Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

SuperShuttle airport transport van service to go out of business at year-end
Published: Dec 26, 2019 2:26 p.m. ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) — SuperShuttle, the shared-van service that has carried passengers to and from airports across the U.S. and in Latin America, Canada, Europe and Asia, is going out of business, according to a newspaper report Thursday.
A letter obtained earlier in December by the Los Angeles Times from the company to a Los Angeles–area franchisee says: “SuperShuttle plans to honor all reservations and walk-up requests for service” through Dec. 31.

Founded in 1983 to serve Los Angeles International Airport, SuperShuttle has lost ground to competitors such as Uber UBER, -0.16% and Lyft LYFT, -0.37% . In recent weeks it has pulled out of airports serving many cities, including Phoenix, Baltimore and Minneapolis, the Times said.

www.marketwatch.com/story/...-26?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

Started selling 4 types of SIM fleece smartphones such as Rakuten Mobile and Galaxy Note10 +

2019-12-07

On November 26, Rakuten Mobile announced the handling of “Galaxy Note10 +”, “Galaxy S10”, “OPPO A5 2020”, and “AQUOS sense3 plus” as SIM lock-free terminals that support the company's MVNO and MNO services.

japan.topnews.cloud/...h-as-rakuten-mobile-and-galaxy-note10/

meinen Schätzungen in Q1/19

Founded in 2012 — three years after US-based Uber — Careem competed against its international rival across the Gulf, north Africa and Pakistan, deploying local knowledge and innovative regional variations.So successful was the regional challenge to Uber that in March this year the US group agreed to acquire Careem for $3.1bn in the region’s largest tech buyout. The deal is expected to close in January.Careem, while poised to become a wholly-owned Uber subsidiary, will carry on operating under its own brand, led by Mudassir Sheikha, co-founder and chief executive.

www.ft.com/content/c54749ca-b50c-11e9-b2c2-1e116952691a


Careem had raised less than $800 million from investors and as of October had a $2 billion valuation. Its backers include German car maker Daimler AG, Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing, Japanese internet company Rakuten Inc and Saudi investor Kingdom Holding Company.

www.reuters.com/article/...iling-in-middle-east-idUSKCN1R70IM

Zahlen des IHF Köln von 2018 zufolge hat sich Rakuten bei deutschen Online-Händlern inzwischen als dritte Kraft neben Amazon und Ebay etabliert.

Auf die Frage „Über welche Online-Marktplätze verkauft ihr Unternehmen Waren?“ antworten von den Unternehmen, die über Online-Marktplätze verkaufen:

Amazon = 62%
Ebay = 55%
Rakuten = 17%
Hood = 9%
Zalando = 9%
Otto = 8%
Real = 8%
Dawando = 6%
Ytego = 4%

Im Durchscnitt nutzen die über Online-Marktplätze verkaufenden Unternehmen 1,9 Marktplätze.

www.channelpartner.de/a/rakuten-will-s-nochmal-wissen,3335609

Custom Comparables, Powering Your Private Company Valuation Analyses
Zachary Hickey November 25, 2019

Custom Comparables is a powerful new feature available on the Cyndx platform that displays select valuation multiples for similar, publicly traded companies based on your search criteria.

In one simple step, companies can be added, or removed, from your search criteria to dynamically adjust the relevant publicly-traded companies included in the analysis, thus, customizing the valuation displays results based on your specific query.

Leveraging a dataset of over 7.9M companies, you can identify the most relevant comparables based on operating activities and business models. From here, you can easily establish a framework for valuations based on public company trading metrics; the comparables modal displays the average, minimum, maximum, and median EV/Revenue and EV/EBITDA multiples for each set of publicly-traded companies.

cyndx.net/blog/...mparables-powering-your-valuation-analyses/

This App Will Help You Discover All Of London’s Best Events
BY GEORGIE HOOLE 10 JUNE, 2019

When you’re in a city as busy and bustlin’ as London, it can be hard to decide how to spend your time. Fortunately, Fever is on hand to help…

Yep, sometime you’re just too busy to make plans, and wind up back in bed with Netflix – but there’s a nifty way to solve that. Fever is an events discovery app that uses a special algorithm to recommend the best things to do according to your interests. Which means it’ll only show you events that suit you. Partial to a pop-up? Here, have some pop-ups. Bit of a brunch queen? Oh, you can bet that Fever has a few of those to show you…

