Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Rakuten Marketing is a global affiliate advertising network that offers a wide range of products and services for affiliates to promote. It has a reputation for providing high commissions and reliable payments, and it also offers a range of tools and resources to help affiliates succeed.

Some of the products and services offered by Rakuten Marketing include:

        1.§Affiliate tracking and reporting: Rakuten Marketing provides a comprehensive tracking and reporting system to help affiliates monitor their performance and optimize their campaigns.

        2.§Affiliate marketing training: Rakuten Marketing offers a range of training resources and support to help affiliates improve their skills and knowledge in the industry.

        3.§Affiliate marketing tools: Rakuten Marketing offers a variety of tools and resources to help affiliates create effective marketing campaigns, including banners, landing pages, and email marketing templates.

        4.§Affiliate support: Rakuten Marketing provides a dedicated support team to help affiliates with any questions or issues they may have.

        5.§Global reach: Rakuten Marketing has a global presence, with affiliates in over 200 countries. This allows affiliates to promote products to a wide range of customers and tap into new markets.
Overall, Rakuten Marketing is a trusted and reputable affiliate advertising network that offers a wide range of products and services to help affiliates succeed in their marketing efforts.

https://gritdaily.com/...iliate-advertising-networks-publishers-2023/
 

Kobo Publishing: Fulfilling Your Dream to Be an Author

November 30, 2022

Writing your first book can seem a bit daunting. But what do you do as soon as you have that book completed? How do you actually go about publishing your book? Well, luckily for you, we have the answers, and we are going to give them to you via Kobo Inc.!

https://theurbanwriters.com/blogs/publishing/kobo-publishing
 

23 March, 2023

Rakuten Advertising präsentiert Partner Up+ München: DER innovative Networking-Event für die deutsche Affiliate-Branche. Mit mehr als 150 Teilnehmern aus allen Branchen, die mehr über erfolgreiche Affiliate-Strategien lernen möchten, ist dies die perfekte Veranstaltung für Sie.

https://rakutenadvertising.com/de-de/events/
 

AI-Driven service assurance: embracing a new paradigm

Agile Operations lead to 5G Profitable Monetization

According to some research, AI-driven Service Assurance solutions demonstrate a significant ROI:

60% decrease in operator response time to network outages due to unforeseen critical issues and up to 90% for those that have occurred in the past.

Significantly support network planning by identifying changes in traffic pattern caused by exogenous events affecting the network; early identification of network adjustment needed would reduce major impacts for at least 95% of exogenous planned or predicted events (e.g., tourist season-related mobility, major social events) and 70% of unexpected or unpredictable events (e.g., natural disasters, international crises);

Support for business processes through in-depth analysis of actual service usage conditions as perceived by the user, with the goal of reducing churn rate by at least 50% and improving customer satisfaction (user satisfaction and retention). This results in spillovers on the popularity of the service provided that can bring the operator’s market share from a typical fluctuation of less than 2% in 12 months to a positive fluctuation of 2-5% in the first 12 months of adoption.

Therefore, by integrating AI functionalities into Service Assurance solutions, it is possible to make operations more agile thanks to increased automation and monetization of new 5G network services more profitable.

https://futurenetworld.net/service-assurance-ai/...-paradigm/2023/03/



 

Carousell launches instant sale feature with Laku6

by Jacopo Natali Feb 12, 2023

Multi-vertical classified business Carousell has launched a new instant-sale feature, “Sell to Carousell,” for used electronics.

