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Lauren Marks, E-Commerce Shopping Experiences Manager, Unilever
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A secure way to make calls and send messages.
“Viber is a communications app that allows you to talk with staff in groups or one on one through either voice or texting. You can call, send videos or photos, or just relay a simple text message. It works anywhere with internet access, and it uses end-to-end encryption, so chatting is always protected and private. Additionally, we like to use it during big meetings and conferences to replace walkie-talkies.” — Anita Joshi, Director of Technology, National Investor Relations Institute, Alexandria, Virginia
https://associationsnow.com/2020/04/i-cant-live-without-my-viber-app/
May 7, 2020
https://www.communicationstoday.co.in/...ors-for-its-open-ran-vision/
LIGHT READING4/29/2020
TEWKSBURY, Mass. – Altiostar today announced that Bharti Airtel ("Airtel"), India's largest integrated telecommunications services provider, has deployed Altiostar's open virtual radio access network (vRAN) solution.
With its headquarters in New Delhi and operations spread across South Asia and Africa, Bharti Airtel is first operator in India to deploy vRAN-based 4G network, leveraging Altiostar's open vRAN solution across multiple major cities in India. The solution has 5G ready software, and would provide seamless evolution to 5G using the same architecture.
"As a customer obsessed brand, we at Airtel are consistently strengthening our network architecture with innovative technology break-through. An Open vRAN is one such solution which is essential for the deployment of next-generation 4G and 5G technologies efficiently as we take mobile broadband to the masses." said Randeep Sekhon, CTO - Bharti Airtel. "We look forward to closely working with Altiostar for our vRAN deployment which is a significant aspect of our network strategy."
Altiostar vRAN Software
Altiostar's vRAN implements an innovative functional split that allows baseband functions to run as virtual network functions (VNFs) on Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware thereby bringing the benefits of cloud infrastructure such as modularity, redundancy, resource pooling, scalability, resiliency, security and auto-recovery into radio access networks.
https://www.lightreading.com/4g-3g-wifi/...tiostar-vran/d/d-id/759273
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https://coleofduty.com/news/2020/05/10/...jd-flipkart-lazada-and-olx/
https://axiomq.com/blog/8-largest-e-commerce-companies-in-the-world/
By Praveen Bose May 9, 2020
Bengaluru, NFAPost: Mavenir, the industry’s only end-to-end cloud-native network software provider for Communications Service Providers, announced that it has successfully deployed its next-generation voice and messaging solution as part of Rakuten Mobile’s communication app, Rakuten Link.
Rakuten Link is a communication platform based on the GSMA RCS (Rich Communication Services) standards. Unlike other OTT (Over the Top) messaging apps where communication is limited to between app users, Rakuten Link allows users to make domestic and international calls to other mobile phones and fixed lines, sending and receiving SMS messages.
In addition to that, Rakuten Link also supports basic communication features such as group chat, sending and receiving photos, videos and files. All these communications are possible while being connected to Wi-Fi or cellular networks.
The deployment includes Mavenir’s 5G-ready platform that monetises voice and messaging for domestic and international roaming at low costs, integration of Rakuten ID single sign-on, and is completely cloud-based with full NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) deployed on the Rakuten Mobile platform. The platform is also ready for advanced services such as video calling, voice and video conferencing, and multiple devices including desktop applications.
https://nfapost.com/...as-part-of-rakuten-mobile-communication/10204/
Matt Kapko May 9, 2020 2:00 PM
Rakuten Mobile expects to overcome the impacts of the global pandemic, insofar as it relates to its 5G network deployment, much quicker than the technological challenges it faced during the last year.
The greenfield operator’s 4G LTE network recently went live about six months behind schedule, but it remains on target to deploy 5G next month, according to Tareq Amin, group EVP and chief architecture officer at Rakuten Mobile.
“In general, we are not seeing any side effects of the epidemic,” he told SDxCentral in a phone interview. “I also don’t see an impact on our 5G construction. We might be slowed down on the number of base stations that we are able to construct, but I don’t think it’s going to be materialistic.”
The company might encounter a delay up to two weeks on software, but the hardware is built and ready to deploy, Amin said. That 5G hardware, which was designed and manufactured in partnership with NEC and Intel in Japan, includes radios for sub-6 GHz and millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum.
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/...oy-5g-next-month/2020/05/
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Posted On April 23, 2020
Viber is boosting its privacy by making its disappearing messages feature available in all chats – not just secret chats.
Viber has grown into a messaging app with over 1 billion users worldwide and is expanding on its commitment to privacy by bringing disappearing messages to all chats. Disappearing messages – launched back in 2017 as part of the app’s “secret” chats experience – was previously only available in secret chats.
From early May 2020, users on Viber will be able to set a timer when sending text, photo, video, or other types of files, for the automatic deletion of the content. The countdown can last anywhere from a few seconds to minutes, hours, or even days – and begins immediately after the recipient sees the sent message.
