Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

How To: Affiliate Marketing for the Jewelry Industry Webinar Recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJz-_KXRPE  

To expand its global eSIM coverage, Airalo received US $5.4 M in Series A
Ila Dhond11/10/2021

Airalo, an e-SIM business located in the United States with hubs in Singapore, Toronto, and Istanbul, has raised US $5.4 million in a Series A round-headed by Rakuten Ventures, a Japanese corporate venture capital firm.

Surge, Antler, Singtel Innov8, Wayra (Telefonica), LG Technology Ventures, GO Ventures, Ground Control, Plug and Play, and I2BF Global Ventures were among those that took part.

Airalo plans to utilise the additional funds to extend its worldwide eSIM coverage, in-app services, and user experience. In addition, the travel-tech business will expand its workforce and form new partnerships with telecoms and travel firms.

https://incubees.com/...overage-airalo-received-us-5-4-m-in-series-a/


PETOKOTO, a custom fresh food for pet dogs, has raised about 500 million yen in Series A, such as PETOKOTO FOODS

PETOKOTO Co., Ltd., which provides the pet wellness brand “PETOKOTO”, announced on December 1 that it will raise a total of about 500 million yen through financing and a capital increase through third-party allotment. Underwriters are Vega Corporation, Rakuten Group (Rakuten Capital), ABC Dream Ventures, DG Ventures, Headline, 15th Rock Ventures, existing shareholders Nissay Capital, Jun Nishikawa, Osamu Suzuki. The total procurement amount was about 1 billion yen. In addition, in order to build a long-term pet life platform, we have entered into a business and capital alliance with Vega Corporation in the area of housing furniture and Rakuten in the area of travel and insurance.

https://todaynationnews.com/...h-as-petokoto-foods-today-nation-news/
 

N26 integriert mit Simplesurance Versicherungen in seine App
Jakob Steinschaden15. April 2021, 10:27

Wie die Challenger-Bank N26 soeben bekannt gegeben hat, ist sie eine Kooperation mit Simplesurance aus Berlin eingegangen. Kunden in Deutschland können sich ab sofort direkt in der N26-App eine Smartphone-Versicherung holen (ab 6 Euro pro Monat), weitere Angebote sollen folgen.

N26 zählt eigenen Angaben zufolge sieben Millionen Kunden in 25 Ländern – diese bekommen nun teilweise Zugang zu den digitalen Versicherungsleistungen des neuen Partners. Geplant sind in Folge auch private Haftpflicht-, Hausrat-, Lebens-, Reise-, Haustier-, Fahrrad- und Elektronikversicherungen, die man direkt in der App abschließen kann. Generell passt das zur Strategie von N26, als Plattform für zusätzliche Services zu fungieren. So gibt es etwa auch mit Wise (Ex-TransferWise) eine Kooperation für günstige Auslandsüberweisungen.

https://www.trendingtopics.eu/n26-simplesurance/
 

Soon after announcing Symware to the world, Rakuten Symphony CEO Tareq Amin took to the main stage for a keynote address that outlined Rakuten Mobile’s journey, explaining how the cloud-native and Open RAN-based mobile network that many had thought to be impossible, was now in fact outperforming all other mobile network operators in terms of 5G speed experience in Japan.

To an intrigued audience, Amin shared his vision for the future of Rakuten Symphony: “We have a great opportunity to disrupt this industry, we have a great opportunity to really connect everything and bring better value to overall society and Rakuten Symphony is the platform idea for all the software technology stack that we have built into Japan.”

That opportunity to disrupt comes from the years of lessons learned in building the Rakuten Mobile network in Japan, packaged into solutions designed to deliver immediate benefits to the telecom industry.

https://rakuten.today/blog/symphony-mwc-los-angeles-2021.html  

Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime have plenty of Korean dramas (my heart personally hasn't recovered from Netflix's Crash Landing on You), but if you're looking for a dedicated service for Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese shows and movies. You can watch Viki for free with ads, or subscribe to Viki Pass for $50 per year or Viki Pass Plus for $100 per year. Viki Pass unlocks more shows and movies, presents content in HD quality without ads, as well as first access to exclusives, originals and more.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/...-make-great-gifts/
 

Toward a new generation of mobile networks — media around the world cover Rakuten Symphony launch

20 hours ago

Revolutionary new symphony for mobile networks premiered this year. The composition began with the construction of Japan’s fourth mobile phone network by Rakuten Mobile, bringing down the price of a local mobile phone subscription by 80 percent. In 2021, that inspiration crescendoed to the global stage with the launch of Rakuten Symphony.