The new feature comes after Carousell Group integrated the capabilities of the Laku6 team, which it officially acquired in 2022, with its AI diagnostic technology, which checks the condition of a used phone in less than two minutes, and intelligent pricing algorithms to confirm final offers. The process is fully automated to eliminate human error during grading, and users are free to change their minds about whether to sell after receiving the final offer.

https://aimgroup.com/2023/02/12/...s-instant-sale-feature-with-laku6/  

Used Goods Market to expand robustly in 2023 Carousell, Vestiaire, Letgo

02-11-2023 01:06 PM CET

Worldwide Used Goods Market In-depth Research Report 2021, Forecast to 2026 is the latest research study released by HTF MI evaluating the market risk side analysis, highlighting opportunities, and leveraging with strategic and tactical decision-making support. The report provides information on market trends and development, growth drivers, technologies, and the changing investment structure of the Worldwide Used Goods Market. Some of the key players profiled in the study are Ebay, Carousell, Kaidee, Mudah, Lelong, Collector Square, Vestiaire Collective, Gumtree, Shpock, Vinted, Letgo, Used Goods markets by :, In North America, In Latin America, Europe, The Asia-pacific & Middle East and Africa (MEA).

https://www.openpr.com/news/2925892/...and-robustly-in-2023-carousell  

We also distribute shows on Rakuten Viki as a second window

Unpacking the recent turnaround success of Chinese streamer iQiyi

BY SILVIA WONG 15 MARCH 2023

iQiyi competes with other OTT platforms for subscribers and market dominance, while also distributing each other’s content. What are those dynamics like?

While Chinese-language dramas have been growing rapidly worldwide in terms of viewership, this is a genre that requires an innovative approach to expand its base. Therefore, we partner with local broadcast networks such as StarHub in Singapore, TrueID in Thailand and Astro in Malaysia to introduce C-drama to the local mainstream crowd.

We also distribute shows on Netflix, Rakuten Viki and TVing as a second window to widen and sustain the buzz for a new show to be seen. One of our ‘sweet romance’ dramas was distributed on South Korea’s TVing and the response was so great that CJ ENM decided to invest in consumer marketing to promote the show further.

https://www.screendaily.com/features/...treamer-iqiyi/5180170.article  

CEO Mickey Mikitani shares Rakuten’s moonshot  projects at World Government Summit in Dubai

1 day ago

Conquering cancer and transforming wireless networks are Rakuten’s most ambitious projects, Chairman and CEO Mickey Mikitani told the World Government Summit in Dubai.

Mikitani shared that the two initiatives represented his “moonshots” on day three of the international conference, which also played host to Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter CEO Elon Musk and hedge fund veteran Ray Dalio.

“Conquering” cancer and wireless network transformation

Mikitani underlined the urgent need for wireless networks to modernize in an age where the world’s major industries are underpinned by digital technologies and cloud computing. He said that the transformation of mobile networks is essential if telecommunications is to keep pace with other, more digitalized sectors.

He also stressed his desire to “conquer” cancer through Rakuten Medical, the biotech company developing drugs and devices to treat the disease through its Alluminox technology platform, which has been shown to induce rapid and selective cell killing in pre-clinical studies.

“EVERY IT PLATFORM HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED AND IS BECOMING MORE SOFTWARE-ORIENTED AND MORE CLOUD-ORIENTED. BUT THE ONE MAJOR SECTOR WHICH HAS NOT GONE THROUGH THIS TRANSFORMATION IS TELECOM AND WIRELESS. ONE OF RAKUTEN’S MOST IMPORTANT PROJECTS IS TRANSFORMING WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY.”
MICKEY MIKITANI, RAKUTEN GROUP CHAIRMAN AND CEO

Mikitani went on to stress that the telecoms industry risks being dominated by an elite minority if it refuses to change.

“I have two big moonshot projects,” Mikitani said. “One is transforming wireless connectivity.  Wireless networks have been and still are dominated by legacy hardware.

“Every IT platform has been transformed and is becoming more software-oriented and more cloud-oriented. But the one major sector which has not gone through this transformation is telecom and wireless. One of Rakuten’s most important projects is transforming wireless connectivity. We have to re-optimize wireless networks; the future of wireless networks is going to be virtualized – they will work in the same way as the internet and software work together.

“Why is that? The industry is overpriced and dominated by four or five players, and there’s no incentive to move forward. Look at the internet – everything is moving to the cloud. But that is not happening in mobile.”

Trailblazers of transformation

Mikitani also warned against the dangers of closed, “black box’’ telecom networks, reminding the audience that open standards were desperately needed in order to retain network integrity.

