Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

AST Space Mobile Börsengang via Aktien SPAC - NPA - TrendInvestment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6AATyAJj9A

Und der Link zur Präsentation:

https://www.npa-corp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...blic_12-15-20.pdf
 

AST SpaceMobile shares rise as the space SPAC stock begins trading on the Nasdaq

PUBLISHED WED, APR 7 202110:28 AM EDTUPDATED WED, APR 7 202111:17 AM EDT
Michael Sheetz

• Shares of satellite-to-smartphone broadband company AST SpaceMobile began trading on the Nasdaq on Wednesday.
• AST SpaceMobile trades under the ticker ASTS, with shares previously listed under the SPAC New Providence before the merger.
• The close of AST’s deal comes as the first among a recent flurry of space SPAC announcements, with seven companies announcing SPAC mergers in the past six months.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/07/...-begins-trading-on-the-nasdaq.html  

Rakuten Viber don’t want to sell the users

How a simple need for free communication turned into a messaging giant

By JOY LUMAWIG-BUENSALIDO
JANUARY 18, 2021

Considering that 2020 was a very challenging year, Viber as a communications company, experienced tremendous growth in all its services, from calls to chats to messaging. Not only person to person, but families, students and more individuals benefitted from the growing messaging service.

How does Viber earn?

WHILE most global companies largely rely on advertising income, Viber’s budget does not depend on advertising alone. Its revenue sources are diversified. Viber revenues depend on building more and more tools to get more and more data. Subsequently, it will mean more advertising revenues.

“We built our own model, which is very different from Facebook which is advertising 100 percent,” Agaoua explains. “ We do some advertising, which is less than 20 percent of our revenue and it will never be more than 20 percent of our revenue.

https://businessmirror.com.ph/2021/01/18/...d-into-a-messaging-giant/  

April 8, 2021

Rakuten Mobile Launches New Campaign Offering Three Months of Service Free of Charge

Celebrating first anniversary of full-scale launch of mobile carrier service; Total cumulative number of applications surpasses 3.9 million

Tokyo, April 8, 2021 – Rakuten Mobile, Inc. today marked the first anniversary of the full-scale commercial launch of its mobile carrier service. In order to provide more customers with the opportunity to try the service, the company has launched a new promotional campaign that offers the Rakuten UN-LIMIT VI service plan to customers free of charge for the first three months of service.

About the new campaign
Customers who sign up for the Rakuten UN-LIMIT VI service plan for the first time or switch to the plan via MNP (mobile number portability), as well as current users of the Rakuten Mobile MVNO service (DOCOMO and au lines) who switch to the MNO service, will be offered the first three months of service free of charge from the day their mobile line is activated*1. The campaign is only open to customers who are applying for Rakuten UN-LIMIT VI for the first time. Applications will be accepted online from the Rakuten Mobile website and at Rakuten Mobile shops from today.

https://corp.mobile.rakuten.co.jp/english/news/press/2021/0408_01/  

liegen zwar etwas unter meiner Schätzung von 4,0 bis 4,5 Millionen, aber man darf natürlich nicht vergessen, dass der Vertrieb über Rakuten Mobile Shops in Zeiten von Corona noch nicht so vonstatten geht wie ohne Corona und das Risiko eines Wechsels in Corona-Zeiten, wo man besonders auf digitale Verbindung angewiesen ist, höher eingeschätzt wird.

Und die Entscheidung, auch die unzähligen Poststellen von Japan Post in den Vertrieb einzubeziehen, ist mit Sicherheit noch zu frisch, als dass sie schon umgesetzt sein könnte.  

The total number of Rakuten Mobile contracts, including MVNO contracts, has now reached 4.5 million.

https://corp.mobile.rakuten.co.jp/english/news/press/2021/0408_01/
 

https://patents.justia.com/assignee/altiostar-networks-inc  

Viber has proven that it’s feasible to earn a profit without selling our users’ data

Not wanting to exploit their users for profit, Viber thought about how to be more creative in thinking of ways to earn money. “Throughout the years, Viber has proven that it’s feasible to earn a profit without selling our users’ data,” Agaoua discloses. “We make a profit through our well-thought-out brand partnerships and other strategic business solutions that help improve the lives of our users—all without requiring us to put our users at any risk.”

Although Viber aims to be an all-in-one app that has features that can help its users with their everyday lives, the company doesn’t wish to monopolize the market. That way, Viber can consistently put up with new technology that keeps on coming into the business and communications market.
“We don’t want to do it all,” Agaoua insists. “Instead, we’d rather partner with brands or companies that are already doing a good job. In the end, Viber’s core service is to provide users a secure communication platform where they can have private conversations or exchange thoughts and ideas with family, friends, officemates and even small businesses and brands they love without the fear of being tracked or spied on.”

