Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

was bei einer Internet-Company in dieser Größenordung weltweit einmalig sein dürfte.

Key Statistics of Rakuten

P/E Ratio 7.16

Price to Book Ratio 1.3562

Price to Sales Ratio 0.9869

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/4755:JP
 

was bis 3025 passiert dürfte wohl hier keinen mehr interessieren.  

Speaking to CNBC's Akiko Fujita on Wednesday, Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani said the mobile business is a "very, very important" platform for services from e-commerce to content.
That's why there's a trend of mergers between content and networks in deals such as Verizon buying Yahoo, Mikitani said.

"In the future, we're going to see the conversion of network platforms and content and transactions."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/...rakuten-aims-for-an-ecosystem.html
 

http://info.viber.com/rs/879-RYH-696/images/...ira%20Case%20Study.pdf  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVm6pHEoQc  

Viber, the popular cross-platform messaging service for smartphones, is no longer just for smartphones. The company has today launched new desktop applications that allow you to chat with friends; send stickers, emoticons, and photos; and make calls from a Mac or PC.

The great thing about Viber for desktop is that it syncs all of your messages with your mobile devices, so all the conversations you were having on your iPhone on the train into work can be picked up on the PC in your office — right where you left off.

The desktop applications give Viber a massive advantage over some of its biggest rivals, including WhatsApp, the most popular messaging service on mobile, which has previously shunned desktop support. It also gives the company a better chance of competing with the likes of Skype.

https://www.cultofmac.com/226469/viber-is-now-available-on-mac-pc/
 

Rakuten Aspyrian Closes $284 Million Series C Financing for Late-Stage Oncology Pipeline
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Rakuten Aspyrian, a biotechnology company developing precision-targeted cancer therapies based on its proprietary Photoimmunotherapy platform, today announced that it has raised an additional $134 million in a second tranche of its Series C financing, bringing the total amount raised to $284 million. New investors include the SBI Group, Japan and Rakuten Inc. Rakuten Aspyrian has raised approximately $372 million in equity since it was founded in 2015.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/...946.html?tc=eml_cleartime
 

https://www.top10moneytransfer.com/azimo-review/  

Why Upstart?
Upstart is the first lending platform to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to price credit and automate the borrowing process. With more than 110,000 loans originated, Upstart is rated #1 out of 58 lenders on Credit Karma, a tribute to the quality of experience we provide to our customers. Upstart borrowers average 28 years old, have average income of about $85,000 and are highly educated.

Additionally, Upstart’s credit has performed exceptionally well, with loss rates less than half the industry norms. Our originations and revenue have grown more than 4X in 2017, and we’re profitable on both a cash and GAAP basis. As the team that built Google’s SaaS business (now called GSuite) to its first $1B in revenues, we’re thrilled to bring the industry’s best lending technology to banks nationwide.

https://www.upstart.com/blog/powered-by-upstart-launch-bankmobile/
 

Growing Communities

While some messaging apps limit the amount of users in a single group chat to a few hundred, Viber Communities offers a chat space where up to a whopping 1 billion members can exchange messages and engage with one another.

Many Viber Communities are growing rapidly and now include more than a million members, such as beloved football club, and Rakuten global partner, FC Barcelona (4.6 million members) and the World Wildlife Fund (3.4 million members). The reason for the popularity of these Communities is simple: Rakuten Viber is able to offer members content they can’t get anywhere else.

One particularly passionate community on Viber is made up of the fans of reigning NBA champions, the Golden State Warriors, who became partners with Rakuten before the beginning of the 2017-18 NBA season.

Viber’s three-year partnership with the basketball juggernaut allows the team to engage directly with fans around the world through chats in 10 languages, a weekly trivia quiz with exclusive prizes that ran during the 2017-18 season and a free Warriors sticker pack as a special thank you gift (the sticker of Stephen Curry LOL-ing is a fan favorite).

https://rakuten.today/blog/viber-building-communities.html
 

SHANGHAI, Aug. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Blackfish Technology, a leading membership-based consumer service platform in China, announced the completion of A+ round financing at $50 million. New investors engaged in this round of financing are: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Rakuten Ventures, China Growth Capital, and Axpfund.com. A round old shareholders -- Lightspeed China Partners, Morningside Venture Capital, JAFCO Asia, Gobi Partners, Fullshare Holdings Limited and Blackfish Technology's management team continued to invest. The vision of Blackfish Technology is to build a world class membership-based consumer service platform.

