Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket
"Carousell, the Singapore-based mobile listing service that operates across Southeast Asia, has pulled in an $85 million Series C fund as it seeks to strengthen its business among the region’s competitive e-commerce landscape before expanding globally.
The round was co-led by existing investor Rakuten Ventures and EDBI, the corporate investment arm of Singapore’s Economic Development Board. Other participants included returning investors 500 Startups, Golden Gate Ventures and Sequoia India as well as new investor DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank with over $330 billion in assets."
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/13/carousell-raises-85m/
https://secure.irwebcasting.com/20180510/19/...11/mov/main/index.html
Unglaublich aber wahr: Daraus produziert Bloomberg die Falschmeldung von einem negativen operativen Cash Flow in betrachtlicher Höhe:
https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/4755:JP
Und die haben es, obwohl sie viel gelesen werden, bis heute nicht geschafft, den Fehler zu korrigieren.
Acquired by Rakuten in 2014, Ebates has expanded at home and embarked on an overseas expansion campaign including launching in Japan with a mall dubbed Rebates, a combination of Rakuten and Ebates. Mitchell Gibbs, formerly VP of Network and Merchant Operations at Ebates Performance Marketing and now General Manager of Rebates in Rakuten, played a central role in bringing Ebates to Japanese shoppers. He recently sat down with Rakuten Today to explain the overall strategy.
https://rakuten.today/blog/ebates-business-model-rebates-japan.html
Wir nutzen das Potential der Daten des Rakuten-Ökosystems, um Zielgruppen zu identifizieren, Medieneinkäufe zu optimieren, Werbeeinschaltungen zu personalisieren und Umsatzsteigerungen für unsere Kunden zu optimieren. Unsere globale Präsenz ermöglicht es uns, Konsumenten auf der ganzen Welt einzubinden und zu beeinflussen.
https://rakutenmarketing.com/de-de/
https://global.rakuten.com/corp/investors/financial/indicators.html
Noch besser wäre es aus meiner Sicht, den Rückkauf schon vor einem einigermaßen sicher absehbaren IPI von Pinterest vorzunehmen.
LG kooperiert mit Dolby und Rakuten TV
11. Mai 2018 - Die Video-on-Demand-Plattform Rakuten TV stellt nun Hollywood-Filme auch mit Dolby Vision HDR und Dolby Atmos Sound zur Verfügung, die auf kompatiblen LG TVs genutzt werden können.
https://invidis.de/2018/05/...lg-kooperiert-mit-dolby-und-rakuten-tv/
For many socially-focused marketers and service providers, Viber and Messenger’s chat extensions offer a great solution to help them stay involved in their users’ experience while promoting their brand. Not only can chat extensions help marketers turn their brand loyalists into brand activists, but they are also able to promote higher engagement levels among users who will prefer a specific app and its chat extensions to all others.
From a marketing standpoint, both Viber and Messenger chose to implement chat extensions into their messaging apps in order to enhance the ways in which a user can interact in a chat with friends. By providing users with seamless access to social features, including music players, YouTube videos, and travel booking apps, chat extensions are able to address the majority of today’s marketing trends, exposing users to specific brands or promotions.
Viber’s Chat Extensions, introduced in December 2016, offer a variety of features for users, from GIFs, Spotify, Vice, Booking, and even YouTube. Nearly a year later, Messenger introduced their version of the feature.
https://blog.marketo.com/2017/08/incorporate-chat-marketing-plan.html
Published 24th July 2017
Rakuten TV (Spain)
Spanish movie and TV streaming OTT service Wuaki.tv was founded in 2009, and went on to be acquired by Japan’s Rakuten in 2012, the world’s third largest e-commerce group, for an undisclosed fee. The service was then rebranded as Rakuten TV in July 2017. Operations and figures: As well as Spain, Rakuten TV operates in 12 countries in Europe, including key markets, the UK, France, Germany and Italy. It has a total subscriber base of 5 million, rising from 3 million at the end of 2015, of which some 40% reside in Spain.
https://rethinkresearch.biz/articles/wuaki-tv-spain/
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cabify#section-overview
January 23, 2018
Platform Software | Madrid, Spain | Late Stage
Maxi Mobility, the parent company of Cabify, has reportedly pulled in $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Founded in 2011, the ridehailing startup operates in Spain, Portugal and several countries in South America. Cabify is a competitor of Uber and 99, which was recently acquired by Didi Chuxing.
https://pitchbook.com/newsletter/...-new-funding-at-unicorn-valuation
European on-demand delivery startup Glovo raises €30 million Series B
Steve O'Hear@sohear / Oct 4, 2017
Late last month, Spanish media got wind that the Barcelona-based on-demand delivery app Glovo had closed Series B funding, but now the company is making the news official.
The startup, which offers a service similar to Postmates in the U.S., has raised a €30 million round led by Rakuten Capital, and Cathay Innovation. Existing investors Seaya Ventures, Entreé Capital, Caixa Capital Risk, and Bonsai Venture Capital also participated.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/04/glovo-series-b/
auch bei Carousell mit:
Carousell as a prelude to offering financial products and payment services over the platform.
The app-based marketplace currently serves 19 major cities in seven markets in Asia. In the two years following its last round of funding, Carousell has quadrupled in volume globally, featuring more than 144 million listings and 50 million items sold.
The past year has seen the platform expand into high value categories such as cars, property, jobs, services and, most recently, finance through a collaboration with PFM app MoneySmart.
DBS Group CEO Piyush Gupta, says the bank will leverage its investment to begin offering financial products and financing options from within the marketplace.
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/32106/...d-marketplace-carousell
https://www.finanznachrichten.de/...es-iniesta-to-vissel-kobe-004.htm
https://travel.rakuten.com/