Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

The abrupt termination of the DramaFever service this week by Warner Bros. left U.S. aficionados of Korean dramas distraught and angry — and looking for alternative streaming services to meet their K-drama fix.

Services like Viki, owned by Japan’s Rakuten, and Kocowa, a streaming service from the three biggest broadcasters in Korea, offer a range of Korean and other Asian television shows to consumers in the U.S. Among other services, Netflix and Hulu also have a variety of K-dramas.

“As a company that values and understands the passionate K-drama community worldwide, we are saddened by the sudden news of DramaFever shutting down,” said Clara Kim, head of brand and communications for Rakuten Viki.

variety.com/2018/digital/news/...reaming-services-1202984586/

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Rakuten Viki, home of Viki Originals and the annual Soompi Awards, is a premier destination for multicultural youth entertainment and the world's leading platform for Asian TV shows, movies, and influencer videos – translated into 200+ languages by a community of avid fans. The Viki community removes cultural and language barriers that stand between great entertainment and fans everywhere.

Viki has always been at the forefront of technology, innovating to cater to the needs of a growing Android base in emerging markets. Seeing high levels of engagement in their native installed app, Viki decided to build an instant app to drive similar rich experiences for their entire audience, especially for users coming from Google search.

Lastly, but most importantly, they noticed that the watch time for their instant app is 47 minutes compared to a watch time of 9 minutes on mobile web - 5.2X more on their instant app.

developer.android.com/stories/instant-apps/viki

Rakuten and Walmart Open the First Walmart E-Commerce Store in Japan
Online shopping collaboration to deliver Walmart US products directly to Japanese consumers
TOKYO, Japan, December 11, 2018 – Rakuten, Inc. and Walmart, Inc. officially opened the first Walmart e-commerce store in Japan, the ”Walmart Rakuten Ichiba Store,” on the Rakuten Ichiba internet shopping mall. The flagship store combines Walmart’s international expertise in delivering high-quality U.S. brand products at great prices and Rakuten’s strengths in online commerce to bring exciting new shopping experiences to Japanese consumers.

The digital Walmart store offers Japanese consumers access to a wide variety of high-quality U.S. branded products, including fashion apparel, outdoor goods and toys. The store will initially offer approximately 1,200 products from a diverse range of prestigious brands. Orders will be fulfilled in the U.S. and air freighted directly to Japanese customers, with a no surprises policy that includes shipping, duties and taxes in the product price.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2018/...12&category=ec

Posting würde auch in der gleichen Weise auf die beiden Rakuten-Marktplätze von Rakuten in Deutschland und Frankreich - Rakuten.de und Priceminister - zutreffen.

“We are very excited to be working with Walmart to bring a diverse product lineup of American brands at affordable prices to Rakuten Ichiba users in Japan,” commented Shunsuke Yazawa, executive officer and vice president of the marketplace business at Rakuten, Inc. “Through the opening of the Walmart Rakuten Ichiba Store, we hope to make Rakuten Ichiba an even more attractive destination for online shoppers in Japan.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adr8k0cVSTQ

Meine Empehlung:  Unbedingt ansehen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rakuten hält mehr als 10 Prozent an Lyft.

General Motors investierte vor einigen Jahren 500 Millionen Dollar in Lyft.

Der Investmentfondsmanager Fidelity hält sowohl eine Beteiligung an Uber als auch an Lyft, obwohl er mit mehr als 5 Prozent der Aktien einen deutlich höheren Anteil an Lyft hält.

Andreessen Horowitz hat bereits 2013 in Lyft investiert. Die Risikokapitalgesellschaft hält mehr als 5 Prozent.

Die Lyft-Mitbegründer Logan Green und John Zimmer besitzen zusammen rund 7 Prozent der Lyft-Aktien.

Milliarden-IPOs: Welche Unternehmen stehen hinter Uber und Lyft? | wallstreet-online.de - Vollständiger Artikel unter:

www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/...nehmen-stehen-uber-lyft

Rakuten ist dagegen etwas höher. Ich habe die Kapitalrunden von Lyft stetig verfolgt.

300 Millionen von bis dahin 890 Millionen investiert, wodurch ein Anteil von 11,9% entstand, der auch - einmali - genau beziffert wurde. Damals war Lyft erst 2,5 Milliarden wert.

Und das blieb ja nicht das einzige Investment.

