Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Tuesdays with Roger: Rakuten’s New Mobile Network, Plus MWC Buzz

tuesdayswithroger.wirelessweek.com/detail/...th-roger:-rakuten

gemeldet:

edition.cnn.com/2019/03/18/tech/lyft-ipo/index.html

www.onvista.de/news/...lliarden-us-dollar-einnehmen-202982617

loszugehen:

articles.marketrealist.com/2019/03/...ld-go-public-next-week/

Consumer lender Insikt rebrands as Aura

February 12 2019, 6:00am EST

A San Francisco company that touts itself as a more consumer-friendly alternative to payday lenders has changed its name in an effort to establish a closer connection to its customers.

The 6-year-old lender, which was formerly called Insikt, announced Tuesday that its new name is Aura.

c www.americanbanker.com/news/...sikt-rebrands-as-auraustomers.

MARCH 19, 2019

TEPCO PG, KDDI, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile Network to Collaborate on Trials of Base Station Equipment Sharing Utilizing Electric Power Infrastructure

Tokyo, March 19, 2019 – TEPCO Power Grid, Incorporated (TEPCO PG), KDDI CORPORATION (KDDI), SoftBank Corp. (SoftBank) and Rakuten Mobile Network, Inc. (Rakuten Mobile Network) today announced that the four companies have reached an agreement to collaborate on trials of base station site and equipment sharing utilizing TEPCO PG’s utility poles and other electric power infrastructure, ahead of the introduction of 5th generation mobile communications systems (5G) in Japan. The trials are due to be begin in the first half of FY2019.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2019/...mp;category=mobile

Angepeilt wird ein IPO zu einer Bewertung von bis zu 23 Mrd. $, wobei dem Unternehmen nach den vorliegenden Plänen im besten Fall 2,1 Mrd. zufliessen sollen. Damit würde Lyft einen Börsengang in der Grössenordnung des Instant-Messaging-Dienstes Snap hinlegen, die bei ihrem Debüt vor zwei Jahren eine Bewertung von 24 Mrd. $ erzielte und 3,4 Mrd. $ einsammelte.

www.nzz.ch/finanzen/...25-milliarden-dollar-ipo-an-ld.1468258

18.03.2019

Die digitale Leseplattform Rakuten OverDrive und der digitale Distributionsdienstleister Libreka haben eine Partnerschaft vereinbart. Im Mittelpunkt der Zusammenarbeit steht der E-Book- und Hörbuch-Katalog OverDrive, der öffentlichen Bibliotheken in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz vorgestellt werden soll. Libreka verfügt eigenen Angaben zufolge über ein Netzwerk von mehr als 40.000 Verlagen und über 1.000 nationalen und internationalen Handelspartnern.

Balázs Csonka, COO von Libreka, fügt hinzu: "Das erste Feedback aus den Bibliotheken ist hervorragend. Und wir liefern OverDrive seit Langem deutschsprachige E-Books für den weltweiten Vertrieb an Bibliotheken.“

www.dnv-online.net/handel/detail.php?rubric=2&nr=133832

passt da Vieles zusammen.

Lyft Reportedly In Talks To acquire Cabify; Cabify Denies Reports
Jul 6 18

According to the sources of El Confidencial, Cabify and Lyft have been in acquisition talks for several months, which involved a visit by some of the US-based company's top executives to Madrid. The price point that's allegedly being considered is close to $3 billion. The final decision could take months to be made, the report says; if the parties were to agree on the deal, it would be announced by mid-2019.

www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/...vcapId=145607176

Rakuten OverDrive’s Libby Named one of TIME’s Best iPhone and Android Apps (UK version)

March 12, 2019

LONDON – 12 March 2019 – Libby, the one-tap reading app for public libraries, was named one of TIME’s Best iPhone and Android Apps of 2018. This prestigious honour rewards the app’s role in supporting the transformation of public libraries to better serve their users with ebooks and audiobooks. Libby was created by Rakuten OverDrive, the leading global digital reading platform dedicated to serving UK libraries and schools with their London-based team.

Rakuten OverDrive is the leading digital reading platform for libraries and schools worldwide. We are dedicated to “a world enlightened by reading” by delivering the industry’s largest catalog of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines and other digital media to a growing network of 43,000 libraries and schools in 76 countries. Named one of TIME’s Best iPhone and Android Apps of 2018, Libby is the “one-tap reading app” for libraries.

company.overdrive.com/2019/03/12/...-iphone-and-android-apps/

By Bryan Grogan, June 8, 2018

So you’ve heard of Alibaba, Amazon and eBay, but have you heard of Rakuten?

