Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

to include 30 malls nationwide including Yorkdale Mall (ON), Crossiron Mills (AB), Montreal Eaton Centre (QC), Mayfair Shopping Centre (BC) and Mic Mac Mall (NS). Rakuten.ca members can earn up to 5% Cash Back on more than 100 gift cards across categories like gas, grocery, restaurants and travel. Visit Rakuten.ca/GiftCardShop to learn more and purchase your last minute gift cards at retailers like Cineplex, Air Canada, Walmart and Indigo.

Rakuten.ca is a leading e-commerce company that provides free membership for deals, rewards and Cash Back to its over 5 million Canadian members – and counting. Since launching in 2012, Rakuten.ca has helped Canadians earn over $70 million in Cash Back at over 750 of their favourite top-name retailers. Rakuten.ca headquarters are located in North York, Ontario, and is proudly built by Canadians, for Canadians.

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Verizon, Rakuten offer rewards to Yahoo e-commerce shoppers
Dec. 9, 2019

Verizon Media launched a program with Rakuten to offer cashback rewards for Yahoo customers using Yahoo Shopping and Yahoo Mail.

Yahoo users since Nov. 27 have been able to earn cashback rewards on purchases from more than 50 online retailers. Yahoo Mail users will get cashback offers through featured merchants and will also see promotions in their in boxes. Special offers will be included in Yahoo Mail's new mobile app.

"At Verizon Media we're closing the loop between content and commerce and providing engaging journeys to our users to help them discover the things they love," Guru Gowrappan, CEO of Verizon Media, said in a company release.
"Joining forces with Yahoo expands our reach to deliver cashback rewards to new audiences," Amit Patel, CEO of Rakuten Americas and Rakuten Rewards, said in the release.

Yahoo is a unit of Verizon, while Rakuten is an e-commerce company that offers cashback rewards and other deals through more than 3,500 merchants.

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3 'Fallen Angel' IPOs That Could Post Giant
BY MARK KOLAKOWSKI
Updated Dec 11, 2019

Amid a soaring U.S. stock market, several high-profile new issues have been big losers. However, bargain hunters are scooping up "fallen angel" IPOs in hopes of big rebounds.

"We just don't see a lot of downside where these stocks are trading at now, and we have an opportunity to make 50% to 200% on our capital that we're putting to work today if we take a multiyear time horizon," Aram Green, who manages the ClearBridge Select Fund (LCLAX), and co-manages several other ClearBridge funds, told Business Insider.1 His top picks are ride-hailing company Lyft Inc. (LYFT), business software firm Dynatrace Inc. (DT), and direct-to-consumer seller of teeth straightening devices SmileDirectClub Inc. (SDC).

Lyft, Green acknowledges, is burning a lot of cash. However, ride hailing in the U.S. is growing and "becoming less competitive with the market being solidified with two players that are both public." He also believes that Lyft, smaller than rival Uber, may be acquired by a company focused on autonomous-driving technology.

Lyft's Q3 2019 earnings beat the estimates, with revenues up by 63% year-over-year.3 While the net loss was up by 86%, it was down by 50% after adjusting for one-time items. Lyft has upgraded its guidance for 2019, anticipating faster revenue growth and a smaller loss.

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"Fashion Week" is a fashion festival held twice a year in the world's fashion cities during which
the trends for the next season are born from the latest collections that are unveiled at fashion shows and exhibitions.

Out of the world’s fashion weeks, those held in Paris, Milan, London, New York and Tokyo are regarded as having the most potential for disseminating information due to their history and the amount of buzz surrounding them. These five fashion weeks are the most known fashion weeks in the world and have much influence of the fashion world. The fashion week held in Tokyo is the "Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO". It is hosted by the Japan Fashion Week Organization (JFW Organization) and held twice a year in March and October.

Japan's latest creations are showcased to the world at Shibuya Hikarie and Omotesando Hills as well as other locations in Tokyo.

rakutenfashionweektokyo.com/en/aboutrfwt/

and we will see an merger some day:

Peru: Cabify plans to migrate to electric vehicles

Cabify arrived in Peru in 2012 and since then it has kept the country as its leading market.

The taxi application already has Movo electric scooters and has in its long-term plans that all its cars be electric.

Cabify CEO Juan de Antonio told CADE 2019 that they already have a plan to migrate to the use of electric vehicles. However, he indicated that this depends on many factors such as the availability of such cars, which is still low in Peru since most vehicles run on traditional fuels.

