Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

9 Jahre in Folge Nr. 1 – mThink 2020 bestes Affiliate-Netzwerk
Von Lisa Bruecher | 27 Januar

Sie, unsere Advertiser und Branchenkollegen, uns zum 9. Mal in Folge zum beliebtesten Affiliate-Netzwerk gewählt haben. Unsere globalen Teams setzen sich dafür ein, Marken, Resellern und Publishern weltweit überlegene Strategien und innovative Technologien zur Verfügung zu stellen.
Jeden Herbst führt mThink die größte Umfrage in der Performance-Marketing-Branche durch, um das führende Affiliate-Netzwerke zu ermitteln. Mehr als 25.000 Advertiser, Publisher und Agenturen werden gebeten, ihre Top Cost-per-Sale (CPS)-Affiliate-Netzwerke (CPS) zu wählen.  Die Ergebnisse dieser Umfrage werden auch einem Gremium von Branchenexperten zur Einsicht und Bewertung vorgelegt. Die im Ranking bewerteten Unternehmen sind Branchenführer, die überragenden Kundenservice, Professionalität und konsistenten ROI bieten. Bei der Umfrage werden für die Top-20-Liste fast 400 Netzwerke in Betracht gezogen.

Das sagt Chris Trayhorn, CEO und Gründer von mThink, zu den Umfrageergebnissen: „Rakuten Marketing ist verdientermaßen unser Affiliate-Netzwerk Nr. 1 für 2020. Es ist ein ausgezeichnetes führendes Beispiel für Spitzenleistungen in der Branche.“

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du schreiben soviel du willst, die ROTE Zahl oben rechts sagt alles über diese Aktie aus.

Seit Eröffnung des Threads MINUS 43,11 Prozent.

By Corey Mann
Originally posted February 4, 2020

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Das japanische Unternehmen Rakuten, dem Viber gehört, wird in Kiew ein Forschungs- und Entwicklungszentrum eröffnen.

An den Gesprächen nahmen die stellvertretenden Minister für digitale Transformation, Alexander Bornyakov und Valeria Ionan, sowie Yasufumi Hirai, Executive Vice President von Rakuten, und Ofir Eyal, COO von Viber, teil. Das heutige Treffen war eine Fortsetzung der Verhandlungen zwischen dem Präsidenten der Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, und dem Gründer von Rakuten, Hiroshi Mikitani, die im Juni 2019 stattfanden.

Im Jahr 2014 erwarb Rakuten den Viber Messenger für 900 Millionen US-Dollar. Derzeit ist diese mobile Anwendung auf 96% der Smartphones in der Ukraine installiert.

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future of customer relationships today

How does Rakuten Viber create a balance between branded content and user-generated content?

Rakuten Viber’s main purpose is messaging and calling. The principal reason people use the app is to connect with loved ones whenever and wherever they are in the world, so that in and of itself creates a platform focused on consumers first. To balance that with branded content, we have an ads-lite policy, meaning we offer a limited number of native ad units in places that are not obtrusive to the user or user experience. This ensures users are never deluged by advertising like they are on the web.

We also offer brands the ability to connect in a two-way chat for convenient activities like banking, shopping, travel and shipping notifications, which allows consumers to easily and conveniently respond. Since consumers spend the majority of their time on mobile, brands that work with us are investing in the future of customer relationships today.

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05.02.2020 11:32
Japan’s company Rakuten, the owner of Viber service, intends to open a research and development center in Kyiv, the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation has reported on its Facebook page.

"Rakuten is expanding its presence in Ukraine. An existing office in Odesa is being developed and an R&D center is being opened in Kyiv," reads the statement.

Rakuten is a Japanese e-commerce and online retailing company based in Tokyo. In 2014, Rakuten purchased Viber for $900 million. This messaging app is installed on 97% of smartphones of Ukrainian residents.

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Viber can launch its cryptocurrency Rakuten Coin in Russia
September 26, 2019

According to various sources, Viber’s user baseRussia is about 50 million people. Despite the fact that the messenger is inferior to WhatsApp in this indicator, the audience is really huge.

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“Rakuten Car”

Tokyo, February 3, 2020 - Rakuten, Inc. today announced the merger of the automotive service brands it operates.