According to Technode, this little-known Japanese e-commerce giant has become wildly popular in the Middle Kingdom, with Chinese customers spending JPY1 billion in 2016 alone on merchandise from the online supermarket.

Thanks to partnerships with host supermarkets JD.com and Netease, Rakuten has finally managed to penetrate into China’s notoriously difficult e-commerce marketplace, after having pulled their store from Baidu in 2012.

What makes this application so appealing for English-speakers is the bright, clean and accessible interface, all laid out in easy to understand English

www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/23528/...an-s-answer-to-jd-com

How a leading Japanese e-commerce platform tripled sales to China
JUL 18, 2017
Chinese customers shelled out more than JPY 1 trillion on Japanese merchandise during 2016 via cross-border e-commerce platforms, and Tokyo-based marketing research company Fuji Keizai estimates that the number is projected to more than double in 2019 to JPY 2.1 trillion.

technode.com/2017/07/18/...e-consumers-cross-border-shopping/

www.bloomberg.com/quote/4755:JP

Rakuten announced an update for its Rakuten Pay App, to be released on March 18, 2019. The various payment functions, namely

- Rakuten Points and Rakuten Cash,

- Credit cards, including the Rakuten Card,

- Barcode & QR code payment functionality,

- Rakuten Edy,

- as well as the Rakuten Point Card barcode

will be embedded in a single application.

medium.com/tokyo-fintech/...-app-gets-a-facelift-bfa16d35550f

Lyft is expected to price its shares on March 28 and begin trading on the Nasdaq the next day. If excessive demand continues, the company could decide to sell more shares or price them above the original range of $62 to $68 a share. A spokeswoman for Lyft declined to comment. Reuters reported earlier Tuesday that Lyft’s offering was oversubscribed.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ahead-of-listing-next-week

For This Spring/Summer Travel Guide


Getting back to your roots: Pinterest searches for nature travel were up 88% in January compared with January 2018, while in March, Airbnb searches were up 539% year-over-year for nature, 367% for meditation and 655% for hiking.

Out-of-this-world experiences: Searches for space travel on Pinterest were up 70% in January compared with the year-ago month, while Airbnb said it has almost 3,000 homes listed that are equipped with telescopes.

Calling all thrill seekers: Pinterest searches for adventure travel are up 693% in January versus January 2018, including swimming holes (up 260% year-over-year), abandoned amusement parks (185%), cave diving (143%) and surprise destinations (192%). Airbnb said it also sees more searches for adventure- and passion-based travel, noting that it teamed up with the World Surf League in 2016 to unlock some 10,000 surfing-related experiences worldwide.

Who doesn’t love a good bargain?: Searches for budget travel on Pinterest were up 64% year-over-year in January. And according to Airbnb internal data as of March 4, cities, where the average per-night cost for bookings is below $75, include Bologna, Italy; Busan, South Korea; Ottawa, Ontario; Rio de Janeiro; and Bali, Indonesia.

wersm.com/...b-teamed-up-for-this-spring-summer-travel-guide/

Bullish für den gesamten Markt

Dabei zeigt sich White auch für den gesamten Personenförderungsmarkt optimistisch, immerhin würden US-Kunden jährlich in diesem Segment bereits 1,2 Milliarden US-Dollar ausgeben. "On-Demand-Services haben bereits andere traditionell eigentümerbasierte Industrien wie Entertainment und Computing zerstört", schreibt er in einer Mitteilung an Kunden. Dies wird sich seiner Einschätzung nach auch im Markt für Personenbeförderung fortsetzen: Angesichts der Tatsache, dass immer mehr Menschen in die Städte ziehen und die Kosten für den Besitz eines eigenen Fahrzeuges weiter steigen, werde die Akzeptanz von "Transport als Service"-Modellen in den kommenden Jahren weiter anziehen, so der Experte.

