Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Rakuten Sports and Golden State Warriors Enter Strategic Partnership to Develop Key APAC Markets

Tokyo, April 28, 2022 - Rakuten Sports and the six-time NBA Champion Golden State Warriors have entered into a strategic partnership for business development and partner acquisition in key Asia Pacific markets. Under this agreement, Rakuten Sports – a Rakuten Group service focused on creating partnerships built on shared values with professional sports teams, athletes, brands and rights-holders around the world – will become the exclusive international partner in Japan, Taiwan and Singapore for the promotion and sale of Warriors partnership packages in these three markets. Rakuten Sports will support the franchise by developing partner-based deals in these key markets.

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Particular Audience is a tech stack that creates AI-powered Product Bundles and makes automated Bundles available to customers. Trusted by Amazon and Walmart, their Bundles help brands increase basket size by up to 60% and conversion by 102% without the use of PII or third-party cookies. Brands can leverage Particular Audience’s fully managed service – simply copy and paste a tag into the back-end of the e-commerce website and the team will take care of the rest. Advertisers on the Rakuten Affiliate Network can work with Particular Audience through the Rakuten tag and no extra integration is required.

Reviews.org | SID: 3930795 | Active Markets: Australia

Reviews.org is a reviews site that has reviewed 400+ connected home products and services, including TVs, Internet providers, mobile plans, smart speakers, or even Xbox or PlayStation consoles. The team test the products and services beforehand to provide customers with reviews not only to ensure something is “good” before they buy it, but if it’s good for them. Together, the Reviews.org team help over 2.3 million people per month navigate the complexities of purchasing connected home items. Consumer electronics and software brands can place their products or services in front of Reviews.org’s 250K monthly Australian readers.

Similar Inc | SID: 3535020 | Active Markets: Global

Similar Inc is a tech publisher that automates in store price policies online through its Price Beat Guarantee product. The publisher has produced incredible results, generating up to 100% increase in YOY conversions, 5% increase in click through rate and 15% increase in click conversion rate for brands. Through Similar Inc, brands can also prevent cart abandonment from price-conscious shoppers, convert price-comparing customers and select products or competitors to price beat, providing customers with a seamless user experience.

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April 28, 2022

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77% of CIOs to embrace SAAS solutions to drive digital transformation post-Covid-19: A Survey by Rakuten India’s SixthSense

April 28, 2022

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Rakuten India is the Development Centre and key technology hub of the Rakuten Group, Inc. We enable our businesses with our depth of knowledge in multiple streams of technology such as Mobile and Web Development, Web Analytics, Platform Development, Backend Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and much more. Our unique 24/7 support center ensures reliability and sustenance of the Rakuten Ecosystem. With dedicated centres of excellence for Mobile Application Development, Data Analytics, Engineering, DevOps and Information Security, we ensure the success of multiple units of Rakuten Group, Inc. With 1700+ employees and growing, Rakuten India is housed in Crimson House Bangalore in the heart of the city.

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similar to what SpaceX did with the rocket industry, Netflix did for the entertainment industry, Apple for personal computing and so on

We Are Symphony: A conversation with Dhruv Sood

Global Digital Marketing Manager

Rakuten Symphony

April 27, 2022

In 2018, the Rakuten Group decided that they would build Japan’s fourth major mobile network from scratch. Coming from the mindset of an internet software company, they wanted to do things differently. So Rakuten took a software-based, cloud-native design approach to building Rakuten Mobile. However, that was just the start. Rakuten’s unique combination of operating models and package of next-gen software platforms, clearly had the potential to transform an entire global industry.

In August of 2021, Rakuten announced the formation of the Rakuten Symphony, a company formed with the vision of making this unique cloud-native and software-based Telco model developed in Rakuten Mobile ‘generally available’ for greenfield and brownfield operators globally. This new model essentially changes the center of gravity from hardware to software in telecom, which is a transformational shift. For example, if you drive a Tesla, you’re driving a software experience with wheels. Fintech banks are a software space. OTT platforms have become the new source of entertainment. Even workplaces today have become virtual spaces thanks to communication innovators like Zoom. Softwarization is the industry’s destiny, and Telco-as-a-platform will be the end game. This journey is truly a marketer’s dream – my dream to be specific.