Media around the world respond to Rakuten Symphony

Unveiled in August, Rakuten Symphony has already notched up important international milestones, attracting the attention of major business and industry media:

• Financial Times: Teaming up with Germany’s 1&1 to build Europe’s first Open RAN network

• Wall Street Journal: Dish and Rakuten head to the cloud

• CNBC: Rakuten Symphony sees huge opportunities to take network into the cloud

• Light Reading: Dish Network officially teams up with Rakuten

• Mobile Europe: Rakuten partners 1&1 to build “Europe’s first fully virtualised mobile network”

• Fierce Wireless: Rakuten creates Symphony, expands RCP ambitions

• Appledore Research: Disruption-as-a-Service: Rakuten Symphony Emerges

“Historically, a few large vendors have dominated the business of supplying mobile-network equipment, providing costly proprietary systems in which they control both the hardware and the software. Open RAN networks are completely different: They are software-driven, based on open standards, and run in the cloud on commercial, off-the-shelf servers.”

“The advantages of Open RAN networks are clear. They cost less to run because many of the proprietary infrastructure components are replaced by software, at a fraction of the price. Network operators no longer need large teams of engineers to deploy and maintain their base stations. In our network, new sites are brought on air automatically and updates are carried out remotely via software.”

“Open RAN should be music to the ears of security hawks and those worried about the security implications of trusting a single supplier. Open RAN provides a way to depoliticize the roll-out of 5G. It gives operators complete transparency within their networks, tight control throughout the supply chain and the freedom to quickly move from one vendor to the next should ever a security issue arise.”

“More affordable connectivity will cause an industrial shake-up in the coming years. Instead of proprietary systems built by a handful of incumbents, Open RAN offers new suppliers, both large and small, the opportunity to get into the mobile infrastructure market. Our network relies on equipment from a range of suppliers, including radio-access technology from Nokia, routers and switches from Cisco, and other hardware from NEC. The software was provided by Altiostar (recently acquired by Rakuten) and Robin.io.”

https://rakuten.today/blog/...wide-cover-rakuten-symphony-launch.html  

Viber has been expanded with long-awaited growth

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The self-deleting message perform is already out there within the group chat of the Rakuten Viber chat service, which can also be highly regarded in Hungary. It’s simple to set the message to vanish, and the consumer can simply activate and off the perform within the chat.

With prolonged choices, Viber customers can set messages to vanish in group chats 10 seconds, one minute, one hour, or at some point after studying, offering extra choices than competitor apps.

https://newsline.news/...-has-been-expanded-with-long-awaited-growth/
 

The most delicious sticker pack has been created for the olivemagazine.gr community on Rakuten Viber

By: OliveMagazine | 26.11.2021 |

Continuing its dynamic course, the culinary site olivemagazine.gr is once again leading the way in the digital communication. As the first gastronomic site that uses Viber to communicate directly with its fans is now presenting its own package of stickers! This gives the users of olivemagazine.gr community -with more than 90.000 members and thousands of likes daily- the opportunity to interact in the most immediate and entertaining way by sending – completely free of charge – funny stickers and sketches! Everyday but also creative expressions such as “love at first bite”, “suck”, “#foodporn”, “we got burned” and more are linked to funny food sketches and create the most delicious Viber Sticker Pack!

https://www.olivemagazine.gr/...gazine-gr-community-on-rakuten-viber/  

IIT Madras sees a Historic High in Job Offers in Phase I of Campus Placements
By skilloutlook / December 13, 2021

CHENNAI : Indian Institute of Technology Madras has recorded a historic high in job offers received during Phase I of Campus Placements for the Academic Year 2021-22.

As many as 73 per cent of students who opted for Campus Placements during 2021-22 have received job offers at the End of Phase I. Phase II of Placements will begin in the second half of January 2022.
A total of 45 international offers were made in this Phase I, out of which 11 offers came from Rakuten Mobile, Inc. Other international offers came from Glean, Micron Technologies, Honda R&D, Cohesity, Da Vinci Derivatives, Accenture Japan, Hilabs Inc., Quantbox Research, MediaTek, Money Forward, Rubrik, Termgrid and Uber.

https://skilloutlook.com/job-trend/...in-phase-i-of-campus-placements  

Rakuten Symphony Narrows Hardware Transparency Pledge

Matt Kapko | Senior Editor 9 hours ago

Rakuten Symphony CEO Tareq Amin earlier this year pledged to be transparent about the cost of network hardware, but that doesn’t mean he’s publicly sharing those prices. This level of transparency extends to Rakuten Symphony customers and ends there, he explained in a recent phone interview.