This brand merger integrates the following five services under the Rakuten Car brand: Rakuten Shaken, a site for obtaining advance quotes and making bookings for vehicle inspections, Rakuten Car Service, which allows users to make batch assessment requests for the trade-in of used cars, compare and make reservations for car wash and coating services, and make reservations for tire mounting services, Rakuten Car Service App, a search app for gas stations where users can collect Rakuten Points, and Rakuten Car Service Magazine, which provides information on discounts on vehicle maintenance fees. The brand merger also includes Car Price, an auction service that purchases used cars, operated by the consolidated subsidiary Rakuten Car Co., Ltd.

Rakuten Car Service has witnessed a growing need for online services in the automotive sector. For example, the number of reservations made for its tire mounting service in 2019 increased by 5.6 times over the previous year, while the number of reservations made through Rakuten Shaken in 2019 grew by 1.6 times over the previous year.

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a local, digital function to prepare your life inside one app

San Francisco, CA, 5, February 2020 — Rakuten Viber, one of many world’s main messaging apps, as we speak introduced its latest function, My Notes, to prepare the most important and smallest moments, simplify day by day duties and deepen private connections with customers is rolling out globally.

With over one billion customers and over seven million interactions each minute on the Viber app, the My Notes function will additional streamline customers’ day-to-day duties to make them as handy and environment friendly as potential.

Designed for on a regular basis messaging and organizational capabilities inside Viber, the answer provides the flexibility to:
Create to-do lists and examine them off when full
Save favourite messages, movies, pictures stickers in a single place
Sync to any gadget (e.g., cell, desktop, pill, and so on.)
Set reminders for a very powerful notes (coming quickly)

www.icrazemagazine.com/tech/...-save-notes-and-to-dos/102368/
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of Cabify

After Uber left Colombia, Cabify will continue its operations and announces greater vehicle availability

Oscar Zapata, Commercial Director, Cabify Colombia, explains that the company will continue to operate as per usual in Colombia, after the very probable exit of Uber this February.

"Our focus has been taxis and companies, including Easy Taxi and Cabify, which are legally constituted transport companies."
Cabify is 100% regulated, therefore it does not enter the situation in which its rival is currently in.

The company is present in six Colombian cities and it currently boasts having an average of 300,000 users, with approximately 400,000 monthly trips.

Cabify plans to consolidate in Colombia pending the latest regulations.

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für Lyft:

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50.00 +2.58 (5.44%)
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Tools, Teams und Technologien von Rakuten Marketing, die Botschafter schaffen

Neue Kunden sind gut. Kunden, die wiederkommen, sind besser. Doch es geht noch besser: Kunden, die sich so stark mit Ihrer Marke und Ihrem Angebot identifizieren, dass sie zu Markenbotschaftern werden.

Mit unseren Daten, unserer angepassten KI-Technologie und wissensbasierten Strategie helfen wir Ihnen bei der Gestaltung von authentischen und personalisierten Interaktionen auf allen Kanälen, Plattformen und Geräten. Das Ergebnis? Sie können Ihre Kundenbeziehungen pflegen und vertiefen und aus Kunden Markenanhänger machen.

rakutenmarketing.com/de-de/loesungen/marketer/botschafter/

“We recognize that the era of growth at all costs is over,” Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement following the earnings announcement. “In a world where investors increasingly demand not just growth, but profitable growth, we are well-positioned to win through continuous innovation, excellent execution and the unrivaled scale of our global platform.”

“We are challenging the team to get to profitability,” Khosrowshahi later said in a conference call with analysts. He said he expects Uber to be profitable on an Ebitda basis (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) in the fourth quarter this year. “We are confident we can reach long-term margins” while eliminating what he called “empty calories” in system inefficiencies, he added.

As Uber cut losses, its business continues to grow. Gross bookings, which include the total value of ride-hailing and food-delivery orders placed on the app, improved 28% year-over-year to $18.1 billion in the quarter. Another key business indicator, monthly active platform consumers, surged 22% to 111 million.

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Jim Cramer: Uber and Pinterest Step Up

UBER and PINS make me feel that they have pivoted from unicorn status and are now about showing Wall Street that they can make a lot of money if they want to.

By JIM CRAMER
פבר 07, 2020 | 07:55 AM EST
Who would have thought it: Uber (UBER) and Pinterest (PINS) executed so well that they actually were able to surprise to the upside. It's pretty monumental given that both of them had the orientation not that long ago of losing a lot of money to make a lot of money. Now they just want to make a little money and we discover that when they go for profitability they can get it.

