Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket
INDUSTRIESFinance
FOUNDED2012
COUNTRY/TERRITORYUnited States
COFOUNDER AND CEODave Girouard
HEADQUARTERSSan Carlos, California
As of Mar 10, 2020
Online lending platform uses AI and alternative data such as education and employment history, as well as conventional credit score and income info, to underwrite personal loans. Upstart says 70% of its originations are fully automated and that its approach allows it to hold down losses while lending to those with mediocre credit scores.
Funding: $165 million from Google Ventures, Third Point, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital and more.
Latest valuation: $750 million, according to PitchBook
Bona fides: Since founding in 2012, platform has been used to generate more than $6 billion in loans to over 400,000 borrowers, funded by five partner banks
https://www.forbes.com/companies/upstart/#1ce132584475
Predictive-arrival technology provider Rakuten Ready has debuted its “Playbook for Creating Contactless Experiences,” a resource guide for retailers, grocers and restaurants, which have seen online-order-for-pickup orders grow 201% in the two months between February and April 2020, according to the company.
Featuring proprietary research, use cases and expert insights, the playbook aims to provide guidance on specific actions for reimagining operations and creating a contactless experience that assuages consumers’ worries and protects employees.
“Consumer buying behavior has completely upended how merchants approach their business models,” said Jaron Waldman, CEO and co-founder of San Mateo, California-based Rakuten Ready. “It also brought forward a much more challenging environment where safety and transparency are critical for business sustainability and essential to protect the health of their consumers. The successful execution of a contactless order for pickup strategy throughout the customer journey is paramount. The Rakuten Ready Contactless Playbook will help guide businesses in the right direction.”
The Rakuten Ready Contactless Consumer Survey, conducted in April, found that 76% of consumers used online order for pickup for the first time as because of mobility limitations stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The playbook discusses such key insights as consumers spending where contactless delivery is prioritized; contactless payment solutions, customer-centric order prep, and contactless handoff or pickup as the three pillars expected by consumers in an order-for-pickup experience; and the centrality of technology such as predictive arrival to the contactless order experience.
The company is offering the resource free for download on its website.
Formerly known as Curbside before it joined the Rakuten family in 2018 and changed its name a year later, Rakuten Ready works with brands such as Kroger, Applebee’s, PetSmart, Petco, Nordstrom and Chick-fil-A to power their mobile-order-for-pickup programs.
https://progressivegrocer.com/...en-ready-offers-contactless-playbook
Providing retailers the fulfillment tools and services to compete with any online retailer in the world.
2-Day Network increased speed of delivery and decreased shipping costs by 35%
Why did you decide to outsource your order fulfillment?
We were looking to change warehouses and wanted to work with someone who had technology that was integrated to our CRM system, and who had warehouses that were centrally located to our customers. Additionally, we wanted a company that knows how to work with a nutraceutical and subscription business. Rakuten Super Logistics (RSL), met that criteria and was very responsive when we reached out to them.
What is the added value in bringing RSL into your business operations?
We love having a business that’s automated and love the ability to push a high amount of volume through RSL. We can go days without even looking at the system because we are confident that it’s working. The technology integration was seamless and the ability to get order tracking is also very valuable. Previously, I’ve used warehouses that were close to where my business is because I wanted to be near them, but with RSL I don’t need to be close because I know that they are handling my business.
You recently began utilizing multiple warehouses - how has this affected your business?
We have been doing some cost analysis and by spreading our inventory across multiple warehouses, we have had a significant drop in our shipping costs. We have saved about 35% for each package going out the door. Additionally, customers are receiving their products a full day earlier than they had been, so it’s a win-win.
How important is it that you have a customer support representative on-site with your inventory that you can call, as well as a fulfillment center that you can visit?
Having a dedicated customer support representative has been imperative. We won’t work with a fulfillment company unless someone is there to answer our calls and emails. It is really important to have a customer service representative who is responsive and it’s been great working with our representative.
How do you view your relationship with Rakuten Super Logistics (RSL)?
I think that RSL being on the ball is what helps my business. They are helping me succeed and I am excited about the savings we can continue to look forward to by using multiple warehouses which will really change the dynamics of my business. I appreciate what RSL has done so far and like being able to have an open dialogue. It is imperative to have good fulfillment operations because you are part of the system that allows me to run my business. I don’t even have to think about RSL because you are doing your job and you are
doing it seamlessly.
