Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket
Rakuten Mobile gab bekannt, dass der rakuten UN-LIMIT VI-Plan am 8. Februar 2022 für eine dreimonatige kostenlose Kampagne endet.
Die Kampagne macht die Plangebühr für drei Monate ab dem Startdatum des Plans für Benutzer kostenlos, die einen neuen oder MNP-Vertrag mit Rakuten UN-LIMIT VI, einem von Rakuten Mobile bereitgestellten Tarifplan, unterzeichnet oder ihre Pläne von Rakuten Mobile (docomo line, au line) geändert haben. Es begann am 8. April 2021.
https://news.kakaku.com/prdnews/cd=keitai/ctcd=3147/id=115192/
https://news.kakaku.com/prdnews/cd=keitai/ctcd=3147/id=115199/
https://www.businessinsider.de/gruenderszene/...-hero-mehrheit-glovo/
Open RAN revenues will account for around 15% of the overall 2G-5G RAN market by 2026, according to a new estimate from the Dell’Oro group.
The Asia-Pacific region is dominating the open RAN market, says Dell’Oro, and will play a leading role throughout the forecast period, accounting for more than 40% of total 2021-2026 revenues.
The company said that its preliminary findings suggest total open RAN revenues “surprised on the upside both in 2020 and during 2021, bolstering the thesis that open RAN is here to stay and the architecture will play an important role before 6G”.
https://www.capacitymedia.com/articles/3830606/...arket-in-four-years
- Seven months since launch, second cards issued reach one million.
Tokyo, January 27, 2022 - Rakuten Card Co., Ltd. today announced that the total number of cards issued to Rakuten cardholders has surpassed 25 million as of December 2021. Additionally, the total number of second Rakuten Cards issued to Rakuten cardholders topped one million in only seven months since the full-scale launch of the additional card option in June 2021.
Japan is increasingly turning toward becoming a cashless society, as the COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the demand for contactless payment and the government has launched a number of promotional initiatives, including the Project for Encouraging Businesses to Introduce Cashless Payment Systems and Pass on Benefits to Consumers and the My Number Points service.
Rakuten Card has proactively launched a range of initiatives aimed at catering to customer needs, including new marketing measures promoting credit card usage, the launch of a second card option in June of last year, and unveiling in November a safer and more secure card design. As a result of these initiatives, the total number of Rakuten Cards issued has surpassed 25 million, and the number of second Rakuten Cards issued has also reached one million in the seven months since full-scale launch. At the same time, Rakuten Card’s annual shopping gross transaction value (GTV) surpassed 14 trillion yen in FY2021 (January-December), an increase of more than 25% year-on-year*1.
Plans are also underway for a commemorative campaign to mark the one million second cards milestone, with details to be announced at a later date.
Since launching in July 2005, Rakuten Card has proactively conducted a variety of initiatives to promote cross use between Rakuten Group services and accelerate the adoption of cashless payments both within the Rakuten Ecosystem and beyond. Rakuten Card is also leading the way in building out the Rakuten Ecosystem of fintech services, including banking, securities, insurance, payments and more. In October 2021, Rakuten Card announced its "Triple Three" mid-term targets of 30 million issued cards, 30 trillion yen shopping GTV and 30% GTV market share. The company aims to achieve its Triple Three targets as soon as possible in order to contribute to the growth of each of the FinTech Group companies and the Rakuten Group as a whole, and further strengthen its customer and revenue bases.
Rakuten Card aims to further improve customer satisfaction by continuing to enhance its credit card service, to expand its lineup of features and to make financial services more convenient, easy to use and accessible.
