The less bumpy way to ride e-commerce = Rakuten (Seite 135)

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The Road Map to Success for New Publishers

Sally Anne - Customer Experience Manager

Last edited: May 2, 2023

https://pubhelp.rakutenmarketing.com/hc/en-us/articles/20365…

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The State of Affiliate Marketing: Benchmark Report (2023)

Last Updated: June 14th, 2023

Notable Highlights

Affiliate Marketing Industry is set to grow to approximately $14.3 Billion in 2023 globally and $15.7 Billion by 2024

Affiliate marketing companies raised over $1.5 Billion in all-time funding across 232 rounds by 2023, marking a 15.38% increase compared to the previous year

The global number of Affiliate Marketing related service offerings grew by 26% in 2021 alone, to reach a staggering 10,000 firms offering or specializing in Affiliate Marketing services

Amazon Associates remains the largest affiliate network with more than 20% market share.

Affiliate Marketing averaged 9% of marketing budget allocation in 2021

More than 67% of brands worry about affiliate fraud, less than 30% have been affected by it

Interest in affiliate marketing rose more than 264% between 2020 and 2022

More than 25% of brands utilize bloggers in their affiliate marketing campaigns

https://influencermarketinghub.com/affiliate-marketing-repor…

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Rakuten TV Kosten: So viel kostet ein Rakuten TV-Abo im Jahr 2023

7. Mai 2023

https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2023/05/07/rakuten-tv-kost…

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Stock Price Forecast for Rakuten (2)

The average one-year price target for Rakuten Group Inc. - ADR is $6.29 The forecasts range from a low of $4.43 to a high of $14.82.

https://fintel.io/sfo/us/rkuny?utm_source=stocktwits.com&utm…

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Stock Price Forecast for Rakuten (1)

The 12 analysts offering 12-month price forecasts for Rakuten Group Inc have a median target of 5.16, with a high estimate of 12.63 and a low estimate of 3.17. The median estimate represents a +48.27% increase from the last price of 3.48.

money.cnn.com/quote/forecast/forecast.html?symb=RKUNY

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Acorns valued with $ 1.9 billion and Rakuten is one of the important owners

https://tracxn.com/d/companies/acorns/__ZbS7erbOQBUA7QRhLYqX…

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100 Edge computing companies to watch in 2023

In this article, we spotlight 100 companies who are making waves in edge computing and have exciting developments coming in 2023.

Rakuten Symphony

Company type: Established

Position in edge ecosystem: Facility (Data centre, Rack systems, Site maintenance & operations); Network (Interconnect, IoT platform, Edge gateway, Cloud connect, Content & application delivery); Edge Cloud Infrastructure (Edge aggregation & orchestration, IaaS, Operating system, Multi-cloud platform, Virtualisation & containers); Application/Software (Software application); Integration & Services (Systems integration, Design & engineering, Professional services)

Notable achievements in 2022: Within 2022, Rakuten acquired Robin.io officially rebranding to Symworld Cloud, positioned under Rakuten’s Unified Cloud BU. The Symworld cloud platform, coupled with their orchestration solution, is now in production with multiple operators, which will provide TCO savings and acceleration of Edge service delivery by 80%. Symworld Cloud runs on a very small footprint (one Physical core) enabling edge deployments with a small footprint and Symworld Orchestrator’s ability to provide centralized Zero touch metal-to-service orchestration enables delivery of a more cost-effective edge solution.
Key financials milestones reached: Rakuten Symphony acquired Robio.io in 2022 renaming to Symworld Cloud and is positioned under Rakuten’s Unified Cloud BU.

An edge computing use case they help to enable: Rakuten Symphony with Symworld Cloud is working with ISV partners to provide edge applications for use cases such as quality assurance, AI enabled video analytics, plant maintenance and operations and security and access control as part of food factory automation. Within smart cities their edge applications have enabled traffic management, ramp metering and signal control incident management and bus, taxi, and public transportation intelligent scheduling for a local government. In transportation they are focusing on ports with container tracking and release, automated logistics and security and access control.

https://stlpartners.com/articles/edge-computing/edge-computi…

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Live Q&A featuring Appledore Research, BT, Juniper Networks, Rakuten Symphony, Red Hat

Live Q&A featuring Appledore Research, BT, Juniper Networks, Rakuten Symphony, Red Hat and Vodafone

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Japan Post citing a possible rebound in Rakuten shares.

Japan Post left its net profit forecast for the full year ending March 2024 unchanged at 240 billion yen, citing a possible rebound in Rakuten shares.

Tokyo, June 30 (Jiji Press)--Japan Post Holdings Co. said Friday that it will book an appraisal loss of 85,058 million yen for April-June due to a fall in the price of Rakuten Group Inc. shares it holds.

Japan Post may post a consolidated net loss for the quarter as a result. The company left its net profit forecast for the full year ending March 2024 unchanged at 240 billion yen, citing a possible rebound in Rakuten shares.

https://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=ind&k=2023063001080

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Americas Businesses Find Success through Rakuten Shugi

JUNE 28, 2023

Rakuten Shugi's Five Principles for Success are the foundation of success for businesses across the organization. In this video, focusing on the Americas region, we see how Rakuten Rewards' Member Services team is dedicated to "Maximizing Customer Satisfaction" through fixing the issue of missing Cash Back, while the Data Platform team followed the principle of "Hypothesize > Practice > Validate > Shikumika" to create a user-friendly platform that even non-engineers can use.