What's really strange is that when you search for why and how the changes occur, they are really pretty subtle. I think that Pinterest simply got their advertising proposition, particularly, video, to work better. Customers always loved it and are still coming in record numbers.

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But some analysts said Lyft is a less-risky bet.

"We prefer Lyft because it focuses on the most profitable business in North America, the largest rides market," Cascend Securities analyst Eric Ross said.

Lyft is reporting fourth quarter earnings on Feb. 11. In October it told investors it would be adjusted EBITDA profitable by the end of 2021. Analysts said they did not expect Lyft to move its profit target.

Lyft has integrated public transit information into its app for seven U.S. cities in the hopes of turning its app into a single transportation platform. Uber has integrated transit information of eight U.S. cities and allows customers in Las Vegas and Denver to purchase public transit tickets through its app.

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February 5 2020

Cabify, the car-booking service that became Spain’s first billion-dollar start-up in 2018, says it is now profitable — a development it claims is a first for a standalone company in its industry.

Madrid-based Cabify, which is also active in 10 Latin American countries, marked up a small profit of $3m in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation for the fourth quarter of last year.
Cabify reported net sales of $29m for the quarter and $104m for 2019 as a whole, from a total of $708m in rides. It added that its turn towards profitability was largely because of technology that allowed it to use discounts and subsidies more effectively.

It said that operating free cash flow, which factors in some payments to engineers, was also positive or about break even.

“The business as it is now can sustain itself and survive,” Juan de Antonio, the founder and chief executive of the group, said in an interview. “

Cabify’s big investors include Japan’s Rakuten, with 40 per cent of the shares, and Spain’s Seaya, with about 10 per cent. Employees, including Mr De Antonio, retain about 25 per cent.

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A decade of disruption: 5 tech storylines set to define 2020 and beyond
January 7, 2020

Tech transforming healthcare

Virtual healthcare, nanomedicine and robot-assisted surgery: these are just a few of the technological breakthroughs revolutionizing healthcare. While innovations in medtech may not grab as many fevered headlines as speculation on the latest iPhone, there are few fields with this much potential to impact our quality of life. And the optimism in 2020 is palpable.

Speaking about advances in cancer treatment last summer in Yokohama, David Agus told the Rakuten Optimism audience, “The things we can do today would be considered science fiction just a few years ago. It’s an amazing time. For the first time in my career, I can walk into the room of a patient with cancer with real optimism. Optimism is there on the patient’s side and my side.”

Society is continuing to explore and adopt new approaches to age-old problems, and it is driving innovative and agile startups, such as Rakuten Medical, to bring these solutions to market.

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erst recht nicht in Q1/20.

Hier die Kurse an den Quartalsende:

Q2/19 = 65,71

Q3/19 = 40,84

Q4/19 = 43,02

Freitag, 8.2.2020 = 49,92

Sowohl in Q4/19 als auch im bisherigen Verlauf von Q1/20 ergeben sich Gewinne aus den Lyft-Bewertungen. So problematisch diese Gewinne und Verluste und die von ihnen produzierten Gewinnschwankungen auch sind, haben sie anscheinend doch starken Einfluss auf die Kursentwicklung.

 

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von Lyft in Q4/19 durch Kursverluste von Pinterest in Q4/19 geschmälert, selbst wenn die Beteiligung von Rakuten mit nach meinen Schätzungen etwas weniger als 5% wesentlich niedriger ist als die an Pinterest.

Hier die Kurse an den Quartalsenden:

Q3/19 = 26,45

Q4/19 = 18,64

Freitag, 8.2.2020 = 25,20

Umso heftiger sind allerdings bei Pinterest die Bewertungsgewinne, die bisher in Q1/20 angefallen sind.

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More and more service providers are adapting Open vRAN

In athe past year, operators in all regions have announced Open vRAN plans. And one – Rakuten – is already commercial deployed.

2019 was a great momentum building year for Open vRAN with Etisalat, Vodafone, O2, Viettel and others announcing their intent to deploy Open vRAN and of course the industry pioneer, Rakuten going commercial with a 100% Open vRAN network. The industry is seeing proof that not only does an open environment work, but it simplifies, reduces costs and eliminate vendor lock-in.

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