"We are already working with manufacturers, there are not as many electric vehicles as we would like because we have many vehicles on the street, so you have to go city by city and phase by phase," he added about the ecological problem.

However, Cabify has already entered the electric transport market with its Movo scooters, which are already in Lima. The company said that 30% of Movo users do so with an environmental objective to avoid contaminating.

www.onlinemarketplaces.com/articles/...e-to-electric-vehicles

Japanese Internet company Rakuten says that it can build a 5G network for just a third of what it would cost using the approach taken by a traditional LTE operator. The claims made by CTO Tareq Amin at this week’s Digital Transformation World conference in Nice, France, suggest that the company will take a highly disruptive approach when it launches its LTE service in October.

The comments come just two months after Rakuten told another set of conference delegates at MWC in Barcelona that its total cost of ownership was 45% below other leading telecoms operators around the world.

Amin said this week that Rakuten would be passing on its substantial cost savings to customers.

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Rakuten Revenue 2017-2019 | RKUNY

Rakuten annual/quarterly revenue history and growth rate from 2017 to 2019. Revenue can be defined as the amount of money a company receives from its customers in exchange for the sales of goods or services. Revenue is the top line item on an income statement from which all costs and expenses are subtracted to arrive at net income.

Rakuten revenue for the quarter ending March 31, 2019 was $2.551B, a 14.63% increase year-over-year.

Rakuten revenue for the twelve months ending March 31, 2019 was $10.349B, a 14.42% increase year-over-year.

Rakuten annual revenue for 2018 was $10.023B, a 19.24% increase from 2017.

Rakuten annual revenue for 2017 was $8.406B, a 16.85% increase from 2016.

www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/RKUNY/rakuten/revenue

Dacadoo habe in den letzten Jahren insgesamt 70 Millionen Franken über verschiedene Kapitalrunden anziehen können und jetzt eine C-Runden-Kapitalerhöhung abgeschlossen, teilt das Unternehmen mit. Wer zuletzt das Geld investiert hat und wie hoch der Betrag ausgefallen ist, wird nicht gesagt. Festgehalten wird aber, dass das frische Geld ins globale Wachstum fliessen soll.

15 berichtete 'Le Temps', dass in den ersten fünf Jahren 25 Millionen Dollar in das Unternehmen investiert worden seien, die zumeist von den Firmengründern selbst stammten. Damals informierte Dacadoo darüber, dass sich Samsung Venture Investment sowie einige Privatpersonen aus Europa und den USA im Rahmen einer Serie-A-Finanzierungsrunde beteiligt haben. Zwei Jahre später investierte der japanische Internet-Dienstleister Rakuten in Dacadoo, wobei wieder keine konkreten Beträge genannt wurden.

www.inside-channels.ch/articles/56418

Rakuten TV Preps New AVOD Channels and Originals for 2020 (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety•December 13, 2019

Rakuten TV has garnered 10 million views on its free on-demand service since its launch in October. The streamer’s CEO, Jacinto Roca, told Variety that, buoyed by the early AVOD success, it will launch a suite of new channels and original shows on the ad-supported service in 2020. He added that he hopes the free service will notch a billion views next year as Rakuten TV ramps up.

“We launched less than two months ago and have had a million users and over 10 million views,” Roca said of the AVOD platform, which is available in over 40 territories in Europe. “The first months have been better than expected.”

Rakuten TV is handling ad sales for the AVOD platform in-house. Brands including booking.com, Danone and Nissan are among the early advertisers.
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of Order for Pickup

A conversation with our CEO: Jaron Waldman

Posted by: Rakuten Ready / December 2, 2019

Jaron Waldman is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rakuten Ready. In 2009, Apple acquired Jaron’s company Placebase. During his time at Apple, Jaron led the Geo team which built location-based services deployed on hundreds of millions of Apple devices globally. After leaving Apple, Jaron started another company called Curbside which was acquired by Rakuten in 2018 and became Rakuten Ready in 2019.

How is Rakuten Ready benefitting from the rapid growth of Order for Pickup?

We’re in the business of helping great merchants make their order ahead experiences better. With all the growth that’s going on, we’re seeing all kinds of experimentation. You also have technologists and operations folks breaking new ground in connecting stores to mobile commerce. It’s an exciting time.

