Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

2/06/2020
How to buy from Rakuten Ichiba – Japan’s largest online shopping mall!

What is Rakuten Ichiba?

Rakuten Ichiba is one of Japan’s largest online shopping malls, with everything from fashion to figures offered by individual merchants running their own storefronts. Until June 2020, Rakuten operated a service known as Rakuten Global Market that allowed overseas shoppers to connect with sellers on Rakuten Ichiba. Although Rakuten Global Market has ceased operations, that doesn’t mean your Rakuten shopping has to stop! With FROM JAPAN’s proxy shopping service, you can continue to shop on Rakuten with ease.

By using FROM JAPAN you will have access to all of the stores on Rakuten Ichiba – not just those that offer overseas shipping. FROM JAPAN also does regular campaigns for Rakuten Ichiba so you can save when you shop with FJ! Read on to see how simple it is to order from Rakuten Ichiba with FROM JAPAN’s proxy shopping service.

How to buy from Rakuten Ichiba with FROM JAPAN
As Rakuten Global Market has now closed, you will need to access Rakuten from the Japanese-language Rakuten Ichiba site.

You can run Rakuten Ichiba through Google Translate for a basic understanding of the site but if you have any specific questions about a particular store or item, please contact our multilingual Customer Service team.
Once you’ve found the item you want to purchase, all you have to do is simply copy and paste the URL into FROM JAPAN’s search bar to add it to your cart.

https://blog.fromjapan.co.jp/en/how-to/...t-online-shopping-mall.html  

One way to make content more accessible is AVOD – a new ad-supported video-on-demand service – that allows consumers to watch video-on-demand content for free with adverts. Only 27% of consumers believe it’s likely illegal streaming would continue if content was more readily available on AVOD platforms in particular.

AVOD’s role in entertaining audiences in lockdown and post pandemic

Currently 37% of UK consumers are aware of AVOD offerings. 74% believe their use of AVOD will remain at the level established during lockdown and 60% say they are likely to sign up to AVOD offerings when the service is described to them.

For those consumers that watch major sporting events, now presents an exciting moment as the broadcast of football, golf and horseracing starts again with the easing of lockdown. Across Europe, 26% would be interested in streaming sport on an AVOD service, placing this ahead of all other streaming options, including pay-per-view and monthly subscription services.

More than ever, it is important to offer a variety of solutions that stop consumers being priced out of watching video and sourcing illegal content. Anthony Capano, Managing Director, International, at Rakuten Advertising comments, “Offering alternative VOD models is key to meeting these consumer demands and responding to changing viewing habits. Consumers want access to more entertainment and research suggests they are happy to watch ads in return for it.”

AVOD offers advertisers huge opportunity

AVOD means brands can finally connect with audiences who are consuming on demand video. 46% of UK consumers say ads that are funny, engaging, or entertaining will increase their likeliness of using an AVOD service.

Capano adds, “During this lockdown period it is crucial for brands to continue advertising and stay connected to their customers in ways that resonate. 41% of consumers in the UK want brands to communicate with them in a realistic fashion during this time of uncertainty, and 39% believe brands that emotionally understand people will succeed post pandemic. AVOD can associate brands with enjoyable content that is helping people escape today’s challenges.”

Capano concludes, “Not only can brands benefit from advertising on platforms that are entertaining people, they can be part of a new VOD model that responds to audiences’ desire for content that is accessible.”

https://rakutenadvertising.com/en-uk/...t-during-lockdown-and-beyond/  

Lyft promises switch to 100% electric vehicles by 2030
Reuters•June 17, 2020

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...-switch-100-electric-184147895.html
 

June 25, 2020 - 7:00 pm Time Zone: BST Duration: 1 hour

Rakuten Mobile is rewriting the instruction manual for how to build a telecoms business as it shifts ambition from being an mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to running its own mobile network. The company has set itself the objective of constructing the world’s first cloud-native mobile infrastructure. It will be fully software-controlled, thereby enabling an unparalleled level of flexibility. The company says it will cost about 35% less to run than a traditional telecoms network.

