Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Angeblich soll im Straßenkicker Online Shop sogar ein Schachspiel mit Würfeln angeboten werden.  

 

5.01.2019
Gregor Soller

Auch Magna arbeitet am autonomen Fahren und tat sich dafür mit Lyft zusammen. Das gemeinsame, aus rund 300 Ingenieuren bestehende Team entwickelt skalierbare Soft- und Hardware-Komponenten zum autonomen Fahren. Im ersten Jahr der Zusammenarbeit konnten unter anderem die Fahrversuche auf öffentlichen Straßen abgeschlossen werden. Bei diesen Tests wurde ein autonomer Pilot-Shuttle auf Level 5 für Lyft-Mitarbeiter auf der Strecke zwischen Palo Alto und einer Caltrain-Station in Nordkalifornien eingesetzt.Die Echtzeit-Mapping-Szenarien und Daten, die während dieses ersten Pilotprojekts genutzt wurden, lieferten dem Team bereits wertvolle Erkenntnisse, um die Technologie auf weitere umfassendere Testsituationen vorzubereiten.
Swamy Kotagiri, Chief Technology Officer von Magna, erklärt dazu: „Durch die gemeinsame Finanzierung, Entwicklung und Herstellung autonomer Fahrzeuge beschleunigen wir die Entwicklung autonomer Fahrzeuge."

https://www.vision-mobility.de/de/news/...erschaft-mit-lyft-2600.html
 

und zu den wichtigsten laut Text reich werdenden Investoren gehört Rakuten.

To reiterate, I have little doubt that Cabify will eventually be sold and will make its founders and investors very rich. Whether that time has come or whether it should continue developing its expansion plans to improve its price is another matter.

https://medium.com/enrique-dans/...d-up-being-bought-out-9d4956db4272
 

Geografisch ergänzen sich Lyft (Nordamerika) und Cabify ideal:

Cabify trails far behind with 3m users and an undisclosed number of drivers. Globally it has 13m users in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

https://www.ft.com/content/bbe4d59a-fea2-11e7-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5
 

You can sign up for Ebates using your email address, Google or Facebook account. The easiest way to use Ebates is when shopping online, but it’s also possible to earn rewards in-store as well.
There are a few ways to save money while shopping online. The first is to search on Ebates.com for a product across all of the site’s participating retailers and find the best cashback deal. Once you do, click through to the retailer’s site and proceed with your purchase as you normally would.
The second is to use the Ebates browser extension for Chrome or Firefox. If you’re on a retailer’s website that offers cash back, the extension will display a button notifying you.

To test it out, I headed over to Target.com. Immediately, the Ebates extension informed me that I could activate up to 1 percent cash back, with the exception of a few categories. By clicking the red button, the cashback deal would automatically be applied to my purchases through the site.
Finally, you can take advantage of Ebates through online search results when the extension is activated. For example, when I searched Google for “coffee mugs,” Ebates listed the cashback rewards opportunities right in the search results. I could then click through to the retailer’s website and activate the cashback offer to secure it.

In addition to earning cash back, Ebates also finds online coupons and promo codes you can try out to earn additional discounts. This feature is similar to tools such as Honey and Wikibuy, which might do a better job of aggregating these types of deals. Even so, it doesn’t hurt to have one more tool scouring the web for added deals.

Ebates will pay out our cash back every three months as long as your balance is at least $5. You can choose to be paid via check or PayPal.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/...ash-back_n_5c0f1d5fe4b0edf5a3a7eec0
 

Marktkapitalisierung von Rakuten ab.

Net income of Rakuten Card alone in the last four quarters = 8,149 + 8,332 + 8,580 + 8,679 = 33,740（JPYmm）or (1 Yen = $ 0.0089) = $ 300 million

https://secure.irwebcasting.com/181108/52/ebcd71a97c/

As of today, Visa Inc's share price is $138.39. Visa Inc's Earnings per Share (Diluted) for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2018 was $4.41. Therefore, Visa Inc's P/E ratio for today is 31.38.

https://www.gurufocus.com/term/pettm/V/PE-Ratiottm/Visa-Inc

If the net income of Rakuten Card were valued like the net-income of Visa, the value of Rakuten Card would be $ 9.414 billion.

