Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Rakuten Rewards (former Ebates)

Final Thoughts

Rakuten is a must for anyone who shops online. The company has a long history of reliability and there are no risks or drawbacks with signing up. Joining the platform takes next to no time, costs nothing, and doesn’t require any personal information for you to get paid.

If you haven’t already made an account and you are buying anything online, you are missing an opportunity to make money and cash in on exclusive discounts and free gifts.

https://themodestwallet.com/capital-one-shopping-review/  

Innoeye Technologies (Rakuten Symphony) Direct Referral 2021

Innoeye Technologies Off Campus Drive Recruitment 2021: Innoeye hiring freshers of UG or PG through an off campus recruitment drive for the India location.

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/  

Affiliate marketing is a multibillion-dollar global industry.

Statistics show that by 2022, the affiliate marketing industry is expected to reach an estimated worth of $12 billion. This number has exceeded about thrice its worth in 2015.

Revenue from affiliate marketing has steadily increased over the years, as eCommerce continues to grow in popularity. With consumers purchasing basic goods, household devices, tech gadgets, and procuring services using the internet, businesses are finding affiliate marketing as an effective means to connect to promote their brand.

Forecast shows that affiliate marketing spend will go higher in the next five years.
Based on Statista, the projected expenditure for affiliate marketing in the United States alone could reach $8.2 billion in 2022, which is up from 7.4 billion in 2021. From only $2.5 billion in 2012, the spending for affiliate marketing has continued to increase year by year, which suggests that more businesses are incorporating affiliate marketing in their campaigns.

Affiliate marketing spend not only continues to increase in the US. Other countries are also allocating a large portion of their marketing budget to affiliate marketing. For example, businesses in Japan spent about $2.7 billion on affiliate marketing in 2019. By 2024, the affiliate marketing expenditure could go beyond $4.3 billion. Meanwhile, affiliate marketing spend in the United Kingdom reached about $828 million in 2020, which is about 10% higher than the affiliate marketing expenditure in 2019.

These numbers not only show that affiliate marketing is recognized as an effective marketing tool globally, but also continues to thrive each year, with big players in the online marketplace—like the US, the UK, and Japan—allocating a chunk of their marketing budget to it.

https://influencermarketinghub.com/affiliate-marketing-stats/  

membership growth

In 2021, Rakuten’s gross transaction value (GTV) across the global Group companies reached $232 billion. This is astonishing growth. Global membership reached nearly 1.6 billion. Despite the waves of uncertainty driven by the COVID pandemic, our domestic e-commerce business achieved double-digit growth, reaching a new milestone of five trillion yen in annual gross merchandise sales (GMS)*1.

In our fintech services, the number of Rakuten cards issued surpassed 24 million, Rakuten Bank surpassed 11 million accounts, and Rakuten Securities surpassed seven million general securities customer accounts. In another milestone, our Rakuten Point loyalty program surpassed a cumulative total of 2.5 trillion points issued, as the Rakuten Ecosystem continues to expand its borders.

https://rakuten.today/blog/...rating-quarter-century-of-optimism.html  

Is Affiliate Marketing the Next Big Thing?

NOVEMBER 1, 2021
ARMANDO ROGGIO

https://www.practicalecommerce.com/...te-marketing-the-next-big-thing

 

Open RAN will become mainstream with ubiquitous 5G: STL’s Ankit Agarwal

STL is quite bullish on adoption of Open RAN technology in India. By 2023, the company expects revenues from Open RAN technologies to be around around 5-7%.

Read more at:
https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/...agarwal/88749606  

obwohl ich auch auf einem US-Board poste, aber er kommt zu einem ähnlichen Ergebnis:

"„Rakuten’s “core” is on track to generate about US$1.4 billion of operating income on $11 billion of revenue this fiscal year, while growing the business in the mid-teens. It enjoys a long growth runway in the Japanese market. Considering this part alone, no matter how you want to look at it, a valuation (market cap) of $16 billion seems unusually cheap.“

https://valuepunks.substack.com/p/deep-dive-rakuten-4755-tyo-rkuny
 

Federal government: Open RAN technology can spur 5G expansion

BY MRT ON OCTOBER 23, 2021

Open RAN technology has the potential to “make a positive contribution to the expansion and security of public cellular networks”. The Federal Government takes this view in a response that has now been published to a request from the FDP parliamentary group. This includes 5G and in particular so-called campus networks. In such an Open Radio Access Network, virtualized systems are used, in which an operator only has to renew the software for a technical change.