About Nutraceutical Company
The nutraceutical company is a recognized name in sports nutrition supplements, and is dedicated to helping men and women achieve a healthy and fit lifestyle. The nutraceutical industry is worth $86 billion, and nearly two-thirds of Americans take some kind of nutraceutical health product. With such a high demand, it's no wonder that they sought a high-quality nutraceutical fulfillment provider to enhance their fulfillment operations!
https://www.rakutensl.com/success-stories/nutraceutical-company
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Posted by cheryl.ng@visenze.com June 22, 2020
ViSenze is one of the pioneers applying computer vision in retail, and we are very excited to see another large scale adoption of computer vision technology in real life and also in use cases like visual search and image tagging. Computer vision is fast becoming a mainstream technology used across retail and online shopping. So what is it about computer vision and its ability to truly open up the windows of shopping?
Visenze visual shopping engine and the technology behind it
Our ViSenze Shopping’s snap and search technology enables customers to snap a photo and find products from more than 1000 ecommerce sites globally. The technology has already been integrated with most of the major mobile OEMs in the world. Presently, more than 200 million activated mobile users worldwide are using ViSenze Shopping, ViSenze’s snap and search feature embedded into the native camera lens of smartphones of Huawei, Samsung, Vivo, Oppo and LG daily. This shortens the path of conversion by instantly bringing shoppers to the most relevant products.
https://www.visenze.com/blog/...h-computer-vision-in-online-shopping/
JAMES L. SCHOFF, RIKA KAMIJIMA-TSUNODA
JULY 23, 2020
COMMENTARY
The first area for collaboration leverages the private sector, as U.S. and Japanese companies are jointly promoting a promising approach involving Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) equipment. Radio Access Network (RAN) is the part of a wireless telecommunications network that connects individual devices to the core network through base stations and antennas. Traditional RAN equipment usually comes with supplier-specific software and hardware pairings so those of different vendors are not interoperable, but Open RAN allows multiple operators and vendors to share a network through an open interface.
The major Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten, for example, has recently entered into the mobile carrier business. It created a new mobile network company that assembled the first end-to-end fully virtualized network, launched entirely on the cloud for an Open RAN platform. The virtual network allows for Open RAN and requires less hardware investment. Without it, it is hard to avoid a lock-in system of company specific hardware and software. Rakuten invested in Altiostar Networks, a U.S. mobile network builder, to construct its 5G-ready virtualized RAN software. Rakuten also partnered with Mavenir, a U.S.-based, virtualized, cloud-native network software provider (designed for cloud computing) for Rakuten’s 5G voice and messaging service. In addition, U.S. broadcast satellite provider DISH Network is partnering with Japan’s Fujitsu, Altiostar, and Mavenir on its own Open RAN virtualized network.
This Open RAN model contrasts with Chinese vendors’ models, which generally seek to lock telecom carriers into using only one company’s (for example, Huawei’s) hardware and software. By promoting Open RAN, companies and countries can benefit from new opportunities to compete and partner in flexible ways, taking advantage of the best they have to offer. It can also lower the stakes of the initial decision on a 5G provider and encourage companies to be more accountable. As a result, it can dial down the geopolitical tension surrounding this technology.
As people worldwide have been hunkered down inside during the coronavirus pandemic, online activity has been increasing and the world’s digital transformation has become more important than ever. For example, average daily traffic for video chat, remote work services, streaming services, and online media has increased by double digits for many websites and services, and in some cases by 80 to 100 percent.
The pandemic has accelerated this digital transformation, and 5G is likely to be the backbone of the infrastructure that supports this shift. A global approach to developing 5G networks will be more efficient and productive than splintering the marketplace with exclusive vendor arrangements. This global approach will also limit the ability of countries to pressure others economically, because of how much sunk costs in a particular company’s equipment already exists in their networks. In this context, openness is a way to depoliticize the current competition and let it play out more like other industries do. Accomplishing this will require countries to work together at various levels. Close coordination between the United States and Japan will be a useful way to make sure that this collaboration is as productive as possible.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/07/23/...d-team-up-on-5g-pub-82354
Fundada em 1994 e com mais de 2 mil produtos lançados por ano, a Sestini é uma marca dedicada a criar malas e mochilas feitas para acompanhar todas as suas histórias. Pelo objetivo de alavancar as vendas e ganhar novos usuários, surgiu a necessidade de trabalhar com o mercado de afiliados.
