Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Take a look at the ranking of the top 15 selling malls in Japan

 

https://airtrade.jp/index.html  

rakuten insurance planning, die "rakuten insurance's general window" und "insurance comparison" betreibt, hat die anzahl der neuen verträge stark erhöht

2022/04/05

rakuten insurance planning co., ltd. (im folgenden als "das unternehmen" bezeichnet) hat seit der einrichtung des "rakuten insurance general window" im juni 2019 viele anträge für lebensversicherungen, nichtlebensversicherungen sowie klein- und kurzzeitversicherungen, hauptsächlich rakuten-versicherungen, erhalten, und wir freuen uns, ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass die anzahl der neuen verträge deutlich gestiegen ist.

SEIT DER EINRICHTUNG DES RAKUTEN INSURANCE GENERAL WINDOW IM JUNI 2019 BIETEN WIR IHNEN EINEN ONE-STOP-SERVICE, MIT DEM SIE DIE PRODUKTE DER RAKUTEN INSURANCE GROUP PAUSCHAL BERATEN, ANFRAGEN UND BEARBEITEN KÖNNEN, UNABHÄNGIG VOM RAHMEN DER LEBENSVERSICHERUNG, NICHTLEBENSVERSICHERUNG ODER HAUSTIERVERSICHERUNG. IM JAHR 2020 HABEN WIR BEGONNEN, DIE MY PAGE-FUNKTION UND DIE ALLGEMEINE FENSTER-APP DER RAKUTEN-VERSICHERUNG ANZUBIETEN, UND IM VERGANGENEN JAHR HABEN WIR KI-OPERATOREN (*) IN UNSEREN CONTACT CENTERN EINGEFÜHRT, UM DEN KOMFORT FÜR UNSERE KUNDEN WEITER ZU VERBESSERN. DARÜBER HINAUS WICKELN WIR ÜBER DIE WEBSITE "VERSICHERUNGSVERGLEICH" EINE BREITE PALETTE VON PRODUKTEN ENTSPRECHEND DEN KUNDENBEDÜRFNISSEN AB, EINSCHLIESSLICH ANDERER VERSICHERUNGSGESELLSCHAFTEN ALS DER RAKUTEN VERSICHERUNGSGRUPPE.

wir werden unsere dienstleistungen weiter verbessern, indem wir die stärken der rakuten-gruppe nutzen und weiterhin äußerst komfortable versicherungsdienstleistungen anbieten, die den bedürfnissen unserer kunden entsprechen.

KI-OPERATOR:

EIN SERVICE, BEI DEM KI-ROBOTER MIT KUNDEN STATT MIT BEMANNTEN BEDIENERN SPRECHEN UND VERFAHREN ZUR ÄNDERUNG DES VERTRAGSINHALTS PER SPRACHERKENNUNG ABSCHLIESSEN.

https://www.rakuten-insurance.co.jp/news/article/2022/20220405/  

dass Rakuten Mobile mehr und mehr auf das eigene Netzwerk umsteigt und damit Roaming-Gebühren spart, Spam sein soll ist schlicht und einfach nicht nachvollziehbar.  

RAKUTEN CARD KOOPERIERT MIT EC-CUBE BEI PAYMENT-AGENCY-DIENSTLEISTUNGEN
2022/04/04

RAKUTEN CARD CO., LTD. (IM FOLGENDEN ALS "DAS UNTERNEHMEN" BEZEICHNET) WIRD DIE ZUSAMMENARBEIT MIT DER OFFENEN EC-PLATTFORM "EC-CUBE" (*1) AUFNEHMEN, DIE VON ESC CUBE CO., LTD. (IM FOLGENDEN ALS "OXY CUBE" BEZEICHNET) IM ZAHLUNGSAGENTURDIENST "ONLINE PAYMENT SERVICE" BEREITGESTELLT WIRD.

