Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

sind sowohl Allianz als auch Rakuten an Go-Jek beteiligt:

dailysocial.id/post/...1-billion-rupiah-investment-for-go-jek

Go-Jek's earlier investors are Sequoia India, Northstar Group, DST Global, NSI Ventures, Rakuten Ventures and Formation Group.

Shane Chesson, one of Go-Jek’s first investors told the press that “having this new group of global investors on board will further accelerate Go-Jek’s innovation and allow Go-Jek to solidify its position as an Indonesian tech leader.”

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We’re big, but it’s just the beginning.

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/

www.shoop.de/cashback/rakuten_de/

sollte wohl eher "Cash weg" heißen, zumindest wenn man hier fett investiert ist :-)

ist sozial veranlagt und gönnt den anderen auch ein Stück vom Kuchen

Earlier this year, messaging app Viber announced its one billionth user.

www.forbes.com/sites/montymunford/2018/04/...er/#7db02828d654

Key Statistics
P/E Ratio 9.59
Price to Book Ratio 1.5172
Price to Sales Ratio 1.1241
www.bloomberg.com/quote/4755:JP

werden will, wählt Viber:

"Djamel Agaou (CEO von Viber): Unlike other messaging apps, we take privacy and security seriously and it is the core of our value proposition to users. Viber can’t read personal chats – including one-on-one chats, group chats, audio and video calls.
We simply can’t access messages since we use end-to-end encryption by default. This means that all private and group communications are completely encrypted so that only users and the people they’re talking to can read or hear them."

Quelle: siehe1656

"In 2017, our user base grew by 20% and our revenue increased by 100%. We are accelerating our growth rates by providing a secured and stable service and introducing new features of high relevance to our users."

Quelle: siehe 1656

www.digitaltveurope.com/2018/03/26/...rkets-invest-in-movies/

“We think this will be the next big revolution in content. People don’t understand why the need to wait three or four months [to see a movie],” he said. “After one month the only winner is piracy. I see a big opportunity in moving the digital window closer to the cinema window.”

In order to push this forwards, Rakuten is co-investing in producing movies that it can then bring to its own platform. The company will invest around €2 million this year in two or three projects that will come to fruition in the second half, according to Roca.

“We are going to co-invest in movie productions to accelerate the created of this reduced window between cinema and digital,” he said.  

Written by Stuart Thomson
26 March 2018

CEO Jacinto Roca talked exclusively with Stuart Thomson about his plans.

Rakuten TV, the transactional video-on-demand service provider that currently operates in 12 international territories, has big plans to expand its offering, including the possible launch of a subscription service outside of Spain for the first time and a push to create “the cinema experience at home” through shortening the window between cinema distribution and the appearance of movies on digital platforms.

According to CEO Jacinto Roca, Rakuten TV now has over five million registered users, with about 20% being active in any one year. Revenues are growing by 40% year-on-year, driven by take-up of the service in the UK market, he says. Growth in also strong in Spain, and relatively strong in Germany and France thanks the presence of its e-commerce giant parent, Rakuten, in those markets. Elsewhere, says Roca, growth is “healthy but slower”.

www.digitaltveurope.com/longread/...s-home-cinema-revolution/

Rakuten TV mulls wider European expansion

Written by Andrew McDonald
09 November 2017
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Speaking exclusively to TBI’s sister title Digital TV Europe, Rakuten TV CEO Jacinto Roca (pictured) said “we have the intention to launch but we don’t have concrete plans yet”.
Roca said that heading into next year, the firm might consider increasing its number of territories with a view to expanding into the Nordics and Eastern Europe.

“The idea is to cover Europe as a whole,” said Roca. “That will be the main priority. I think that to launch in these countries we may consider M&A opportunities as well.”

