Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

haben in Acorns  investiert.

www.acorns.com/about/

Millionen US-Dollar im Jahr (hochgrechnet von Q2/18, 1 Yen = 0,009 US-Dollar( und einem Gewinnwachstum von ca. 30& wert?

"And in Q2/2018 the fintech-net-income increases again to 24,0 billion.
Japanese yen."
secure.irwebcasting.com/20180806/2/...0bb/mov/main/index.html

„FinTech business, it's also growing very strongly. The revenue up by 28.2% year-on-year, and non-GAAP operating income was up 31.5% year-on-year.“
finance.yahoo.com/news/...ript-4755-t-earnings-172921370.html

von Rakuten in Q2/18 so bewertet wie die des deutschen Fintechs  Hypoport, das in Q2/18 einen Gewinn von 6,979 Millionen aufwies (nach 6,527 Millionen in Q2/17),
www.hypoport.de/hypoport/uploads/2018/07/...lbjahr_2018-1.pdf (und dort auf Seite 26)
müsste allein der Fintech-Bereich von Rakuten mit 39,6 Milliarden bewertet werden, wwenn man die gestrige Bewertung von Hypoport als Maßstab nimmt.

If the $ 401 million (1 Yen = $ 0,009) fintech-net income of Rakuten in the first half of 2018 were valued like the net income of the german fintech Wirecard, which reported a net-income of $ 153.3 million in the first half of 2018
global.rakuten.com/corp/investors/documents/results/
ir.wirecard.com/download/companies/...060-Q2-2018-EQ-D-00.pdf (page 39)
the fintech-segment of Rakuten alone must be valued with $ 61.2 billion on the base of the market cap of Wirecard of $23.4 billion.

Pinterest reports 25% increase in monthly active users
4 weeks ago

Two hundred and fifty million people are using Pinterest every month, up from 200 million last September, according to new numbers the company shared this morning. The visual search giant is also reporting that more than half of its users and 80 percent of new sign-ups come from outside the U.S.
“Pins,” or items saved to the site, are growing, too. There are now 175 billion of them, a 75 percent increase YoY.

To facilitate that growth, Pinterest has been on a hiring spree. It now has more than 1,500 employees, a 32 percent increase from last year.

techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/...ncrease-in-monthly-active-users/

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2018/0611_03.html

auch ohne Spionage auskommt

How Rakuten Viber is building authentic, secure and engaged communities

More people now connect with each other on messaging platforms than they do via traditional social media, according to a report by BI Intelligence. That’s no surprise to calling and messaging app Rakuten Viber, which is rapidly expanding its user base by focusing on building a more robust, engaging and secure platform to connect people.

One of the key reasons for Rakuten Viber’s continuous growth is trust, noted Djamel Agaoua, CEO of Rakuten Viber, at the Rakuten Optimism conference in San Francisco.

End-to-end encryption is an essential feature built into the Viber platform to keep private messages safe and secure. As a second layer of security, Viber deletes all messages from its servers once they’ve been delivered, ensuring conversations between users remain private.

“We don’t scan and store the pictures or videos that our users send,” he said. “We don’t search into their files or exchanges with their friends…. We don’t do any of that because we believe it’s their private content.”

Growing Communities
While some messaging apps limit the amount of users in a single group chat to a few hundred, Viber Communities offers a chat space where up to a whopping 1 billion members can exchange messages and engage with one another.

rakuten.today/blog/..._medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS+Reader

Recalling his first meeting with Mickey – at Mickey’s house in Silicon Valley – Zimmer admitted “it was a scary time for Lyft.” Our main competitor had about 30 times more cash, he said, “and they were trying to kill our business.”

There was much at stake for John at the meeting, but he soon found that he and Mickey shared important core values. John had a background in hospitality and envisioned a ride sharing service that would transform transportation altogether, and also remain focused on treating drivers, passengers and partners well. Mickey, who has long valued “omotenashi”, the Japanese concept of customer care and superior service, and the power of disruptive innovation, could relate to the young founders’ goals.

The two also found that they shared the goal of opening their businesses to a wide consumer public, not simply a luxury slice. “Uber had launched before us as a black car service. We wanted a product that would be accessible to everyone,” explained Zimmer.