That is only a little bit lower than the complete market cap of Rakuten of today.
 

Send money quickly and easily to your friends from your Viber contact list!

https://raiffeisenbank.ba/en/stanovnistvo/...en-viber-banking-peoples
 

65 Public Libraries Achieve Record-breaking Reading Engagement by Exceeding 1 Million Digital Checkouts in 2018

CLEVELAND, Jan. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Rakuten OverDrive announced today that 65 public library systems exceeded 1 million or more digital book loans in 2018, the most ever to reach this milestone. This illustrates how libraries have transformed using digital lending of ebooks, audiobooks and magazines. The total number of libraries represents a significant increase from the 58 systems that surpassed 1 million checkouts in 2017. These libraries are based in the US, Canada, Singapore and New Zealand.

The top 10 digital-circulating library systems for 2018:
        1.§Toronto Public Library (+22% growth over 2017)
        2.§King County Library System, Washington (+23%)
        3.§Los Angeles Public Library (+26%)
        4.§New York Public Library (+21%)
        5.§National Library Board Singapore (+113%)
        6.§Seattle Public Library (+23%)
        7.§Hennepin County Library, Minnesota (+20%)
        8.§Multnomah County Library, Oregon (+42%)
        9.§Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio (+20%)
       10.§Mid-Continent Public Library, Missouri (+36%)

The top 5 digital-circulating consortia and shared collections for 2018:
        1.§Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (+20%)
        2.§The Ohio Digital Library (+23%)
        3.§Greater Phoenix Digital Library (+12%)
        4.§Tennessee READS (+16%)
        5.§Maryland's Digital Library (+30%)

In 2018, these libraries joined the "Million Checkout Club" for the first time:
         •§Washington Anytime Library (+23%)
         •§Chicago Public Library (+25%)
         •§Washington County Cooperative Library Services, Oregon (+146%)
         •§Lee County Library System, Florida (+10%)
         •§New Hampshire State Library (+15%)
         •§C/W MARS, Massachusetts (+24%)
         •§Wake County Public Libraries, North Carolina (+20%)


https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/...ts-in-2018-300778246.html

 

http://www.ejinsight.com/...nsactions-boost-with-help-of-ai-partners/  

the next stage of Rakuten Securities’ growth

Since 2015, Rakuten Securities has taken major steps to expand in APAC, offering low-cost, user-friendly services to customers across the region.

In 2003, the company joined the Rakuten family and a year later it was renamed Rakuten Securities. Since then, it has continued to keep the industry on its toes – expanding into new trading areas such as forex, developing robo-advisors, implementing blockchain security systems and even developing a stocks monitoring app for the Apple Watch. Still, with financial regulations varying significantly from country to country, most of those innovations had been focused on Japan. In 2015, that changed.

The company’s first move abroad began with Hong Kong. In September 2015, Rakuten Securities acquired Hong Kong forex innovator FXCM Asia (now Rakuten Securities HK), combining the expertise of one of Asia’s leading forex brokers with Rakuten Securities’ more than 15 years of online trading experience.

The following year it was Australia’s turn: In August 2016, Rakuten Securities expanded its global forex coverage even further across the region with the acquisition of Australia-based “FXAsia Pty Ltd” (now Rakuten Securities Australia).
Just two months later, Rakuten Securities received approval to form a joint venture with Malaysia’s Kenanga Investment Bank, launching the country’s first-ever completely online equities brokerage platform Rakuten Trade in May 2017.

The strategies across the four countries share the same fundamental principles: highly competitive rates and excellent local customer service.

Kusunoki’s strategy is clearly a winner: “Rakuten Securities is now in the number two position in the online brokerage business in Japan,” he says. The company was also recently named the world’s third largest forex trading broker, achieving a trading volume of US$269.4 billion in the final quarter of 2016 – and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. “We are focusing on identifying more potential markets in the Asia-Oceania region where we can make the most of our industry expertise,” Kusunoki says.