Com a parceria com a Rakuten Afiliados, no período de 6 meses:
•§Mais de um milhão de reais de vendas
•§Mais de cinco mil pedidos adicionais
•§Crescimento de 202% no mês nas vendas
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“A Rakuten Advertising tornou-se fundamental para a Sestini. A parceria nos possibilitou uma nova maneira de atender nosso consumidor, que hoje, não procura apenas por produtos, mas uma experiência com a marca.” – Caroline Fernandes, Gerente de Afiliados
https://rakutenadvertising.com/pt-br/anunciantes/...play/retargeting/
FT ranking: Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies
Coronavirus means many businesses face an uncertain future but the region’s fundamentals will aid recovery
APRIL 21 2020
Rank: 22
Company: Coda Payments
Location: Singapore
Sector: Fintech
Absolute Revenue Growth Rate 2015-18 (%):3,423.5
CAGR 2015-18 (%): 227.8
Revenue 2018 ($m): 28.55
Revenue 2015 ($m).: 0.81
Number of employees 2018: 61
Founded: 2015
https://www.ft.com/high-growth-asia-pacific-ranking-2020
Monetization in emerging markets for digital content providers
codapayments.com
Headquarters
Singapore, Singapore
Chief Executive Officer
Philippe Limes
Year founded
2011
Coda helps publishers monetize in emerging markets with large numbers of avid digital content consumers, but where the payment landscapes are fragmented and difficult to navigate. Our mission is to give everyone the opportunity to access world-class digital content.
Coda helps digital content providers monetize their products and services in more than 26 emerging markets: on their own website using Codapay, allowing their users to pay at a wide network of alternative payment channels; at Codashop, which more than 11 million users visit every month to top up their favourite content services; and at Coda's e-commerce and super app distribution partners, who leverage Coda's xShop solution to offer their users a wide range of premium digital content.
https://widgets.weforum.org/techpioneers-2020/coda-payments/
09/07/2020
Rakuten est désormais intégré dans l'app store de Shopify
En pleine crise économique et sanitaire, l'intégration de l'application Rakuten va permettre aux marchands de Shopify de bénéficier d’un nouveau canal de vente pour faire grandir leur business et renforcer leur stratégie de vente omnicanale.
L’intégration de l’application Rakuten dans l’app store Shopify, représente une nouvelle opportunité de visibilité pour les entrepreneurs et commerçants français, en leur permettant de présenter et vendre leurs produits à une communauté de plus 4 millions de membres fidèles, au sein de leurs corners dédiés et personnalisés à leurs couleurs. L’application leur donne également un accès gratuit à l’option Rakuten Instore, qui leur offre la possibilité de générer du trafic en magasin grâce à un système de géolocalisation et de mise à jour des stocks en temps réel. Grâce à une technologie simple d’utilisation, les marchands conservent leur liberté pour se concentrer sur leur business.
https://global.fr.shopping.rakuten.com/actualites/...chands-francais/
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"Altiostar is excited to partner with DISH and execute on their vision to build the first cloud-native, O-RAN 5G network in the U.S.," said Ashraf Dahod, CEO of Altiostar Networks.
https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/...rovider/76745142
SiteForge from Innoeye
SiteForge - Automation Intelligence & Workflow Orchestration
Enabling automation across the business processes and activities to drive more value into the digitally transformed era.
- Scalable solution with consistent high performance
- Structured and unstructured data processing while managing static and dynamic data
- Workflow platform and automation with analytics focuses on data integration
- Mobility based automation
https://www.innoeye.com/siteforge
Foresight - Integrated OSS Platform
A web-based consolidated intelligence platform facilitates real-time big data analytics for predictive network operations
-§Intelligent near real-time coverage metrics to maintain a high-quality network
-§Scalable solution with consistent high performance
-§Empowers networks to have greater self-configuration, self-optimization, & self-healing
-§Drive business strategy, define operational policies, and identify issues & opportunities
What is Foresight?
Foresight is a real time analytics platform, which leverages and co-relates data from multiple sources, hence enabling discovery and valuable insights about end-to-end Network. The platform not only enables Pro-active Diagnosis but also provides remediation. Foresight supports Multi-Vendor, Multi-technology and is closely integrated with each Network element, hence enabling end-to-end network visualization, configuration management, performance management and optimization. Single screen, single login platform for managing all network entities instead of multiple logins for each vendor/node/technology.