*1 Further details to be disclosed at Rakuten Group, Inc.’s FY2021 and fourth quarter financial results announcement planned for February 14, 2022.
https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/update/2022/0127_01.html
Cisco Middle East & Africa hosts ‘Future Cloud’ Summit to showcase new hybrid cloud innovations
• Cisco Middle East & Africa hosts ‘Future Cloud’ Summit to showcase new hybrid cloud innovations
• Company highlights its ground-breaking new hybrid cloud solutions alongside partners in the region
• Leading brands around the world share how they are working together with Cisco to build and support their cloud strategies including KBR, Kaleida Health, Rakuten Mobile, and more.
“Cisco has been a valuable partner in our launch of Rakuten Mobile's cloud-native mobile network in Japan. Leveraging Cisco’s high performance 100G and 400G Nexus cloud infrastructure, network automation and observability, we are driving towards our goals to not only deliver the best mobile connectivity experience for our customers in Japan, but also to telco, enterprise and public sector customers through the Rakuten Communications Platform globally." — Tareq Amin, Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Mobile
https://www.eyeofriyadh.com/news/newsdetail.php?newsid=121011
“Rakuten Symphony was created with a vision that modern telco infrastructure should be cloud-native, open and interoperable, giving mobile network operators the ability to build, deploy and scale at speeds and low costs never before seen,” commented Tareq Amin, CEO at Rakuten Symphony. “To achieve this we need like-minded partners like MinIO to enable operational efficiencies from the edge to the cloud.”
MinIO is a high performance, Kubernetes-native, S3 compatible object store for a broad range of data storage use cases. Its performance dramatically exceeds comparable object stores, delivering tens of gigabytes of data per node in throughput. The performance characteristics have made MinIO the object store of choice for leading machine learning frameworks, analytics applications, databases, web applications and other performance-oriented workloads. MinIO’s architecture is renowned for its simplicity and scales from TBs to EBs easily.
https://insidehpc.com/2022/01/...ny-minio-closes-103m-series-b-round/
In September, online classifieds giant, Carousell finally joined the unicorn club with a $100M fundraise and $1.1B valuation.
If the shoe fits
Since then, it snapped up Ox Street, one of SEA's fastest-growing sneaker and streetwear marketplaces. (Forget scams because everything on Ox Street's certified legit!)
It's not a strange buy. Carousell's building a world where secondhand becomes the first choice by doubling down on trust and convenience. Plus, Ox Street's millennial and Gen Z audience is just what it's looking for.
SPAC me
Carousell's been talking about going public in the US in a $1.5B SPAC since last year.
Met its match? It's in talks with the black-check company L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp, which raised $250M in its IPO.
Taste of luxe.
L Catterton's backed by LVMH (the luxury goods empire behind Louis Vuitton).
Save the date. Carousell's SPAC listing could happen as early as this quarter.
https://www.backscoop.com/newsletter-posts/carousell-and-the-1-5b-spac
Carousell is one of the world’s fastest growing mobile person-to-person marketplaces. It has recorded over 8 million listings on the app so far, with millions of items successfully transacted.
Millennials account for 70 per cent of Carousell’s visitors, and one-third of its revenue is from the sales of second-hand vehicles.“
https://vulcanpost.com/760694/...ll-latest-funding-singapore-unicorn/
By Lior Hadar
JANUARY 28, 2022
The state of privacy in 2022
Data was the buzzword for 2021, and it will probably stay that way for the foreseeable future. What do messaging apps, and other technology companies, know about us? What are they doing with this information? These have become central questions.
The key is to balance profitability and accountability – making sure companies can justify their data collection and only collect the data they need to make their product better while continuing to be a productive business.
As more people care about their personal data and how it’s protected, messaging apps, including Viber, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal, will have to continue having an honest conversation with people on what is being done to protect them – and what exactly is collected about them and how it’s used.
The privacy dilemma
Striking the perfect balance between keeping people’s chats secure and providing a feature-rich experience is challenging. How can an app be optimized for every user without any information? How can a messaging app provide a sense of control without overwhelming the user or taking away from their experience?
