Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

"Go-Jek raised a higher than targeted $1.5 billion in a fundraising round from several investors including Google, Temasek Holdings and Chinese technology giants Tencent Holdings and JD.com Inc, sources said last month.

The latest round of investments valued Go-Jek at about $5 billion, the sources said.

Go-Jek plans to expand its business beyond Indonesian borders by setting up operations in the Philippines in early 2018, with other Southeast Asian countries to follow later that year, it’s chief technology officer said in December.

On top of that, Go-Jek has said it will roll out new services soon, including installing charging stations in retail outlets that users can access through their app. The company also plans to launch a laundry pick-up and delivery service to their already extensive services.

www.reuters.com/article/us-go-jek-ipo/...ecided-idUSKBN1GH0U6

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About a month ago, word spread that Google had quietly launched a new fund for investing into AI companies. Now this fund has made its first (or at least its first public) investment. Led by Google’s VP of engineering for AI, Anna Patterson, this new fund is leading a $10.5 million Series A into Algorithmia, a marketplace and enterprise solution that allows developers to easily tap into its catalog of 3,500 algorithms, functions and machine-learning models.

Other participants in this round include new investor Work-Bench, as well as current investors Madrona Venture Group, Rakuten Ventures and Osage University Partners.

techcrunch.com/2017/06/23/...ound-led-by-googles-new-ai-fund/

Algorithmia is a service that enables the creation of applications through the use of community contributed machine learning models. And Algorithmia is looking to advance the development and accessibility of algorithmic intelligence. Plus Algorithmia is also known for building the largest marketplace for algorithms in the world. Currently, the service has over 60,000 developers tapping into a library of over 4,500 algorithms. Many of those algorithms revolve around machine learning.

www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2018/01/...ld/#613f02d753fd

www.viber.com/blog/2018-02-27/introducing-viber-communities/

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File Sharing Service Send Anywhere Pulls In $6M Series A From Rakuten Ventures
Posted Jan 20, 2016 by Jon Russell (@jonrussell)

Send Anywhere, a free peer-to-peer file sharing system, is getting a power boost of its own after ESTmob, the Korea-based company behind the service, landed $6 million in fresh funding.
The four-year-old company raised a $1 million seed round back in 2014 and this Series A was provided by in full by Rakuten Ventures, the VC firm and global fund associated with Japan’s top e-commerce firm. Rakuten Ventures led Send Anywhere’s seed round two years ago, which including participation from a number of angel investors.

It’s fairly rare to see a single investor front a Series A round. Many companies look to maximize their network and bring more minds onboard at this point, while, in Asia, it is even more common for investors to group together at this stage. But that’s not the case for Send Anywhere.
“We’ve considered other parties [for this round], but [adding] more investors can make it more complicated,” Estmob co-founder Suhyuk Kang told TechCrunch in an interview. “Plus, Saemin [Ahn, Rakuten Ventures managing partner] wants to focus more on growth rather than monetization.”

techcrunch.com/2016/01/20/send-anywhere-6-million-series-a/

Beste App aller Zeiten
12. Nov. 2017
Am Sonntag habe ich ein Video geschnitten. Ich habe kein iTunes auf dem PC und musste deshalb alle videos auf Dropbox hochladen. Nach 9 Stunden waren die videos immer noch nicht oben. Dann habe ich nach einer Alternative gesucht. Send anywhere hat die videos innerhalb von 3 Minuten übertragen  

itunes.apple.com/de/app/...ere-file-transfer/id596642855?mt=8

„Durchbricht hingegen der Kurs die 200-Tage-Linie, die in diesem Fall eine Unterstützungslinie darstellt, von oben nach unten, dann heißt es verkaufen. Der Kurs dürfte weiter fallen.“

boerse.ard.de/boersenwissen/...-als-mass-aller-dinge-100.html

Ich hab mal die 200 Tageslinie Realtime genommen und da stellt sich bei betrachten des Charts doch offensichtlich die Frage, warum man Rakuten kaufen sollte bzw. warum du nach durchbrechen der Unterstützungslinie die Aktie gekauft hast wenn du im Fall einer anderen Aktie genau vor diesem verhalten warnst.
Das ist doch seltsam, oder ?