In their explorations, the Liberals referred to reports that the mobile communications provider 1 & 1, together with the Japanese online retailer Rakuten, intends to build the first fully virtualized 5G network outside of Japan based on Open RAN in Germany. This technology promises faster and cheaper implementation options, “since previous hardware functions can be simulated by software”. In addition, from the perspective of the FDP parliamentary group, such networks, unlike other 5G processes, are technology-open and therefore not dependent on just one manufacturer of the hardware components such as Huawei.

https://marketresearchtelecast.com/...y-can-spur-5g-expansion/184911/
 

Die Rakuten Group hat bekannt gegeben, dass ihr jährlicher Bruttowarenumsatz (GMS) im inländischen E-Commerce im Jahr 2021 die Marke von fünf Billionen Yen überschritten hat.

https://www.klamm.de/news/...illionen-yen-im-jahr-2021-14N207726.html
 

Rakuten überreicht die Vision'R Geschenkkarte

Rakuten France, eine bahnbrechende E-Commerce-Plattform für den Second-Hand-Kauf und -Verkauf, stellt die Vision'R-Geschenkkarte vor, die erste Karte, die den Kauf von Second-Hand-Produkten fördern und belohnen soll.

Laut einer Studie, die IPSOS im November 2021 für Rakuten durchgeführt hat, plant 1 von 2 Franzosen in diesem Jahr, zu Weihnachten Second-Hand-Geschenke anzubieten. Warum zieht die andere Hälfte der Franzosen diese Art von Kauf nicht in Betracht? Vor allem, weil sie es nicht gewohnt sind, second-hand zu kaufen, sondern auch aus Angst, zu enttäuschen, nicht das richtige Teil oder die richtige Qualität zu wählen. Um Großzügigkeit und Verantwortung ohne Fehler zu kombinieren, bringt Rakuten eine Geschenkkarte auf den Markt, die für die 50 Millionen Gebrauchtprodukte in seinem Katalog gültig ist, die ohne Mindesteinkauf aktiviert werden kann und ein Jahr gültig ist.

Benutzer können zwischen zwei verfügbaren Beträgen wählen: 30 und 50 Euro, die zu Preisen von 25 bzw. 45 Euro angeboten werden, oder 5 € billiger angeboten.

Diese Lösung ist Teil des gleichnamigen Rakuten-Programms, des Vision'R-Abzeichens, das im vergangenen Juni eingeführt wurde und Second-Hand-Käufe auf der Plattform fördert und belohnt. Für 2 Produkte dieser Kategorie, die für einen Gesamtbetrag von mindestens 100 Euro gekauft wurden, erhalten Club R-Mitglieder zusätzliche 10%, die sie bei ihren nächsten Einkäufen wiederverwenden können.

Die Vision'R-Geschenkkarte ergänzt das Engagement von Rakuten für Nachhaltigkeit und Kreislaufwirtschaft. Über das Vision'R-Abzeichen hinaus bietet Rakuten seit September die CeRtifié Refurbished Warranty an, ein beispielloses Angebot auf dem Markt, das den Käufern die Garantie von Neuheit zum Preis der Überholten garantiert, und bietet "Furoshiki", eine verantwortungsvolle Alternative zu Weihnachtsgeschenkpapier, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Green Griot.

« Wir stellen Fragen der Kreislaufwirtschaft in den Mittelpunkt unseres Versprechens eines positiven Impact-Handels. Wenn 2 von 3 auf der Plattform verkauften Produkten jetzt aus der Kreislaufwirtschaft stammen, werden es 2025 3 von 4 sein. Unser Ziel ist es, mit der Vision'R-Geschenkkarte, der ersten Geschenkkarte, die zu 100% für Second-Hand in Frankreich bestimmt ist, und den in den letzten Monaten eingeführten Angeboten, unsere Mitglieder zu ermutigen, einen verantwortungsvolleren Konsum zu bevorzugen", sagte Fabien Versavau, CEO von Rakuten France.

https://global.fr.shopping.rakuten.com/actualites/...de-seconde-main/
 

Mobile: Leading the way with world-first technology

Rakuten Mobile built the world’s first fully virtualized mobile network. At first, people questioned the feasibility of this project. They thought it would be almost impossible. But we got it done, with full-scale commercial launch in 2020. Now, we serve over five million subscribers and that number is growing daily.