“If I share my component prices with the world, then my suppliers will most likely sue. But with my customers I have all the rights and all the authorities, because I have a legal framework of a contract, so I share my pricing and my entire cost structure with all the customers that sign contractually with Rakuten Symphony,” he said.

Rakuten Symphony, a newly formed corporation following a formal split from its Rakuten parent, claims contracts with at least 14 customers worth about $2.6 billion to date, including Germany’s greenfield operator 1&1 Drillisch.

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

What should be the valuation of Rakuten Bank if you compare with the following numbers of Nu-Bank?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...-jumps-debut-raising-182040590.html  

I believe by a compare with the $ 45 billion of Nu-Bank the valuation of Rakuten-Bank should be about $ 15 billion - that is near the complete valuation of the complete Rakuten Group.

As a bet on surging digital-finance growth in the region, Nubank’s customer base of about 48 million in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.

The company said it had a $99 million loss on revenue of $1.06 billion for the nine-month period ended Sept. 30.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...-jumps-debut-raising-182040590.html

Valutation of Nu-Bank is todayabout $ 45 billion

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NU?p=NU&.tsrc=fin-srch

Rakuten to take banking business to IPO

01 October 2021 | Natalie Bannerman

Business performance and financial position for the last 3 years
Fiscal year (consolidated) As of March 31, 2019 As of March 31, 2020 As of March 31, 2021
Consolidated Net Assets 129,538 147,682 186,790
Consolidated Total Assets 2,997,205 3,851,733 6,486,841
Consolidated Recurring Revenue 87,720 95,513 103,386
Consolidated Ordinary Income 27,329 27,275 27,581
Profit attributable to owners of parent 19,039 18,960 19,337

Revenues of Rakuten in the year ended as of March 31, 2021 was 103,386 million Japanese Yen = about $ 909 million.

Ordinay income in the year ended as of March 31, 2021 was 27,581 million Japanese Yen = about $ 245 million.

Net income in the year ended as of March 31, 2021was 19,337 million Japanese Yen = about 170 million.

https://www.capacitymedia.com/articles/3829754/...ing-business-to-ipo
 

Rakuten Bank Becomes First Online Bank in Japan to Surpass 11 Million Accounts
- One million new accounts acquired in only six months – the shortest timespan yet

Tokyo, July 2, 2021 - Rakuten Bank, Ltd. today announced that it opened its 11 millionth account*1 on July 4, 2021, a first for a domestic online bank in Japan*2. The company opened one million new accounts over the past approximately six-month period, the shortest timespan yet for the bank to hit the one million new accounts milestone.

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/update/2021/0705_02.html  

Retailer Rakuten beats Japanese lenders at digital banking game

Friday, 23 Apr 2021

Rakuten Group Inc. is emerging as the first real digital contender to Japan’s traditional lenders, using its Amazon.com like e-commerce dominance to steer users to its online bank.

New digital bank accounts at the internet conglomerate that’s better known for its online shopping services expanded by 20% last year and recently topped 10 million, the most among the country’s online lenders. Deposits grew by about 50% over the same period to more than 5 trillion yen (RM190.45bil), putting it on par with Japan’s mid-sized regional banks.

https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2021/04/...tal-banking-game  

DECEMBER 13, 2021
By Lior Hada

https://www.viber.com/en/blog/2021-12-13/...-11-what-a-year-its-been/  

Carousell Hong Kong partners with GOGOX and Atome to build ecosystem for small local businesses to flourish

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 14 December 2021 - Carousell, one of the world's largest and fastest growing classifieds marketplaces, today announced new partnerships with GOGOX, the pioneer app-based logistics platform in Asia, and Atome, Asia's leading buy now pay later brand to help small local businesses via Carousell for Business (CarouBiz). Combining Carousell's reach of 1 in 5 Hong Kongers as active users with ready buyer intent, and the established expertise of partners, Carousell aims to build an ecosystem that enables small local businesses to succeed.