Of course, even as we progress with our unification with the Rakuten brand and integration with the group’s global ecosystem, our marketplace will continue to protect both buyers and sellers in the way it always has. Our basic mission is, and always will be, to help facilitate connections between individual buyers, sellers and professionals by providing them with an easy-to-use and reliable platform.

With this change from PriceMinister to Rakuten PriceMinister, we have reached a significant milestone. Through this rebranding, we aim to to play an even more important role in growing the Rakuten ecosystem worldwide and we are confident that we have the means to fulfill our ambitions.

With time, the name Rakuten PriceMinister will be replaced with Rakuten and give way to a new chapter where we create even more great products and platforms for customers, many of whom we have been serving for almost two decades. We look forward to demonstrating our loyalty to them once again.

rakuten.today/blog/priceminister-rebrand-olivier-mathiot.html

200-Tage-Line schon einige Zeit hinter sich und nähert sich ihr wieder an - obwohl der Abstand noch erheblich ist.

global.rakuten.com/en/ichiba-guide/

de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/...tzer-ids-bei-viber/

Bei Fortsetzung des Trends müssten wir inzwischen die erste Milliarde erreicht haben.

UNIQA INSURANCE INTRODUCES VIBER BOT AS NEW COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
3 DAYS AGO NEWS

UNIQA wants to follow the trends of tech innovations, but also set new standards in the field of digital consumer support

Guided by innovation in terms of digital customer support, UNIQA Insurance has introduced a new user experience and a new communication channel – the UNIQA Viber Bot.

Through UNIQA Viber Bot, users will be able to get information about UNIQA products in one place, seek and get an insurance offer, buy a policy online through UNIQA webshop, exercise their insurance rights through a claim reporting service, and the like. For additional inquiries, the company also provided the “Ask us” service via chat, and for the more creative communication with the channel users, and for mutual communication of their followers they created the “UNIQue Viber Stickers”.

A special segment of the new user channel is the “UNIQA Requests” service, which has the function of “My UNIQA” portal for clients. In practice, this means that customers can use Viber, at any time and from any device that has internet access, to check the status of current and expired insurance policies, contact their sales advisor and check the status of their claims.

www.media-marketing.com/en/news/...-new-communication-channel/

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Rakuten Bank and Viber Launch Money Transfer Service Using Viber from Rakuten Bank App
New service makes it possible to transfer money to Viber contacts without account information
Tokyo, September 26, 2016 - Rakuten Bank Ltd. and Rakuten Group’s Viber Media S.a.r.l today announced the launch of “Transfer by Viber,” a money transfer service using the Viber mobile messaging app.

With the aim of providing easy and more convenient money transfer service, Rakuten Bank launched “MailMoney,” a service that allows the sender to transfer money without knowing the recipient’s bank, branch, or account number, using the email address and name of the recipient alone in November 2002, followed by “Transfer by Facebook,” a service that enables easy money transfers to anyone on the user’s Facebook friend list, in August 2014.

MailMoney and Transfer by Facebook have been being used by a large number of customers since the services were launched, and Rakuten Bank has now decided to launch the Transfer by Viber service enabling easy money transfers to anyone on the user’s Viber contact list from the Rakuten Bank app. In addition, there are plans to make it possible for users to utilize the service from the Viber app through the via the Rakuten Bank app by the end of the year.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2016/0926_01.html

Insurance aggregator Autoua.net has launched the first Viber bot that allows registering a third party only insurance (TPO) straight in the chat. Now drivers do not have to go to insurers, gather a package of documents, and wait until the policy of insurance is ready. One of the largest companies in Ukraine allows calculating and registering the insurance using a smartphone and a messenger.