When Rakuten agreed to be an investor, Lyft was able to sustain its challenge to other ride-hailing services. And while that competition continues to be intense, “We grew up with intensity,” said Zimmer.

rakuten.today/blog/john-zimmer-optimism.html

PremFina, which added 20 brokers to its growing list of clients during the first quarter of this year

LONDON, May 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- PremFina Ltd ("PremFina" or "the Company"), the UK's only premium finance company that makes its loan software available to insurance brokers as a standalone service, appoints David Wardle as its Chief Operating Officer.

PremFina Ltd is a UK-based premium finance company that promotes financial inclusion by enabling the payment of insurance premiums via instalments. It supplies insurance brokers with funding lines and also enables broker-funded and branded credit agreements via its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) affiliate IXL PremFina Ltd. With PremFina, brokers receive higher profit, greater autonomy and the opportunity to increase the lifetime value of their customers as well as cross-sell and up-sell additional products. PremFina's shareholders include global investors Rakuten Capital, Draper Esprit Plc, Thomvest Ventures, Emery Capital, Rubicon Venture Capital, Talis Capital and the company's founder.

www.finanznachrichten.de/...s-chief-operating-officer-008.htm

Netztwerk für 6 Moööarden aufzubauen.

SoftBank considers US$30bn IPO

SoftBank Group is reportedly seeking a valuation of US$90bn for its Japanese mobile unit in a planned IPO. The firm is considering selling a third of the business in the IPO, which indicates that the IPO could be as big as US$30bn, writes Bloomberg. If SoftBank Mobile could raise US$30bn from the IPO, it would be the largest listing ever in the world. The final valuation will depend on the investors’ feedback, according to the report.

www.tmtfinance.com/tags/rakuten

OverDrive, acquired by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten Inc. in 2015, supplies digital books to 40,000 schools and libraries in 72 countries, leading to double-digit revenue percentage growth and over 215 million book downloads in 2017 alone.
Already dominating the U.S. library market — nearly 95% of national public libraries lend out ebooks and other electronic content via the company's technology — OverDrive is also working to get textbooks onto students' tablets and laptops for use in the classroom. CEO Steve Potash is excited to stand at the nexus of these multiple growth opportunities, both nationally and abroad. As the globe continues to go digital, his company is pushing forward to reach its lofty literary ambitions.

www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180519/...rakuten-overdrive

Mar 17, 2018, 07:45am
Why Japan's Rakuten Is A Hidden Contender In The Ebook Market

Rakuten owns both OverDrive and Kobo, a Toronto-based ebook company that's also overlooked by U.S. audiences, thanks to its smaller U.S. stature and larger roles in other markets such as Canada, Netherlands, and the Philippines. But OverDrive is the main reason Rakuten is a power player, according to Williams.

“Rakuten offers strong, customized programs around the world that are designed to best serve the needs of each market, based on a deep understanding of its stage of adoption of digital reading,” Yoshi Yamada, Rakuten Group EVP and Media & Communications Company President, tells me. “By working with over 33,000 publishers to provide diverse content directly to readers with Rakuten Kobo and by promoting and celebrating reading within more than 38,000 libraries and schools with Rakuten OverDrive, we’re enjoying double digit year-over-year growth and look forward to contributing to the growth of the global eReading space.” If Williams is correct, they're also enjoying their underappreciated position as a massive player in the international ebook and audiobook market.

www.forbes.com/sites/adamrowe1/2018/03/17/...et/#322d196f13ca

Key Statistics

P/E Ratio 8.55

Price to Book Ratio 1.5958

Price to Sales Ratio 1.0969

www.bloomberg.com/quote/4755:JP

Assuming a revenue growth of 40 to 45 percent year-over-year growth, we estimate Pinterest’s revenue could exceed $2 billion in 2020. Applying a 10x EV/Revenue multiple, we estimate the company’s valuation could exceed $20 billion.

We continue to believe that Pinterest remains on track to go public in 2H:2019. The company is already accelerating its IPO plans by hiring some key executives. With Uber, Lyft and Airbnb also planning to go public the same year, 2019 could be a banner year for late stage private tech startups.

sharespost.com/insights/blog/...l-steam-ahead-for-a-2019-ipo/

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Rakuten and Toyooka City of Hyogo Prefecture Sign Comprehensive Partnership Agreement
Agreement aims to promoting regional revitalization through inbound tourism

Tokyo, October 10, 2018 – Rakuten, Inc. today announced that it has signed a comprehensive partnership agreement with Toyooka City of Hyogo Prefecture with the aim of creating demand for inbound tourism and revitalizing the local economy.

