Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Rakuten Symphony has Announced a Collaboration with NEC XON - TechAfrica News

https://techafricanews.com/2022/07/14/...-collaboration-with-nec-xon/  

Rakuten Super Logistics is one of the top companies

Order Fulfillment Services Market Share 2022 Global Industry Key Strategies, Historical Analysis, Segmentation, Application, Technology, Trends and Opportunities Forecasts to 2029

July 19, 2022

TOP Manufactures in Order Fulfillment Services Market are: –

Xpert Fulfillment

Rakuten Super Logistics

Ships-a-Lot

Red Stag

VelocityShip

Floship

Fulfillment.com

Printful

Fulfillify

IDS Fulfillment

ShipWire

Fulfillrite

InsightQuote

FedEx

ShipBob

Whiplash Merchandising

Sears

eFulfillmentService

Amazon

Symphony Commerce

Read more: https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/...-forecasts-to-2029#ixzz7ZnlhKGu5  

Rakuten Symphony to expand in India with the establishment of Global Innovation Lab and new engineering development facilities in Bengaluru

Bengaluru, India, July 21, 2022 – Rakuten Symphony, Inc., a global leader in cloud-native, Open RAN telco infrastructure platforms, services and solutions, today unveiled plans to establish a new lab in Bengaluru. The Rakuten Symphony Global Innovation Lab will be core to global research and development that is leading industrialized automation of Open RAN-based, cloud native mobile networks. The Global Innovation Lab is expected to open in early 2023 and will be housed inside new engineering development facilities opening simultaneously to bring together Rakuten Symphony’s Bengaluru employee base.

Tareq Amin, Chief Executive Officer of Rakuten Symphony, said, “Our operations around the world are powered by incredible Indian talent and creative innovation, so I am very proud to announce this additional investment with the establishment of our Global Innovation Lab and new engineering development facilities in Bengaluru. I am very confident that as we continue to grow here in India, our ability to provide telco solutions to the world will also grow exponentially.”

The Global Innovation Lab will be a state-of-the art facility that recreates the entire network architecture in a simulated environment, from RAN to Core to transport, enabling function and performance testing. The lab will also act as a showcase for Symworld platform, allowing Rakuten Symphony to demonstrate the capabilities and performance of the platform to customers. It will complement and expand upon Rakuten Symphony’s existing RAN lab in Bengaluru and the Rakuten Cloud Innovation Lab in Tokyo, allowing for global end-to-end testing of apps across the Symworld portfolio. Going forward, there are plans to set up facilities for 6G infrastructure R&D in the lab.

Narendra Narayana, Managing Director of Rakuten Symphony India said, “Rakuten Symphony India represents a key driver of innovation in the telecom space, and we are very excited to further expand our presence. We look forward to fostering local talent and working with local Indian and global partners to promote the adoption of Open RAN technologies and empower global telecom operators to build and operate secure mobile networks.”

Including locations in Bengaluru and Indore, Rakuten Symphony’s employee base in India has grown to over 3,300 in less than one year through acquisitions and organic growth, and there are plans to further expand headcount over the coming years through recruitment in the fields of Open RAN, cloud, automation, data and telecom standards. India is also an important source of new talent for Rakuten Symphony, with about 150 graduates from top engineering colleges set to come to Japan in 2022 to work for Rakuten Mobile and support the growth of Rakuten Symphony.

With operations across Japan, the United States, Singapore, India, Europe and the Middle East Africa region, Rakuten Symphony brings together all of Rakuten’s telco products, services and solutions under a single global banner to offer 4G and 5G infrastructure and platform solutions to customers worldwide.

https://symphony.rakuten.com/newsroom/...ment-facilities-in-bengaluru  

„Es war noch nie so schwierig wie heute, echte Kundentreue aufzubauen.“

Veröffentlicht: 16.06.2022 Geschrieben von: Ricarda Eichler

https://www.onlinehaendler-news.de/...ke%2520beschr%C3%A4nkt%2520ist.  