With an exploding online population and a booming regional economy, Asia is proving to be the perfect environment for the next stage of Rakuten Securities’ growth.

https://rakuten.today/blog/rakuten-securities-asia-expansion.html
 

Pinterest beteiligt.

Pinterest, the search and discovery startup valued at $12 billion, interviewed some bankers last week hoping to underwrite its initial public offering later this year, according to people familiar with the matter. That’s a sign that the nearly 9-year-old startup is finally preparing to go public this year.

Pinterest is expected to decide on its lead bankers soon, although some people close to the company believe that Goldman Sachs has had the edge. Selecting bankers in January would put Pinterest on pace for an IPO as early as the second quarter of this year, perhaps once the company has a full quarter of 2019 financials to share with Wall Street.

https://www.recode.net/2019/1/16/18184865/...st-ipo-bankers-interview
 

8 Jan 2019

DIMOCO Messaging Now Offers Viber Business Messages

Viber enriches customer experience and increases brand awareness
The number of Viber users has greatly evolved in the past years. According to Statista, Viber currently has over 1 billion registered users, resulting in a tremendous global and wide reach. This respectable figure underlines the popularity of OTT messaging channels which have an immense impact on customers mobile experience as both customer behavior and expectation have not only changed but grown.

Viber, one of the leading OTT channels, is extremely popular,  especially in the regions Eastern Europe, South East Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Viber states that over 50 percent of its users are Millennials, 26 percent are between 18-24 years, and 49 percent between 25-35 years of age, whilst 46 percent are female and 54 percent male.

When enterprises want to communicate with their customers nowadays, it’s more important than ever to use the channels they trust, prefer and they are already accustomed to, in order to take full advantage of connecting in a more engaging manner.

Reaching customers in a go-to communication channel is a gapless transition for businesses, Therefore, we at DIMOCO Messaging strongly advise to adapt to customer familiar and preferred communication channels, often though exposed to rapidly changing trends, as otherwise, enterprises are likely to lose their client base if they try to overrule their habits.

With this in mind, DIMOCO Messaging is extending its product line by offering Viber as an additional messaging channel.

https://dimoco.eu/blog/...ssaging-now-offers-viber-business-messages/
 

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2019/...category=corp%20ir

Das würde es einiges Tages ermöglichen, wie Softbank das getan hat, einen Teil des Mobile-Bereichs an die Börse zu bringen. Das ist jedoch fernere Zukunftsmusik, das sich der Mobilfunkbereich erst etablieren muss.


 

ViSenze is a global visual search provider, catering to the $1.67 trillion e-commerce and retail markets. Built for scale and performance, ViSenze processes over 100 million images every day and is used by some of the largest Internet companies like Rakuten, ASOS and UNIQLO.

ViSenze has been recognized amongst:

• Best AI Product in Retail by CognitionX London

• Top 5 deep learning companies by VentureBeat

• Top 20 artificial intelligence companies by DataMation

• Top 40 global Breakthrough Brands by InterBrand

http://images.nvidia.com/content/APAC/events/...nition-at-ViSenze.pdf
 

beteiligt:

Founded in 2013, Seattle startup Algorithmia has taken in nearly $13 million in funding so far to develop a platform that lets you “deploy and manage machine learning models the smart way.” In order to learn more about this company’s value proposition, we had the chance to watch the founder and CEO, Diego Oppenheimer, give a very compelling talk during the Re.Work Applied AI Summit in Houston which we attended last week. During the summit, we saw a number of company founders present their firms, and even a casual observer would have quickly noticed that they weren’t all created equal. When you see someone as dynamic and engaging as Mr. Oppenheimer present, you begin to start believing in a product before you even understand what it is. As it turns out, the product is as compelling as the man who presented it.