As Viber looks forward to the next 10 years and beyond, Agaoua keeps the faith the company will be an even better communication tool used by more global users who continue to rely on Viber as part of their daily lives.

https://businessmirror.com.ph/2021/01/18/...d-into-a-messaging-giant/
 

Wenn man diese 4,5 Millionen, die vermutlich bald komplett MNO-Kunden sind, auf 6 Millionen zum Jahresende steigert, ist die Gewinnschwelle in 2022 in Sicht. Und durch Rakuten Mobile würde ein Umsatz- und Gewinnstrom hinzugefügt, der meines Erachtens auch noch nicht ansatzweise im Kursniveau enthalten ist.  

„Die Kollegen von Computerbase haben sich international umgesehen und bei den Präsentationen der neuen Ice-Lake-SP zwischen den Zeilen gelesen. Das Ergebnis: Ice-Lake-D, Intels CPU für kleine Server, wird frühestens Ende des Jahres erscheinen.

Damit verdoppelt sich der mögliche Arbeitsspeicherausbau im Vergleich zum Vorgänger.
Intel positioniert die Ice-Lake-D als ideale Prozessoren für das Edge-Computing und hat sie bereits zu Tests an die Netzwerkspezialisten von Cisco sowie an die 5G-Experten von Supermicro und Rakuten Mobile geliefert.“

https://t3n.de/news/intel-ice-lake-d-edge-cpu-1371396/
 

Rakuten has almost 22 million credit card users and wants to reach a position where it has more mobile users than credit card holders

Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman and CEO of Japanese e-commerce group Rakuten, has said that the company will forge ahead with its fledgling mobile telecommunications venture despite posting a ‘record loss’ as a result of heavy investment costs in Rakuten Mobile. The Nikkei reports that the e-commerce firm booked a net loss of JPY114.2 billion (USD1.1 billion) in FY20, up from a loss of JPY31.9 billion in the previous year and worse than analysts’ forecasts of JPY94.5 billion (according to S&P Capital IQ). The group’s revenue increased 15% year-on-year to an all-time high of JPY1.46 trillion aided by strong performances from its e-commerce and financial services units, but Rakuten Mobile – which entered the domestic market in April 2020 – reported a massive USD2.1 billion loss, wiping out the group’s other profits in the process. Rakuten expects losses from the nascent wireless carrier to widen in fiscal 2021 before ‘decreasing next year’, and in an online conference Mikitani bullishly proclaimed ‘we have no intention to stay in the number four position’ adding that the company has almost 22 million credit card users and wants to reach a position where it has more mobile users than credit card holders.

https://www.commsupdate.com/articles/2021/02/15/...-on-rollout-costs/  

Starlink von Elon Musk überholt? AST SpaceMobile geht über SPAC an die Börse
Trendbulls am 8. April 2021

AST SpaceMobile (vormals AST&Science) will Verbindung zum All schaffen – mit dem Ausbau eines satellitengestützten Breitband-Mobilfunknetzes. Durch die abgeschlossene Fusion mit dem SPAC „New Providence“ kann das Unternehmen seine Weltraum-Mission gut finanziert nun energisch vorantreiben und sich eine exzellente Position in einem begehrten Segment sichern.

Das Besondere an AST SpaceMobile: Im Gegensatz zu ähnlichen Konzepten von Wettbewerbern (wie eben Musks „Starlink“) werden zur Nutzung des „Konstellation“ genannten Netzes keine physischen Zwischengeräte wie das „Starlink-Kit“ benötigt. Der Breitbandzugang wird geradlinig – Satellit-zu-Smartphone – den Nutzern auf der Erde bereitgestellt, ganz ohne Nebenausgaben für zusätzliche kostspielige Hardware.

Das einzigartige Serviceangebot von AST SpaceMobile wird durch ein umfangreiches, proprietäres IP-Portfolio unterstützt, das mit nicht modifizierten Standard-Mobiltelefonen kompatibel ist. Es richtet sich somit an einen globalen Markt für drahtlose Mobilfunkdienste im Wert von einer Billion USD und hat durch den Börsengang schon jetzt einen unschätzbaren Wettbewerbsvorteil erlangt.

Die von AST SpaceMobile entwickelte Technologielösung ist innovativ, patentiert und wird etwa 1,6 Milliarden Menschen über einige der weltweit größten Mobilfunkanbieter, die sich ihren Anteil an dem Projekt bereits gesichert haben, den Zugang zum Service ermöglichen. Führende Marktakteure wie die Vodafone Group, Rakuten, UBS O‘Connor und American Tower sind in AST SpaceMobile investiert.

https://www.nebenwerte-online.de/2021/04/08/...er-spac-an-die-boerse/
 

Rakuten Viki Bows North American SVOD Platform, Adds Asian Movie Sales

ERIK GRUENWEDEL
March 22, 2021

Rakuten Viki, an SVOD platform featuring Asian content, March 22 announced it is introducing a new transactional video-on-demand movie rental service for the North American market. The TVOD platform affords subscribers earlier access to new movie releases, and is available via desktop browser, Roku, Amazon Firestick, Apple TV+, Android TV, Chromecast, and on mobile devices.

