Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

- und daher habe ich mir nach dem Einstieg bei Alibaba, die inzwischem mehr als 20% gut gemacht haben, auch einige Rakutens gekauft.

Look Out Amazon, Here Comes...Rakuten?
Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten announced on Tuesday it is acquiring Ebates for $1 billion.

The acquisition, which Rakuten hinted at last week, is part of the Japanese company?s push to grow its base beyond its domestic market and hopefully, become a global player. Having made some $1.2 billion acquisitions to date along these lines, this is Rakuten?s most ambitious move to date.

However, investors are dubious that the company can absorb yet another foreign acquisition, much less one the size of Ebates, despite Rakuten?s strong cash position.
Then there is the ever-present Amazon, which dominates the e-commerce market in the U.S. Few believe it will falter in the face of Chinese giant Alibaba, much less a Rakuten-Ebates combo.

Rakuten Goes Forth

Not surprisingly, Rakuten says it is undaunted. For starters, it has assembled a very interesting mix of acquisitions. There is messaging app Viber, which it purchased for $900 million in February, the Canadian ebook offering Kobo, Spanish video service Wuaki.tv, Viki, a digital content platform and Buy.com.
Now it has picked up Ebates.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikamorphy/2014/09/...ere-comes-rakuten/  

Matt Kapko | Editor January 23, 2020 6:57 PM

Rakuten Mobile has since reached its previously stated goal of activating 3,000 4G LTE base stations by 2020, and said it?s on pace to exceed the minimum target of 3,432 base stations required by Japanese regulators in March.

Throughout the trial, which got underway in October 2019, Rakuten Mobile says it has consistently improved service and expanded its coverage area. The trial service is now available in Tokyo?s 23 wards, in addition to Kobe, Nagoya, and Osaka.

Rakuten Mobile President Yoshihisa Yamada said the operator?s cloud-native network architecture enables the company to operate at lower costs and reduced capex. ?It also allows for the flexible deployment of new services as we?re not dependent on dedicated hardware,? he said in prepared remarks. ?And finally, it allows for the simple, fast, and low-cost implementation of 5G since this is essentially a software upgrade for us.?

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/...-launch-in-april/2020/01/

 

Rakuten Mobile says it?s making steady progress deploying 4G base stations with more than 3,000 now on air and a target of 4,400 base stations by the time it makes its commercial launch as a mobile network operator in April.

The company is in the midst of a trial period for its mobile network. It launched its Free Supporter Program in October 2019 with 5,000 participants. Today, it announced the expansion of the trial to an additional 20,000 participants.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/operators/...aunch-4-400-base-stations
 

zusammen, ob die Fahrer von dem Verdienst leben können:

https://gridwise.io/how-much-do-rideshare-drivers-make

Nur gerade so, meine ich. Und das ist eine Schwachstelle, wenn es nicht gelingt die Preise anzuheben.  

Uber and Lyft approved in Lower Mainland
BY KATHRYN TINDALE AND MARCELLA BERNARDO
Posted Jan 23, 2020 11:15 am PST
Last Updated Jan 23, 2020 at 9:24 pm PST

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) ? The long-awaited approval of popular ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft has finally arrived in B.C.

Demand has been high, especially in Metro Vancouver, where people who?ve already downloaded these apps have been complaining about a lack of cab service for years.

The Passenger Transportation Board approved the ride-hailing companies for the Lower Mainland and Whistler on Thursday.

https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/01/23/...proved-in-metro-vancouver/
 

with its First Autos Fest

Hong Kong, 14 January 2020 ? Carousell, one of the world?s largest and fastest growing classifieds, invites you to be a part of its first ever Autos Fest in Hong Kong, to celebrate the category?s second year anniversary in the region. With Chinese New Year right around the corner, the event promises a lively atmosphere and wide range of engaging activities for the whole family!

On its platform, Carousell Autos provides everything autos-related, from second-hand cars to service providers and even useful information and tips for its users. In the two short years since its Autos launch, Carousell has seen a fourfold increase in vehicle listings. Celebrating this vast growth and marking its two year anniversary, the Carousell Autos Fest brings to life its unique proposition of being the ?one stop for all.?

