Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Erste inländische Internetbank mit mehr als 11 Millionen Konten

Rakuten Bank, Ltdwird die erste Internetbank in Japan sein, die dies am 4. Juli 2021 erreichtz. Das Kontowachstum der Rakuten Bank innerhalb von etwa sechs Monaten um 1 Million ist der kürzeste Zeitraum überhaupt, in dem eine Steigerung um eine Million geschafft wurde.
Seit der Eröffnung als Internetbank im Jahr 2001 wurde die Rakuten Bank gut angenommen, weil sie von überall 24 Stunden am Tag, 365 Tage im Jahr mit einer breiten Palette von Produkten und Dienstleistungen zugänglich ist.

In den letzten Jahren haben wir, um die "Rakuten Bank" als Hauptkonto für mehr Einzelkunden zu etablieren, einen Service eingeführt, der die sofortige Zahlung von Rakuten Bankkonten in "Rakuten Pay (App Payment)" ermöglicht. Wir haben kontinuierlich daran gearbeitet, unsere Dienstleistungen zu verbessern. Wir bieten einzigartige Dienstleistungen wie ein "Business Support Program", das es Firmenkunden ermöglicht, einige geschäftsnützliche Dienste kostenlos zu nutzen, und eine Rakuten Bank Business Debit Card, die 1% des Nutzungsbetrags zurückgibt. Die Zahl der Kunden, die die Rakuten Bank als Lohnkonto-Empfängerkonto festgelegt haben, hat ebenfalls stetig zugenommen, und der Saldo der nicht konsolidierten Einlagen überstieg Ende Juni 2021 6 Billionen Yen.

https://www.rakuten-bank.co.jp/press/2021/20210705.html
 

Global Over-The-Top Market Anticipated to Garner a Revenue of $438.5 Billion at a CAGR of 19.1% by 2026 despite COVID-19 Impact - Exclusive [413 pages] Business Report by Research Dive
July 06, 2021 09:11 ET | Source: Research Dive

New York, USA, July 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a recent report by Research Dive, the global over-the-top (OTT) market is forecasted to reach $438.5 billion by the end of 2026, from $110.1 billion in 2018.

Key Players
1. LINE Corporation
2. Facebook
3. Hulu, LLC
4. Kakapo Corp.
5. Indieflix, Inc.
6. VUDU, Inc.
7. Amazon Web Services
8. Telestra
9. Apple Inc.
10. Tencent Holdings Ltd.
11. Netflix
12. Rakuten, Inc.
13. Microsoft Corporation
14. Google LLC.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/...Research-Dive.html
 

021/07/01
Rakuten Life beginnt mit der Vergabe von Rakuten-Punkten bei Entscheidung für digitale Abwicklung

Rakuten Life arbeitet daran, den Komfort und die Qualität seiner Dienstleistungen zu verbessern, indem es die konventionellen Papieranwendungen und die Postkorrespondenz verschiedener Dokumente aktiv zu Verfahren entwickelt, die das Web nutzen. Verschiedene Verfahren können 24 Stunden an jedem Tag von Ihrem Smartphone oder PC über das Web durchgeführt werden. Das verkürzt die Abwicklungszeit und es ist inzwischen sehr beliebt bei Kunden, die es verwenden
Jetzt wird der Kostensenkungseffekt etc. durch Rakuten-Punkten an den Kunden weitergegeben. Die gesammelten Punkte können bei Rakuten Ichiba und anderen Dienstleistungen der Rakuten Group verwendet werden.

https://www.rakuten-insurance.co.jp/news/article/2021/20210701/
 

July 6, 2021

Rakuten TV has continued its free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel expansion through the latest addition of two channels: the Lego channel in the UK and Planeta Junior TV in Spain.

The Lego channel is available immediately in the UK, featuring hours of content varying in genres and animation styles, and series based on some of the most popular Lego properties and special franchises. Fans can also discover content that will introduce them to the world of Lego designers and builders, among much more.