Previously, Blackfish Technology was well known in the industry for its brand influence. Nowadays, Blackfish Technology is favored by capital in the strength of its membership-based consumer service. With its rapid speed of development and excellent performance, Blackfish Technology has successfully ranked among the "Quasi-Unicorns" and was selected as the "China's Potential Unicorn Enterprise" to lead the membership-based service platform in China.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/...50-million-300700765.html
 

Codapay is a top funded player in Singapore fintech:

https://www.techinasia.com/singapore-fintech-industry-data  

Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 10:00 am

Timaru District Libraries has launched a new service that has added thousands of e-books and e-audiobooks to their collection.

The library has joined a consortium of South Island public libraries to bring OverDrive to our community.

OverDrive is a collection of over 9,000 e-Book and 1,300 e-Audiobook titles including fiction and non-fiction for Adults, Teens and Children. Access is free for library members - all you need is your library card number and your password / pin.

OverDrive also has an easy to use app called Libby which you can download for iOS, Android and Windows. You can borrow up to five items at a time and for up to 21 days.

“OverDrive is one of the biggest e-library providers in the world and by bringing it to Timaru we’ve nearly doubled the selection of titles available to our members.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1812/S00273/...size-of-e-library.htm
 

Samsung Electronics Expands Partnerships and Certification Centers, Building its HDR10+ Ecosystem
Korea on December 23, 2018

Thanks to Samsung’s new partnerships with content providers, consumers can soon access more content in vivid and reality-like colors. Rakuten TV, a European online streaming service, will begin offering HDR10+ content in the first half of next year.

https://news.samsung.com/global/...s-building-its-hdr10plus-ecosystem
 

Hallo,
ich bin der UNIQA ServiceBot!

https://www.uniqa.at/versicherung/cms/kontakt/...amp;var=1&pos=li
 

Rakuten Bank Limited receives The Best Digital Bank in Japan for 2018  

Rakuten Bank illustrated an upsized growth and strong balance sheet performance

The bank’s comprehensive product portfolio over its online channels were widely accepted by its customers

The bank is at the forefront of technology as it introduces innovative programmes in 2017

Rakuten Bank illustrated an upsized growth and strong balance sheet performance

Rakuten Bank has outperformed its peers in the industry with regards to financial performance. In 2017, Rakuten Bank posted a double-digit increase in revenues and net profits. Amongst its competitors, Rakuten Bank has shown its efficiency in cost management as it attained the lowest cost-to-income ratio; this was made possible by a robust business strategy.  Lastly, the bank has experienced a growth in its digital banking business as it gained an increase in deposits amounting to $18,923 million (¥2,000,366 million), and in loans amounting to $7,152 million (¥756,079 million) for December 2017.

The Rakuten Bank App received a high rating of 4.0 on both the App Store and Google Pay, which was higher in comparison to other banks’ ratings.

http://www.asianbankerawards.com/retailfinancial/...-Bank-Limited.pdf
 

http://www.japan555.com/internet-banking/?wovn=en  

https://www.rakuten.com.br/  

MetroResidences makes its landing in Hong Kong’s corporate accommodation market.

6 February 2018 – Singapore-based corporate accommodations startup, MetroResidences announced its expansion to Hong Kong, offering more business travellers and expatriates a local and guest-centric way to stay.

Hong Kong is the third market in which the business operates in, after its entry to Tokyo, Japan in 2017. The Singapore and Japan team has since garnered over 200,000 nights booked.

MetroResidences is about providing the market with an affordable living space without compromising the quality of stay that every modern traveller deserves.”