With over 250 million listings, we are one of the world?s largest and fastest growing marketplaces in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and is backed by Telenor, Rakuten Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Naspers, 500 Startups, Golden Gate Ventures, DBS and EDBI. The Carousell marketplace has a diverse range of products across a variety of categories, including cars, lifestyle, gadgets and fashion accessories.

https://www.jumpstartmag.com/...-hong-kong-with-its-first-autos-fest/
 

 

Jan 23, 2020, 04:57pm

Paul Talbot Contributor
CMO Network
I write about marketing strategy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultalbot/2020/01/...owth/#5da4125a4026
 

Stephen Curry Announces 2020 Underrated Tour Powered By Rakuten

The Six-Time NBA All-Star Continues to Bridge the Gap Between Opportunity and Talent for Basketball's Next Generation of Underrated Athletes Across North America This Spring
Registration for All Tour Stops (Chicago, Dallas, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles), Free to All Participants, is OPEN NOW

NEWS PROVIDED BY
SC30, Inc.
Jan 22, 2020, 15:44 ET
 

https://www.sleepadvisor.org/airweave-mattress-review/  

Inside Kilian Jornet

The VOD platform builds on its strategy to offer exclusive and free content in its ?FREE? section
January 21, 2020 05:22 AM Eastern Standard Time

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rakuten TV has announced today that its latest exclusive offering, Inside Killian Jornet, a documentary about the legend of mountaineering and extreme sports, Kilian Jornet, will be released for free exclusively on the platform from February 13th.

Filmed over the course of a year with exclusive access to the famed sportsman, Inside Kilian Jornet will follow Kilian across his world tour in 2019, offering viewers a unique and insightful experience following the mountaineers tour across 10 cities in Europe, Asia and the United States.

Inside Kilian Jornet will be released on Rakuten TV?s ?FREE? section, sitting alongside recent exclusive releases Matchday ? Inside FC Barcelona and documentary MessiCirque, making it available to view without cost in the 42 countries in which the platform is operative.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/...xclusive-Documentary-Kilian
 

Operationalize Your Machine Learning Life Cycle

Five Fortune 500 banks and financial institutions use the AI Layer to operationalize their machine learning life cycle. Due to the confidential nature of their R&D projects, we?ve developed a hybrid case study aggregating our work across the industry.

Algorithmia enabled the Fortune 500 banks to:

Manage their portfolio of ML models

Operate in a secure, auditable, and governed work space

With Algorithmia?s deployment engineers, the financial services deployed the AI Layer in a variety of different environments, across multiple cloud providers, connecting many data sources. In several cases, the resulting system had to pass through a detailed security review.

https://info.algorithmia.com/...une-500-financial-services-case-study
 

Frauen mit kleinen Hosentaschen können endlich aufatmen: Mit dem Rakuten Mini gibt's jetzt ein Smartphone, welches in noch so kleine Hände und Taschen passt. Der Haken? Das Mini-Handy gibt's vorerst nur in Japan.

by Hannes Brecher, 24.01.2020

Nach dem Palm-Phone (270 Euro auf Amazon) bietet nun auch Rakuten ein Mini-Smartphone an. Das Unternehmen ist ansonsten vor allem für seinen Online-Shop und die Kobo-eReader bekannt, mit dem Rakuten Mini zeigt der Konzern nun auch ein Handy mit einem 3,6 Zoll 720p-Display, einem Qualcomm Snapdragon 439, 3 GB RAM, 32 GB Speicher, Android 9, einer 16 MP Kamera, LTE und USB-C an.
Rakuten verzichtet dabei komplett auf eine SIM-Karte und setzt auf eine eSIM. Das Rakuten Mini gibt's in Japan für 21.800 Yen (ca. 180 Euro) in den Farben Rot, Weiß und Schwarz. Ob und wann das Gerät nach Europa kommt ist noch nicht klar, bis dahin gibt es aber alle Informationen zum Rakuten Mini auf der japanischen Webseite des Unternehmens.

https://www.notebookcheck.com/...er-kleine-Hosentaschen.451256.0.html
 

Rakuten first entered the mobile phone sector in October 2014 as a virtual mobile network operator, using other wireless carriers? networks.

The start of its full-scale service is expected to intensify competition in the country?s saturated market, which is dominated by three major telecom carriers ? NTT Docomo Inc., KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Corp.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/23/...service/#.XixYz3dFwdU
 

The 12 BEST Self-Publishing Companies of 2020
Rakuten Kobo
Pricing: Free to upload
Royalties: 70% on books priced more than $2.99 in the U.S. OR 45% for books priced below $2.99 ? more info here

Rakuten Kobo is the last big retailer that you should know. It?s a Canadian company (that?s a subsidiary of the Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten) ? as such, it?s got a strong reach in the international eBook market. However, it?s only the #5 store in terms of market share in the U.S., though it?s growing year by year.