Planeta Junior TV is a channel by DeAPlaneta, a reference distributor in the Spanish industry. The channel is now available in Spain. Popular features include Maya The Bee, Heidi, Pucca, Mutant Busters, and Sandra The Fairytale Detective.

Rakuten TV linear channels are currently accessible for free on the Rakuten TV app on Samsung and LG Smart TV devices.

https://advanced-television.com/2021/07/06/...ds-free-family-content/
 

https://www.forex.com/en/market-analysis/...eed-to-know-about-acorns/  

Abstract
July 6, 2021

And as we published our vRAN and open RAN Market report and did 2 webinars on the topic during the week preceding MWC21, we were well prepared to discuss the state of the industry with the players, who like us, decided to have a physical presence at the event. It was fascinating to see how Parallel Wireless took Samsung’s spot facing what used to be Ericsson’s immense booth, now turned into a Telco Cloud City exhibition, in which Mavenir had a mini booth full of compelling demos. Well done, both Mavenir and Parallel Wireless boasted a strategic spot for both customer leads and prospects, and entertainment—Telco Cloud City featured live events every evening, including a Jon Bon Jovi performance. Only Altiostar did not have a booth but was represented by Thierry Maupilé, Chief Strategy & EVP Product Management, who hurried from planned to improvised meetings with CSPs. Make no mistake, Altiostar, Mavenir and Parallel Wireless were remarkably busy and reaped the full benefits of the event. In fact, many CSPs from all over Europe, the Middle East (e.g., Etisalat, STC) and Africa (e.g., pan African player MTN) made a last-minute decision to come to specifically discuss open RAN. Additionally Russia-based MTS showed up.

LightCounting subscribers can access the full text of this research note by logging into their accounts.

https://www.lightcounting.com/research-note/...pen-ran-stole-the-show  

Rakuten Mobile has shown highly competitive network performance, winning Opensignal awards for upload speed and voice app experiences in Japan

Myth #6: Open RAN doesn’t offer the same performance as legacy architecture

• Traditional networks are designed to work seamlessly.
• Loosely-integrated Open RAN networks add inefficiencies to the network.

Network performance is a key factor for any operator, but choosing Open RAN architecture doesn’t mean sacrificing performance. In fact, many operators have said that Open RAN deployments have met or surpassed their KPIs, and that the use of Open RAN improves performance in metrics such as spectral efficiency and latency. One example of this is Rakuten Mobile’s network in Japan.

In just a year since the full-scale commercial launch, Rakuten Mobile has shown highly competitive network performance, winning Opensignal awards for upload speed and voice app experiences in Japan. These results are with around 1/5 of the spectrum of other carriers. In addition, umlaut’s independent comparison of Rakuten Mobile to global mobile network operators proved that Rakuten’s Open RAN network is outperforming legacy mobile networks in the world’s largest cities, scoring 926 out of a possible 1,000 points in the review.

While the commercial deployment of Open RAN is new, the technologies and the know-how are not. The telecom industry has been discussing and testing these technologies for a long time. Software-centric networks and open disaggregated RAN is future-proof architecture. Rakuten Mobile has leaned into the future and proven that this model works on a commercial scale.

https://rakuten.today/blog/mythbusting-open-ran.html  

Rakuten Group, Inc., one of the world’s biggest online marketplaces, knows fulfillment and distribution better than most; successfully builds trust with millions of customers every year. If any organization in the world knows the 3PL business deeply, it’s Rakuten Super Logistics (RSL), a company that offers brands cast-iron guarantees for service quality.