“EVERYBODY THOUGHT THIS WAS A JOKE FIVE YEARS AGO, WHEN I WOULD TALK WITH CEOS AND BIG-TICKET COMPANIES. BUT WE ARE THE TRAILBLAZERS OF TRANSFORMATION.”

Drawing on his experience as Founder and CEO of Rakuten Group, Mikitani emphasized that while wholesale industrial change can initially seem risible to a broader audience, Rakuten is determined to push through technologies and practices that are changing mobile connectivity for the better.

“Twenty-five years ago, many people told me that you couldn’t do banking services on a Unix server, and that they had to run on mainframes. Now, Rakuten has the largest online bank in Japan in terms of account numbers, with over 13 million accounts.

“We took on this challenge four years ago, and because of Rakuten, industries are now starting to talk about open radio access networks (Open RAN). Everybody thought this was a joke five years ago, when I would talk with CEOs and big-ticket companies. But we are the trailblazers of transformation.”

https://rakuten.today/blog/...t-world-government-summit-in-dubai.html

 

Carrefour Group und Rakuten bündeln ihre Kräfte, um ihre Präsenz im E-Commerce-Markt zu stärken

14/03/2023

Im kommenden April wird Carrefour einen neuen virtuellen Store auf dem Rakuten-Marktplatz eröffnen. Diese Partnerschaft ermöglicht es beiden Akteuren, ihre jeweilige Expertise zu nutzen, um ihre Omnichannel-Strategien und ihre Kundenbindung zu stärken.

Eine beispiellose Partnerschaft zwischen zwei Branchenführern

Mit der Entscheidung für Rakuten nutzt Carrefour, einer der weltweit führenden Einzelhändler, die Stärke eines Marktplatzes mit 15 Millionen Besuchern pro Monat und sein Ökosystem von Dienstleistungen, um seinen Online-Umsatz zu steigern. Diese Partnerschaft wird es Crossroads auch ermöglichen, das Partnerprogramm von Rakuten zu integrieren.

Carrefour wird Rakuten seine Expertise im Omnichannel-Bereich, die Breite seiner Sortimente, Angebote und Non-Food-Produkte einbringen. Durch die Bündelung ihrer Kräfte wollen die beiden Partner neue Quellen für langfristiges digitales Wachstum erschließen, um ihren Marktanteil zu stärken.

Dank dieser Partnerschaft können die Verbraucher von einem neuen Geschäft auf dem Rakuten-Gelände mit dem Katalog, dem Markenimage und den Produkten von Carrefour profitieren. Durch den Beitritt zum Treueprogramm von Rakuten (Club R) können sie dank des Cashback-Systems belohnt werden, mit dem sie das ganze Jahr über zwischen 5% und 35% des Bestellbetrags sparen können. Im Mittelpunkt der Loyalitätsstrategie von Rakuten zeigt Cashback sein volles Potenzial als Antiinflationswaffe.

"Wir freuen uns, Carrefour auf unserer Shopping-Plattform begrüßen zu dürfen. Wir teilen eine partnerschaftliche Vision des Handels und möchten unsere Expertise mit der von Marken und Einzelhändlern kombinieren, um eine nachhaltige und integrative Digitalisierung im Dienste der Verbraucher zu erreichen", sagte Fabien Versavau, CEO von Rakuten France und Executive Officer der Rakuten Group.

"Dieser neue 100% virtuelle Store, den wir auf der Plattform von Rakuten eröffnen, stärkt unsere Position als wichtiger Akteur im Multichannel-Bereich. Wie in der physischen Welt, in der wir Geschäfte in Einkaufszentren eröffnen, können wir uns auf den Standort Rakuten und den Verkehr verlassen, um unsere Präsenz bei den Kunden zu vervielfachen", sagte Elodie Perthuisot, Executive Director of E-Commerce, Data and Digital Transformation bei der Carrefour Group.