Used by over 15 million people from all over the globe—in places like London, Paris, Barcelona, New York, and Los Angeles—Fever invites you to be inspired by all the incredible things that are happening in your favourite cities. You can adjust the filters at any time, choosing categories such as festivals, food or nightlife, and even modify your search to specify a particular date or location.

secretldn.com/best-london-events-app/

Monday 5 August 2019 12:01 am
Events app Fever books $35m in funding round led by Rakuten

Fever, which lists entertainment events in more than a dozen cities worldwide, said the cash injection will fund investment in technology and expansion in new markets.

www.cityam.com/...-books-35m-in-funding-round-led-by-rakuten/

Kosten im Mobile-Bereich zunächst keine bzw. geringe Erlöse gegenüberstehen, ist zwar Fakt, aber warum das sich so extrem auf den Kurs auswirkt, ist m.E. rational nicht nachvollziehbar - und daher aus meiner Sicht eine gigantische Einstiegschance. Ich schließe auch nicht aus, dass hier nicht ausgabenwirksame für Lyft-Abschreibungen als Dauererscheinung und/oder reale Ausgaben fehlinterpretiert werden. Zudem führen Investitionen in den Mobile-Bereich zwar zu Ausgaben, aber der weitaus größte Teil dürfte über die Nutzungsdauer, als Aufwand erst in späteren Jahren auftauchen.

Rakuten hat einen hohen operativen Cash Flow, die Kreditaufnahme hält sich in Grenzen und eine Kapitalerhöhung wurde ausgeschlossen.

Und der Kapitalzufluss durch die Veräußerungen von Overdrive und der Anteile an Careem  werden nach meinen Schätzung über einer Milliarde liegen.

Fakt  ist allerdings, dass Rakuten keine gute Presse hat. Und da sie keine Kapitalerhöhung vorhaben, scheint der Unternehmensleitung die Kursentwicklung auch egal zu sein. Nach meinen Erkenntnissen scheint Rakuten momentan die Geheimhaltung über den Mobile-Probebetrieb, um der Konkurrenz Reaktionsmöglichkeiten zu erschweren, wichtiger zu sein als die Entwicklung der Kurse.

bestehende Beteiligung weiter ausbauen, weil das Unternehmen exzellent zum Ansatz von Rakuten passt und im Wachstumsraum schlechthin operiert:

ShopBack is a digital loyalty and discovery platform, on a mission to create a world of Smarter Shoppers. Founded in 2014, ShopBack has since established its online presence in 7 APAC countries and offices in 8 countries.

With more than 2,000 eCommerce merchants onboard, ShopBack counts Taobao, Expedia, Lazada, Zalora and other well-known local and international brands amongst its merchants. With >8 million users and powering 1 order every 3 seconds, we have awarded more than US$30 million in cashback till date. Join us to be part of this mission in creating The Smarter Way.

corporate.shopback.com/

Und ganz wichtig und unbedingt erklicken, wer da in Südostasien alles mitmacht:

www.shopback.sg/all-stores

clocked in with a 63% surge in quarterly revenue

Business is booming

Personal mobility is here to stay. Lyft and Uber are posting double-digit revenue gains, growing at the expense of old-school ways of getting around and even vehicle ownership trends. The financial reports they put out earlier this month are far more exciting than their stock charts.

Revenue at Uber rose 30% to $3.8 billion in the third quarter, more than doubling the 14% year-over-year top-line increase that rattled investors three months earlier. Growth has been decelerating at Lyft, but it's hard to stay mad at a company that just clocked in with a 63% surge in quarterly revenue. Lyft's growth is a combination of a 28% increase in active riders and a 27% boost to its revenue per active rider. In short, we're leaning on the only two car services that matter more and more with every passing quarter.

Lyft is growing briskly as a pure play on North American personal mobility. Uber is the much larger player with a strong international presence. Uber also has operations in restaurant delivery and freight that are growing even faster than its flagship service.

www.fool.com/investing/2019/11/21/...at-the-market-in-20.aspx
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Statistiken zum Thema Cross-border E-Commerce
Veröffentlicht von L. Rabe, 12.08.2019

Nach einer McKinsey-Prognose wird im grenzübergreifenden B2C-Online-Handel im Jahr 2020 rund eine Billion US-Dollar weltweit umgesetzt. In China belief sich der Cross-border-E-Commerce-Umsatz im Jahr 2017 auf rund 100 Milliarden US-Dollar. Es wird prognostiziert, dass sich dieser Umsatz bis zum Jahr 2022 nahezu verdoppeln wird.