The company’s 3PL capabilities are, of course, very much driven by technology, so we were pleased to speak exclusively to Gregg Beall, the Vice President of IT at Rakuten Super Logistics, about how the company operates and what its customers can expect today and in the future.

https://techhq.com/2021/06/...-delivery-last-mile-review-recommended/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_VzEJe0Ok&t=41s  

Altiostar, Intel, and VMware disaggregate the RAN into a flexible, high-performance stack with open interfaces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv72zRQx4oU  

Qualcomm is another important partner of Altiostar and Rakuten

“Qualcomm Technologies has been an important collaborator for Altiostar, working with us to build the world’s largest high-performance Open RAN network in Japan,” said Anil Sawkar, vice president of engineering and operations, Altiostar. “Small cells will be the next big area of growth for Open RAN because they enable added wireless capacity and enterprise applications. We view this new product as a key development in Open RAN and 5G and look forward to continuing our work with Qualcomm Technologies.”

“The Qualcomm RAN Platforms play a key role in both our 4G small cell and 5G mmWave deployments,” said Tareq Amin, representative director, executive vice president and chief technology officer, Rakuten Mobile, Inc. “We are very excited to see the announcement of the new FSM200xx solution and look forward to how it will support more powerful 3GPP Release 16 features such as eURLLC and flexible architecture on our virtualized RAN platform for different use cases."

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2021/06/28/...n-platform-small  

Comprehensive Report on Programmatic Display Market 2021 | Trends, Growth Demand, Opportunities & Forecast To 2030 | AppNexus, Baidu, Adobe Systems Incorporated, MediaMath, The Trade Desk, Rakuten, Alibaba, Tencent, Yahoo, Adroll, Expedia, Verizon Communications, Facebook, Google (Doubleclick), Sina, eBay, Booking, JD.com, Rocket Fuel, Amazon

Post date July 7, 2021

https://tramways-monthly.com/tag/rakuten/  

Azimo’s future growth plan

Daniel Webber Monday, July 5th, 2021

Digital money transfer platform Azimo has published its FY 2020 results, showing year-on-year revenue growth of 32% but increased losses as investment continues in the product and network. I caught up with CEO Richard Ambrose to find out how the company plans to continue its growth.

We expect Azimo to continue its revenue growth in the year to June 2021 at the same rate as 2019-20, with the pandemic helping to pull in customers several years earlier than they otherwise would have naturally switched to being digital users.

Looking to future growth, Richard says that the priority for Azimo is “network, network, network”. As part of this, the company plans to increase both its breadth of coverage and the quality of service in some markets.

This will include the expansion of the platform to new remittance markets, as well as adding new and better partners in key markets over the next six months – key focuses here include Sri Lanka, Morocco, Egypt and Kenya.
On the pay-in side, Azimo plans to make it much easier to send from a bank account, and plans to add open banking capabilities to support this.

Azimo is an example of a focused, financially disciplined fintech. It hasn’t raised the amounts some of its competitors have but it continues to grow, centered on its core.

https://www.fxcintel.com/research/analysis/azimos-future-growth-plans  

revenues and market-cap of the eight listed companies.

https://axiomq.com/blog/8-largest-e-commerce-companies-in-the-world/
 

If the revenues of Rakuten were valued like the revenues of Amazon, the market-cap of Rakuten must be $83,56 billion – the more than 6-fold of the $19.34 B of today.

Numbers of Amazon
Market capitalization: $1,668 B
Revenue: $386.06 B

Numbers of Rakuten
Market capitalization: $19.34 B
Revenue: $13.48 B

https://axiomq.com/blog/8-largest-e-commerce-companies-in-the-world/  

Philippines operator signs MoU to boost affordable rural cellular broadband access

VAUGHAN O'GRADY
07 JULY 2021

Smart Communications, a leading mobile services provider in the Philippines, and AST SpaceMobile, which is building a space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by mobile phones, have signed a memorandum of understanding.

AST SpaceMobile is, it says, building the first and only global broadband cellular network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices, based on its extensive IP and patent portfolio.

This collaboration with Smart aims to look into opportunities to offer the SpaceMobile service to Smart’s customers in rural communities, allowing the company to offer affordable broadband cellular access to the unconnected “for the first time ever”, as Abel Avellan, chairman and CEO of AST SpaceMobile puts it.