In 2021, we sent out a survey to thousands of Viber users to determine if we should take privacy a step further – make all messages disappear by default. We saw that most respondents cared about privacy and did not want anything to be stored on Viber. At the same time, 81% of respondents also said that they want to be able to look at old messages.
We decided to give our users a choice. Anyone can go into their privacy settings and choose whether their messages are backed up on Google and Apple clouds or not at all since Viber doesn’t store private conversations on its own clouds at all. We even offer two types of secret chatting – the first is Disappearing Messages within existing one-on-one or group chats, and the second is Hidden Messages which can be accessed by PIN-only. These are just two of the many security features offered.
How Viber views privacy in messaging apps
In some companies, security is a messy topic that no one really wants to deal with. At Viber, our team is dedicated to making sure it stays a top priority and transparent to everyone.
Our Chief Information Officer, (aka guardian of user privacy) Amir Ish-Shalom, oversees the technological aspects of the app and makes sure “that we gather only the data required for getting the necessary insights for improving our service while protecting the users’ privacy and keeping their data safe and secure.”
At the same time, Idit Arad, Viber’s General Counsel, leads the legal team in ensuring that we always meet the requirements set by privacy laws and regulations around the world.
“I try to put myself in the shoes of our users, I care about my privacy, and I know our users do too… I always think about what our users expect, on top of what the law requires.”
When asked what makes them proudest about Viber’s approach, they both echo the same sentiment, perfectly summed up by Idit: “We run a successful company, but we all know that this success goes alongside privacy, and thanks to privacy, not on account of it.”
https://www.viber.com/en/blog/2022-01-28/...-is-privacy-day-at-viber/
TornosNews.gr 28.01.2022 | 11:00
Users of the Viber call and text messaging app in Greece made 1 billion calls in 2021, Rakuten Viber unveiled on Thursday, ANA reports.
In Greece, more than 90% of smartphones have installed the app, making it the top chat application in the country.
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/...20the%2520country.
Im Jahr 2021 wurden in Bulgarien fast 530 Millionen Anrufe über Viber getätigt und 13 Milliarden Nachrichten gesendet. Die Gesprächsdauer zwischen Verbrauchern in Bulgarien betrug im vergangenen Jahr beeindruckende 50 Millionen Stunden. Nach Angaben des Unternehmens beträgt der Anstieg der Anzahl der Anrufe und gesendeten Nachrichten für das vergangene Jahr im Vergleich zu 2020 11 %.
Im Geschäft in Bulgarien haben Chatbots einen bemerkenswerten Anstieg von 26 Prozent sowie eine 30-prozentige Steigerung des Verbraucherengagements mit Chatbots erlebt. Es gibt auch eine Zunahme von 71 Prozent bei den zugestellten Geschäftsnachrichten im bulgarischen Sektor von Viber, und es gibt eine Zunahme von 46 % bei den neuen Geschäftsnachrichtenprofilen in der Anwendung.
Es wurde berichtet, dass die direkten Gespräche zwischen Verbrauchern und Unternehmen im Jahr 2021 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um beeindruckende 237 Prozent zugenommen haben.
Das Wachstum von Transaktionsnachrichten (Auftragsbestätigungen, Sendungsverfolgung, Terminerinnerungen) liegt bei 52 Prozent.
https://www.nach-welt.com/...en-geteilten-stickern-in-viber-business/
Carousell Group is backed by leading investors including Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver and Sequoia Capital India.
https://laotiantimes.com/2022/01/17/...alternative-to-walled-gardens/
About Innoeye Technologies
Team InnoEye despite being over six hundred employees is still a close-knit group. Every day comes with some new tasks and challenges, and we work together to meet those challenges as a team. We are a multi-disciplinary team of passionate technocrats creating new-age software solutions. We are committed to produce successful stories for our customers and collaborate on technology partnerships. Ans we aim to develop technology solutions leveraging state-of-the-art engineering practices.