https://global.fr.shopping.rakuten.com/actualites/...he-du-ecommerce/  

Japan’s Rakuten Symphony recorded its best-ever telco network infrastructure (NI) revenue of $180 million, surging 193% year-over-year in 4Q22

Japan’s Rakuten Symphony recorded its best-ever telco network infrastructure (NI) revenue of $180 million, surging 193% year-over-year in 4Q22 while Cisco, Ericsson, and ZTE saw the worst declines in the December quarter due in part to a downswing in spend among their largest customers, according to a report by MTN.

https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/...97856?redirect=1  

Philippines B2C Ecommerce Market Opportunities Databook Q1 2023 Update: Featuring Carousell, Lazada, Shopee, GrabFood, Jollibee & More

February 22, 2023 06:28 ET  Source: Research and Markets

https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/...d-Jollibee-More.html
 

Rakuten’s Mobile as a Softwarevision resonates at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2023

From Feb 27–Mar 2, Rakuten highlighted its software-first mindset, which has already been proven at scale through Rakuten Mobile in Japan, through a number of high-impact speaking sessions, meetings and events.

Highlights from the Rakuten Booth

A key part of Rakuten Symphony’s approach to this year’s event was openness and transparency; an invitation to attendees to come to the Rakuten booth and find out first-hand how open software frameworks can help mobile operators become leaner, more agile and increasingly energy-efficient.
At the Infrastructure zone, innovative hardware utilized by Rakuten Mobile and built in collaboration with partners such as Airspan, Baytec, BMI, Sercomm and Qucell was on display for all to see. Finally, at the booth theatre, attendees were treated to a busy schedule of free and open industry sessions, which featured Rakuten’s leadership team and partners speaking on a number of key issues in telecom.

“WE DECIDED TO GET INTO THE TELECOM BUSINESS BECAUSE WE THINK THAT THIS IS THE LARGEST AND MOST MEANINGFUL DISRUPTION WE CAN UNDERTAKE.”
MICKEY MIKITANI, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, RAKUTEN GROUP

On Tuesday evening, Rakuten took home two prestigious GLOMO Awards – marking the second year straight Rakuten has been awarded multiple GLOMOs. While Rakuten Symphony Symworld
won for Best Network Software Breakthrough, Rakuten Symphony Symworld
Cloud was awarded the Best Cloud Solution.

ICYMI: Rakuten announcements from Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2023
In between these events, there were also multiple exciting business deals that took place.

Rakuten Symphony and Zain KSA  announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enable strategic collaboration in building next-generation telecommunications networks based on open standards and network infrastructure provided by Rakuten Symphony.

Salam and Rakuten Symphony announced the signing of a strategic alliance framework agreement that will see Rakuten Symphony provide Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) and network planning, implementation and operation services to the Saudi-based telco (Salam).

Axiata Enterprise and Rakuten Symphony also announced an agreement that will see Rakuten Symphony supply and deliver private network telecommunications services across Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Indonesia.

Additionally, there were a number of exciting announcements from our ecosystem of Partners.

Announced on Feb 28, AirHop Communications becomes the first vendor selected by Rakuten Symphony to launch xApps on the Symworld marketplace.

Supermicro and Rakuten Symphony extended the collaboration to offer complete 5G, telco, and edge solutions for cloud-based open RAN networks.

RADCOM and Rakuten Mobile are partnering to drive network automation and closed-loop optimization for 5G.

https://rakuten.today/blog/...tware-vision-resonates-at-mwc-2023.html

 

Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Hikari new contract and target iPhone purchase 40,000 yen cash back

4 days ago

From March 13, 2023 to April 12, 2023, Rakuten Mobile will launch a campaign to cash back 40,000 yen including tax if you newly sign a contract with Rakuten Hikari and purchase an eligible iPhone. announced that it will offer cashback.

40,000 yen cash back 12 months after opening

The following iPhone models are eligible for the “Cash back with iPhone purchase and Rakuten Hikari opening” campaign. Only the first one will be applied.



iPhone14 Pro

iPhone14 Pro Max

iPhone14 Plus

iPhone14

iPhone13

iPhone13 mini

iPhone SE (3rd generation

https://iphonewired.com/news/629553/  

Analyst expects investors to move their funds eastwards.