I believe that the company is on a path to achieving the unthinkable, similar to what SpaceX did with the rocket industry, Netflix did for the entertainment industry, Apple for personal computing and so on. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to be a part of achieving these bold, transformative goals.

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APRIL 30 2022 | Mr. Ankesh Tiwari | Rakuten Symphony

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Rakuten Symphony and F5 Accelerate Supply Chain Diversity With Availability of F5 Cloud-Native Solutions in Symworld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7-2XPVK3V8

Eine aktuelle Studie von Moody’s zeigt, dass bereits gut die Hälfte der großen Neobanken profitabel ist. Sie wachsen mit geringen Neukundenkosten, bei den Einnahmen hapert es teilweise allerdings noch.

Frankfurt, 15.02.2022

Größte Neobank der Stichprobe der Ratingagentur Moody’s ist die Rakuten Bank mit einer Bilanzsumme von 58,7 Mrd. Dollar per Ende 2020.

bg Frankfurt – Die Ratingagentur Moody’s hat sich in einer Sektoranalyse den Neobanken gewidmet und dabei festgestellt, dass diese zwar Probleme hätten, sich als Erstbank zu etablieren, sie aber ein gutes Kundenwachstum zeigen. Unter die Lupe genommen wurden die global 20 größten „challenger banks“, die als Fintechs mit Banklizenz definiert wurden. Deren Assets hätten sich aggregiert von 2017 bis 2020 auf 319 Mrd. Dollar verdreifacht, bei einer von 170 Millionen auf 610 Millionen vergrößerten Kundenzahl . Moody’s zufolge ist gut die Hälfte der betrachteten Neobanken profitabel.

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AST SpaceMobile Announces Collaboration with Globe Telecom

Memorandum of Understanding Would Explore Opportunities to Extend AST SpaceMobile's Planned Coverage to Globe Telecom Customers

MIDLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AST SpaceMobile, Inc. ("AST SpaceMobile") (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network designed to be accessible directly by standard mobile phones, today announced a Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") with Globe Telecom, Inc. ("Globe") (NASDAQ: GTMEF).

Globe is a leading digital platform in the Philippines, serving consumers and businesses’ telecommunications and technology needs, including about 86 million wireless subscribers.

"The Philippines’ thousands of islands create formidable challenges to meet a growing demand for cellular broadband connectivity," said Chris Ivory, Chief Commercial Officer of AST SpaceMobile. “We believe our planned space-based network solution is well-suited to help, and we’re excited to work with Globe.”

Once launched, AST SpaceMobile would aim to provide Globe with expanded coverage and reach to remote and underserved areas.

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Rakuten Mobile's network performance excels in umlaut study of major city networks

April 30, 2022

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70% of major brands will have a presence in the Metaverse within five years.

The Metaverse market will grow to over $1,544 billion in less than ten years.

It’s estimated we’ll spend more time in Metaverses than IRL by 2030.

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Wunderman Thompson Commerce just released a UK gamers survey that shows about 33% discover new brands while playing virtual world games, and 56% are more likely to buy from a brand that features in their favorite game. The press release states that 41% consider their avatar to be a part of their identity, and some go even further and put the same importance to looking good in-game (61%) as they do to looking good in real life (65%).

Still on the fence? Ad Age warns, “The metaverse has been set up to scratch the itch of socialization in a way that didn’t exist until this moment. Still, that doesn’t make it an easy win for brands—they can still find themselves on the outside looking in if they can’t find a way to organically participate in these new virtual communities. Brands learned these same lessons on the rocky road to understanding how to market on social media.”

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Rakuten wins 5G Challenge early bird award from NTIA, DoD

LIGHT READING 4/26/2022

WASHINGTON – Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), in Boulder, Colo., in collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD), announced 5G Challenge contestants selected from Early-Bird entries. This prize competition aims to accelerate the adoption of open interfaces, interoperable components and multi-vendor solutions toward the development of an open 5G ecosystem.

After evaluating Early-Bird white papers, the 5G Challenge selected Rakuten Mobile USA's Central Unit (CU) and Distributed Unit (DU) for interoperability testing with the 5G Challenge host lab, CableLabs.

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Telefonica’s Blanco predicted that, between 2022 to 2025, 50% of Telefónica’s upgrades to radio sites will employ this new technology

One of the largest telecoms groups in the world has spoken out in favor of new mobile evolution that promises to make cellular technology far more flexible and cost-effective. Madrid-based Telefónica and Rakuten Mobile have signed a memorandum of understanding that will see them work together to advance OpenRAN (radio access network) technology, 5G core networks and operations support systems (OSS).