IM RAHMEN DIESER ZUSAMMENARBEIT IST DER VOM UNTERNEHMEN BEREITGESTELLTE "ONLINE-ZAHLUNGSDIENST" STANDARDMÄSSIG IN "EC-CUBE" INSTALLIERT, SO DASS HÄNDLER WIE EG-UNTERNEHMEN, DIE "EC-CUBE" EINFÜHREN, DEN "ONLINE-ZAHLUNGSDIENST" OHNE ZUSÄTZLICHE ENTWICKLUNG PROBLEMLOS NUTZEN KÖNNEN.

DER VOM UNTERNEHMEN BEREITGESTELLTE "ONLINE-ZAHLUNGSDIENST" IST EIN DIENST, DER ES ERMÖGLICHT, VERSCHIEDENE ZAHLUNGSMETHODEN WIE KREDITKARTENZAHLUNG UND CONVENIENCE-STORE-ZAHLUNG ZUSAMMEN AUF DER E-COMMERCE-WEBSITE ALS ZAHLUNGSAGENTUR EINES KREDITKARTENUNTERNEHMENS EINZUFÜHREN. NEBEN DER BEREITSTELLUNG EINER SICHEREN ZAHLUNGSUMGEBUNG DURCH SICHERHEITSUNTERSTÜTZUNG WIE 3D-SECURE- UND BETRUGSERKENNUNGSDIENSTE NUTZEN WIR UNSER KNOW-HOW IN DEN BEREICHEN KUNDENGEWINNUNG, MARKETING UND KOSTENSENKUNG, UM HÄNDLERN VORTEILHAFTE DIENSTLEISTUNGEN WIE DETAILLIERTE UNTERSTÜTZUNG UND GEWINNUNG NEUER KUNDEN UNTER NUTZUNG DER RAKUTEN-WIRTSCHAFTSZONE ZU BIETEN.

seit der ausgabe der rakuten card im juli 2005 arbeitet das unternehmen aktiv daran, die cross-use in allen dienstleistungen der rakuten-gruppe zu fördern und bargeldlose zahlungen innerhalb und außerhalb der gruppe populär zu machen. seit oktober 2006 bieten wir zahlungsagenturdienstleistungen für gruppendienstleistungen wie rakuten ichiba und rakuten travel an, und seit 2021 bieten wir verschiedenen händlern, einschließlich transaktionen der rakuten group, "online-zahlungsdienste" an.

wir werden die kreditkartendienste und -funktionen weiter ausbauen, um finanzdienstleistungen bequemer, benutzerfreundlicher und vertrauter zu machen und so den komfort und die kundenzufriedenheit weiter zu verbessern.

rakuten card's "online-zahlungsdienst":

https://www.rakuten-card.co.jp/merchant/paymentservice/ Dies ist der branchenweit größte Online-Zahlungsdienst, der das Zahlungsgeschäft der Rakuten-Gruppe betreibt, einschließlich Rakuten Ichiba und Rakuten Travel. Wir unterstützen voll und ganz die Einführung verschiedener Zahlungsmethoden wie Kreditkartenzahlung und Convenience-Store-Zahlung auf E-Commerce-Websites.

EC-CUBE:

Da der EC-CUBE seit seiner Veröffentlichung im September 2006 von vielen Menschen genutzt wird, ist er als Japans Nr. 1 EC Construction Open Source (*2) zertifiziert und wurde im November 2020 als Nr. 1 in der Anzahl der Online-Shop-Shops mit einem monatlichen Umsatz von 10 Millionen Yen oder mehr (*3) zertifiziert. Nach der Veröffentlichung der neuesten Version von EC-CUBE 4.0 im Oktober 2018 wurde im Februar 2019 die Cloud-Version "ec-cube.co" veröffentlicht, die ohne Download sicher und geschützt genutzt werden kann. Wir entwickeln uns weiter zu einer Plattform, die dx-Promotion unterstützt, die sich auf den E-Commerce von Unternehmen konzentriert, nicht nur auf die Erstellung von E-Commerce-Websites wie "Web API".