www.finanzen.net/nachricht/aktien/...ursziel-verpasst-7275487

www.marketwatch.com/story/...ed-to-price-next-week-2019-03-20

Careem hopes to grow from a ride-hailing app to a lifestyle app

The top ride-hailing platform from Dubai, Careem, is making changes to turn their mobile app into more of an everyday platform that will be available for the Middle East and Africa.
In recent months, Careem has expanded into new markets across the region as well as tier two cities. Careem also leveraged the existing infrastructure built out for its ride-hailing service to launch online delivery for goods and services with initial efforts focused on food service. It also launched peer-to-peer, closed loop and prepaid credit transfer service to its consumer base. More recently, it introduced a rewards program, giving its 33 million users points on all rides.

www.onlinemarketplaces.com/articles/...app-to-a-lifestyle-app

Lyft executives told hundreds of investors on the 20th floor of the St. Regis that the company will eventually reach 20 percent EBITDA margins, but gave no clear timeline for that watermark, according to three investors who asked not to be named because the meeting was private.

The San Francisco-based company also projected 70 percent long-term gross margins, also without a timeline. Media is not allowed in the presentations, but CNBC spoke to investors as they were walking out of the hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/...uncertain-about-profitability.html

Große Konzerne als Investoren

Bei dem IPO bietet der Konzern sowohl Stamm- (Class B) als auch Vorzugsaktien (Class A) an, wobei die beiden Gründer Logan Green und John Zimmer die einzigen Eigentümer der Stammaktien sein werden. Diese sichern den Unternehmern die einzigen Stimmrechte im Konzern. Zu den weiteren großen Investoren gehören das japanische Online-Unternehmen Rakuten mit 11,6 Prozent als der größte Anteilseigner, General Motors und Finanzdienstleister Fidelity Investment mit jeweils 6,9 und 6,8 Prozent sowie der Risikokapital-Fonds Andreessen Horowitz mit 5,5 Prozent und Alphabet mit 4,7 Prozent. Der Wert ihrer Anteile beläuft sich zwischen 834 Millionen und 2,04 Milliarden US-Dollar bei einem Aktienkurs von 65 US-Dollar.

www.finanzen.net/nachricht/aktien/...-die-chefs-reich-7280741

Rakuten Inc (4755 JP) is much in the news for many reasons - one of which being a plunge into the deeper waters of being the fourth Type I Mobile Network Operator in Japan, having officially applied for the license in February 2018 and seeing it approved in April.  - the license for which it applied a year ago, with approval received in April 2018. The goal has been to use its initial foray into the MVNO business where it has more than 1.5 million users, and increase its footprint to attract some of its 100+mm Rakuten IDs, 7mm Rakuten Bank accountholders, 3mm Rakuten Securities accountholders, so that it can increase the LTV (LifeTimeValue) of its existing customer base.

The goal is to introduce service this year (also a requirement of the terms of its license), growing steadily to have 15mm subs in 10 years.

www.smartkarma.com/insights/will-rakuten-get-a-near-term-lyft

Earning discounts and cash back just for shopping online might sound too good to be true. But cashback websites such as Rakuten, BeFrugal, Swagbucks, Ibotta and Mr. Rebates can actually work. And as long as you go through them for purchases you need to make anyway, using these sites can be more lucrative than shopping with a rewards credit card.

Rakuten is one of the largest and most commonly used cashback sites. For many years, the company was known as Ebates. However, after Rakuten acquired Ebates in 2014, it decided to officially change the name in 2019.

The original Ebates was founded in 1999, and the site has more than 10 million users and has paid out more than $1 billion in cashback rewards. And numerous personal finance bloggers told HuffPost they felt it offered the best deals compared to other similar sites.

www.huffpost.com/entry/...ash-back_n_5c0f1d5fe4b0edf5a3a7eec0

Digital payment is becoming increasingly popular in Indonesia — yet 99 percent of transactions by volume are carried out using cash, according to management consultancy McKinsey and Company.

To tap the massive potential of Indonesia's electronic payment market, Go-Pay — the mobile wallet of ride-hailing app Go-Jek — is planning to "strengthen and deepen" its position in that space, according to Go-Pay CEO Aldi Haryopratomo.

www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/...hen-its-presence-in-indonesia.html

scheint der IPO jetzt schneller zu kommen als zunächst gedacht.

finance.yahoo.com/video/...watch-watching-levi-171952676.html

Nach meinen Schätzungen hält hier Rakuten  ca. 5% - und ich kann mir hier zumindest teilweise eine Monetarisierung vorstellen, da ich hier keine extremen strategischen Ansatzpunkte sehe.