Thamini Vijeyasingam - 17 Mar 2023, 12:36pm

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...-benefit-asian-markets/  

Rakuten positions itself as a platform for Japanese design in Paris

In addition to shining a spotlight on Japanese design, the presentation marked the "long-awaited comeback" after the pandemic of Asian representatives and buyers at Paris Fashion Week and underlined a broader strategy that has been brewing for several years: the union of e-commerce giant Rakuten with Tokyo Fashion Week to promote the Japanese fashion and design industry abroad.

Today, we have a large ecosystem and database in Japan, where the number of registered users is already close to the total population," Ryo Matsumura, one of the company's top executives, told FashionNetwork.com.

A graduate of Keio University and with a master's degree in finance from the University of London, he joined the Rakuten Group, Inc. in 2013. Since then, he has held various senior positions and is currently vice president of the trading company, overseeing Rakuten Ichiba and Rakuten Fashion, among other businesses. In 2022, he was also appointed managing executive officer of the Rakuten Group.

Although the company does not disclose the exact weight of each product category, globally, the Rakuten Ichiba online shopping mall carries 57,000 merchants and sells approximately 390 million items, including consumer goods, fashion, cosmetics and home décor. In 2022, the group's gross merchandise sales amounted to 5.6 trillion yen (39.964 billion euros).

"In e-commerce, fashion has become our biggest category," the executive said of the division launched in 2012 with the aim of offering Japanese and international fashion brands. In 2020, the rise of local brand representation on the platform prompted the launch of the Rakuten Luxury category, which was joined a few months later by the "Designers & International" space. Last year, the Japanese giant also launched Rakuten Cosmetics.

https://ww.fashionnetwork.com/news/...se-design-in-paris,1497400.html  

Rakuten Mobile on standing out from the crowd - Digital Transformation World Asia 2023 (tmforum.org)

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

https://dtwa.tmforum.org/...en-mobile-on-standing-out-from-the-crowd/  

Mobile VoIP Market Expected to Reach USD 327.5 Billion by 2031|Top Players such as -Rakuten, Facebook & Zoom

NEWS PROVIDED BY Allied Analytics LLP

March 16, 2023, 20:03 GMT

The global mobile VoIP market was valued at USD 49.2 billion in 2021, and is projected to reach USD 327.5 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 21.1% from 2022 to 2031.

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/622645914/...kuten-facebook-zoom  

Healthy $4B+ Pipeline of Rakuten Symphony Converting into Revenues

Closed in Delivery: 14 Companies

Closed: 8 Companies

Proposing: 28 Companies

Qualifying: 12 Companies

Prospecting: 16 Companies

Rakuten Symphony recently estimated its Open RAN pipeline is worth around $2B (half of the total pipeline). We don’t know the size of the European component. However, the company recently reported that nearly half of the # (not value) of prospecting clients (for RAN and non-RAN) are located in Europe per the chart below.

https://www.delloro.com/mwc-2023-ran-market-key-takeaways/  

MEFFYS 2023 Winners announced in Barcelona

By MEFMarch 3, 2023Event, Meffys

The winners of the prestigious MEFFYs Awards were announced this week at the beautiful Casa Llotja de Mar in central Barcelona. The long-running industry awards series celebrate innovation, creativity and ingenuity in the Mobile Ecosystem; a chance to recognise, applaud and showcase those individuals and companies that have made a significant difference in 2022 across MEFs core ecosystems.

Mobile Payments

Winner: Rakuten Viber – Viber Pay

Rakuten Viber Pay is the latest innovation from Rakuten Viber, allowing users to send and receive money in Viber as easily as they send a message.

Focussed on providing a seamless and fast user experience, new Viber Pay wallets can be created in less than 2 minutes. Additionally, all payments are encrypted and secured with licensed partners and, unlike competitor banking apps, can be made at zero cost to the user.

https://mobileecosystemforum.com/2023/03/03/...nnounced-in-barcelona/  

BY BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT

Mar 19, 2023 11:56 AM

Messaging apps are expected to make more traction this year with majority of business that started via messaging apps during the pandemic plan to continue doing so for a more personalized and targeted form of marketing with their clients, a new study revealed.