Based on this agreement, Rakuten will work together with Voyagin, inc., a Rakuten Group company offering an activity reservation service for tours, tickets and restaurants, and Toyooka Tourism Innovation (TTI), Toyooka City’s DMO*1 to offer appealing, experience-based programs in Toyooka City to tourists visiting Japan to extend the length of their stays in the city and produce success cases in inbound tourism. In addition, by offering advice on the formulation of the vision around Toyooka City tourism and personnel exchanges, Rakuten will deepen cooperation in the tourism sector with Toyooka City. Rakuten is also working to revitalize the economy of Toyooka City through initiatives such as promoting the use of cashless payments among businesses in the city, promoting the “furusato nozei” hometown tax scheme, promoting the use of IT, and expanding sales channels for local specialty products.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2018/1010_01.html

In addition, Rakuten said it aims to increase advertising revenue to 200 billion yen by 2021. At present, the majority of revenue comes from adverts on the more than 70 services, including the Rakuten Ichiba internet shopping mall. However, Rakuten will collaborate with LOB to develop a global advertising platform in order to deliver adverts more efficiently on platforms other than Rakuten Group services.

japantoday.com/category/tech/...res-ad-platform-developer-lob

Koga City, Ibaraki Kominka Association, HomeAway, and Rakuten LIFULL STAY Form Cooperative Agreement to Utilize Historical Buildings in Koga City
- Promoting the use of traditional Japanese houses to revitalize the tourism industry -
Tokyo, October 9, 2018 - Koga City in Ibaraki Prefecture, the Ibaraki Kominka Association, HomeAway, one of the world’s largest vacation rental sites, and Rakuten LIFULL STAY, Inc., today announced that the four organizations formed a cooperative agreement for the utilization of historical buildings in Koga City.

Based on the agreement, the four organizations will collaborate on: 1) Sharing information about historical buildings; 2) Conservation and utilization of historical buildings; 3) Tourism promotion through the utilization of historical buildings; 4) Regional revitalization through the utilization of historical buildings; and in other areas. Specific initiatives include the use of historical buildings in Koga City, including kominka, as vacation rentals, publicizing the appeal of kominka and the region to domestic and international tourists, and promoting long-term stays.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2018/...ory=corp%20fintech

The company has accelerated growth in users, up 27 percent over last year. More than half of all users now come from international markets. That change happened after the company realized it needed to promote local content, not what was popular in the United States, to new users in each region. (British users did not respond to American Crock-Pot recipes, it turns out.)

Revenue growth is also picking up, which Mr. Kaplan attributed to having the right measurement data to show brands that ads on Pinterest are effective.

www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/technology/pinterest-growth.html

Rakuten Card to launch “Rakuten Card Payment with Points Service”

Cardholders now able to pay their Rakuten Card bill with Rakuten Super Points

Tokyo, September 5, 2018 - Rakuten Card Co., Ltd. (Rakuten Card) today announced the launch of the Rakuten Card Payment with Points, a service that allows Rakuten Card cardholders to use Rakuten Super Points in the payment of their Rakuten Card bills. The service will be launched on September 12, 2018, for payments starting on September 27, 2018.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2018/0905_02.html

By Andrea Barnes | Tuesday, October 9th, 2018 |

Azimo’s spectacularly rapid growth driven by rising migrant labour
Company’s user base expanded to 1.5 million in 2017
Recently inked a deal with major African payments group Interswitch

www.fxcompared.com/magazine/news/...o-saw-explosive-growth-uk

bald Realität werden:

09 November 2017 @ 12:42
Video-on-demand service Rakuten TV is mulling plans to expand its footprint across more European countries.

Speaking exclusively to Digital TV Europe, Rakuten TV CEO Jacinto Roca said “we have the intention to launch but we don’t have concrete plans yet”.

Roca said that heading into next year, the firm may consider increasing its number of territories with a view to expanding into the Nordics and Eastern Europe.

“The idea is to cover Europe as a whole. I think that will be the main priority,” said Roca.
“I think that to launch in these countries we may consider M&A opportunities as well.”

www.digitaltveurope.com/2017/11/09/...der-european-expansion/