de.statista.com/themen/5265/cross-border-e-commerce/

Entzückendes für Rakuten Ichiba

Diese Statistik bildet das Ergebnis einer Umfrage zu den beliebtesten Ländern beim grenzübergreifenden Online-Einkauf in China im Jahr 2018 ab. Zum Zeitpunkt der Erhebung gaben 23 Prozent der Befragten an, dass ihre letzte grenzüberschreitende Online-Bestellung aus Japan stammte.

de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/...e-einkauf-in-china/

Rakuten: Treuepunkte des E-Commerce-Riesen gegen Bitcoin und Ether tauschbar
Sonntag, 29.12.2019 15:00 von BTC-Echo

Japans größter Onlinehändler Rakuten hat seinen Kunden die Möglichkeit bereitgestellt, Treuepunkte gegen Kryptowährungen einzutauschen. Der Umtausch erfolgt dabei über die firmeneigene Krypto-Börse Rakuten Wallet. Die Rakuten Super Points können in Bitcoin, Ether und Bitcoin Cash umgewandelt werden. Laut Pressemitteilung ist der Service seit dem 24. Dezember verfügbar.
Rakuten gilt als japanisches Amazon-Äquivalent, es bezeichnet sich selbst als drittgrößte Online-Handelsplattform der Welt. Das Unternehmen bündelt auf seiner Website tausende von Online-Shops. Rakuten gab an, mit dem Umtauschservice Eintrittshürden für den Krypto-Markt abbauen zu wollen. Das Angebot soll deshalb insbesondere Nutzer ansprechen, die über keinerlei Erfahrungen mit dem Handeln von Bitcoin & Co. verfügen. Der Service stellt weiterhin einen zusätzlichen Anwendungsfall für die Treuepunkte selbst bereit.

https://www.ariva.de/news/...ommerce-riesen-gegen-bitcoin-und-8065797

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.”

Making the “Matchday – Inside FC Barcelona” original documentary series, about the legendary titular Spanish soccer club, available for free has been a key traffic driver for Rakuten TV, the streaming arm of Japan-based e-commerce giant Rakuten

variety.com/2019/tv/news/...ten-tv-avod-on-demand-1203435463/

Damit wird Rakuten TV als erster Anbieter in Europa TVOD (Transactional-Video-On-Demand) - und AVOD-Produkte kombinieren, um sich an die veränderten Sehgewohnheiten der Zuschauer anzupassen. Die kostenlosen, werbefinanzierten Kanäle werden das reguläre Angebot von Rakuten TV ergänzen, das den Nutzern von Smart TVs das beste Kinoerlebnis mit den aktuellsten Neuerscheinungen in bester audiovisueller Qualität bietet. Die Rakuten TV-Taste auf der Fernbedienung ermöglicht auf den meisten Smart TVs den direkten Zugriff auf die App. Die Inhalte von Rakuten TV sind in über 30 Millionen Haushalten in ganz Europa nur einen Klick weit entfernt.
Die Streaming-Branche befindet sich aktuell in einer Phase des Umbruchs. Neue Möglichkeiten wie AVOD werden ausgelotet. Rakuten TV ist stolz darauf, diesen Trend als eine der führenden VOD-Plattformen in Europa zu forcieren und die verschiedenen Geschäftsmodelle – TVOD, AVOD und SVOD (Subscription-Video-On-Demand) – miteinander zu kombinieren, um so den Bedürfnissen aller Nutzer immer besser gerecht zu werden.

Jacinto Roca, Gründer und CEO von Rakuten TV, dazu: „Wir sind sehr stolz darauf, diesen Schritt zu gehen, nachdem wir unsere Präsenz in Europa erst vor wenigen Monaten verdreifacht haben. Rakuten TV entwickelt sich weiterhin rasant, genau wie die Trends der Branche. Es gibt eine deutliche Entwicklung der Werbetreibenden weg vom linearen Fernsehen und hin zu Video-On-Demand. Dies ist eine einzigartige Gelegenheit für Rakuten TV und der Start eines großartigen Projekts, das in den kommenden Monaten mit zusätzlichen Kanälen und exklusiven Inhalten weiter wachsen wird.“

www.infosat.de/digital-tv/...enloses-streaming-angebot-europa

in cash back

Rakuten, formerly called Ebates, is a rewards platform that gives you cash back for shopping online and in person at your favorite stores.

