Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

ycharts.com/companies/BABA/pe_ratio

Viber
Info: Viber had around 10% increase from 236 million to 260 million MAUs according to the last recent numbers.
Website: viber.com
Monthly active users: 260 million
Geographical focus: Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, SE Asia

orat.io/blog/current-numbers-for-mobile-messengers-q1-2017/

blog.online-convert.com/whatsapp-vs-viber-app-which-is-better/

Conclusion –
WhatsApp may have a larger number of users than Viber does. That may explain why some feel that WhatsApp is better or more popular. However, when it comes to features, Viber is the clear winner. The app offers users a lot more than WhatsApp does. But, this doesn’t mean that you have to choose one from the other. You can simply have both apps installed on your phone and use them according to your contacts.

(siehe 227) Snapchat um Längen.

www.statista.com/statistics/545967/snapchat-app-dau/

thenextweb.com/contributors/2017/04/11/...bal-state-internet/

The buyback was prompted as shares were undervalued, Mikitani told the Nikkei newspaper in an interview. He said he there’s a big discrepancy between the current stock price and how Rakuten sees its corporate value.

Rakuten has increasingly positioned itself as a provider of financial services in Japan, in addition to its online marketplace. It also owns the Viber messaging application, which is ranked seventh behind WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Tencent’s QQ, according to Statista.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...lf-the-price-of-2015-issue

          §Global GTV: +21.8% YoY

          §Domestic E-Commerce GMS: +15.2% YoY

          §Domestic E-Commerce OI: +4.8% YoY, a return to positive growth

          §FinTech’s stable growth driven by Card’s strong top line and Bank’s increasing OI

          §Other Internet Services losses steadily shrinking

          §Leveraging FC Barcelona partnership to drive brand integration

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(JPY bn, IFRS)

Revenue YoY Operating Income YoY

Card 39.8 +17.0% 7.4 -5.8%

Bank 18.6 +11.4% 5.6 +26.7%

Life Insurance 8.1-4.7% 0.7 +12.7%

Others 3.4 +23.0% 0.0+ 0.0

FinTech Total excl.Securities 69.9 +12.8% 13.7 +6.3%

Securities 12.2-0.4% 4.5 -11.1%

FinTech Total 82.1 +10.6% 18.2 +1.4%

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With fintech services already a major pillar of the group, Rakuten is active in the insurtech field too. On July 1, 2017,  Rakuten Life Insurance Co. launched the Rakuten Life Insurance Technology Laboratory, an organization dedicated to applying the latest technologies to the company’s business.
rakuten.today/blog/...tech-revolutionize-life-insurance.html?

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Simplesurance erhöht Gesamt-Funding auf 30 Millionen
16. März 2017
Das Berliner Insurtech-Startup meldet eine weitere Finanzierung in Millionenhöhe. Das Geld kommt unter anderem von einem japanischen Konzern.

www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/...nce-30-millionen-investment

InsurTech firm PremFina raises $36m from backers including Rakuten Capital
04 OCT 11:32

PremFina, a UK software firm which serves insurance brokers, has raised $36m (£27m) from investors including Rakuten Capital – the investment arm of Japan’s FinTech firm Rakuten – and Draper Esprit.

insurtechnews.com/aggregator/...ers-including-rakuten-capital

Brand unification: An optimistic perspective
AUGUST 9, 2017
Hiroshi "Mickey" Mikitani, Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc.

In July, we launched a groundbreaking project to unify our brands across the globe.
As Rakuten has grown from a Japanese e-commerce company into a global innovation company, with unique Japanese roots, we have added many unique and inspiring businesses to our ecosystem. Now we are entering a new stage of connecting those dots to provide a user experience that is unified by the Rakuten brand.

Rakuten Viber, Rakuten.TV, Rakuten Kobo, Rakuten Slice – the billion-plus users of these and other newly co-branded services will begin to recognize that they are within a broader ecosystem, one they can trust to offer them value, security, joy and other benefits.

rakuten.today/mickeysvoice/...tion-an-optimistic-outlook.html

Kennt jemand von Euch einen günstigeren Anbieter?

travel.rakuten.com/

Viber revenues up 91% in Q2, grows to 920 mln users
August 7, 2017 Alert

Mobile messaging and VoIP app Viber reached 920 million unique users in June, up from 891 million in March and 823 million in June 2016. According to its parent company Rakuten, Viber’s second-quarter revenues were up 91 percent year-on-year, driven by more customers making calls with Viber Out and increased content purchases. Telecom accounted for 73 percent of Viber’s revenue and content the remainder.

From September, Rakuten plans to start integrating Viber more with its e-commerce services. Rakuten users will be able to log in with their Viber phone number to the e-commerce and online services, and chat will also be integrated more in the shopping experience. Further growth is also
expected from the company’s new sponsorship of FC Barcelona.

alert-komunikacije.com/2017/08/07/...1-q2-grows-920-mln-users/

Consumers will soon be able to shop for products from Macy’s and Wal-Mart in texting app Viber.
Messaging app Viber is adding a shopping function on March 6, giving its 800 million global users the ability to browse and share products from participating online retailers. To complete a purchase, consumers will be redirected to the retailer’s site.

Consumers in the Viber app can tap a shopping button to browse products from dozens of retailers that integrate with the app. Viber is launching with several brands, including Macy’s Inc., No. 6 in the Internet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide; Zales (owned by Signet Jewelers Ltd., No. 122), Bloomingdale’s (part of Macy’s), Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (No. 4) and online marketplace Rakuten Inc., a Viber spokesman says. Viber is owned by Rakuten, Japan’s dominant online marketplace operator and the owner of several online shopping portals in other countries.

www.digitalcommerce360.com/2017/03/01/...ds-shopping-feature/

Viber acquires Chatter Commerce, the startup behind its shopping keyboard
Posted Jul 20, 2017 by

Messaging app Viber earlier this year made its first foray into shopping services with Instant Shopping, a feature that lets you search for items for sale via a keyboard when you have the messaging app open. Today, the company is announcing some more e-commerce related news: it’s buying the startup that helped build that feature.
Viber has acquired Chatter Commerce, maker of a service called ShopChat, which was the tech behind Instant Shopping. CEO and co-founder Zephrin Lasker once described ShopChat to me as “the world’s first shopping keyboard.”
techcrunch.com/2017/07/20/...up-behind-its-shopping-keyboard/

sich hin werkeln, haben nicht den Hauch einer Chance:


techblog.rakuten.co.jp/2017/08/23/rakutensjourneytohttps/

financefeeds.com/...i-based-chat-support-credit-card-queries/

www.statista.com/statistics/316414/...enger-registered-users/