https://sarkarischolarship.co/...e-technologies-direct-referral-2021/
https://thetimeshub.in/...ch-smartphones-are-popular-among-ukrainians
The “pin-to-top” option for messages introduced by Viber from business chats allows users not to miss key information – by being able to pin a specific message within the conversation with the brand. In addition, there is also the recently introduced option to attach a whole series of messages (“thread”) – or part of a conversation – to the top, similar to the possibilities from everyday conversations with friends.
https://tekdeeps.com/viber-new-features-in-business-chats/
Ayaan Mohamud, Marketing Director, APAC - January 19, 2022
First launched in Singapore in 2014, cashback and discovery platform ShopBack has since expanded its footprint to serve consumers and retailers across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, and, most recently, Vietnam and Korea. Shopback has amassed over 30 million users across all markets and has given back $200m+ in cashback since launch!
Our marketing director in APAC, Ayaan Mohamud, posed some questions to Tom Howard (Head of Sales) about ShopBack’s successful start-up, how they use the impact.com platform, and their plans for the future.
https://impact.com/partnerships/shopbacks-secrets-to-start-up-success/
"If you told us at the start that we would be 50 times bigger, that we'd have 700 people and be in nine markets, I would never have believed you, and Joel wouldn't too," Henry tells us as Joel nods.
At the start, they hadn't even harboured hopes of expanding beyond Singapore, he confesses.
"Then we went on to Southeast Asia, we went to Taiwan, we went to Australia and Korea, and we were market leaders in all of them."
https://www.asiaone.com/lifestyle/...-let-employee-leave-piano-office
AI Screens Out Robocallers – IEEE Spectrum
Post published: January 29, 2022
These vendors initially opposed the scheme, called Open RAN, because they believed that if implemented, it would damage—if not destroy—their existing business model. But faced with the collective power of the operators clamoring for a new way to build wireless networks, these vendors have been left with few options, none of them very appealing. Some have responded by trying to set the terms for how Open RAN will be developed, while others continue to drag their feet, and risk being left behind.
The technology underpinning a generation of wireless like 5G can take a decade or more to go from initial ideas to fully realized hardware. By comparison, Open RAN has emerged practically overnight. In scarcely three years, the idea has gone from little more than a concept to multiple, major deployments around the world. Its supporters believe it will nurture immense innovation and lower the costs of wireless access. Its detractors say it will threaten basic network security and could lead to disaster. Either way, this is a watershed moment in the communications industry, and there’s no turning back.
https://borderlessandbeyond.com/...ens-out-robocallers-ieee-spectrum/
Meines Erachtens erleichtert das, die Chancen von Rakuten Mobile und Rakuten Symphony zu verstehen.
https://borderlessandbeyond.com/...ens-out-robocallers-ieee-spectrum/
Rakuten UN-LIMIT VI 3-monatige kostenlose Kampagne endet am 8. Februar
veröffentlicht am 25. januar 2022 10:40
Rakuten Mobile wird die "Rakuten UN-LIMIT VI Plan 3-month free campaign" am 8. Februar beenden. Nutzer, die bis zum selben Tag einen neuen Vertrag abgeschlossen haben, können den Plan bis zum Monatsende drei Monate nach Vertragsschluss wie vereinbart kostenfrei pro Monat nutzen.
Laut der pr-abteilung von rakuten mobile basiert das ende der dreimonatigen kostenlosen kampagne "auf zukünftigen kampagnenstrategien". Es gebe jedoch "keine inhalte, die zu diesem zeitpunkt angekündigt werden können" für zukünftige kampagnen.
Die rakuten-gruppe, einschließlich rakuten mobile, neigt dazu, "kampagnen" mit hoher frequenz durchzuführen. Wir möchten im auge behalten, ob wir eine wirkungsvolle kampagne starten können, die über die dreimonatige kostenlose kampagne hinausgeht.
https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/2201/25/news092.html
1 Nutzer wurde vom Verfasser von der Diskussion ausgeschlossen: Scansoft