The Foresight platform offers a fully-developed infrastructure sized to handle massive data volumes and transactions, allowing CSPs to handle the continuous growth in data due to increased bandwidth speeds, mobile devices, sensors, etc., thus, providing ease of scalability. Using this multi-functional platform that can handle even the most complicated multi-domain, multi-technology communication systems, CSPs can develop deep understanding of network, gain operational insights, optimize the existing systems and enhance overall network performance.
https://www.innoeye.com/foresight
As the demand for instant messaging rises globally, Viber is expanding its users’ creative palette to ensure they can fully express themselves over messages in a quick and fun way, said a press release.
To react to messages, users will simply long-tap the heart icon next to any message and show their like, lol, shock, sadness, or anger reaction. The broad range of emotions empowers users to react to messages, media, and content shared in their Community perfectly. Communication is a two-way street, and it’s essential for users also to have the ability to see how their peers have reacted to their messages. To do so, users simply long-tap the message and choose ‘Info’ to see the broad range of expressions others have left on their messages.
Ofir Eyal, Chief Operating Officer, Viber, said, “Viber is committed to empowering users to express themselves in the most accurate way possible. The ability to simply ‘like’ a message with a heart didn’t encompass the wide range of emotions people can experience when reading a message, and we needed to do more. The Message Reactions feature enables users to react in the most fitting way.”
Rakuten Viber is part of Rakuten Inc., a world leader in e-commerce and financial services.
https://www.daily-sun.com/printversion/details/...-messaging-features
Financial Reports For the second quarter ended June 30, 2020
Rakuten Securities, Inc. Results for the three months ended June 30, 2020 (April 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020)
Consolidated Operating Results (Millions of yen, rounded down) 16,949
Operating revenue 16,358
Net operating revenue 3,308
Operating income 3,320
Ordinary income 2,132
Rakuten Securities, Inc. Results for the three months ended June 30, 2019 (April 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019)
Consolidated Operating Results (Millions of yen, rounded down) 13,236
Operating revenue 12,584
Net operating revenue 2,261
Operating income 2,085
Ordinary income 1,185
https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2020/0728_01.html
JULY 15, 2020
•§Canadians are spending more time reading than ever before
•§Kobo Plus collection includes hundreds of thousands of titles
•§Kobo Plus Canada follows the success of the service in the Netherlands
July 15, 2020 — Leading digital reading retailer and publisher Rakuten Kobo announced today the Canadian launch of Kobo Plus, the all-you-can-read eBook subscription for $9.99 per month. Booklovers can now choose from hundreds of thousands of eBooks, including French-language titles as well as a variety of books in Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, and more, to serve those communities in Canada as well. With a risk-free 30-day trial*, there’s never been a better time to discover new authors and series on a Kobo eReader or with the free Kobo reading app.
Paired with the launch of Kobo Nia, the affordable, lightweight and stylish entry-level reader, budget-friendly reading has never been easier in Canada.
The new Kobo Plus collection features a breadth of stories including literary classics such as The Color Purple and Sophie’s Choice; and popular genre page-turners such as Breathless In Love: The Maverick Billionaires by Bella Andre (Romance); Next Door by Blake Pierce (Mystery); and The Emperor's Edge by Lindsay Buroker (Sci-Fi).
Booklovers Are Spending More Time Reading
Since the beginning of COVID-19, Rakuten Kobo has seen unprecedented growth in the time Canadians are devoting to eBooks. In May alone, Canadians spent nearly double the time reading using their Kobo eReaders, up 89 per cent from 2019, with a sharp increase of 101 per cent on Sundays—a favourite day of the week to curl up with a good book.
https://www.kobo.com/news/...ead-ebook-subscription-service-in-canada
Alternatives are going to be bigger and better
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The On-Demand network currently provides an extensive catalogue of the latest movies and classic films to 1.1 million Rakuten TV users in the UK, for a cinema experience in their own home.
https://blazingminds.co.uk/summer-movies-rakuten-tv-november/
Japanese conglomerate Rakuten has pulled the plug on its U.S. online retail store, originally known as Buy.com, and will wind down its operations over the next two months, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The shutdown means that the US headquarters will lay off its staff as well, meaning 87 people will lose their jobs, according a source familiar with the developments.
“We have decided to sunset the U.S. Rakuten Marketplace,” a company representative said in an email to TechCrunch. They clarified, however, that the “cash back rewards” referral business the company operates at Rakuten.com (formely Ebates, which it bought for $1B in 2014) “is definitely not shutting down and is stronger than ever.”
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/30/...-shop-formerly-known-as-buy-com/
Wieder ein sattes MINUS
Weiter mehr als 60% unterm ATH während alle Börsen dieser Welt haussieren.
965 YEN
https://www.finanzen.net/boersenplaetze/rakuten