https://www.rakuten-card.co.jp/corporate/press_release/20220404/  

By Leading Keyplayers | Amazon, Dangdang, Apple, Rakuten

Elena Gomez April 6, 2022

The major players covered in Reading Application Markets:

Amazon
Dangdang
Apple
Rakuten
Aldiko
Google
iReader
Tencent
Alibaba Group Holding
Baidu

https://www.fortbendnow.com/...players-amazon-dangdang-apple-rakuten/
 

DZS Named Recipient of Asian Telecom Award for Work with Rakuten Mobile

The Asian Business Review recognizes success of DZS Mobile & Optical Edge solutions in Rakuten Mobile’s pioneering O-RAN mobile network

DALLAS, April 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DZS (Nasdaq: DZSI), a global leader in access networking and cloud software solutions, today announced that The Asian Business Review’s Asian Telecom Awards 2022 has recognized the company for its work with Rakuten Mobile, which has deployed and scaled the industry’s first fully virtualized, cloud-native Open RAN (O-RAN) mobile network to millions of subscribers in Japan. The “Infrastructure of the Year” award highlights the role of the DZS Chronos Mobile & Optical Edge solutions in helping the mobile operator manage its 4G and 5G traffic.

Rakuten Mobile’s network relies on the DZS C1216RO, an O-RAN Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) switch for service providers that need to transport mobile traffic from radio antenna sites to centralized vDU units at the cloud edge. Part of the DZS Chronos mobile transport portfolio launched in February 2021, the gateway’s open design combines standardized multilayer switching and fronthaul network functions managed by the DZS network operating system (NOS) software with hardware accelerated radio offload functions. It is the only hardened O-RAN fronthaul gateway in the marketplace.

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/...ork-with-rakuten-mobile  

Rakuten Symphony and F5 Accelerate Supply Chain Diversity With Availability of F5 Cloud-Native Solutions in Symworld

PUBLISHED APRIL 05, 2022

• F5 announces BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) for service providers migrating network services to the cloud or deploying 5G.
• The new F5 CNFs will be globally available in the Rakuten Symphony Symworld marketplace.
• Rakuten Mobile will also deploy the CNFs in its cloud-native 5G network in Japan.

SEATTLE and TOKYO – Rakuten Symphony and F5 today announced they will bring F5’s new BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) to a global customer base through Rakuten Symphony’s SymworldTM marketplace. Representing the evolution of a longstanding relationship that began with F5 providing security functions to Rakuten Mobile, this collaboration aims to simplify the deployment of fully cloud-native security and networking functions for telecom operators.

Traditionally, the deployment of software applications in a mobile network requires manual testing and installation in a process that can last months, if not years. And, once in the network, lifecycle management of these applications can be slow and require substantial resources. With the availability of F5 CNFs in the Symworld marketplace, Rakuten Symphony and F5 are working to accelerate and simplify this process for telecom operators through cloud-native functions and a delivery model that reduces application deployment from months and years to minutes and hours. This gives F5 quicker access to market and offers telecom operators a vastly improved network update cadence, critical for ensuring security.

F5’s BIG-IP Next CNFs will also be deployed by Rakuten Mobile in its 5G network in Japan. This deployment is the result of three years of collaboration between Rakuten and F5 that included the rollout of the first end-to-end fully virtualized 4G network in the world. Together, F5 and Rakuten leveraged that experience to simplify operations and strengthen security and traffic optimization for Rakuten Mobile’s cloud-native 5G deployment.

About F5: F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) is a multi-cloud application security and delivery company that enables our customers—which include the world’s largest enterprises, financial institutions, service providers, and governments—to bring extraordinary digital experiences to life.

https://www.f5.com/company/news/press-releases/...-solutions-symworld  

DANIEL SHEPHERD 9 HOURS AGO

Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Symphony said: “F5 has been a key partner to Rakuten’s journey in becoming a mobile operator. We have actively collaborated on what needs to change in the industry for many years and I am more than excited to be able to announce that F5’s newly developed products will be deployed by Rakuten Mobile and offered through Symworld. In this day and age, it is not acceptable for software delivery to be complicated and cumbersome in the telecom industry when it is not like this elsewhere in other industries. The simplicity delivered by this collaboration will enable faster deployment, more participation and more innovation in the industry”.