The insurance Viber bot works as follows:

         •§a driver goes to Viber and finds the public account “Autoua.net Страхование” (Russian for Insurance);

         •§a bot asks the user a number of questions regarding the brand and model of the car, year of manufacture, accident-free driving record, etc.;

         •§using the obtained data, the virtual assistant calculates policies of insurance in different companies (the aggregator works with twenty organizations);

         •§after the driver chooses the most beneficial offer, he or she can register the insurance on autoua.net.

The total time of calculating and registering a TPO comprises approximately five minutes.

Source: chatbotconf.com.ua/en/article/...dlya-oformleniya-osago-73795 © ChatBot Conference UA

kann man meines Erachtens in dem nachstehenden Artikel nachlesen.

finance.yahoo.com/news/...end-rally-amazon-com-160532315.html

www.crunchbase.com/organization/bluevine#section-events

ein Grund für die Unterbewertung von Rakuten.

Wer aber meint, dass Rakuten ein Gemischtwarenladen sei, hat sich meines Erachtens, nicht ausreichend mit der Strategie von Rakuten beschäftigt, die sich natürlich auch wandelt, wenn sich die Rahmenbedingungen ändern, wie das der nachstehende Artikel sehr gut zeigt:

techblog.rakuten.co.jp/2017/12/28/...institute-of-technology/

Im Mittelpunkt stehen wie bei Amazon auch: die Daten. Aber meines Erachtens ist Rakuten schon sehr viel weiter als Amazon und hat mit dem Aufbau eines Eco-Systems schon sehr viel früher begonnen. Beispielsweise hat Amazon keinen so großartigen Datenlieferanten wie die weltweit führende Rakuten Marketing und auch nicht einen vergleichbaren Datenlieferanen wie Ebates. Dazu kommt, dass Amazon keinen Messenger-Dienst besitzt, der für eine weltweite Klammer sorgt.

Und schließlich hat Rakuten auch das langfristigere und nachhalterige Konzept: Es will gemeinsam mit seinen von ihm geförderten Anbietern agieren. Amazon setzt dagegen auf Marktmacht und Vernichtung der Konkurrenz, was in vielen wichtigen Zukunftsregionen nicht einen Hauch einer Chance hat - ganz schlicht und einfach, weil sich z.B. große Teil Asiens diese neue Form der Kolonialisierung nicht gefallen lassen und das mit dem dort vorherrschenden Harmonie-Denken nicht kompatibel ist. Mit dem Sich-Hinweg-Setzen über Gesetze wie das Amazon, Uber oder AirBnb praktizieren, kommt man irgendwie an Grenzen. Das ist auch nicht die Philosophie von Rakuten.

Und so hat man sich beispielsweise, Riding-Services für zukunftsträchtig haltend, auch nicht an Uber beteiligt, sondern ist ein großer Anteilseigner beim mit einer anderen Strategie agierenden Konkurrenten Lyft - vielleicht sogar der größte. Und statt in jedem Land seinen eigenen E-Commerce hochzuziehen, ist man außerhalb von Japan eigentlich mit dem stinknormalen E-Commerce mit eigenen Ländergesellschaften nur noch in Taiwan, Deutschland und Frankreich aktiv - ansonsten beteiligt man sich an regionenspezifischen Startups. Sehr viel weiter als Google oder Amazon ist Rakuten auch im Fintech-Bereich, wo man die Daten so gut nutzen kann wie sonst in keinem andere Bereich - die fallen einem kostenlos in den Schoß. Im Gegensatz zu Google muss man z.B. auf Versicherungen keine Rücksicht nehmen, die gleichzeitig mit die besten Werbekunden von Google sind.

rakuten.today/blog/...vices-achieve-financial-goals-2018.html

sec.rakuten.com.au/new-spreads/...m_campaign=new-spreads_2017

directory.financemagnates.com/...ities-australia-review/2252/