Kobo Writing Life is Kobo's free-to-use self-publishing arm ? and it's fairly simple to use! Kobo?s international focus is also a sweet bonus if you?re aiming to sell your eBook in countries outside of the U.S. Don?t forget that distributing to Kobo through Kobo Writing Life (rather than an aggregator) gives you several perks, too, one of which is access to some exclusive promotion opportunities on Kobo.

https://blog.reedsy.com/best-self-publishing-companies/  

Rakuten Global Express is an overseas shipping service for products purchased on Rakuten or other shopping websites, which are combined together at our warehouse in Japan and then shipped overseas. It is perfect for you if you want to save on shipping by combining products purchased on multiple different websites into one package, or want to buy products from shops that don't provide overseas shipping.

https://globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp/?lang=en
 

of online shoppers

With a panel of millions of online shoppers, Rakuten Intelligence gives the most detailed, and accurate digital commerce data available, and is reported daily.

is the only service to measure digital commerce directly from the consumer, across all retailers, at the item level, and over time. Our retailer-independent methodology precisely measures commerce as it happens. By extracting detailed information from hundreds of millions of aggregated and anonymized e-receipts, Rakuten Intelligence can map the entire Purchase Graph, connecting each and every consumer to all their purchases.

Rakuten Intelligence gets its data from e-receipts ? not a browser, app or software installed by the end-user ? so its measurement reflects comprehensive shopping behavior across multiple devices, over time, which are key in an increasingly omnichannel retail world. Rakuten Intelligence is the exclusive e-commerce data provider for NPD?s Checkout Tracking e-commerce service.

https://www.rakutenintelligence.com/blog/2020/feminine-care-dtc
 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1006760/...etail-ecommerce-sales/  

It?s not enough to rely strictly on your own internal key performance indicators. In e-commerce today, success lies with those who are more effective than their competitors, which requires an understanding of your own performance relative to the market. Only Rakuten Intelligence keeps you ahead of the competition with the essential data you need to win in the dynamic and increasingly critical e-commerce channel.

The largest e-commerce panel: Millions of shoppers under measurement.

The most comprehensive shopper data anywhere: Longitudinal behavior from item-level transactions across all devices.

Benchmark performance and drivers: A complete view of e-commerce, across any brand and hundreds of retailers.

Merchandising: Make better merchandising decisions with buyer and competitor visibility.

Buyer behavior and preferences: Improve your marketing strategies with unparalleled behavioral data.

Differentiate through shipping: Ship smarter: Optimize fulfillment investments and increase customer satisfaction.

https://www.rakutenintelligence.com/industries/retailers
 

https://www.coverager.com/...st-offers-product-insurance-via-chatbot/  

New subscribers who also purchase a Rakuten Mobile compatible device will be awarded 18,000 Rakuten Super Points and can receive an additional 1,000 Rakuten Super Points each month for the duration of the program for using the service including Rakuten Link and sharing feedback on the network.

https://www.telecomtv.com/content/news/...-20-000-participants-37471/
 

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness on 14th November 2019

Live Nation has partnered with e-commerce firm Rakuten to offer new members rewards and exclusive ticket offers to concerts.

The deal will provide various promotional and digital marketing activations across Live Nation and Rakuten online channels.


The Japanese firm allows users to earn cash back on almost everything they buy, and has paid more than $1.5bn in cash back on purchases from more than 3,500 retailers and online services in the past 20 years, making it the largest loyalty program of its kind.


Under the agreement, new loyalty members will earn a $50 Ticketmaster Ticket Cash code following their first qualifying purchase. The Ticket Cash code can be redeemed towards select events available on Ticketmaster, including Live Nation concerts, sporting events, theatre and more.

?We?re on a mission to deliver new and rewarding experiences to our members, and this collaboration with Live Nation is a big milestone,? said Amit Patel, chief executive of Rakuten Americas and Rakuten Rewards. ?Joining the ranks of Live Nation?s partners demonstrates the immense value we provide to consumers.?

https://www.theticketingbusiness.com/2019/11/14/...ckets-new-members/  

Chris Hoare, wenn Ihr die obigen Postings zu Rakuten Mobile lest, bisher nicht:

https://www.newstreetresearch.com/download-page/...trants/#more-23290  

stark beeinflusst haben, halte ich allerdings für möglich.

Mit welcher Motivation der Autor solche Berichte schreibt, die diametral zu den Aussagen von Rakuten stehen, lasse ich hier einmal offen.  

Rakuten-Investoren und solchen, die es eventuell werden wollen (wobei ich Kurzfristzocker eher nicht für geeignet halte):

Rakuten Pay Mobile Payment Service of Choice - Rakuten Technology Conference 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrpPfrt75dM
 

Rakuten Mobile is on track to launch full commercial services in April of this year. The new network architecture allows flexible deployment of new services and lays the groundwork for simple and speedy implementation of 5G. With substantial reduction of capital investment and operation costs, it also allows the operator to pass on significant savings to customers.

https://disruptive.asia/...nts/?utm_source=nyoooz&utm_medium=post