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Cabify : The Leading Exclusive Ride-Sharing Service from Spain

By Yashica Vashishtha / October 30, 2019 /

www.yourtechstory.com/2019/10/30/...ride-sharing-service-spain

Rakuten Mobile extrem mauert, wird auch vermutlich trotz der vielen oben angeführten positiven Nachrichten, wenig passieren.

Vermutlich - das ist eben die Einschränkung.

Für Optimisten ist das die Chance, ihre Bestände zu erhöhen - und für Skeptiker gilt eben der umgekehrte Fall.

Ich habe jedenfalls seit dem Rückgang von etwas über 10 Euro auf das jetzige Niveau meine Bestände erhöht - soweit ich das im Rahmen einer wenn auch schon etwas überstrapazierten Risikostreuung verantworten konnte. Denn man kann ja nicht  - trotz aller vermuteter Unterbewertung - nur auf einen Wert setzen, denn es kann ja auch sein, dass an den Bedenken der Verkäufer etwas dran ist.

Eine beschränkte interessante Beimischung in einen Bestand ist Rakuten in Abhängigkeit von der Risikoneigung  aus meiner Sicht aber schon.

network?

NEC is a key supplier to help Rakuten deliver an entirely virtualized radio access network (vRAN) coupled with a distributed, common carrier-grade telco cloud. All of the services and capabilities of the network are cloud-native and software-based. It will utilize, from the start, a 5G-ready, IPv6-based transport network for backhaul with a completely software-defined programmable infrastructure.
The network will also combine mobile-edge computing with SDN-enabled centralized and regional data centers. This is a sophisticated way of saying that Rakuten's network is architected optimally for software-based and application-based services that can be instantiated and controlled on-demand, as would be expected in a cloud-native environment. This is a real digital-first approach from the ground up.

www.nec.com/en/case/rakuten-mobile/index.html

The environment of Mobile Edge Computing is characterized by low latency, proximity, high bandwidth, and real-time insight into radio network information and location awareness. All of this can be translated into value and can create opportunities for mobile operators, application and content providers enabling them to play complementary and profitable roles within their respective business models and allowing them to better monetize the mobile broadband experience.  

Mobile Edge Computing opens up services to consumers and enterprise customers as well as to adjacent industries that can now deliver their mission-critical applications over the mobile network. It enables a new value chain, fresh business opportunities and a myriad of new use cases across multiple sectors. The intention is to develop favourable market conditions which will create sustainable business for all players in the value chain, and to facilitate global market growth. To this end, a standardized, open environment needs to be created to allow the efficient and seamless integration of such applications across multi-vendor Mobile Edge Computing platforms. This will also ensure that the vast majority of the customers of a mobile operator can be served.

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erreicht und  will auch Gesamtjahr 2020 in der Gewinnzone liegen:

EXCLUSIF Viber devient rentable pour la première fois de son histoire
Rachetée en 2014 par le japonais Rakuten, l'application de messagerie sur mobiles va enregistrer les premiers bénéfices de son histoire au quatrième trimestre. Le fruit d'une diversification de ses revenus.

Fondée en décembre 2010 par quatre Israéliens, rachetée en 2014 par le géant japonais Rakuten, la messagerie instantanée va dégager les tous premiers profits de son histoire, annonce son patron français Djamel Agaoua. La bascule sera effective au terme du quatrième trimestre, clôt le 31 décembre prochain.

L'ensemble de l'exercice 2019 reste déficitaire et le montant des bénéfices, anecdotique. Mais le point d'équilibre est atteint. « La stratégie de diversification des sources de revenus a porté ses fruits […] nous serons rentables sur l'ensemble de l'exercice 2020 », assure Djamel Agaoua.

www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/medias/...de-son-histoire-1156684

Higher Prices Very Well May Be the Savior of Lyft Stock

InvestorPlace•December 13, 2019
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aus dem Text in meinem letzten Posting:

"It turns out that Barclays Capital might have an answer to Lyft’s problems.

Recently, it analyzed 2.4 billion taxi and ride-hailing trips in New York City to get a better grip on when Lyft would become profitable. What it found out might surprise you.

Higher Prices Wouldn’t Hurt Lyft

After looking at the data, analysts Jeffrey Meli, Adam Kelleher, Ryan Preclaw, and Ross Sandler found that if Lyft raised prices for its rides, volumes would only drop by a small amount, while the extra revenue would help it generate an operating profit.