But of course, our plan is not just to build another mobile network in Japan. We have three main objectives: One is for Rakuten Mobile to become a profitable business as a standalone service; the second is to promote synergies across the Rakuten Ecosystem; and the third is to offer our innovative, cost-effective software and mobile technology platform services to companies and organizations across the globe, through our Rakuten Symphony business.

https://rakuten.today/blog/...rating-quarter-century-of-optimism.html
 

Audience of messengers in Russia 2021, by application

Published by D. Elagina

Nov 11, 2021

The most popular messenger application in Russia in August 2021 was WhatsApp, with an audience of nearly 77 million. Telegram, which was unblocked by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media of Russia (Roskomnadzor) in June 2020, ranked second with around 38 million users visiting it at least once a month. Viber was placed third with approximately 34.8 million users.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1065027/...enger-audience-by-app/  

https://www.similarweb.com/de/apps/top/google/...munication/top-free/  

https://www.similarweb.com/de/apps/top/google/...ank/ua/all/top-free/  

Rakuten Symphony marks independence with edge products launch, more executive hires

Nov 12, 2021 | Daniel Beazer

Rakuten Symphony, newly hived off from its parent Rakuten, has given the market an indication of future strategy by announcing plans to develop an edge device in tandem with Juniper and Intel.

The portable hardware, dubbed Symware by the trio, is aimed at simplifying 5G cell deployments. It will tackle one of the major problems associated with disaggregated Open RAN deployments, such as how to provide consistent routing across different physical and virtual architectures.

The device will also enable key 5G features such as network slicing and dynamic steering of traffic through segment routing. It also supports automation through zero-touch provisioning and Rakuten says its routing functionality and containerized Distribution Unit will save carriers CAPEX and OPEX when building out 5G networks. The trio expects the product to ship in the first half of 2022.

https://www.edgeir.com/...oducts-launch-more-executive-hires-20211112  

https://www.similarweb.com/de/apps/top/google/...ank/bg/all/top-free/  

Mobile network operators can buy open RAN provisioned equipment directly from the hardware supplier or Rakuten Symphony if they prefer more hands-on support.

On the hardware front, Amin is keenly interested in advanced silicon architecture for telco workloads, basebands, and radios. One realization of this is the recently announced Symware appliance. Rakuten jointly developed the appliance with Intel and Juniper Networks, and it features containerized cell site routing functions and a containerized distributed unit (DU) on a single-rack, general-purpose server.
Qualcomm’s vow to break into the 5G RAN chipset market also has Amin particularly intrigued. “I think Qualcomm is going to change the world with their new cell site modem, especially what we are going to commit to work with them on for the creation of a 64T64R [massive MIMO radio] at an unbelievable cost structure that the planet has not seen,” he said.

“This is absolutely going to be a breakthrough platform,” Amin added.

Radios and servers that run converged cell site router functions, including DU functionality, comprise about 70% of operators’ average capex, according to Amin. “If we are able to do something materialistic and reduce the cost by 40% to 50%, that’s a big win for the industry.”

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/...nsparency-pledge/2021/12/


 

18 hours ago

Five years since hitting the streets, Japan’s favorite code payment app is more convenient — and more deeply integrated with Rakuten’s growing ecosystem of fintech services — than ever after a recent major upgrade.

The Rakuten Pay app for customers was launched in 2016 to allow users to shop at physical stores using nothing but a bar or QR code displayed on their smartphones. Rakuten Pay has since grown alongside the code payment industry and can now be used at all of Japan’s major convenience stores, as well as tens of thousands of restaurants and other retail locations around the country.

Same simplicity, more flexibility

The app’s popularity started in part from its unique mix of simplicity and flexibility. For example, when shoppers open the app, they are immediately greeted with a freshly generated code they can use to pay at the register. Shops can then scan the shopper’s QR code to pay any amount they choose.