Disappearing messages in 1×1 chats strengthen Viber’s position as a leader in secure messaging, but the app has always shown ample commitment to safety and privacy. Before most other platforms, it released a “delete message” feature for all chats back in 2015, default end-to-end encryption in 2016, and hidden & secret chats back in 2017.
https://wersm.com/...-disappearing-messages-to-regular-chats-as-well/
Thursday 7 May 2020 12:44 CET | News
OneSignal has announced a Shopify App to give online stores an engagement tool to help increase traffic, revenue, and improve customer experience and engagement.
The OneSignal App on Shopify is free for up to 1,000 subscribers and, for the next four months, it is free for all with no limits. Abandoned cart messages, user segments, and revenue metrics are all included. Shopify customers can use their existing Shopify login to add the OneSignal App to their stores.
The OneSignal App brings a push notification and Advanced Analytics suite for Shopify merchants to quantify which push messages are driving sales and engagement. With its event tracking system, OneSignal enables Shopify sellers to analyze how many people received and clicked on a message, as well as the revenue generated from those messages.
To reduce cart abandonment, OneSignal automatically tracks store visitors who have added items to their cart, and then notifies them an hour later to complete these purchases.
https://thepaypers.com/ecommerce/...for-customer-engagement--1242201#
20 Apr 2015 · 3 min read
Rakuten Ventures puts seed funding into push notifications startup OneSignal
Rakuten Ventures, the investment arm of the Japan-based ecommerce titan, announced today that it has made an undisclosed seed investment in a US startup that’s made a push notification platform aimed at mobile app and game developers.
https://www.techinasia.com/rakuten-ventures-onesignal-funding
OneSignal Named as Startup to Watch in 2020 by Andreessen Horowitz Partner
"Started from gaming industry and mobile, the company has expanded to broader market and spanning across web, email channels," says Casado. "Today OneSignal is used by 1 million developers and sending billions of messages on a daily basis."
Recently, a group of venture capitalists were asked to name companies they thought would "boom" in 2020. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner, Martin Casado, named OneSignal as his choice for a startup to watch in 2020. This was published in Business Insider's Prime subscription service.
https://onesignal.com/blog/vc-names-onesignal-start-up-to-watch/
London, UK – Tuesday 5th May 2020 – The majority of consumers would watch targeted adverts to be able to access video content for free , according to new research from Rakuten Advertising, the global provider of advertising technology and consumer insights.
The research, conducted among more than 4,500 adults in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, showed that 38% of UK consumers are spending three or more hours a day watching video-on-demand services, with the average household signing up to at least two video-on-demand services while on lockdown.
The study also found that 40% of UK consumers expect their viewing of video community sites, such as YouTube, TikTok and Twitch, to increase in the next month.
The hidden power of AVOD
With access to theatre, pubs and cinemas prohibited, and sporting events cancelled across the 2020 calendar, consumers are finding themselves at home seeking escapism. This is reflected in the popularity of video-on-demand (VOD) services. Some 30% of respondents said they use VOD services to consume video content, placing these second only to traditional linear TV viewing (48%), and well ahead of video sites (11%) and social media (10%).
AVOD, a new ad-supported video-on-demand service, allows consumers to watch video-on-demand content for free with adverts.The findings show many consumers are interested in AVOD but may not yet be fully aware of it. In the UK, 60% of consumers say they are likely to sign up to an AVOD service, although only 37% said they are currently aware of AVOD offerings. 18% of UK consumers believe their use of AVOD services will increase in the next month due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For those consumers that watch major sporting events, 26% said they would be interested in streaming them on an AVOD service when this was described to them, placing this ahead of all other streaming options, including pay-per-view and monthly subscription services.
Anthony Capano, Managing Director, International, at Rakuten Advertising comments, “Giving consumers the opportunity to access premium, quality content for free, as well as enabling brands to advertise in a sensitive and relevant manner, is a necessary evolution of TV now and beyond the COVID-19 crisis.”
https://rakutenadvertising.com/en-uk/...re-video-content-in-lockdown/
Bei anderen Anbietern wird das Retargeting häufig als One-Size-Fits-All-Ansatz gehandhabt, bei dem allgemeine Anzeigen ohne Segmentierung oder Differenzierung eingesetzt werden. Das machen wir anders. Rakuten Advertising vertieft das Retargeting durch mehrdimensionale Kampagnen und Datengetriebene Strategien, um personalisierte und effektive Anzeigen für alle Besucher zu schaffen.
1. Algorithmen des maschinellen Lernens ermitteln Zielgruppen durch Segmentierung, um Konversionen statt nur Klicks zu sammeln.
2. Unsere erweiterte Anfrageplattform kombiniert die Gewohnheiten von Kunden und Publishern, um Anzeigen optimal zu platzieren.