Rakuten Symphony launches Indian Open RAN initiative

July 22, 2022 by techyparas

Rakuten Symphony plans to construct a brand new innovation lab in India designed each to extend its personal presence out there and to spice up the nation’s place on the worldwide know-how stage.

https://myfiltertech.com/...hony-launches-indian-open-ran-initiative/  

SONIC Labs: How Open RAN can drive 5G diversification webinar - 20 July 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLRy5AFJcQ  

Amin, a former Reliance Jio executive, told ET that Big Tech will do Rakuten telco way

Read more at:
https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/...12008?redirect=1  

https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/2207/01/news169.html  

https://tnmt.com/lists/unicorns/  

https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20220720-2403363/
 

https://global.fr.shopping.rakuten.com/actualites/...-lete-est-lance/  

Rakuten Symphony’s cloud unit eyes up distributed network edge role

By Keith Dyer 19 July 2022

Robin, the power under the hood of Symphony's cloud platform, says public cloud partnerships on the way, as it lays out how telcos can move to a true cloud ops model.

“Our goal is to become a very important and big revenue source for Symphony, selling this distributed edge cloud platform, as well as the automation platforms that are coming,” he added.

https://the-mobile-network.com/2022/07/...tributed-network-edge-role/  

Additional to my last posting about Rakuten's excellent buy of Robin.io

rapid-scaling-of-profitable-5g-services-with-cloud-native-orchest­ration

5G requires operators to deploy innovative mobile services faster than ever before. To keep up with its growing complexity, your network needs to become more dynamic and customizable across the entire lifecycle, keeping up with architectural changes and market demands. Only by utilizing advanced Kubernetes platforms, like Robin.io, with unified operations models and fully shared resource pools, operators can leverage the limitless potential of 5G.

https://containers.robin.io/hubfs/News/...520Networks%2520(O-RAN).pdf  

7 of Asia's biggest IPOs to watch for in second half

Bloomberg Last Updated at July 6, 2022 00:26 IST

The banking arm of Japanese online retailer Rakuten Group, Inc. applied this week to list on the Tokyo stock exchange. The IPO could raise about $1 billion. Japan has not seen a $1 billion-plus offering in more than three years, when SoftBank Group’s telecommunications business raised $21.1 billion in December 2018.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/...half-122070600022_1.html
 

Meet the New Publishers of the Month: RewardPay, CollectOffers, VoucherCodes & REVERSIBLE

By Rakuten Advertising July 25, 2022

This month, our new and notable publishers focus on providing the best deals for their customers. They allow shoppers worldwide to access a range of cashback offers, coupons and discounts, and to be part of a community. Meet the new and notable publishers of July 2022: RewardPay, Collect Offers, VoucherCodes and REVERSIBLE.

https://blog.rakutenadvertising.com/en-au/news/...blishers-july-2022/  

Rakuten incurred major losses during the network construction period. Today’s consumers are completely unwilling to accept areas with poor or no coverage, contrary to a decade or two ago when mobile networks were new.

This meant that Rakuten had to “rent” the infrastructure of its competitors. This way it could still offer coverage in areas where it had no antenna yet. They had been forced by state regulators to give such access but they did not do it cheaply. It is unclear exactly how much it cost per user, but some estimates put it around the same price per user as the entire cheapest low-data contract by Rakuten. In these conditions, it’s no surprise that profitability has been more than elusive. With the physical infrastructure of Rakuten’s network now nearly complete, these costs should be eliminated.

Rakuten has announced it is expecting profitability for its mobile operation by 2023. This is concurrent with the announcement of reaching 96% population coverage this February.

This means that by next year, except for some exceptionally remote areas, roaming costs should no longer be incurred. Finishing the network construction also means that from now on, any new subscribers will generate a lot more profit, as it helps amortize relatively constant network costs on more users.

https://finmasters.com/...stock-research-report/#the-mobile-conundrum  

Der operative Cash Flow von Rakuten wird sehr viel früher im positiven Bereich landen als der Gewinn, da sich der Cash Flow (in der einfachen Version) aus dem Gewinn und den Abschreibungen, die durch die hohen Investitionen bei Rakuten Mobile inzwischen riesig sind, zusammensetzt - Abschreibungen mindern zwar den Gewinn, aber nicht die Cash, da die Investitionen bereits in früheren Perioden zu Cash-Abfluss geführt haben.