Unlike large corporations who can hire the necessary talent, smaller merchants need easy-to-use, affordable tools and "plug-and-play" services that allow them to scale at low cost and without a lot of training. Demand for CarouBiz subscriptions of premium seller tools have increased sharply in Hong Kong in 2021 compared to last year. In Q4 2021, Carousell also rolled out a self-serve version of CarouBiz for tech-savvier merchants who do not require a dedicated Client Success Manager to advise on marketing strategies.

Carousell is the leading classifieds group in Greater Southeast Asia on a mission to inspire the world to start selling, and to make secondhand the first choice. Founded in August 2012 in Singapore, the group has a leading presence in eight markets under the brands Carousell, Mudah.my, Cho Tot, OneKyat and Ox Street, serving tens of millions of monthly active users. Carousell is backed by leading investors, including Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver, STIC Investments and Sequoia Capital India.

https://www.media-outreach.com/news/2021/12/14/...nesses-to-flourish/
 

Rakete ist das jedenfalls nicht.
 

damit zusammen, dass Rakuten seit der Entscheidung für den Aufbau des vierten orginären Mobilfunkanbieters Milliardensummen investiert/ausgibt. Verschärft wurde das Problem dadurch, dass man die Investitionen, die inzwischen ca. 10 Milliarden Dollar erreichen dürften, von ca. ursprünglich geplanten sieben Jahren auf ca. drei Jahre komprimiert hat, denen noch keine Einnahmen in entsprechender Höhe entgegenstehen.

Wie das ohne diese Entscheidung aussehen würde, kannst Du der nachstehenden Zeile
"Non-GAAP Operating Income Excluding Mobile, Logistics and Investment Business 41.2 48.0 +16.5%"
entnehmen.

Diese 48 Milliarden Yen im dritten Quartal entsprechen ca. 450 Millionen US-Dollar. Das sind auf das Jahr hochgerechnet ca. 1,8 Milliarden Gewinn.

(JPY bn)
Q3/20 Q3/21 YoY
Revenue 361.4 406.9 +12.6%
Non-GAAP Operating Income -28.7 -57.7 -29.1
Non-GAAP Operating Income Excluding Mobile, Logistics and Investment Business 41.2 48.0 +16.5%
IFRS Operating Income -39.8 -7.5 +32.

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/investors/
Latest IR Materials
Third Quarter 2021
Earnings release, presentation material and supplement
21Q3videoPPT_E.pdf

Und nun stellt sich die Frage, was 1,8 Milliarden Jahresgewinn aus E-Commerce und vor allem Fintech und sonstigen Internet-Dienstleistungen für einen Unternehmenswert darstellen. Selbst bei einem extrem niedrig angesetzten KGV von 20 wären das 36 Milliarden US-Dollar - mehr als das Doppelte der gesamten momentanen Marktkapitalisierung.

Aber das wird von den Investoren momentan in keinster Weise antizipiert, sondern man schaut vor allem auf den hohe Verluste produzierende Mobile-Bereich, der aber schon im Laufe von 2023 den Break-Even-Bereich erreichen soll - und dann m.E. ein Unternehmensteil mit einem Wert eines zweistellig Milliardenbetrags ist.

Und daher gehe ich davon aus, dass Rakuten, auch wenn es jetzt noch keine Rakete ist, aber eine werden wird - da nur wenige bisher so denken wie ich, ist die Ursache für die m.E. vorliegende extreme Unterbewertung.
 

Striking a balance between a customer's lifetime value and acquisition costs is critical to generating sustainable profitability. To this end, digital banks affiliated with a technology platform have a strong advantage. Besides acquiring users affordably, these digital banks can maintain a high engagement level with users as banking services are often synergistic with their parent's native business.

Tokyo-based Rakuten Group Inc., for instance, operates a stand-alone credit card unit and offers incentives to users who pay off their card balance with a Rakuten bank account. This contributed to 32% year-over-year growth in the bank's number of direct debit transactions and a subsequent 50.4% year-over-year increase in the number of users choosing Rakuten Bank Ltd. as their payroll bank in the first quarter of 2021.

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/...anks-in-europe-asia
 

Earth Mall with Rakuten: eight keywords for simple sustainable shopping

1 day ago

In late 2018, Rakuten Ichiba consolidated its vast catalog of ethical products under a single roof with the launch of Earth Mall with Rakuten. After three years in business, Earth Mall shoppers can now choose from some 120,000 sustainable products, navigating via search or product category or browsing certification labels like Fair Trade, the Rainforest Alliance, GOTS and RSPO.