If you ever get a chance to interact with Mr. Oppenheimer, you’ll see why some founders get funding and some don’t. Venture capital isn’t “broken,” it’s just that some founders out there don’t do a very good job of making investors believe they can execute. You need to immediately demonstrate competence when selling your company’s value proposition, and there’s no doubt this guy will see a liquidation event much sooner than some of the other founders we saw present at the Re.Work conference who tended to punt the tough questions with the old “we’re working on that” response. If you’re a burgeoning startup that’s worried about moving at the speed the industry is moving at, why not bring this guy on as your CTO? In essence, that’s what you’re doing when you outsource every aspect of your AI algorithms to Algorithmia and let them worry about making sure all that DevOps stuff gets sorted out.

https://www.nanalyze.com/2018/12/algorithmia-algorithm-marketplace/
 

https://vimeo.com/301804302  

stellt sich natürlich die Frage,  wie hoch der Fintech-Bereich von Rakuten bewertet werden sollte.

https://www.ft.com/content/8af54946-3d73-11e8-b7e0-52972418fec4  

https://www.inc.com/profile/insikt  

„Rakuten Super Logistics, a division of Japanese on-line retailer Rakuten, is deploying robots to retrieve bins filled with apparel, electronics and other products from shelves and deliver them to workers who pick individual items.“

http://www.scdigest.com/ontarget/19-01-09-3.php?cid=15054

 

would be $ 28 billion, if the were value like the revenues of Ant Fianancial or the revenues of PayPal

Ant Financials valuation = 7-fold of revenues of 2018 like the valuation of PayPal, too

„Other groups have used alternative means of valuing Ant. Jefferies analysts, who believe up to 70 per cent of Ant’s 2017 business came from online payments, used Paypal (PYPL.O) as a comparison and valued Ant at $133 billion, equivalent to seven times their estimate for its 2019 sales - in line with the multiple implied by PayPal’s share price.“

https://www.reuters.com/article/...e-big-recent-bump-up-idUSKBN1HP1AA

Rakuten’s fintech revenues in 2019 will be about450 billion Japanes yen = about $ 4 billion.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/223360/...internet-finance-sales/

The 7-fold of revenues of about $ 4 billion is a valuation of $ 28 billion – but the complete market-cap of Rakuten, where Rakuten’s fintech revenues only a part, are only about $ 10 billion.
 

But the growth of Paypal

https://csimarket.com/stocks/single_growth_rates.php?code=PYPL&rev

is not bigger than the growth of the fintech revenues of Rakuten (statista-source in my last posting).  

telecommunication companies, has no outdated and legacy infrastructure to maintain is a significant advantage.

Leading the way in 5G networking Rakuten has also been making headlines in Japan with its forays into 5G innovation, in partnership with firms such as Nokia, Altiostar, Cisco, Mavenir, Intel, Qualcomm, Quanta and NEC. According to Amin, deploying “true” 5G is an integral part of Rakuten’s mobile journey. “What does 5G transformation for Rakuten really look like?” Amin asked the audience at the Conference. “If you look at any traditional operator, both inside and outside of Japan, it’s actually a very unnatural process to upgrade to 5G. They have to completely virtualize their infrastructure, they have to deploy new core architecture, they have to deploy new radio access. In Rakuten’s world, the entire core technology, including our Radio Access Network, is fully ready for 5G.” The fact that Rakuten, unlike existing telecommunication companies, has no outdated and legacy infrastructure to maintain is a significant advantage. “We don’t have to worry about building and transforming our network from 3G or 4G to 5G. From day zero, Rakuten network is 5G ready. At the same time, Amin doesn’t consider the 5G services that other telcos are launching to be “true” 5G. “If you truly want to offer functionalities and capabilities like network slicing into this new architecture, you must deploy standalone 5G core, which Rakuten is doing.”

https://rakuten.today/blog/...to-end-cloud-native-mobile-network.html
 

https://www.superbcrew.com/...self-serve-mobile-advertising-platform/  

10 Jan 2019

Flea market app Rakuma will start offering anonymous shipping in partnership with delivery service Japan Post from next week.

The new service will allow individuals to keep their personal information concealed in c-to-c trading while benefiting from shipping services in more than 33,000 locations nationwide.

Rakuma is owned by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. The company consolidated its flea market apps Rakuma and Fril earlier last year to challenge Mercari’s hegemony in the market. Fril was launched by Tokyo-based Fablic Inc. in 2012. Rakuten — which had already launched its own app in Japan (2014) and Taiwan (2016) — acquired Fablic Inc four years later.

https://aimgroup.com/2019/01/10/rakuma-offers-anonymous-delivery/