As the company launches its service, the focus turns more to its commercial strategy. Where and how will Rakuten Mobile adopt and leverage the key assets, capabilities, and customer relationship principles of its parent organization?

During this webinar, we examine the technology, business, and customer management strategies of Rakuten Mobile and how they come together in a commercial offering.

If you have a specific question submit it here and will try to cover it during the discussion.

Speakers:

Tareq Amin
CTO & Group Executive VP, Rakuten Mobile

Mark Newman
Chief Analyst, TM Forum

Azhar Sayeed
Chief Architect, Service Provider Red Hat

Itai Weissman
VP Partners Solutions, Allot

Ari Banerjee
Vice President - Strategy, Netcracker Technology

https://inform.tmforum.org/webinars/rakuten-mobile-no-ordinary-telco/

 

Rakuten Mobile is deploying 10,000 radio stations: CEO
By Juan Pedro Tomás on MAY 14, 2020APAC, Business, Carriers, LTE, Network Infrastructure, Wireless

New Japanese market entrant Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has already activated a total of 4,738 radio stations in the country, which is more than the 3,432 initially planned, Rakuten Mobile chairman and CEO Mickey Mikitani said during a conference call with investors.
Mikitani said that including those radio stations with contracts signed, the company will soon achieve 10,000 radio stations.

“The challenges that we are faced with is about construction of base stations in big cities,” the executive said.

Mikitani also said that Rakuten Mobile expects to cover 70% of the Japanese population with its network by March 2021.

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20200514/asia-pacific/...dio-stations-ceo  

Business Heavyweight Rakuten Offers Bitcoin ‘Cashback’ on Pizza Delivery

By Tim Alper
May 28, 2020

https://cryptonews.com/news/...s-bitcoin-cashback-on-pizza-d-6658.htm
 

product that is as simple as click, purchase, and deploy

Rakuten also announced that it planned to acquire Virginia-based Innoeye, which has been providing the operator with a converged operating support system (OSS) platform for its 4G LTE and 5G network. Amin had previously stated that the carrier was having more challenges than anticipated in getting OSS and business support systems (BSS) in place for its network architecture.

Financial terms of the deal were not announced, but it follows a similar move by the operator last year when it gained a controlling interest in open radio access network (open RAN) supplier Altiostar.
The Innoeye platform will also be integrated into Rakuten’s Communications Platform, which the carrier is putting together as a sort of pre-packaged set of platforms that other operators can use to deploy a fully virtualized cloud-native network architecture.

That platform will include a “cluster” component targeted at edge and central computing hardware; a “functions” component for 5G vRAN and core network functions operating in cloud-native environment; an “automator” component that is the OSS/BSS part that Innoeye will be joining to provide network and customer lifecycle management; a “concierge” component for dealing with backend services; and a “marketplace” that will act as an app store for accessing and updating services from multiple vendors.

“Since we first envisioned the launch of Rakuten Mobile two years ago, we have also planned to bring to market our own expertise and technology stack as a unique service that will enable operators around the world to deploy fully cloud-native telco networks of the future,” Amin said in a statement tied to the Innoeye purchase. “With the planned acquisition of Innoeye, we are one step closer to closing the circle in bringing to market a carrier-grade telco cloud product that is as simple as click, purchase, and deploy.”

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/...-plans-bleed-red/2020/05/
 

Global Cross-Border Electronic Commerce Market (2020-2026) | Latest COVID19 Impact Analysis | Know About Brand Players: Amazon, Walmart, Rakuten, Inc, Aliexpress.com, etc. | InForGrowth

By basavraj
June 19, 2020

The Top players are Amazon, Walmart, Rakuten, Inc, Aliexpress.com, Alibaba.com, Ebay, JD.com, Flipkart, Lazada, OLX Inc., LightInTheBox.
 

https://3wnews.org/news/1484582/...nc-aliexpress-com-etc-inforgrowth/  

Die Streamingdienste Joyn, MagentaTV und Rakuten TV erfreuen sich immer größerer Beliebtheit.
Sie bieten im Vergleich zu den bekannten Plattformen wie Netflix viele einzigartige Vorteile.