Five years on, the app retains this intuitive simplicity, while adding a number of highly popular features. While shoppers have always been able to set their Rakuten Points (which recently reached a cumulative 2.5 trillion issued) balance as their primary source of funds, the team is continuing efforts to provide the most flexible experience possible.

In 2019, Rakuten Point Card and Rakuten Edy functionality were successfully integrated. Then in 2020 the app enabled charging and payments using Suica, the IC card-based transportation e-money operated by JR East.

Both the Rakuten Point Card and Rakuten Edy services also started life as physical cards which shoppers would show at physical stores to earn or spend Rakuten Points or Edy e-money. Their inclusion in the Rakuten Pay app allowed shoppers to fire up and use the Rakuten Pay app even at retail locations that are not yet signed up with Rakuten Pay.

The integration of Suica, meanwhile, was the first time Rakuten Pay had expanded beyond the Rakuten Ecosystem. Those familiar with Japan will know Suica as the train card issued at Japan Rail stations around the country, which can also be charged and used for shopping at many retail locations.

This bold new inclusion not only significantly boosted the number of Rakuten Pay shopping locations, but also turned the app into a viable tool for navigating Japan’s public transportation.

Last year, the Rakuten Pay team made yet another stride forward: In 2021, shoppers became able to make payments directly from their Rakuten Bank accounts.

While such functionality may seem a given in many places around the world, direct debit payments are surprisingly rare in cash-conscious Japan. The move was made possible by Rakuten’s robust fintech ecosystem, something the team has taken further advantage of in recent months.

Payments, and beyond!

Until now, the new functions built into Rakuten Pay have largely revolved around payment transactions. More recently, this has expanded to include much more than just cashless payments: The team wants to make Rakuten Pay a viable tool for even more situations in customers’ financial lives.

Today, open the Rakuten Pay app and you will find that you can scroll down to find easy access to a number of Rakuten financial services.

One icon takes you to Rakuten Check, a service through which shoppers can earn Rakuten Points simply by “checking in” to the physical store they’re visiting. Another icon takes users to Rakuten Pasha, through which shoppers can snap photos of their receipts to earn Rakuten Points after payments. Others enable quick check-in for golf reservations through Rakuten GORA, or bring up collections of coupons for nearby physical stores.

But perhaps most convenient of all are the quick access links to users’ Rakuten Bank and Rakuten Card accounts. The team used deep linking to send users straight to their account pages in the relevant apps, from where they can carry out more complex management tasks, such as changing where the funds for an already-completed Rakuten Pay transaction should come from.

When integrating this broader portfolio of financial services with the Rakuten Pay app, the team was aware that the needs of users looking to make speedy payments at the register differed from those looking to manage their finances through the Rakuten Bank and Rakuten Card apps. Both Rakuten Bank and Rakuten Card have highly advanced apps that have undergone many generations of improvements. That’s why the decision was made to use deep linking technology to provide customers with easy access to their financial accounts.

https://rakuten.today/blog/rakuten-pay-cashless-journey.html  

Best Digital Bank bei den Asiamoney Best Bank Awards 2021 für Japan zum vierten Mal in Folge ausgezeichnet

11. januar 2022

Die Rakuten Bank, Ltd. (Hauptsitz: Minato-ku, Tokio, President & CEO: Hiroyuki Nagai, im Folgenden "Rakuten Bank") wurde bei den vom Asiamoney Magazine gesponserten "2021 Asiamoney Best Bank Awards for Japan" zum vierten Mal in Folge als "Best Digital Bank" ausgezeichnet.

Die Asiamoney Best Bank Awards wurden 2017 vom Asiamoney Magazine ins Leben gerufen, einer asiatischen Version des Euromoney Magazine, einem englischen Finanzmagazin, das 1969 ins Leben gerufen wurde. Die Auszeichnung wird an Banken vergeben, die im vergangenen Jahr in jedem asiatisch-pazifischen Markt hervorragende Ergebnisse erzielt haben, und wählt die besten Banken in jedem Land für bis zu acht Kategorien aus, darunter Internet-Banking und Investmentbanking. Die Gewinner des Preises wurden auch von einem Team hochrangiger Journalisten unter dem Vorsitz der Redakteure des Euromoney-Magazins ermittelt, um eine detaillierte Umfrage unter Banken und Märkten durchzuführen, und leitende Redakteure befragten und wählten Führungskräfte der Bankenbranche auf der ganzen Welt online aus.