The best part?
Rakuten is 100% free. You never pay anything to use the site.

Plus, you often earn more cash back through Rakuten than you would with a rewards credit card. (Of course, you can maximize your savings by using both.)

Ebates.com was founded in 1998 in Menlo Park, California. It was acquired by Rakuten in 2014 and officially changed its name and logo in 2019.

Today, the site has over 10 million users and has issued out more than $1 billion in cash back rewards.

It was one of the first cash back sites to hit the scene in the late 1990s, and it’s arguably the most well-known online discount site today. (Well, Ebates is a well-known name. Rakuten still needs a few years to catch on.)

retirementinvestments.com/rakuten-review/

Analysts remain largely optimistic about Lyft’s potential.

“The bottom line is that LYFT has delivered three solid quarters since its IPO, and we believe many (if not most) of the tailwinds that have driven LYFT’s results thus far this year can sustain for the next several quarters at least,” White said.

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26/08/2019
Rakuten eyes doubling of ad revenue by 2021 via new movie studio

Internet services provider Rakuten has revealed plans to synergise its joint venture with film production company, The H Collective for the various businesses under its wing, including its advertising arm. According to Nikkei Asian Review, it looks to double its advertising revenue in 2018 to US$1.88 billion by 2021 by leveraging production of TV commercials based on scenes from Rakuten movies.

Leveraging the new co-owned Rakuten H Collective Studio, which was first announced at the start of August, it also aims to benefit its other business units such as retail, television, telco and travel.  In the news report, Rakuten’s group executive VP Makoto Arima explained that the intellectual property (IP) created by the studio will create a “significant impact” in expanding the company’s ecosystem. He added that Rakuten aims to distribute the movies produced by the studio globally, including adapting IP into merchandise that can be sold at its online marketplace.

Meanwhile, the original programming can also be added to its video platform Rakuten TV. The company, which plans to roll out its own 5G mobile network in 2020, aims to tap on the expanded movie library to acquire new customers for the service when released. Rakuten Travel, on the other hand, plans to offer tours to locations featured in the movies.

Earlier this month, Rakuten said the joint venture is a move to contribute to the “revitalisation of the entertainment industry around the world”.

www.marketing-interactive.com/...y-2021-via-new-movie-studio/

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Rakuten

What consumer-facing 5G service plans will look like is an open question but, if you zoom out, that’s not the most pressing problem. The most pressing problem is that, in some developed markets, mobile penetration has passed 100% meaning there’s only so many SIM cards a carrier can sell to you and me. So the next step is to connect everything else–robots, cars, industrial equipment, whatever.

5G isn’t just about the radio access network, Kaul said. It’s about virtualization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the internet of things and enterprise enablement. “When we talk this language, I think we will solve a lot of things. Putting another radio that gives you speeds and feeds, you will never monetize that. But if you create use cases that will solve the world’s problems, you will monetize.”

www.rcrwireless.com/20190911/5g/...ssons-reliance-jio-rakuten

ViSenze Named as an IDC Innovator for Computer Vision Software
The report places ViSenze with four other emerging vendors with compelling and differentiated offerings in the rapidly evolving computer vision market

September 05, 2019 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, ViSenze announced it has been named an IDC Innovator in the recently published report, IDC Innovators: Computer Vision Software, 2019*. The report profiles four notable emerging vendors that have demonstrated innovative new computer vision software.

The market for computer vision is rapidly evolving, with a myriad of organizations using the technology to augment the skills of workers, automate business processes, increase efficiencies, and/or reduce costs. ViSenze is identified as a provider that enables consumers to find and compare products using images and / or screenshots, find visually-similar recommendations using images, and activate "visual search" natively from different applications.

ViSenze powers visual commerce at scale for retailers and publishers. The company delivers intelligent image recognition solutions that shorten the path to action as consumers search and discover on the visual web. Retailers like Rakuten and ASOS use ViSenze to convert images into immediate product search opportunities, improving conversion rates. Media companies use ViSenze to turn any image or video into an engagement opportunity, driving incremental revenue.

Venture-backed by Gobi Partners, Sonae IM, Rakuten, and WI Harper, ViSenze is built by web specialists and computer scientists with deep machine learning and computer vision experience. ViSenze has offices in the US, UK, China, South Korea, India, and Singapore.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/...or-Computer-Vision-Software

Azimo achieves profitability as new CEO Richard Ambrose takes over
By Oliver Smith on 28th August 2019

New boss plots Asia expansion ahead, with a possible IPO on the horizon.