Ahmed Guetari, VP of Products for Service Providers at F5, said: “Once service providers can harness cloud-native technologies and the power of cloud operating models on their own terms, they will change their trajectory toward a bright future. We are, therefore, delighted to be working with Rakuten – one of the world’s most cloud-savvy and forward-thinking service providers – to integrate our new cloud-native software into both the Rakuten Mobile network in Japan and the Symworld marketplace. Together with Rakuten Symphony, we are looking forward to enabling service providers across the world to easily deploy F5’s expanding suite of cloud-native network functions to enrich and protect their 5G networks and offerings”.

https://www.tahawultech.com/news/...ccelerate-supply-chain-diversity/  

APRIL 7, 2022

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/innovation/rnn/2022/2112_005/  

Rakuten-mobile-unlimit-plan-campaign will increase the number of subscribers of Rakuten Mobile.

https://economical.co.jp/smartphone/2020/03/31/...imit-plan-campaign/
 

Market is estimated to be USD 99.47 Bn in 2022 and is expected to reach USD 248.03 Bn by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 20.05% and Rakuten is the leader

Japan Prepaid Card Market Report 2022-2027 Featuring Brink's, Edenred, JCB, Pasmo, Rakuten, Shinsei Bank, Suica Travelex, Visa, V-Preca, WEX

April 06, 2022 07:23 ET | Source: Research and Markets

Dublin, April 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Japan Prepaid Card Market (2022-2027) by Services, Card Type, End-User, Competitive Analysis and the Impact of Covid-19 with Ansoff Analysis" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Japan's Prepaid Card Market is estimated to be USD 99.47 Bn in 2022 and is expected to reach USD 248.03 Bn by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 20.05%.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/...a-V-Preca-WEX.html  

Rakuten Rewards "Brings the Cha-ching" to Holiday Shopping
APRIL 8, 2022

by RNN

or the peak year-end shopping season in 2021, Rakuten Rewards helped shoppers in the Americas have an extra "happy holidays" with its highest ever Cash Back rates, while posting winning results for its business! In this report, we share some of the highlights of the campaign, based around the message of "We bring the cha-ching," and find out the key factors that led to its success, speaking to the company's president and head of US sales!

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/innovation/rnn/2022/2112_006/
 

18 hours ago

Given the robust investment buoying the field, quantum computer research is accelerating. In his lecture, Lukin presented a real-time demonstration of a quantum processor unit of about 200 qubits with geometry and connectivity that can be reconfigured in real time. The demonstration involved a machine operated by Rakuten-backed U.S. startup QuEra Computing, that commercializes the research from Lukin’s lab. With its 256-qubit machine announced last year, QuEra is already ahead of rivals in a quantum computing race that includes giants like IBM, Google, Intel and Microsoft.

“We are now very much in the age of quantum discovery, where we can use these quantum machines for real scientific applications to basically do scientific computations which are not otherwise possible,” said Lukin. “But we are also on the cusp of this quantum industry where new, potentially revolutionary applications and products can be foreseen.”

https://rakuten.today/blog/understanding-quantum-computing.html  

https://www.adzine.de/2022/04/...-werbung-fuer-kostenloses-streaming/  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl2Kl2O1a50
 

A Whole New Shopping Experience with George Yuhba, Head of Partnerships at Carrot

By Rakuten Advertising | March 18, 2022 | INSIGHTS

Rakuten Advertising had the pleasure of sitting down with George Yuhba, Head of Partnerships at Carrot, an exciting new publisher that brings shopping carts from all your favorite shops into one! George talks about breaking into the market and bringing Carrot to the forefront of affiliate marketing.

Tell us a little bit about Carrot.