Shoppers are clearly taking notice. Over the first nine months of 2021, Earth Mall with Rakuten shoppers bought four times more than they did over the same period the previous year, while traffic jumped by a factor of almost five.

As awareness of sustainable topics such as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals grows, more Japanese consumers are asking themselves, just how does one shop sustainably?

https://rakuten.today/blog/...-keywords-for-sustainable-shopping.html

 

Und es ist natürlich auch schwer gegen die Publicity der Konkurrenz zu bestehen, die alles tut, um Rakuten zu behindern - und das hinterlässt natürlich auch Eindruck.

Rakuten Mobile losses stack up in Q3  Fierce Wireless
11 Nov 2021 - Building sustainable 5G networks for a net-zero world. Sponsored by Ericsson Dec 13, 2021 05:00am

https://www.google.de/...kgEGMTMuNC0xmAEAoAEBsAEK&sclient=gws-wiz
 

Rakuten Medical Announces FDA Acceptance of an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for RM-1995, a Conjugate of IR700 and anti-CD25 Antibody

8 hours ago

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Rakuten Medical, Inc today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application to begin clinical studies of RM-1995 photoimmunotherapy in patients with advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma or with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

RM-1995 photoimmunotherapy treatment is an investigational drug-device combination being developed by Rakuten Medical, Inc. The drug portion of the treatment, RM-1995, is a conjugate of a photoactivatable dye (IRDye® 700DX [IR700]) and a monoclonal antibody specific for cell-surface interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptor α-chain (CD25). The device portion of the treatment is a laser device system (PIT690 Laser System) used to activate IR700 by illumination with 690nm nonthermal red light. Tumor-resident regulatory T cells (Tregs), that inhibit antitumor immune responses to promote tumor growth, can be specifically targeted with anti-CD25 antibodies1. Rakuten Medical, Inc is investigating RM-1995 as a potential new treatment to provide targeted, direct reduction of Tregs specifically within light-treated tumor lesions to induce systemic anticancer immune responses.

https://timesnewsexpress.com/news/finance/banking/...i-cd25-antibody/
 

Rakuten Securities to add 100 stocks to lineup of trading instruments

Posted by Maria Nikolova | Dec 15, 2021

Japanese FX, CFD and stock brokerage Rakuten Securities, a subsidiary of Internet services provider Rakuten Inc (TYO:4755), continues to expand its offering of trading instruments. Today, the broker announced it will add stocks of 100 US-listed companies to the lineup of trading instruments.

The list of new additions includes Grab Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ:GRAB), which operates Southeast Asia’s leading superapp “Grab”, and Sono Group NV (NASDAQ:SEV), a solar-powered electric vehicle manufacturer based in Germany.

The new instruments will become available to trade on December 20, 2021.

https://fxnewsgroup.com/forex-news/retail-forex/...ading-instruments/
 

BY MARK SCOTT

December 16, 2021 1:30 pm

https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/digital-bridge/...-the-year-ahead/

**A Message from Rakuten Symphony: Rakuten Symphony is building a new generation of open, software-based mobile network operations that are cutting costs, improving security, and boosting competition.  Click here to see the major milestones of 2021 as covered by major media outlets, including The Economist’s World Ahead in 2022.**

https://rakuten.today/blog/...wide-cover-rakuten-symphony-launch.html

https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/...lecoms?msg_pos=1
 

What should be the valuation of Rakuten Securities, if you compare with four biggest stock brokerage firms jin the US?

Rakuten Securities General Securities Customer Accounts Reach Seven Million Mark
- Growing customer interest in asset building drives nearly 20x increase in investment trusts.

Tokyo, December 7, 2021 – Rakuten Securities, Inc. today announced that its general securities accounts have reached the seven million mark. The company also announced that 1.88 million customers are making regular monthly savings deposits to investment trusts totaling more than 70 billion yen per month as of the end of September 2021, representing a nearly 20-fold increase since the end of September 2017.

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/update/2021/1207_01.html


The Biggest Stock Brokerage Firms in the US

By SEAN ROSS

Updated October 24, 2021

Charles Schwab (12.3 million active brokerage accounts)

Fidelity Investments (11.1 million active brokerage accounts)

E*TRADE (5.2 million active brokerage accounts)

TD Ameritrade (11 million active brokerage accounts)

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/...stock-brokerage-firms-us.asp