Seven-year-old money transfer firm Azimo has reached profitability in the second quarter of 2019, making it one of just a handful of fintech startups to have reached break-even.

The news comes as COO and former PayPay exec Richard Ambrose takes over as CEO from co-founder Michael Kent who is stepping into the role as executive chair of the company.

Azimo says it’s enabled more than $2bn worth of transactions from over a million customers since 2012, and has seen the volume of transfers increase by 60% year-on-year.

The company is also weighing up plans for an IPO, now that it’s reached profitability, which AltFi understands has a working timescale of being 18 to 24 months away.

Next on Ambrose’s agenda will be Asia, where the company has launched and plans to expand across the continent later this year.

Azimo currently supports payments in over 80 currencies and more than 190 receiving countries.

www.altfi.com/article/...s-new-ceo-richard-ambrose-takes-over

Barclays Says
By Esha Dey
10. Dezember 2019

The good news, according to analysts Jeffrey Meli, Adam Kelleher, Ryan Preclaw and Ross Sandler, is that Uber and Lyft are well-positioned to achieve profitability.

The analysis looked at how higher prices affected the number of Uber and Lyft rides, and found that they can raise prices to achieve an operating profit with only a modest impact on volumes, “disproving a key piece of the bear case.”

For their part, Lyft has said it would turn a profit by the end of 2021, while Uber expects to be profitable on an Ebitda basis in 2021.

The analysts also found that the social impact of ride-hailing has been a “net positive,” and that despite a “correlation to gentrification, ride hailing increased rides in the least gentrified neighborhoods by 50 times, and filled a gap in transportation infrastructure.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...urn-a-profit-barclays-says

Uber-and-Lyft-profitability-among-RBCs-top--surprise-list

RBC Capital analyst Mark Mahaney compiled a broader research note titled "Top Ten Internet Surprises for 2020" list, in which he assigns a "reasonable chance" of 30% or more for the following to occur against the "average internet investor" expectations of the event being improbable.

3) Uber (UBER) and Lyft (LYFT) achieve EBITDA profitability thanks "insurance expense leverage, driver and rider subsidies rationalization, pricing actions, and growth leverage".

thefly.com/...ber-profitability-among-RBCs-top--surprise-list

After months and months of rumors it’s finally been confirmed that ride-hailing giant Uber is picking up its Middle East rival Careem in an acquisition deal worth $3.1 billion — with $1.7BN to be paid in convertible notes and $1.4BN in cash.

Uber writes that it expects the transaction to close in Q1 2020, pending applicable regulatory approvals.
The startup has raised around $772M to date, according to Crunchbase, with investors including Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holdings, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing and Japanese tech giant Rakuten.

techcrunch.com/2019/03/26/...ick-up-middle-east-rival-careem/

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More hotels: Choose from online selection of more than 31,000 hotels and ryokan in Japan

More deals: Get domestic rates and exclusive discounts from Japan’s largest online travel agency

More value: Customize your trip with accommodation plans

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Ride-hailing giant Gojek revealed upcoming plans for its business, which include expanding its services to Malaysia and the Philippines in 2020, Jakarta Globe reported.

The company is looking to change the ratio of its domestic versus international customers from 80:20 to 50:50 in the next five years, Gojek co-CEO Andre Soelistyo said during the celebration of the company’s ninth anniversary in Jakarta.

kr-asia.com/gojek-to-enter-malaysia-the-philippines-in-2020


Uber rival Go-Jek confirms $550M raise and hints at Southeast Asia expansion
August 4, 2016

Indonesia-based Go-Jek, the motorbike taxis on-demand company that competes with Uber and Grab, has confirmed that it has raised upwards of $550 million in new funding. It also hinted that it may expand to other parts of Southeast Asia for the first time.

The company’s valuation was not disclosed, but we reported earlier than it values Go-Jek at $1.3 billion post-money.

The money was provided by new investors KKR, Warburg Pincus, Farallon Capital and Capital Group Private Markets. Existing investors Sequoia India, Northstar Group, DST Global, NSI Ventures, Rakuten Ventures and Formation Group also took part.

techcrunch.com/2016/08/04/...nts-at-southeast-asia-expansion/