The combined effort proposed by the companies would look at ways of extending SpaceMobile cellular broadband connectivity to the Philippines mainland along with its islands (there are more than 7,000 across the Philippines) and the surrounding waters.

Once deployed, AST SpaceMobile says its services will eliminate connectivity gaps faced by at least five billion mobile subscribers and bring cellular broadband to approximately half of the world’s population who remain unconnected, in collaboration with major mobile network operators and wireless infrastructure companies, including Vodafone Group, Rakuten and American Tower.

As for when the service will be up and running, AST is planning its first commercial satellite launches for the second half of 2022 or early 2023; these are expected to provide satellite coverage in 49 countries along the Equator with 20 satellites.

AST plans to achieve full global mobile coverage with 110 satellites by the end of 2023 or early in 2024 – and 5G support with a total of 168 satellites by the end of 2024.

https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/...band-access.html  

Video on Demand Market to Reach $159.62 Billion by 2027; Presence of Several Large Scale

Companies will Provide Impetus to Market Growth, says Fortune Business Insights

Top Players in the global video on demand Market are Alphabet, Inc., Amazon Web Services, Inc., Apple, Inc., Catchplay, CinemaNow, Comcast Corporation, Eros International plc, Fandango Media, LLC, Filmdoo, Gulf DTH FZ LLC, Home Box Office, Inc., HOOQ, Icflix, Iflix, IndieFlix Group, Inc., Joyn GmbH, KWIKmotion, LeEco, Muvi LLC, Netflix, Inc., Rakuten, Inc., Roku, Inc., Tencent Video, Tving, Vivendi, VUDU, Inc., Walt Disney Company, Watcha Play, Youku Tudou, Inc.

Pune, India, July 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global video on demand market size is projected to reach USD 159.62 billion by the end of 2027. The market was worth USD 53.96 billion in 2019 and will exhibit a CAGR of 14.8% during the forecast period, 2020-2027. The increasing smartphone penetration across the world will create several opportunities for market growth. The availability of low cost cloud platforms will emerge in favor of market growth. This information was published by Fortune Business Insights in a report, titled “Video On Demand Market Size, Share & COVID-19 Impact Analysis, By Revenue Model (Subscription Video On Demand (SVoD), Transactional Video On Demand (TVoD), Advertisement Based Video On Demand (AVOD)), Content Type (Sports, Music, TV Entertainment, Kids, Movies, and Others), and Regional Forecast, 2020-2027”. The increasing smartphone penetration across the world will create several opportunities for market growth. The availability of low cost cloud platforms will emerge in favor of market growth.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/...ness-Insights.html  

Yummy vibes: DOT, Viber team up to promote food tourism fest

Published July 9, 2021, 3:43 PM
by Alexandria Dennise San Juan

The Department of Tourism (DOT) has partnered with popular communications platform Viber to promote its “Kain Na!” (Let’s Eat!) Food and Trade Festival, which will showcase the bright spots of the country’s food and farm tourism industries.

“We at the DOT are very happy with this partnership as this will not only help us promote the festival but also promote our food and farm tourism merchants as well,” Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said in a statement on Friday, July 9.

https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/09/...team-up-to-promote-food-tourism-fest/

 

Carousell and Shopback are companies with big ownerships of Rakuten

An entrepreneurship bootcamp with a twist

07 July 2021

A record 230 budding entrepreneurs, including 100 from ASEAN, are picking up vital skills and building key networks these two weeks at the NUS Enterprise Summer Programme in Entrepreneurship 2021.

Prof Tan noted the key role that NUS Enterprise has played in advancing innovation and entrepreneurship at NUS and beyond. “With extensive resources and networks made available to entrepreneurially-minded students, NUS Enterprise has built an environment that is innovative in outlook and supportive in nature,” he said.