Ob jetzt Rakuten neues Kapital in Form von Fremd- und/oder Eigenkapital benötigt wird, hängt dann davon ab, wie hoch der operative Cash Flow m.E. ab 2023 im positiven Bereich landet und wie hoch die Investitionen sein werden, die man m.E. zu einem erheblichen Teil anpassen kann.
 

The Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) framework enables mobile operators, application developers, and content providers to deploy predictable cloud-computing capabilities at the network’s edge and in the immediate proximity of mobile networks. As the industry moves into subsequent phases of the 5G rollout, the MEC framework will be a key enabler for operators that face the need to deliver a greater number of new services, with lower latency and strict Quality of Service (QoS), at higher speeds, over more endpoints than ever before.

The majority of the MEC opportunity is driven by the maturity of 5G deployments. There are a number of ways to quantify the MEC forecasts. According to STL Partners the market for MEC is to be between $1.75G and $4.25B in 2025. The key technologies fueling this growth include Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) gaming, seamless video calling, Ultra-High Definition (UHD) videos, and the Internet of Things (IoT) that spawn SmartX applications, including cities, manufacturing, agriculture, and logistics. Regardless of MEC’s proportion of the overall 5G services revenue, the two will grow hand in hand. The new capabilities of 5G hold the potential for significant revenue growth over the long haul – far more than 5G connectivity alone can deliver.

Robin Cloud Native Platform (CNP): A revolutionary cloud platform

Robin.io’s best-of-breed Kubernetes-based CNP combines 1-click application onboarding with declarative, context- aware workload placement, pinning your NFs and services to automated policies. Just tell CNP what resources and supporting applications your service needs, and it will auto-discover and configure them for you, as per your policy, over the entire automated lifecycle of the service. Add, stop, start, heal and migrate with ease.

With CNP, resources are modeled on numerous NUMA-aware options including memory, CPU cores, HugePages, overlay/ underlay networks and redundancy, applying affinity and anti-affinity rules as needed. This also extends into the compute and storage placement and locality.

Robin Cloud Native Storage (CNS): Application- and Kubernetes-aware storage

The highest performing storage for Kubernetes, Robin CNS brings advanced data management capabilities to Kubernetes. It’s 2-3x faster than the nearest competition, and is capable of delivering bare metal performance across a range of workloads.

Robin Multi Data Center Automation Platform (MDCAP): Orchestration, automation and lifecycle management

Robin MDCAP orchestrates and manages the lifecycle of any workflow including, bare-metal provisioning, cloud platform instantiation, network functions (NF) lifecycle management, network services (NS) lifecycle management and Methods Of Procedures (MOPs). All of these can be triggered through a policy engine. MDCAP’s automated workflows support cloud-native network functions (CNF), virtual network functions (VNF) and 3rd party physical network functions (PNF), simultaneously. All of this comes with a full stack observability suite and planning tools.

Robin MDCAP’s provides intuitive context-aware lifecycle management for your NFs, services, 3rd party applications and Kubernetes cloud platform, but it integrates those workflows with your physical platforms, like bare-metal servers and third-party appliances.

The Robin.io advantage

Robin solves all of the major edge cloud concerns, unifying edge to core with the following capabilities:

Ease of management:

Manage 10,000s of edge nodes with one-click automation

Move from test to secure deployment rapidly and easily

DevOps – CI/CD/CT integration

Full solution observability:

Bare metal, clusters, applications, services

Event correlation

Low footprint:

Edge cloud platform that scales up and down

Cloud-native, K8s aware, storage services and data

Container and VM support:

No operations or resource silos

One system, same operations tools and paradigms

Automated DR for complex, stateful, edge applications

Multitenancy and granular roles based access

Policy driven design – not manual

Allow the user to easily define policies that eliminates hunting and hardcoding

Multi-domain policy control that correlates things we don’t regularly associate with cloud platforms, switches, SDx controllers, and transport

Network slicing for 5G use cases (cloud and transport)

Secure operation

Block access between namespaces

Isolate resources

Enforce usage quotas

Restrict networking access

https://www.robin.io/featured-blog/the-power-of-edge-computing/  

Rakuten Viber to launch Payments for Secure App-based Transactions

July 26, 2022

Rakuten Viber, a global leader in private and secure messaging and voice-based communication, is expanding into digital payments with a mobile wallet available through the Viber app. This new function will allow Viber users to easily send money to each other, and set up a digital wallet to store money, starting with Euros. It will later expand to include multiple currencies, along with other services available soon.