3. Unsere Dynamic-Creative-Maschine erstellt Anzeigen für relevante Produkte, die Ihre Markenidentität fördern.
https://rakutenadvertising.com/de-de/advertiser/...splay/retargeting/
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Global GTV: +23.7% YoY
Domestic E-Commerce GMS growth QoQ: +9.8% YoY
Shopping E-commerce GMS*growth +57.5% YoY in April (Shopping E-commerce = Ichiba+ 1st party (Fashion, Books, Rakuten24 (Direct), Net super + Open EC(Rebates, Checkout) + Rakuma)
Non-GAAP OI: JPY -18.1bn due to mobile business and logistics investment
Rakuten diversified ecosystem enabled solid growth
FinTech: Revenue growth +22.9% YoY, Non-GAAP OI +14.7% YoY
Core business revenue growth +13.8% YoY
Businesses such as travel were negatively impacted by COVID-19, but continue to support society.
Mobile business: Launched service on April 8. Continuing acceleration of base station buildout
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Ingrid Lunden@ingridlunden / 1:47 pm CEST • May 13, 2020
Rakuten, often referred to as the “Amazon of Japan” with extensive holdings in e-commerce and streaming media, has made an acquisition that will help it build up and flex a newer arm of its business: communications services. Today, the company announced that it is buying Innoeye, an engineering company based out of Herndon, VA, with offices also in India, which builds cloud-based solutions aimed at carriers and enterprises to manage networks and deploy services across them. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Rakuten and Innoeye — which was privately held, and didn’t appear to have outside investors — already had a relationship. The Japanese company has been working with Innoeye in its bid to build and operate Rakuten Mobile, a new 4G and 5G mobile network in Japan that launched in April to go head to head with Docomo and others. Rakuten Mobile projects it will have 3 million customers by the end of this year but its losses are mounting in the meantime.
That is not the only area where Innoeye will be active, though. Rakuten Mobile is part of a newer business unit called Rakuten Communications Platform, and a Rakuten spokesperson confirmed today that while Innoeye will continue to support Rakuten Mobile, it will also be selling its services globally to carriers and enterprises.
Innoeye has around 500 eployees, so this presumably will also mean that current customers of Innoeye will continue to remain so, although the company has never disclosed who those customers might be.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/13/...-5g-and-communications-services/
(JPY bn)
Q1/19 Q1/20 YoY
Revenue 280.3 331.4 +18.2%
Non-GAAP Operating Income 118.0 -18.1 -136.1
Non-GAAP Operating Income
(Excluding Mobile, Logistics and Investment Business)
16.1 24.3 +50.9%
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Consolidated Revenue
JPY331.4bn
YoY +18.2%
Global GTV
JPY 5.1tn
YoY +23.7%
DomesticECGMS
JPY927.1bn
YoY +9.8%
Rakuten Card
ShoppingGTV
JPY2.7tn
YoY +27.6%
Ad Revenue
JPY29.9bn
YoY +15.0%
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Rakuten Mobile is acquiring the operations support system (OSS) startup Innoeye. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rakuten is already using Innoeye’s software in its greenfield wireless network in Japan to support its 4G/5G cloud.
Innoeye is based in Herndon, Virginia, and it also has an office in India. According to its LinkedIn page, it has more than 500 employees.
In March, Rakuten Mobile CTO Tareq Amin told FierceWireless that Rakuten was in the process of acquiring an OSS company that it worked with on its greenfield network. At the time, Amin said, “I’ve never been a big fan of how the OSS layer has been orchestrated for the past 20 years. If you are in any telco today, you will discover 100-plus boxes that do different things. The OSS/BSS platform we have built converges everything, converges these 100 separate boxes with artificial intelligence and machine learning.”
Aside from using Innoeye in its own network, Rakuten is hyping Innoeye’s use in its new Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). Rakuten is packaging all its learnings from building its own mobile network and selling it to other telecom companies and enterprises around the world that want to follow in its footsteps.
RCP combines the technology blueprint and playbook of Rakuten’s cloud-native mobile network for others to more easily build and deploy cloud-native network services. It will be made available with an app-store-like interface where customers can tailor the platform to their local requirements.
“Since we first envisioned the launch of Rakuten Mobile two years ago, we have also planned to bring to market our own expertise and technology stack as a unique service that will enable operators around the world to deploy fully cloud-native telco networks of the future,” said Amin in a statement today. “With the planned acquisition of Innoeye, we are one step closer to closing the circle in bringing to market a carrier grade telco cloud product that is as simple as click, purchase and deploy.”
https://www.fiercewireless.com/operators/...e-more-than-500-employees
Number of shipped items are growing continuously: 180.7% YoY
https://global.rakuten.com/corp/investors/strategy_session_20Q1/
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