George: At Carrot, we are building a social shopping and discovery platform for our users and for brands! Our users can collect products online that they love, use, or are just thinking about and curate them into collections for themselves or share their collections with friends, family, and even social media followers. This creates a shopping social network—as one of our reviews says, “Pinterest with products, not just pictures.” Recent upgrades include price drop alerts, text-to-Carrot for mobile users, and Facebook (not just Google) login functionality. With more user-focused features coming up in 2022.

What is great about Carrot is that we work with every category of advertiser, not just retail!

What sets you apart from publishers in your category?

George: Carrot uses our browser extension to “pull” information that our users can use to create beautiful collections. Other extensions in affiliate “push” information like coupons and cashback, which we do not do. This makes Carrot very unique in the affiliate world.

How do you help advertisers add value and drive incrementality?

George: Currently, our users who add brands will have a chance to shop their collections or introduce their favorite products to their family, friends, and followers. This gives brands that additional exposure as an advocate, not an ad. This is a more authentic story.

We will be focusing on how brands can be discovered, shortly. This may include brands having access to create accounts, be verified that you are the brand on our platform, and using our collections technology to tell our users your story.

What excites you about the affiliate marketing industry and where it’s headed? What new innovations will we see from you this year?

George: After 20 years in affiliate marketing, Carrot is exciting to me and it exemplifies what makes affiliate so great. Affiliate brings a sense of community and ingenuity. Carrot is bringing that sense of community and ingenuity. Having that match creates an environment where the brand, Rakuten, and Carrot can work together to bring together a cohesive story.

Why did you choose to partner with Rakuten Advertising?

George: Rakuten Advertising’s brand list matches our consumers and gives us access to partner with several key brands, including fast-fashion and luxury brands, that our users will want to learn about or use in their collections!

https://blog.rakutenadvertising.com/insights/...her-spotlight-carrot/  

Open RAN is playing an increasingly important role in the evolution of open network standards.

By Dan Kurschner, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cisco
APR 6, 2022 8:17 AM

https://www.cio.com/article/308049/...nts-help-ease-5g-economics.html  

And speaking of cost, while proprietary vendors warn that Open RAN could be more expensive, their view is not shared by the majority of the respondents to the Heavy Reading survey which found 57% believe Open RAN offers similar (21%) or greater (37%) total cost of ownership (TCO) savings. Supporting this belief, commercial deployments of Open RAN by Rakuten are proving to deliver greater than 30% Capex and OpEx reduction. Recently, Cisco and Rakuten Symphony entered into a partnership for software-centric Open RAN-based solutions and a go-to-market model that will help make it even more cost effective, easier, and quicker to adopt Open RAN technologies.

Source: like my last posting  

Free-to-stream CNN: Rakuten rolls out service across more devices | RXTV info

https://rxtvinfo.com/2022/...en-rolls-out-service-across-more-devices  

95% of UK public stream, plus 4 more TV habits from Rakuten Advertising

By John Glenday - April 6, 2022

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2022/04/06/...habits-rakuten-advertising
 

Rakuten Group, Inc., operator of the consumer e-commerce app “Rakuten Rakuma,” is planning to turn that e-commerce app into a fully fledged “circular economy” platform and it’s displaying its determination by redesigning its logo and app icon as proof. Actually, it does appear to be taking some concrete steps in the right sustainable direction by announcing the full-scale launch of Rakuma Official Shops, which showcases more than 130 ‘reuse’ businesses and 40 domestic parallel import businesses operating on the platform, as well as Direct from the Farm/Specialised Food Products Stores, which specialise in transactions involving agricultural and fishery products.These businesses deal in  a wide variety of products, such as professionally-inspected second-hand brand products and smartphones, in addition to ‘Direct from the Farm’/Specialised Food Products Stores, food producers, manufacturers and distributors that can sell specialised products such as agricultural goods and fishery products. Rakuten Rakuma says it’s committed to providing a platform that contributes to the creation of a circular economy.

https://www.telecomtv.com/content/...le-cloud-the-edge-rakuten-44124/
 

Hear from Red Hat's Senior Director of Solution Architecture - Global, Azhar Sayeed, as he reflects back on MWC 2022 and customer mobility in Q1. Plus, learn what the top industry priorities are for the rest of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-MrEgxyFfc  