Sie wollen neben den etablierten Streamingdiensten wie Netflix*, Sky* und Prime Video* mal etwas Neues ausprobieren? Kein Problem, denn die genannten Kandidaten sind noch lange nicht die einzigen Plattformen auf dem Streaming-Markt. In Wahrheit drängen sich insbesondere drei Namen immer mehr ins Rampenlicht: Joyn, MagentaTV und Rakuten TV.

https://www.tz.de/leben/serien/...e-filme-serien-abo-zr-13753538.html
 

of information exchange

While you wait for the answers from Croatian Border Police to check the real-life experiences of tourists coming to Croatia and get your questions answered in our Viber community, Total Croatia Travel INFO - you will need to download the Viber app. This Viber community has been an excellent source of information exchange, where tourist questions are getting answered in real-time. Here are 10 things I learned from the Viber community in the first days. If you have a question or some verified useful travel info to contribute, join us.

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/travel/43707-croatia-corona-travel

10 Things I Learned Starting the Total Croatia Travel INFO Viber Community

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/...n-croatia/43794-viber-community  

https://de.igraal.com/erfahrungen/rakuten  

At Lyft, we made a choice. Rather than hunker down and ride out COVID-19, we chose to stand up and accelerate our efforts to address the climate crisis. With transportation recently overtaking electricity as the single largest source of planet-disrupting greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution in the US and the second-largest source in Canada, we believe now is the time for Lyft to lead a radical shift in strategy.
That’s why today, Lyft – in collaboration with Environmental Defense Fund – is announcing its commitment to reach 100% electric vehicles on the Lyft platform by 2030. By working with drivers to transition to electric vehicles, we have the potential to avoid tens of millions of metric tons of GHG emissions to the atmosphere and to reduce gasoline consumption by more than a billion gallons over the next decade.

“Now more than ever, we need to work together to create cleaner, healthier, and more equitable communities,” said John Zimmer, co-founder and president, Lyft. “Success breeds success, and if we do this right, it creates a path for others.  If other rideshare and delivery companies, automakers and rental car companies make this shift, it can be the catalyst for transforming transportation as a whole."

Reaching 100% won’t be easy, but we’ve already begun the work needed to get there. Last year we launched hundreds of EVs onto the Lyft platform through Express Drive in Seattle, Atlanta, and Denver. In Colorado, for example, we built on the incredible leadership of Governor Polis and policymakers to allow our Express Drive rental partners’ vehicles to be eligible for state tax incentives. This win-win enabled the introduction of hundreds of new EVs in the greater Denver area – one of the largest EV deployments in the nation to date.

https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/...g-the-transition-to-zero-emissions
 

aber Verdoppelung in den letzten sechs Jahren

Gross merchandise sales value (GMS) of Rakuten Rewards from 4th quarter 2014 to 1st quarter 2020(in million U.S. dollars)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/586575/...chandise-sales-quarter/
 

Jun 15, 2020,10:17am EDT

Glovo CEO Sees Acceleration And Consolidation In Food Delivery Post-Covid-19

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathankeane/2020/...d-19/#71e22c0c6c0c
 

but the post-virus era will be their time to adapt and expand

Perhaps some of the most immediate changes will be in the ways we buy and sell products in our everyday lives. I’ve always been a fan of diverse marketplaces and shopping malls, both offline and online, and Japan is renowned for the depth and breadth of its retail landscape. But even here in Japan, where the lockdown was not as strict as some regions, shoppers increasingly turned to e-commerce for new product categories, like fresh and prepared foods, and were more adventurous in their purchases of fashion, home goods and takeout. Restaurants and retailers alike turned to e-commerce tools and platforms to keep their businesses afloat in difficult times.

Businesses that interact face-to-face with customers are moving even more rapidly to take up cashless payment systems and online financial services for consumers are flourishing.

https://rakuten.today/blog/post-lockdown-business-changes.html
 

about her plans

By Linda Hardesty
Jun 22, 2020 12:41pm

Azita Arvani is heading up Rakuten Mobile’s new office in the United States, where the Japanese company plans to sell its Rakuten Communications Platform to operators in the Americas.
The Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) is comprised of all the learnings Rakuten Mobile compiled while it was building its greenfield 4G network in Japan. The new network is built with common-off-the-shelf hardware and open software, a completely new and innovative way to build a wireless network.