Success stories of NUS-supported enterprises that have gone on to make an impact include Carousell, Shopback and PatSnap.

With almost half of the participants from ASEAN, Prof Tan noted the region’s bright prospects. “In 2020, the estimated total GDP of the ASEAN economies came up to over US$3 trillion, a significant increase from the previous years. Countries and markets within ASEAN can complement each other,” he said.

At the opening session, participants also got to hear from successful entrepreneurs, including Mr Marcus Tan, Co-founder of Carousell. He shared extensively on his journey, fielding questions from the students as well as from Professor Tom Kosnik, Lead Instructor for this Summer Programme. Prof Kosnik was an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering, as well as Consulting Professor at NUS Overseas Colleges in Silicon Valley.

Reflecting on his journey in building up Carousell and in expanding the firm regionally, Mr Tan shared that his biggest challenge was in finding the right people with similar values.

“Even as a founder, I was pretty fortunate to have (co-founders) Lucas and Siu Rui. We are similar in terms of motivation, how we wanted to start, what keeps us going, and similar values in terms of what we value in life.”

Mr Tan has had to continue looking out for suitable senior leaders to scale the business, take the company forward, and expand overseas.

https://news.nus.edu.sg/an-entrepreneurship-bootcamp-with-a-twist/  

Altiostar Congratulates Rakuten Mobile on Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards Achievement

TEWKSBURY, Mass., July 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Altiostar today congratulated its partner Rakuten Mobile for winning two 2021 Global Mobile (GLOMO) awards, known as the Oscars of the mobile industry, for its 5G Open RAN on Kubernetes solution at the GSMA Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona last week.

Altiostar congratulated Rakuten Mobile for winning two 2021 Global Mobile (GLOMO) awards at GSMA Mobile World Congress.

Rakuten Mobile won the award for Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough based on its 5G Open RAN on Kubernetes. The network won another honor when a panel of more than 20 CTOs from around the world selected Rakuten Mobile for the CTO Choice: Outstanding Mobile Technology Award.

Altiostar developed the cloud-native, Kubernetes-based Open vRAN software that Rakuten Mobile used to build the network. The network is an industry-first for using cloud native software that converts Open vRAN network elements, including distributed units (DUs) and centralized units (CUs), into containerized applications that are fast to deploy, can be individually upgraded and offer better network scalability.

The resulting 5G network has dramatically improved economics, deployability and scalability, with the operator detailing up to 40% reduction in capital expenditure (CAPEX) and up to 30% decrease in operating expenditure (OPEX) compared to a traditional network deployment.

https://www.finanzen.ch/nachrichten/aktien/...-achievement-1030592883  

Rakuten Advertising führt erweitertes Echtzeit-Multi-Touch-Attributionsangebot mit Wahrscheinlichkeitsmaß ein

Von Rakuten Advertising | 5 July 2021 | MARKETING STRATEGIES

Attribution wird immer gängiger, da Werbetreibende ihre Reichweite über neue Kanäle und Strategien ausdehnen, um Verbraucher über verschiedene Geräte und Plattformen hinweg anzusprechen.
So wie sich die digitale Landschaft weiterentwickelt, so ist auch Rakuten Advertising bestrebt, seinen Kunden einen genauen, objektiven Einblick über die Performance ihrer Marketingkanäle zu bieten.
Es ist für Werbetreibende von entscheidender Bedeutung die wichtigsten Berührungspunkte, die den Kunden über die Customer Journey am meisten beeinflussen und letztlich zur Conversion führen, zu verstehen und herauszufiltern. Denn so erhalten sie den notwendigen Einblick darüber, wie sie ihre Investitionen maximieren und Konsumenten am besten über Plattformen, Geräte und Strategien erreichen können.