The $4.99/$9.99 SVOD platform is launching in the U.S. with the debut of two Korean films: Josée as an exclusive and New Year Blues, which released in December and February respectively.

“With the launch of TVOD, viewers can quickly and easily access films … that they can then watch anytime, anywhere and at their own convenience,” Sarah Kim, SVP of content and partnerships, said in a statement. “It’s also a way to watch in-demand, exclusive content that isn’t too hard on the wallet.”
TVOD is the latest service addition to Rakuten Viki, which showcases a vast collection of more than 1,700 TV shows and movies from Korea, Japan, mainland China, Taiwan and Thailand that are accessible for free or through a subscription.

Rakuten Viki’s library includes a myriad of movies, romantic comedies, K-dramas and variety shows both current and catalog, with many available the day after they air in their origin country.

https://www.mediaplaynews.com/...vod-platform-adds-asian-movie-sales/
 

Rakuten Card Linked Offers Network in the U.S./Canada

POSTED MAR 31, 2021

Consumers in the U.S. and Canada with American Express, Mastercard and Visa credit and debit cards can link them to the Rakuten Card Linked Offers Network to receive cash-back offers, airline miles, points and other loyalty currencies from large retailers. The merchant-funded offers are made available to consumers through card issuers, mobile wallet providers and other loyalty program operators including Citi, Mastercard, United Airlines, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Google Pay.
Rakuten, which is a U.S.-based subsidiary of the online retailer and payment card issuer in Japan, entered the card-linked rewards industry with the 2014 acquisition of Ebates Performance Marketing.
The company provides its large merchant customers with pay-per-performance metrics that substantiate the advertising dollars they aim at generating online and in-store sales as well as for dining. Those metrics include assuring merchants that they never pay twice for the same card-linked offer and all purchases can be demonstrated to have been initiated via the Rakuten platform.
Currently, more than six million cards are active in Rakuten’s platform, which mostly operates on a white-label basis. Some business is conducted on a direct-to-consumer basis through Rakuten Rewards, which is mobile app based.

Card issuers with more than one million accounts are Rakuten’s focus, although the company will also do business with smaller issuers through their card account processors.
Rakuten’s turnkey service to card issuers, which includes handling all back-end reconciliation with the merchants and fraud protection on all transactions, is driven by API links. All primary account numbers registered with Rakuten are tokenized. The company, which is PCI Level 1 certified, does not hold any personally identifiable information on its servers.

Rakuten will expand to the U.K. by year-end.

https://nilsonreport.com/mention/1381/rakuten/
 

halte, angesichts der Praktiken von Alibaba, können sich die deutschen Kartellbehörden da einmal ein Beispiel nehmen:

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/...ba-strafe-monopol-recht

Amazon wurde zwar vor Jahren in Deutschland untersagt, seinen Markplatzteilnehmer vorzuschreiben, anderweitig billiger anzubieten, aber mit dieser lange Zeit praktizierten Gesetzwidrigkeit hat Amazon den Aufbau von Konkurrenz in den entscheidenden Aufbaujahren maßgeblich verhindert.

Bisher haben sie meines Wissens nach dafür auch nicht einen Cent bezahlt, obwohl meines Erachtens hier eine Milliardenstrafe in mittlerer einstelliger Höhe angebracht gewesen wäre  - wenn das überhaupt reicht.  

Marktplatz in Deutschland kaum auf die Beine kam, verwundert nicht.  

denn der Aufbau eines Marktplatzes in Deutschland, der mit Amazon und Ebay hätte mithalten können, hätte auch einen hohen Kapitaleinsatz erfordert, den Rakuten nicht erbringen wollte oder konnte bzw. in anderweitigen Verwendungen als besser angelegt sah.  

 

by rank 6-company Red Doorz and rank 8-company Codapay

Singapore’s fastest-growing companies in 2021

A variety of businesses – from an online car trader to a wireless network service provider and a courier company – have made it onto a list of 75 companies compiled by The Straits Times and Germany-based global research firm Statista. The ranking, now in its third year, is based on the firms’ revenue growth from 2016 to 2019.