Rakuten Viber enters the global digital payments market with a worldwide user base of hundreds of millions of consumers and a strong reputation for security rooted in its on-by-default end-to-end encryption for private communications. McKinsey estimates the global payments market, including cross-border transactions, domestic transfers, and credit card payments, will grow to $2.5 trillion by 2025. Payments on Viber will go live initially in Greece and Germany and then roll out to more countries in the near future. Viber is installed on 91% of smartphones in Greece and was named by Germany’s Stiftung Warentest as one of the most secure messaging apps.

https://ffnews.com/newsarticle/...-for-secure-app-based-transactions/  

Rakuten is with near 40% the biggest owner of Cabify

Mutua Madrilena acquires stake in Cabify

The partnership is a further step in the unicorn’s strategy to continue advancing in the field of urban mobility through digital platforms market

Megha Paul 19 hours ago

Spanish insurance company Mutua Madrilena has inked a strategic deal with Cabify and acquired 1.26% stake in the ride-hailing and multi-mobility unicorn company. Mutua Madrileña will also start offering the Cabify service to its members through the Mutua Madrileña app.

While the price paid for the deal remains undisclosed, the partnership is a further step in the unicorn’s strategy to continue advancing in the field of urban mobility through the digital platforms market.

https://tech.eu/2022/07/26/mutua-madrilena-acquires-stake-in-cabify  

The Spanish startup has recently announced the closure of a capital increase in which Mutua Madrileña has participated which is done with a 1.26% of the share capital. The operation, the total amount of which has not been made public, would have been carried out at a “slightly higher” valuation to the one placed in the last round, where the startup has recognized the staff. There is no mention of what this transaction is, but the fact is that the last relevant increase was made in 2018 and the “funding” was $1,400 million.

The valuation has also not been made public. But in an internal email sent to staff consulted by The Information, the company has claimed that this “price” is “slightly higher” than what was set in the last round funding. There is no mention of what these transactions are. But it all points to 2018, with Japanese giant Rakuten putting up almost all of the money. On that occasion, he became a unicorn with $1.4 billion of “funding”.

Cabify on Rakuten, through its venture capital arm, as reference shareholder. He owned 47% of the capital after investing more than 230 million euros. Added to that are the loans it has granted to the Spanish subsidiary. It was about two credit lines of over 33 million euros. Japanese they refused in 2020 converting that debt into equity as it involved a large discount compared to the last valuation.

https://journaltime.org/finance/loans/...-the-first-round-since-2018/  

Rakuten Viber chooses Rapyd to integrate digital payments

Wednesday 27 July 2022 10:34 CET | News

Luxembourg-based messaging app Rakuten Viber has tapped fintech Rapyd to launch in-app payment transactions to the Viber app.

The partnership enables Rakuten Viber to expand into digital payments. With functionality supported by Rapyd, Viber users will be able to store money in a mobile wallet with an IBAN, available in the Viber app which will allow them to send and receive money instantly, with no fees.

First opening the service with EUR, Viber will later expand to include multiple currencies and additional services. Payments in Viber will initially begin in Greece and Germany and will roll out to more countries in the near future.

Over 70% of smartphone users globally are expected to use peer-to-peer mobile payments by the year 2026, as per the press release.

https://thepaypers.com/mobile-payments/...e-digital-payments--1257727  

Budi Sutrisno · 1d ago · 2 min read

Carousell buys Indonesian recommerce firm Laku6

https://www.techinasia.com/...-25m-acquire-indonesian-recommerce-firm  

https://appllio.com/news/2022-07-26-30221-rakuten-music-annual-plan  

20.04 billion Japanese Yen net income are by a P/E of 25 = 500 billion Japanese Yen = $ 3.7 billion

Rakuten Bank's net income FY 2012-2021

Published by Statista Research Department, May 13, 2022

In the fiscal year 2021, the net income of Rakuten Bank, Ltd. amounted to 20.04 billion Japanese yen. Compared to the previous year, the bank's net income increased by about 3.6 percent. Rakuten Bank, Ltd. is a Japanese online bank that is part of the Rakuten Group.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1230669/...t%25203.6%2520percent.