Rakuten Leads $530M Investment In Lyft
TOKYO, March 12, 2015  – Rakuten, Inc. (TOKYO: 4755), today announced that it has agreed to purchase a 11.9% stake in Lyft, the San Francisco-based ride-sharing service provider and sharing economy pioneer. Rakuten is investing $300M as the lead investor in Lyft’s series E investment round.
global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2015/0312_01.html

The investment values Lyft at $2.5bn, more than double its price tag a year ago, and brings its total venture funds raised to more than $850m.
www.ft.com/content/cfb1db06-c870-11e4-8fe2-00144feab7de

als die Bewertung  nur 50% des heute ausgerufenen Wertes hatte:

Lyft Raises $600M in Funding; Valuation at $7.5 Billion
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Published on April 12, 2017

Lyft, a San Francisco, California-based ride hailing company, raised $600M in funding.
Backers included existing partners Rakuten and Janus Capital and new investors AllianceBernstein, Baillie Gifford, KKR, and Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP).

The post-money valuation of the company is $7.5 billion.

www.finsmes.com/2017/04/...nding-valuation-at-7-5-billion.html

was dort das ehemalige Unternehmen von Tareq Amin, der heute den MNO-Bereich von Rakuten leitet, erreichte:


India's transformation in just over a year

- Price per GB gas reduces by 20x

- High speed boardband users increased 5x

- Voice is free, shifting Industry to Data Revenue Model

- Move from monetizing infrastructure to services to experiences

- Transport is a given

- Differentation comes from the quality of your CX

Die Stufen der Wertigkeit in austeigender Folge:

- Voice

- Mobile Voice

- Mobile Data

- Mobile Serivces

- und was dann noch folgt

Quelle: siehe 2807

Rakuten RapidAPI Announces Launch of Redesigned API Marketplace

Rakuten RapidAPI 2.0 includes new discovery features to support software developers in APAC

Tokyo, December 13, 2018 – Rakuten Inc. and Rakuten Communications Corp., a Rakuten Group company that provides telecommunications services, today announced the launch of “Rakuten RapidAPI 2.0”, its completely redesigned API marketplace aimed at accelerating the way software developers access APIs in Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

Rakuten RapidAPI was launched in July 2018 through a strategic partnership with RapidAPI. Rakuten RapidAPI offers access to the world’s largest API marketplace, including a rich lineup of over 8,000 APIs used by over 500,000 developers around the world.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2018/...12&category=ec

dass Rakuten von den insgesamt 4,9 Milliarden Founding-Kapital zumindest zwischen 500 und 600 Millionen erbracht haben dürfte. Und da dies in der ersten Hälfte des Finanzierungszeitraum mit noch niedrigeren Bewertungen geschah, dürfte der Anteil höher als der rechnerische Prozentsatz zwischen 11 und 12%m und zwar in der Nähe der von mir geschätzten 15%.

Face à Messenger et WhatsApp, la messagerie Viber pivote sur l'e-sport
Par Anaïs Cherif  |  13/12/2018, 18:30  |  683  mots

Lancée en 2010 par une société israélienne, l’application de messagerie instantanée Viber revendique plus d’un milliard d’inscrits dans le monde. (Crédits : Reuters) Viber, propriété du japonais Rakuten, s'ouvre à l'e-sport. Si la pratique et la diffusion de jeux vidéo en ligne reste un marché de niche, l'e-sport devrait générer 1,67 milliard de dollars et 580 millions de spectateurs en 2021. De quoi recruter de nouveaux utilisateurs pour l'application de messagerie instantanée, qui revendique 400 millions d'utilisateurs mensuels actifs dans le monde.

Viber mise sur l'e-sport pour se distinguer de la concurrence. L'application de messagerie instantanée a annoncé ce mercredi matin des partenariats avec trois clubs européens d'e-sport : Solary (France), Team Queso (Espagne) et Fnatic (Royaume-Uni).

« Nous avons commencé par un projet pilote en 2017 avec Solary, lors d'un voyage de 15 jours en Corée du Sud. Il était possible de suivre leur déplacement sur Viber », explique Etienne Dupont, responsable du business développement de Viber en Europe. Résultat : en 48 heures, 15.000 nouveaux membres Viber suivaient l'événement. Pendant 15 jours, 160.000 visites et 50.000 likes ont été

www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/...-sur-l-e-sport-800959.html

Key Statistics of Rakuten

P/E Ratio7.82
Price to Book Ratio1.4806
Price to Sales Ratio1.0774

www.bloomberg.com/quote/4755:JP

Zalando, das 14-mal so hoch ist wie das von Rakuten, wäre der Kurs von Rakuten nicht 6,49 Euro, sondern läge bei ca. 91.