Rakuten Viber, one of leading messaging apps, said recent studies show that consumers spend on average 2.5 hours on messaging apps daily. The same studies also found that the younger generation, 16-24-year-olds, spends nearly 3 hours on messaging apps every day.

More and more people are turning to messengers to communicate with friends, family, and colleagues. Subsequently, messaging is already a significant driving force in brand communication as marketers connect with customers where customers are.

https://mb.com.ph/2023/3/19/...ing-apps-to-drive-businesses-this-year  

Rakuten US sent this email to their subscribers on March 19, 2023.

https://deal.town/rakuten-us/...e-shopping-trip-is-complete-P3MEMUUCL  

Posted by AFP RELAXNEWS on 15TH MARCH 2023

https://runwaymagazines.com/rakuten-fashion-week-tokyo-2023/
 

Customer feedback for Rakuten Mobile’s Launch of Mobile Service for Business Customers

March 1, 2023, Tokyo, Japan The three plans are: 1,980 yen (2,178 yen including tax) for monthly data up to 3GB, 2,380 yen (2,618 yen including tax) for up to 5GB and 2,780 yen (3,058 yen including tax) for up to 30GB.

Tokyu Corporation
“We saw Rakuten Mobile taking on some bold new challenges with its consumer services and with expectations of more great things, some of our departments signed up for the Rakuten Mobile Business Plan. We were able to choose the amount of data we needed for our plan and we now have free calls using the app. On top of that, it is great to be able to use 5G services with no extra charge. Another reason for our decision was that we can get everything done on my Rakuten Mobile Office, from checking on usage to adding extra lines and downloading bills.”

Yamazaki Baking Co., Ltd.
“We installed Rakuten Mobile in our plant worker dormitory. We were really attracted by this inexpensive plan offering a large volume of data, so once we confirmed the strength of the signal, we decided to sign up. Since then, we have been using the service without any issues, including data speeds, and our staff could not be happier.”

https://corp.mobile.rakuten.co.jp/english/news/press/2023/0301_01/  

Rakuten Symphony sees success with Open RAN technology

Feb 22, 2023 | Larisa Redins

“We are young, but we are making extremely healthy revenue growth,” says Tareq Amin, the executive vice president of Rakuten Symphony, on the company’s Q4 2022 earnings call. “If you look at the last six quarters since our establishment, we have achieved more than $0.5 billion in total revenue, and for fiscal year 2022, our total revenue was $476 million.”

Rakuten’s total potential revenue opportunities stand at over $4 billion in 2023. More specifically, they see unprecedented demand in three key verticals: Open RAN, cloud and efficient operations.

As a result, according to the company, Rakuten claims to be the largest edge platform provider in terms of workloads deployed. The company also claims that its Open RAN architecture is the only alternative for the global deployment of legacy platforms.

“With over 300,000 sales per year globally, it officially makes Rakuten the world’s largest Open RAN software platform provider,” said Amin. “This is very, very healthy to see for us as far as opportunities are concerned.”

In addition, Rakuten says it’s aiming to become a platform connectivity player equivalent to Amazon Web Services when it launched. To achieve this, the company wants to increase its revenue by 40% in 2023 and continue expanding its customer base.

https://www.edgeir.com/...s-success-with-open-ran-technology-20230222  

Two New Rakuten STAY VILLA Facilities Open in Japan

March 20, 2023

Rakuten STAY announced the openings of two new vacation rental properties in Japan, Rakuten STAY VILLA Nasu and Rakuten STAY VILLA Kamogawa. The facilities, both located in popular tourist destinations with good transport links, offer an exclusive experience, boasting features such as the chance to try out a selection of popular items available from Rakuten Ichiba and spacious bathrooms that use hot spring water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdvJCdIV_Js