Currently Rakuten TV is live in twelve European countries, including its home and largest market of Spain, and other major European countries like the UK, Germany, Spain, France and Italy.

tbivision.com/2017/11/09/...-wider-european-expansion/815242/

Beteiligungen groß geschrieben:

www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/...n-neutral/558443/

techcrunch.com/2018/04/12/...-down-how-much-drivers-can-make/

Cabify has established itself as one of the leaders of shared mobility companies in Latin America, being the first startup unicorn, in this sector, born in the region. The company closed 2017 with global growth of more than 500% in its gross revenues. Travel requests almost tripled and the number of trips taken was multiplied by 6 compared to 2016.

www.mullenlowegroup.com/news/cabify-selects-lola-mullenlowe/

Go-Jek began in 2010 as a call centre enabling riders to order an ojek by phone. In 2014, inspired by the success of Uber and other ride-sharing platforms, Makarim launched Go-Jek as a smartphone app. But unlike Uber and Grab, which had both feet firmly planted in transportation at launch and added other services later, Makarim had a menu in mind from the outset. Ride-sharing services alone, he reasoned, would not generate sufficient network effects to achieve lift-off and scale. Business would slump outside the rush hours. To keep drivers busy all day and increase demand, Go-Jek also offered Go-Send (a courier service) and Go-Food (food delivery).
As Makarim explained to me, “All three are the same essentially: a motorcycle from A to B. The difference is in the sense that one is picking up a human and one is picking up a package.”

Read more at knowledge.insead.edu/entrepreneurship/...#kxCsbQgXwE8FhTFY.99

www.thenational.ae/business/technology/...d-delivery-1.705513

Beteiligung von Rakuten:

www.glassdoor.de/Bewertungen/Carousell-Bewertungen-E988629.htm

Rakuten to Establish Rakuten Institute of Technology Gene Laboratory
- New laboratory to carry out joint research with Genesis Healthcare on marketing based on genetic data analysis -

Tokyo, April 25, 2018 - Rakuten, Inc., a global leader in innovation headquartered in Tokyo, today announced that it will establish the Rakuten Institute of Technology Gene Laboratory on May 1, 2018, as part of the Rakuten Institute of Technology, the Rakuten Group dedicated research and development organization. The laboratory will collaborate with Genesis Healthcare Co., a company offering genetic analysis and testing, on research into marketing based on genetic data analysis, with the aim of contributing to resolution of social issues such as reducing medical costs and further raising health awareness in Japan.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2018/...&category=corp

www.moviepilot.de/filme/beste/jahr-2018/online-rakuten

Ich stolpere in den Medien immer wieder über Erwähnungen von Rakuten. Letztlich in einer Immobilien-Zeitschrift, in der ich einen Artikel über PayDirect gefunden habe. Dort fiel als Beispiel Rakuten. Zufall? Oder investiert Rakuten jetzt wieder in PR? Würde auch mal Zeit werden.  

sie - aber nicht unbedingt um den Aktienkurs anzukurbeln. Denn sie haben sich ja weitgehend dafür entschiedenen, die Investitionen aus dem Cash Flow und Fremdkapital zu finanzieren und sitzen außerdem auf einem großen Kassenbestand.

Denn mit einer Kapitalerhöhung oder dem Einsatz von eigenen Aktien als Kaufwährung haben sie beim momentanen Kursniveau nichts im Sinn. Und wir haben damit für dem Unternehmen Nahestehende ein günstiges Kaufniveau. Eigentlich wäre Rakuten damit ein hoch interessantes Ziel für eine Übernahme, was aber aufgrund des hohen Anteils der Ankeraktionäre der Gründerfamilie m.E.eigentlich nicht mölglich ist.

und es erhöht gleichzeitig die Userzahl von Viber.

www.sporttechie.com/...-multi-language-rakuten-viber-chatbot/

Messaging apps are big business and many of them have moved into providing far more services for users beyond traditional peer-to-peer messaging, such as chatbots and banking services. This move from messaging apps into becoming the Swiss army knives of the app market has seen the number of app users grow to around 2.01bn and is expected to reach 2.48bn by 2021, according to Statista.

One app that reaches a large number of those using messaging apps globally is Viber. The cross-platform, community-focused instant messaging platform boasts over 1bn users and is the most used messaging app in Russia, as well as being hugely popular in the Middle East.

mobilemarketingmagazine.com/...ities-ads-data-privacy-chatbots