VA*: What territories or areas of expansion is the company looking toward?*

CD: RTV has always pioneered the AVoD service in Europe and now aims to become the leading AVoD service at the European level. We launched our AVoD service in 2019, becoming the first platform in Europe to offer a hybrid consumption model where users can choose what, how, where, and when to watch, but also whether or not to subscribe or to pay for the content. We introduced our first linear channel in 2020 (Euronews). Today, we feature over 100 linear channels, including our own themed channels, as well as brands from top media groups, such as Condé Nast, Bloomberg, ¡HOLA! and LEGO.

Overall, we remain a unique Pan-European service gathering TVoD, AVoD, and SVoD, and offering a diversified universe of content and a tailored entertainment experience for each user. Users can choose not only the content or device but the pricing to pay for our content.

Talking about our inventory, it is currently managed by our sister company, Rakuten Advertising. Our inventory grew triple digits in 2021, and we aim to have 2.9 billion ad impressions available in 2022. This has been possible through an impressive growth of traffic on our platform, generated from the branded remote-control button on smart TVs from main manufacturers (such as LG, Philips, Hisense, Panasonic, and Samsung). We have been available on these TVs’ line-ups since 2019, as well as on Roku and Vestel.

VA: Does the company have plans for outside of Europe?

CD: Rakuten TV is currently only distributed in Europe and Japan. For the moment, nothing concrete is planned, but we could consider new territories depending on opportunities, especially in the U.S. and Latin America.

VA*: What are Rakuten TV’s goals in the year ahead?*

CD: RTV will focus even more on AVoD as the company aims to become the leader in Europe, while keeping on our platform all the other services that represent a winning business model on the market: TVoD and SVoD with the Starzplay premium service. RTV will also expand its ad inventory and strive to become the destination for users and advertisers. Furthermore, Rakuten TV and Rakuten Inc. will continue building synergies — both technical and commercial — to grow the company’s business and visibility. With a common and constant focus on innovation, there is a full range of solutions that Rakuten aims at offering its customers across business units, such as our payment system, Rakuten Pay, or our loyalty program, Rakuten Points, just to mention the main ones. Our mission is to empower customers to discover and watch the content they want wherever and whenever.

The entertainment industry is at a crossroads. Platforms that offer a greater variety of content, accessibility (such as having Rakuten TV’s remote-control button available on most smart TV brands), and usability will succeed. Simplification will be the key. This is why our mission is to empower customers to discover the content they want and decide what, where, when, and how to watch it. People spend more time on searching rather than watching. One of our main objectives is to empower users and facilitate customers’ experiences.

https://www.videoageinternational.net/2022/03/07/...-expansion-plans/  

Rakuten’s Asian Media Streamer Viki Sees Registered Users Increase to 53 Million

Appetite grows as Asian culture becomes a global phenomenon

Go to Viki and you’ll find a plethora of TV shows in languages such as Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Thai. But before assuming you’ve crawled through an internet portal to a cross-continental television experience, stick around for the ads. You’ll find blue-chip American brands like Lexus and McDonald’s advertising their wares in English.

That’s because San Mateo, Calif.-based Viki’s audience is global. Half come from the Americas, with other primary markets in the European Union, Southeast Asian and India, according to a spokesperson for Rakuten Viki, a division of the Tokyo-based internet giant that acquired Viki in 2013.

And it’s growing. Viki counted 53 million registered users as of December 2021, a 43% increase from the year prior, the spokesperson said. Anyone can watch Viki, but registering lets users save their place in a show and unlock personalized recommendations. This growth is powering new content on the platform, with Viki doubling its investment in Korean, Chinese and Japanese verticals in 2022.

A $4.99 monthly subscription turns off ads, and a $9.99 plus layer offers access to more premium content. Between February 2020 and February 2021, Viki saw an 80% growth in subscribers, though the company declined to give subscription growth for 2021.

https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/...onalized%2520recommendations.