Aus diesem Grund arbeiten wir mit LeadsRX zusammen, einer führenden Marketing-Attributionssoftware, die Vermarktern Einblicke und Technologien zur Verfügung stellt, um die Performance über alle Marketingkanäle hinweg besser zu verstehen – sowohl online als auch offline.

https://blog.rakutenadvertising.com/de-de/...und-offline-conversions/
 

AST SPACEMOBILE OPENS UK HEADQUARTERS

Midland, Texas, headquartered Space Celluar Network Operator, AST Spacemobile Inc announced the opening of the UK Headquarters in Space Park Leicester, making the UK location its fifth global location after Texas, Maryland, Spain, and Israel. Since its IPO in early April 2021, shares of the company have returned approximately 23% as of July 09, 2021. Interestingly, the current CEO and Chairman of Rakuten, Inc, Mr. Mickey Mikitani, serves in the AST Spacemobile Inc’s Board of Directors. Before its IPO, the company highlighted Rakuten, Inc and the Vodafone Group as its lead investors on March 3, 2020.

https://www.marketrama.com/home/...ama-ei6i3smnpzbwzo6mp1fxs9i9hu3w1d
 

Global Audiobook Market in Europe market size is estimated to grow at CAGR of almost 19% with USD 1.23 billion during the forecast period 2021-2025.

List of Key Players Covered in Audiobook Market in Europe Market:

Alphabet Inc.
Amazon.com Inc.
Apple Inc.
Barnes & Noble Inc.
DOWNPOUR
OverDrive Inc.
Penguin Random House LLC
Rakuten Inc.
Storytel AB
W.F.HOWES LTD

https://tramways-monthly.com/...ption-value-in-development-provinces/
 

MWC 2021 - the OpenRAN journey, from concept to deployments

Published by Peter Whale on 1 Jul 2021

Last modified 1 Jul 2021

So how are we doing in terms of commercial scale roll-outs? The message is that Open RAN has left the labs and is now rolling out commercially. Vodafone is moving from trials to first commercial deployments, initially in the UK, with 2,500 sites. Sushil Rawat from Rakuten Mobile spoke of having deployed 15,000 4G base stations with Open RAN and an initial 1,000 with 5G, using a disaggregated software and hardware solution. Telefonica has been running extensive trials for the past three years, and is preparing for rollout with scale from 2022 onwards.

Finally our panellists were asked how Open RAN makes the world a better place. Open RAN is a key capability enabler to be able to reach more people more efficiently who need access to communication services, extending coverage and reach - and so reducing the scale of the digital divide and democratising access to the Internet.

https://uk5g.org/5g-updates/read-articles/...-concept-to-deployments/
 

Telecom Egypt announces Open RAN trial with Altiostar, Cisco

By Catherine Sbeglia on JULY 8, 2021

Telecom Egypt is working on a proof-of-concept trial for Open RAN solutions in Egypt. With support from Altiostar, Cisco, the Evenstar program and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the operator is exploring how Open RAN can offer greater vendor flexibility and lead to an “open, multivendor and disaggregated network.

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20210708/open_ran/...with-altiostar-cisco  

Telecom Egypt will also test Altiostar’s Open vRAN common software platform

As part of the trial, Telecom Egypt will use an Evenstar radio unit in its initial OpenRAN deployment. Evenstar is a program focused on accelerating OpenRAN adoption by building general-purpose OpenRAN reference architecture for 4G and 5G networks. By decoupling the radio unit (RU) hardware, distributed unit (DU), and control unit (CU) software of the RAN, which are traditionally sold as a package, Evenstar provides operators like Telecom Egypt with the flexibility to deploy solutions from an increasing number of technology providers, while expanding its network coverage in Egypt.

Additionally, Telecom Egypt will test Cisco’s Edge Computing Technology and Cisco’s fronthaul transport solution for the OpenRAN cell sites. This will provide validation of a complete, end-to-end OpenRAN network. Telecom Egypt will also test Altiostar’s Open vRAN common software platform for the DU and CU functions.

https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/...al-with-altiostar