Rakuten Mobile plans to now take all those learnings, via RCP, and offer them for sale to other network operators around the world.

“So many operators have said ‘we want to do the same thing,’” said Arvani. “I call it the ‘easy button’ where we take all our learnings and knowledge, and that was the inspiration for RCP.”
RCP combines the technology blueprint and playbook of Rakuten’s cloud-native mobile network so others don’t have to reinvent the wheel. It will be made available with an app-store-like interface where customers can tailor the platform to their local requirements.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/operators/...ger-talks-about-her-plans

 

die in der Anschaffung teuer sind und mindestens eine halbe Million Kilometer fahren müssen - für die meisten Privatleute unerschwinglich. Aber durch die wegfallenden Personalkosten werden diese Taxis billiger und immer mehr das private Auto verdrängen.

Und deshalb halte ich Lyft und auch Cabify für gute Investitionen von Rakuten.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...-didi-aims-1-million-120722956.html  

How hotels, small- and medium-size businesses across Japan are helping to build a mobile network
2 days ago

Building a new mobile network from scratch is no walk in the park. To reach a population of over 120 million, you need antennas. Lots of antennas.

Just over two years ago, Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications gave Rakuten the green light to build the country’s fourth major mobile carrier network. Chasing what many said was an impossible deadline, Rakuten hit the ground running.

A deep history of partnering with small- and medium-size enterprises

The answer lies in Rakuten’s two decades of partnering with small- and medium-sized businesses around Japan. Launched in 1997, Rakuten Ichiba’s founding mission was based on using the power of the internet to empower businesses — especially those in depopulated rural areas left behind by mass migration to large cities. Today, some 50,000 merchants from across the country populate the Rakuten Ichiba marketplace.

Meanwhile, since its launch in 2001, the Rakuten Travel platform has worked to connect travelers with hotels, hot springs, ryokan (Japanese-style inns) and all kinds of leisure facilities. These are just two of more than 70 different online services Rakuten run in Japan based on a similar core philosophy. The result is a grassroots network of tens of thousands of small- and medium-sized Japanese businesses, with many relationships that span decades.

The understanding and cooperation of many of those businesses is at the heart of the national rollout of Rakuten’s mobile network infrastructure.

https://rakuten.today/blog/...ses-help-to-build-a-mobile-network.html  

Rakuten takes first step towards a hybrid operator/vendor telco

Written by Jamie Davies

03 June 2020

Rakuten and NEC will develop a containerized standalone (SA) 5G core network, which will become one of the first products available on the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP).

Although any news or developments coming out of Tokyo are of interest to the world nowadays, there are two very distinct elements to this announcement. Firstly, the creation of a containerized SA 5G core network, and secondly, the emergence of a hybrid telco model, where Rakuten is an operator but also a vendor, selling products to other telcos who want to embrace the open revolution.

https://telecoms.com/504726/...owards-a-hybrid-operator-vendor-telco/
 

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Rakuten's 5G roll-out on track; eyes taking tech abroad this year
Published26 JUNE, 2020UPDATED 26 JUNE, 2020

BANGALORE/TOKYO - Rakuten Inc <4755.T> said on Friday its Japanese wireless network was on track to begin 5G services in September, after being forced to delay the introduction by three months due to disruption from the coronavirus outbreak.

Rakuten's domestic network began commercial 4G services in April and has become an industry talking point with its promise of radically cutting costs for telco entrants because it uses cloud-based software and commoditised hardware instead of proprietary equipment.

The pandemic hit its 5G testing in India by vendor Altiostar Networks, in which Rakuten owns around half the equity, Rakuten Mobile's Chief Technology Officer Tareq Amin said in an interview, with the testing backlog cleared by replicating operations in Japan.

"We're meeting our milestones, which gives me very big confidence," Amin said of the new timeline. He joined Rakuten in 2018 from Reliance Jio, whose low prices transformed India's mobile market.

