an den Erlösen sinkt.

"Slowing revenue growth, widening losses

Lyft doubled its net revenue in 2018, but that was a decelerating growth rate from a year earlier. The ride-hailing company posted revenue of $2.2 billion last year, up from $1.1 billion in 2017 and $343 million in 2016. The company’s losses are getting steeper as revenue grows: Lyft generated a net loss of $911 million in 2018, compared with losses of $687 million and $683 million in 2017 and 2016, respectively.

The company’s bookings, which represent the total dollar value of transportation spending through Lyft services, climbed to $8.1 billion from $4.6 billion in 2017 and $1.9 billion in 2016. Lyft’s net revenue represented 27% of the company’s bookings in the latest period. "

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/...company-just-revealed-2019-03-01
 

HANOVER, Md. and TOKYO — February 21, 2019

Rakuten Mobile Network, Inc. is deploying Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) coherent optical platform and network management capabilities to support its new mobile network rollout. Rakuten’s mobile service leverages Ciena’s technology for a flexible and resilient network that can withstand the network demands of metro, rural and nationwide backbone, and is future-ready for 5G.

In partnership with Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Ciena is supplying its 6500 Platform powered by WaveLogic Ai programmable 400Gbps coherent optics to Rakuten, delivering high-speed connectivity nationwide across sea and mountain routes throughout Japan.

Rakuten is benefitting from Ciena’s Blue Planet® Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) software that provides enhanced fault and performance management through end-to-end SDN-based network control.

https://www.ciena.com/about/newsroom/...twork-Service-with-Ciena.html
 

Lyft’s 2017 losses, but gross revenue doubled in the same period.

„J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, and Jefferies are lead bankers on the IPO. General Motors stands to do very well in the offering; the $500 million investment the automaker made in 2016 could be worth more than $2 billion; Rakuten’s $700 million-plus investment could reach $3 billion. Legendary venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz may stand to realize the greatest return on the IPO: the $60 million a16z put into Lyft in 2013 could be worth $1.6 billion when the company goes public.

Lyft’s revenue has grown exponentially, from just $343 million in 2016 to $2.2 billion in 2018, but so have its losses. Like its chief competitor Uber, Lyft has never turned a profit, and burned $991 million last year. That loss was 32% more than Lyft’s 2017 losses, but gross revenue doubled in the same period.“

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/technology/...n-to-file-ipo-in-2019

 

The upcoming Pinterest IPO has not seen much attention. Yet this does not mean it will be a laggard. For the most part, Pinterest has been able to put together a solid business.

Unlike a typical ecommerce platform like Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) or eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY), Pinterest has made buying highly engaging. The members of the site can pin their favorite items, creating compelling boards. In fact, there are 175 billion pins!

Here are some other notable metrics:

There are 250 million MAUs (monthly active users).

50% of the traffic is outside the U.S. and 80% comes from mobile phones.

93% of active pinners use the service to plan for purchases.

So yes, monetization has been strong. For 2018, revenues are estimated to have increased by 50% to $700 million. And as for the valuation of the Pinterest IPO, it is projected at about $12 billion.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...airbnb-uber-lyft-big-160141956.html

 

Mit der Verdoppeoung des Umsates binnes eines Jahres ist dieser Anstieg allerdings dreimal so hoch als der Verlustanstieg von 32,8%.

„Das Unternehmen, das bisher nur in Nordamerika aktiv ist, verdoppelte seinen Umsatz im vergangenen Jahr zwar auf 2,16 Milliarden Dollar, wie aus dem am Wochenende öffentlich gemachten Börsenprospekt des Fahrdienstvermittlers hervorgeht. Aber zugleich stieg auch der Verlust binnen eines Jahres von 688 Millionen auf 911 Millionen Dollar.“

https://www.ariva.de/news/...rebt-mit-tiefroten-zahlen-an-die-7444742