“This is a massive opportunity for all of us,” Enrique Blanco, CTIO of Telefónica, told a webinar announcing the partnership this week. With extensive operations across Europe and Latin America, Telefónica plans to run pilots of OpenRAN technology during 2020 and 2021, as a precursor to “a massive deployment in one of our main cities, our main operations” in the first quarter of 2022. With an OpenRAN system, the hardware and software employed in the radio network can be sourced from multiple different vendors, giving the operator a high degree of flexibility.

Blanco predicted that, between 2022 to 2025, 50% of Telefónica’s upgrades to radio sites will employ this new technology. “This is not a wish, this is not a hope, Rakuten has demonstrated that this is a fact,” he added, alluding to Rakuten Mobile’s successful deployment of Open RAN technologies in Japan. “We will be pushing extremely hard trying to guarantee that this happens.” The pilots will be designed to ensure the new technology can deliver the five nines (99.999%) availability that has long been a benchmark for telecoms networks.

symphony.rakuten.com/blog/...-team-to-transform-cellular-tech

Besides that, we compared Rakuten‘s customer reviews with the other two leading retail e-commerce marketplaces in Japan which are Amazon and Mercari to compare their customer satisfaction. Rakuten had better reviews than the others. Based on the reviews, the satisfaction with Rakuten’s cashback system and the inclusion of sellers’ daily offers on the platform for customers’ convenience was highlighted.

Company

Customer Ratings (Out of 5 Stars)

Amazon 3.2

Rakuten 4.2

Mercari 3.7

Overall, we believe is well-positioned to benefit from the growth of e-commerce with its leading position only behind Amazon and high customer satisfaction. Though, we expect Amazon to pose a strong competitive threat with its superior product breadth and attractive fees for sellers. To project its growth, we expect Rakuten’s member growth to continue growing with a 5-year average growth assumption (7.47%) through 2026.

Rakuten Members

Projection

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022F

2023F

2024F

2025F

2026F

Members ('mln')

103

111

120

125.4

134.8

144.8

155.7

167.3

179.8

Growth %

7.77%

8.58%

7.54%

4.67%

7.47%

7.47%

7.47%

7.47%

7.47%

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SPECIAL /Πέμπτη 27 Ιανουαρίου 2022, 20:22:34 / Source: ANA-MPA

Users of the Viber call and text messaging app in Greece made 1 billion calls in 2021, Rakuten Viber revealed on Thursday.

In Greece, over 90% of smartphones have installed the app, making it the top chat application in the country.

www.amna.gr/en/article/619210/...-calls-in-2021--says-Rakuten

4755 Stock Overview

Rakuten Group, Inc. offers internet services in Japan and internationally.

About the company

Trading at 86.2% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings are forecast to grow 65.53% per year

RISK ANALYSIS: No risks detected for 4755 from our risk checks.

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AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) Announces FCC Grants Experimental License for BlueWalker 3 Satellite Direct-to-Cell Phone Connectivity

May 2, 2022 5:11 PM EDT

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. ("AST SpaceMobile") (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network designed to be accessible directly by standard mobile phones, today announced it has received an experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supporting its U.S.-based testing of the BlueWalker 3 satellite.

The license covers BlueWalker 3 space-to-ground testing in the United States using 3GPP low-band cellular frequencies and Q/V-band frequencies, subject to certain restrictions.

The authorization comes as the company prepares for the planned summer 2022 launch of BlueWalker 3, its test satellite with an aperture of 693 square feet that is designed to communicate directly with cell phones via 3GPP standard frequencies.

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The market for 5G Services is estimated at USD 48 Bn in 2022; it is projected to grow at a CAGR of CAGR of 55% to reach USD 3,827.64 Bn by 2032.

Some of the major competitors in the 5G Services market are:

Saudi Telecom Company

Rakuten Mobile Inc.

BT Group plc

Deutsche Telekom AG

China Mobile Ltd.

AT&T, Inc.

KT Corp.

Verizon Communications, Inc.

Bharti Airtel Ltd.

China Telecom Corporation Ltd.

Vodafone Group

NTT Docomo

SK Telecom Co., Ltd.

T-Mobile USA, Inc.

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