The Japanese e-commerce and payments firm also plans to offer technology which allows companies to create their own networks, dubbed Rakuten Communications Platform, to companies overseas. Amin said testing of the platform would begin in October.

The first customers could join the platform by year-end, Amin said, with companies already showing interest.

Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/world/...ack-eyes-taking-tech-abroad-year





 

Rakuten Rewards Wins at The Drum Marketing Awards USA 2020
JUNE 26, 2020

On April 30, 2020, Rakuten Rewards won at The Drum Marketing Awards USA 2020 in two categories: Best in Rebrand/Relaunch and Best in Brand Content Strategy, for its successful multi-year effort to rebrand its Cash Back portal from Ebates to Rakuten Rewards.

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/innovation/rnn/2020/2004_015/
 

Testsieger über alle E-Book-Reader: Tolino Epos 2

Für den Tolino Epos 2 kann man seinen Buchshop frei wählen und zugleich auf Leihinhalte von Büchereien zugreifen. Besonderheit: Der Reader hat eine Bildschirmdiagonale von 8 Zoll. Für klassische E-Book-Reader ist das groß und freut vor allem Leser, die nicht mehr gute Augen haben (und deshalb eine große Schrift einstellen) oder gerne PDFs aufrufen. Hierfür ist der Epos 2 besser als die kleineren Modelle geeignet. Vom A4-Format ist er allerdings noch weit entfernt. In unserem Test stellten wir fest, dass man bei Magazinen ohne hineinzuzoomen und zu scrollen meist nicht weit kommt.

Beeindruckt hat uns das leicht flexible Gehäuse und Display, das einiges aushält, ohne gleich zu brechen. Lesen ist selbst bei Sonnenschein sehr angenehm. So ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass die Stiftung Warentest im Test 5/2020 dem Tolino Epos 2 die Gesamtnote 1,6 verlieh. Damit ist das Lesegerät der Testsieger. Für viele Interessenten dürfte er angesichts der Größe und vor allem des hohen Preises dennoch nicht in Frage kommen.

Vorteile:
         •§Großes und sehr gutes Display mit Beleuchtung (inkl. Farbtemperaturanpassung)
         •§Sehr robustes Gehäuse
         •§Freie Shopwahl, Onleihe möglich
Nachteile:
         • Teuer
§
https://www.giga.de/artikel/...-besten-lesegeraete-im-vergleich-2020/
 

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THE OPEN VRAN MARKET IS ALIVE AND KICKING
June 25, 2020

LightCounting releases its vRAN and open RAN Market Size, Share, and Forecast Report.
Since the launch of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), a Facebook initiative, the open virtual radio access network (RAN) market has gathered a great momentum that is shaking the traditional RAN establishment controlled by Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, NEC, Nokia, Samsung and ZTE.

This momentum is also creating a lot of confusion. First, the virtualization of RAN functions, which consists of disaggregating hardware from software to run the functions on software only, started a decade ago; that is what virtual RAN (vRAN) is. Second, a non-virtualized traditional RAN can become an open RAN if at least the 3GPP-defined interfaces between the radio units (RUs) and the baseband unit (BBU) are open, allowing interoperability between various RU and BBU suppliers. Finally, decomposing the BBU into a distributed unit (DU) that connects the RU and a central unit (CU) that is connected to the core network through a management system has become the de facto new 4G and 5G architectures paving the way for major initiatives aimed at specifying various open interfaces, including the RAN intelligent controller (RIC) between the CU and the network management system. TIP and the ORAN Alliance, created in 2018, are accelerating the development of open interfaces, which in turn leads to commercial large-scale deployments such as Rakuten Mobile in Japan and Internet para Todos in Latin America. These developments have led to the formation of a vast open vRAN ecosystem.

Consequently, Shown in Figure E-1, LightCounting’s vRAN and open RAN market forecast we expect the open vRAN market to grow 240% over 2019 growth this year, and our long-term forecast points to total sales of more than $1.5B with the market growing at a 2020-2025 CAGR of 67%, taking a small cut at the traditional RAN market, and potentially replacing indoor distributed antenna systems (DAS) in the long run.

https://www.lightcounting.com/light-trends/...rket-alive-and-kicking/