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Lyft, Inc. LYFT enters the rental-car world with Lyft Rentals. This rental-car service is available through its app to select customers in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.

The company will not levy additional charges on the basis of mileage or refueling costs. Riders will also obtain credits of up to $20 each way for rides to and from its rental lots in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland. Users can rent cars for maximum two weeks. The cars available for rent are Mazda 3 sedan and Mazda CX-5 SUV in Los Angeles whereas in in the Bay Area, customers can choose between a Volkswagen Passat or a Volkswagen Atlas SUV.

Lyft has been witnessing substantial top-line growth owing to uptick in Active Riders. Total revenues soared 74.8% in the first nine months of 2019. Revenue per Active Rider increased 21.7%, 33.9% and 27% in the first, second and the third quarter of 2019, respectively.

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Connected TV and video-on-demand (VOD) services grew in 2019, which looks set to continue for the foreseeable future with new entrants such as Disney+ entering the fray. As a result, consumers will increasingly tune in to their favourite shows through these services as well as linear TV. The increase in the number of advertising-video-on-demand (AVOD) services such as Dplay from Discovery channel and Rakuten TV, in particular, will provide plenty of new opportunities for advertisers to find ‘elusive’ new audiences.

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“We have a very deliberate approach when we go into a market...and we’ve seen great success there,” he said, adding that its partnership with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten (RKUNY) had also helped expand the game’s reach. “Providing local content, providing the games, having the right partners to make those games accessible and available to fans really helps drive interest in the overall sport.”

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Rakuten LIFULL STAY’s Booking Site “Vacation STAY” Now Accepting Bookings for Vacation Rentals in Vietnam
- Overseas vacation rentals can now be booked on Vacation STAY. -

Tokyo, December 12, 2019 - Rakuten LIFULL STAY, Inc., a Rakuten Group company providing vacation rental services in Japan, announced that from today it has begun accepting bookings for vacation rental properties listed on Luxstay, an online vacation rental booking platform in Vietnam operated by Luxstay PTE. LTD, on its own booking site “Vacation STAY,” which is one of Japan’s largest vacation rental booking sites. This marks the first time users are able to book overseas vacation rentals through Vacation STAY.

The number of overseas tourists visiting Vietnam is rapidly increasing, with the number more than tripling from 2010 to 2018, and the travel market is expected to expand further. By country, the number of Japanese tourists is the third largest, surpassing 800,000 for the first time in 2018.

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Das Publikum von Viber ist mit 300 Millionen aktiven Nutzern pro Monat stabil, davon 50 Millionen in Russland und 4 Millionen in Frankreich. Die Anwendung ist jedoch in einigen europäischen Märkten, wie der Ukraine und Griechenland, weitestgehend marktbeherrschend und in Nordafrika, im Nahen Osten und in Südostasien gut etabliert.

Die strategischen Bereiche des Unternehmens stimmen jedoch nicht mit denen von Rakuten überein, was die Integration in das weitläufige Dienstleistungssystem des Unternehmens in Tokio erschwert. "Dies ist etwas, das Zeit braucht, vielleicht mehr als ich möchte", erkennt Djamel Agaoua, der Anfang 2017 zu Viber kam, mit der Mission, "das Publikum zu monetarisieren, ohne es zu verjagen".

Neben Werbung und Mobilfunkplänen für Anrufe außerhalb des Viber-Netzwerks bietet die Anwendung Marken die Möglichkeit, über Werbebotschaften mit ihren Kunden in Kontakt zu treten. Eine weitere Einnahmequelle: die "Einkaufstastatur", bei der die Bereitstellung eines Produktkatalogs für Benutzer mit Werbeaktionen - der alte Traum von Hiroshi Mikitani - nicht mehr weit ist. Der Dienst, der derzeit nur in Russland und den USA verfügbar ist, wird innerhalb weniger Wochen auch in Frankreich landen.

www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/medias/...de-son-histoire-1156684

kann ist, dass Viber trotz der starken bzw. dominierenden Stellung von Rakuten in Japan nicht besser zur Geltung kommt.

Ein Gedanke von mir dazu ist, dass sie vielleicht eine Art "Friedensabkommen" mit dem in Japan herrschenden Messenger Line haben, der ihnen dafür in einem anderen Bereich nicht in die Quere kommt - obwohl sie im Pay-Business doch harte Konkurrenten sind.