Die Rakuten Bank wurde für ihre besondere Anerkennung der folgenden Punkte als beste digitale Bank in der japanischen Bankenbranche ausgezeichnet.

         •§REAGIEREN SIE SCHNELL AUF VERÄNDERUNGEN IM KUNDENVERHALTEN WÄHREND DER CORONAVIRUS-PANDEMIE UND BIETEN SIE EINE VIELZAHL VON BARGELDLOSEN ZAHLUNGSMETHODEN WIE DEBITKARTEN UND QR-CODE-ZAHLUNGEN AN.

         •§zusätzlich zu kreditprodukten wie kartenkrediten, hypotheken und immobiliensicherheiten bietet das unternehmen digital produkte an, die verschiedene finanzielle bedürfnisse erfüllen, wie z. b. die einführung von umgekehrten hypotheken, die es kunden ermöglichen, darlehen zu erhalten, die von ihren häusern unterstützt werden, während sie im dezember 2020 weiterhin zu hause leben.

         •§ALS INTERNETBANK IST ES MÖGLICH, DURCH DEN EINSATZ EIGENER IT-SYSTEME ZEITNAH AUF KUNDENBEDÜRFNISSE ZU REAGIEREN UND SICH GLEICHZEITIG EINEN VORTEIL AUCH IM SICH VERSCHÄRFENDEN WETTBEWERB IM DIGITALEN BEREICH IN DER BANKENBRANCHE ZU VERSCHAFFEN.

die rakuten bank wird ihren kunden weiterhin attraktive produkte und dienstleistungen anbieten.
https://www.rakuten-bank.co.jp/press/2021/220111.html

 

https://www.similarweb.com/de/apps/top/google/...munication/top-free/  

11.01.2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=822QCJpAP-Q
 

Rakuten Trade offers trading access into the US equities market

By Ayisy Yusof - January 13, 2022 @ 5:40am

KUALA LUMPUR: Rakuten Trade Sdn Bhd is offering existing traders an opportunity to expand their trading access into foreign markets with its maiden foray into the United States (US).

Chief executive officer Kazumasa Mise said Rakuten Trade's US share trading service could be available for traders within two to three weeks.

He said this amplified the equities broker's value propositions to unlock more value through digital efficiencies.

"With this enhancement, our clients will now have access to trade stocks like Apple and Tesla, as well as Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) that are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq," he said at a virtual media briefing here today.

Mise said this is in addition to over 1,000 stocks on Bursa Malaysia, citing that domestic and foreign equities would also be offered on a single dashboard, at the same low brokerage for a seamless, fully digital trading experience.

https://www.nst.com.my/business/2022/01/762607/...-us-equities-market  

01-12-22

15 tech startups to watch in 2022

QUERA
Boston

Founded: 2019

Quantum computing is stuck between a nascent technology and one with real-world applications. Scientists within academia and within tech companies are slowly but surely working through the problems that have kept quantum computers from rivaling traditional supercomputers. Research breakthroughs by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University led to the launch of QuEra Computing, which uses a unique quantum architecture and laser techniques to arrange and direct the tiny qubits, or quantum bits, in its 256-qubit system. (Experts say quantum systems must exceed 100 qubits before beginning to outperform conventional supercomputers in some types of problems.) In November, the company emerged from stealth with $17 million in venture capital, raised from Rakuten, Day One Ventures, Frontiers Capital, and others. QuEra says it’s already generated $11 million in revenue, and recently received a research award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90710812/...ny&utm_content=feedburner  

https://news.kakaku.com/prdnews/cd=keitai/ctcd=3147/id=114644/  

Programmatic Display Market Analysis 2022-2030, Top Key Company Profiles – Rakuten, Expedia, Tencent, Adroll, The Trade Desk

https://energysiren.co.ke/2022/01/12/...encent-adroll-the-trade-desk/