PUBLISHED: JAN 19, 2021

Rank Name Sector Absolute growth rate(in %) Compound annual growth rate (CAGR)(in %) Revenue 2019(in SGD) Revenue 2016(in SGD) Number of employees 2019 Number of employees 2016 Founding year

         1     Carro          §
Technology  14158.5%   422.40%117,800,000   826,176       400        10  2015
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         2§SCI Ecommerce
E-commerce   7479.7%   323.20%62,860,749   829,332        92        12  2014
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         3§Roadbull Logistics
Technology   3961.6%   243.70% 9,227,079   227,178       135        34  2015
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         4§Ninja Van Logistics
 Transport   2736.7%   205.00%340,400,00012,000,000     25655      1633  2014
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         5§Blue Wireless
  Telecoms   2367.5%   191.10% 3,818,537   154,752        25         4  2015
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         6  RedDoorz§
Travel and leisure 2262.5% 186.90% 11,600,000 491,000 1556 49 2015

         7§BR Metals
Waste management and recycling 1927.1% 178.90% 146,509,106 7,227,568 16 6 2009

         8§Coda Payments
   Fintech   1581.7%   162.00%109,574,188 6,515,847       104        19  2011
§
https://www.straitstimes.com/fastest-growing-companies-2021
 

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Rakuten Mobile attracts over 3.9 million applications for its mobile offering

By Juan Pedro Tomás on APRIL 9, 2021

Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile said it attracted over 3.9 million applications for its mobile service since it launched its 4G offering one year ago.

The telco launched a new promotional campaign to attract more subscribers. This campaign offers the Rakuten UN-LIMIT VI service plan to customers free of charge for the first three months of service.

The total number of Rakuten Mobile contracts, including MVNO contracts, has now reached 4.5 million.

“Since full-scale commercial launch of its mobile service in April 2020, Rakuten Mobile has carried out various measures to improve the quality of its service, including upgrading the service plan, expanding its network area, and increasing the number of Rakuten Mobile shops and lineup of original devices and products compatible with its network,” the telco said in a release.

Rakuten Mobile had deployed over 11,500 base stations for a population coverage of 73.5%. The Japanese operator aims to increase this coverage to 96% by the middle of the year.

In September 2020, Rakuten Mobile launched 5G services in parts of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Hokkaido, Osaka and Hyogo. The service is being initially offered via Non-Stand Alone (NSA) 5G architecture.

Rakuten Mobile’s President Yoshihisa Yamada had previously said that the operator was expecting the 5G to be available in Japan’s all 47 prefectures by end-March 2021.

Yamada had also said that Rakuten Mobile expected to launch a Stand-Alone 5G network in the second quarter of 2021.

Rakuten’s platform contains all the elements of the Rakuten Mobile network, including telco applications and software from multiple vendors, OSS and BSS systems handling customer billing and activation systems, in addition to edge computing and virtual network management functions.

RCP is aimed at offering solutions and services for the deployment of virtualized networks at speed and low cost by telecom companies, enterprises and governments around the world, the telco said.

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20210409/carriers/...-its-mobile-offering  

"Abseits von Bezahldiensten wie Netflix oder Amazon Prime Video gewinnen vor allem kostenfreie und werbefinanzierte Angebote an Bedeutung. So geben 58 der Befragten an, bereits heute einen Advertising-Video-on-Demand-Dienst (AVOD) zu nutzen. Nahezu zwei Drittel planen innerhalb der nächsten 12 Monate ein solches werbefinanziertes Streaming-Angebot wahrzunehmen. Zu den Anbietern solcher Plattformen gehören etwa Pluto TV, Joyn oder Rakuten.tv. Für Werbetreibende ergeben sich dadurch neue Möglichkeiten bei der Ansprache ihrer Zielgruppen. 78 Prozent der deutschen Studienteilnehmer sind generell dazu bereit, Werbung anzuschauen, um so Zugang zu kostenlosen Streaming-Diensten zu erhalten. Dies deckt sich mit Ergebnissen anderer Studien. So kommt eine aktuelle Streaming-Studie der Sell-Side-Plattform Magnite zu dem Schluss, dass mehr als drei Viertel (77 Prozent) der Teilnehmer Werbung im Streaming-Umfeld akzeptieren würden, wenn sie dafür keine oder geringere Gebühren zahlen müssten."

https://www.adzine.de/2021/03/...-werbefinanzierte-streaming-dienste/
 

https://matcha-jp.com/en/10425
 

https://tbivision.com/2021/03/19/...tarting-to-pull-out-the-big-guns/  

Dish’s cloud services provider is Altiostar, which signed a multi-year partnership agreement in July 2020. Altiostar is developing Dish’s OpenRAN network to utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning and enable 4G and 5G applications.

Dish is working to meet an FCC commitment to deploy a facilities-based 5G broadband network capable of serving 70% of the U.S. population by June 2023.

https://www.satellitetoday.com/5g/2021/04/05/...or-5g-cloud-security/