The business adopts a sharing economy model where corporate clients can house their expatriates in homes owned by property owners but fully managed and serviced by the MetroResidences team.
MetroResidences commenced its operations in Singapore in 2014. The startup has raised funding of US$2,800,000 in 2017 from Rakuten, a Japanese electronic commerce and Internet company, and is accelerating its expansion in Asia.

https://metroresidences.com/sg/expat-life/...te-accommodation-market/
 

The digital Walmart store offers Japanese shoppers access to a wide variety of US branded products, including clothing, outdoor goods and toys. The store will initially offer around 1,200 products from a diverse range of brands, with orders fulfilled in the US and air freighted directly to Japanese customers. Walmart has plans to continue expanding the product range as the store develops, with its Japanese subsidiary Seiyu GK providing local customer support.

“We are very excited to be working with Walmart to bring a diverse product lineup of American brands at affordable prices to Rakuten Ichiba users in Japan,” said Shunsuke Yazawa, executive officer and vice president of the marketplace business at Rakuten. “Through the opening of the Walmart Rakuten Ichiba Store, we hope to make Rakuten Ichiba an even more attractive destination for online shoppers in Japan.”

https://lovelymobile.news/...connect-program-to-enhance-ad-campaigns/
 

Key Statistics of Rakuten

P/E Ratio 6.63
Price to Book Ratio 1.2563
Price to Sales Ratio 0.9142
 

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/4755:JP  

Rakuten Securities is the division of Rakuten Inc. one of the leading internet services companies with business in e-commerce, travel, banking, securities, e-money, marketing and more. Rakuten Group is expanding globally and currently performs operations throughout Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania. The financial services Rakuten Securities launched in 1999 since then grown into the large brokerage firm with a comprehensive range of asset products including equities, commodities, bonds, investment trusts, ETFs and FX. The company headquarters located in Tokyo, Japan while branching out into Hong Kong, Malaysia and Australia.

With its head office in Tokyo, Rakuten Securities, Inc. is one of the major online brokers in Japan and across Asia servicing over 2.6 million clients since 1999. Then the range of subsidiaries backed by the global expertise of Rakuten Securities and includes Rakuten Securities Australia (RSA) – a forex and metals broker, Inc.; Rakuten Securities Hong Kong Limited (RSHK) – a pioneer in leveraged* foreign exchange trading in Hong Kong. Malaysia’s first completely online equities broker, Rakuten Trade Sdn Bhd is the result of a joint venture between Malaysia’s Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad and Japan’s Rakuten Securities, Inc. The extent of trading services delivers through a localized Japanese trading app – iSPEED.my – an all-in-one seamless platform that enables investors to execute their own trading ideas end-to-end.

Also, the company continuously enhances their structure and include even more possibilities to offer. Thus in 2016, the company partnered with FXCM while further acquired FXCM Asia ltd.

Overall, the company provides trading services and solution to the range of international, global clients with allowance to trade Forex, commodities, indices, ETF and CFDs. Of course, as the company recognizes and diversify its service globally the broker provide advanced level customer service along with educational and growing strength and influence on the FX investment business.
MARKETSPEED FX platform is the winner “Online Forex Trading Platform” | Good Design Award 2012

Rakuten FX honoured for Merits of Achievement in Forex Services | Capital Weekly 2016

https://55brokers.com/rakuten-securities-review/
 

Schätzungen mit 5% bis 6%

Nach Informationen des Wall Street Journals will Pinterest schon im April 2019 das Börsendebüt angehen.

Die Geschäfte bei Pinterest laufen gut. Allein in diesem Jahr soll das Unternehmen seinen auf fast eine Milliarde US-Dollar verdoppelt haben. Damit könnte der Wert von Pinterest zwischen 13 und 15 Milliarden US-Dollar festgelegt werden. Auch bei den Nutzungszahlen hat die virtuelle Pinnwand zugelegt: Im September gab das Unternehmen an, die Zahl der monatlich aktiven Nutzer von 200 Millionen im Jahr 2017 auf nun 250 Millionen Nutzer gesteigert zu haben.

https://www.internetworld.de/social-media/...-april-2019-1663351.html
 

Why did Rakuten invest so much in Pinterest?
DON REISINGER
MAY 17, 2012 7:59 AM PDT

Pinterest surprised Silicon Valley with the announcement overnight of a $100 million funding round led by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten.

According to AllThingsDigital, more than $50 million of that sum came from Rakuten.

https://www.cnet.com/news/...invest-so-much-in-pinterest-integration/