Key Statistics of Rakuten
P/E Ratio7.82
Price to Book Ratio1.4806
Price to Sales Ratio1.0774
www.bloomberg.com/quote/4755:JP

Key Statistics of Zalando
P/E Ratio109.80
Price to Book Ratio4.2972
Price to Sales Ratio1.2336
www.bloomberg.com/quote/ZAL:GR

von Hypoport, das 5,8-mal so hoch ist wie das von Rakuten, wäre der Kurs von Rakuten nicht 6,49 Euro, sondern läge bei 37,6.

Key Statistics of Rakuten
P/E Ratio 7.82
Price to Book Ratio 1.4806
Price to Sales Ratio 1.0774
www.bloomberg.com/quote/4755:JP

Key Statistics of Hypoport
P/E Ratio 45.60
Price to Book Ratio 6.4629
Price to Sales Ratio 3.8070
www.bloomberg.com/quote/HYQ:GR

wiesen nach der nachstehenden Quelle folgende Werte auf:

www.statista.com/statistics/223368/...nance-operating-profit/

Q4/17: 19,6 billion Japanese yen
Q1/18: 20.6 billion Japanese yen
Q2/18: 24.0 billion Japanese yen

Im dritten Quartal 2018 sanken sie dann durch Naturkatastrophen, die Verluste im Versicherungsbereich herbeiführten und als außerordentlich betrachtet werden mussen, zlaut der nachstehende Quelle etwas ab.

global.rakuten.com/corp/investors/
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Q3/18: 16.3 billion Japanese yen

Trotzdem ergibt die Addition der vier net-incomes der letzten vier Quartal = 19,6 + 20,6 + 24,6 + 16,3 = einen Betrag von 81,1 billion Japanese yen - das sind bei 1 Yen = 0,0089 US-Dollar gleich 722 Millionen US-Dollar.  

Und nun kann man die Frage stellen, welchen Wert man 722 Millionen US-Dollar jährlichem net-income zubilligen soll.

With Chinese authorities relaxing the rules, online purchases of overseas products are expected to increase to US$285 billion in value in 2018, up from US$136 billion last year.

www.retailnews.asia/...-border-ecommerce-set-skyrocket-china/

The Rakuten Viki OTT TV platform has a reach of over 40 million users in 190-plus countries via Rakuten Viki and its Korean entertainment brand, Soompi. The company also includes a production arm that develops and invests in Viki Originals such as Dramaworld and upcoming co-productions with studios in Asia and Hollywood.

Wu said: I am excited for the opportunity to lead Rakuten Viki, with a renewed focus on delivering innovative product features, an unmatched user experience and a diverse programming line-up to our growing, global community. Over the past six years, I have had the pleasure of working closely with this highly-talented team, and I am enthusiastic for Rakuten Vikis future as we continue to invest in our award-winning apps and expand our reach to fans around the world.

www.marketscreener.com/...akuten-Viki-names-new-CEO-27753558/

des  Insurance-Bereichs von Rakuten.

Key takeaways:

Global players are including insurance when setting up ecosystems, so I believe traditional insurers should look to be part of an ecosystem if they want to stay relevant.

Making use of technology is key for insurance companies. It helps keep costs down and save time on routine policy and claims processes - freeing up time for staff to perform value-added tasks to engage customers.

Create fans, not customers, for your business.

www.barnett-waddingham.co.uk/...nd-innovation-key-takeaways-/

Rakuten’s home cinema revolution

26th March 2018 @ 12:12
VOD provider Rakuten TV has big plans this year, including considering SVOD launches in Europe and an investment in movies to help push the case for getting them on the small screen faster. CEO Jacinto Roca talked exclusively with Stuart Thomson about his plans.

Rakuten TV, the transactional video-on-demand service provider that currently operates in 12 international territories, has big plans to expand its offering, including the possible launch of a subscription service outside of Spain for the first time and a push to create “the cinema experience at home” through shortening the window between cinema distribution and the appearance of movies on digital platforms.

According to CEO Jacinto Roca, Rakuten TV now has over five million registered users, with about 20% being active in any one year. Revenues are growing by 40% year-on-year, driven by take-up of the service in the UK market, he says. Growth is also strong in Spain, and relatively strong in Germany and France thanks the presence of its e-commerce giant parent, Rakuten, in those markets. Elsewhere, says Roca, growth is “healthy but slower”.

www.digitaltveurope.com/longread/...s-home-cinema-revolution/