The less bumpy way to ride e-commerce = Rakuten (Seite 212)

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W O W (from the source in my last posting)

„I wanted to go to a level where when an operator looks at the costs benefits of Open RAN the first thing they should tell me is WOW.“

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Rakuten’s Tareq Amin on open source, opex, security and Open RAN

November 02,.2022

Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Mobile and its vendor offshoot Rakuten Symphony, discusses open-source software for radio access network operations, security, Open RAN for brownfield network deployments and his focus on driving down network costs, and reveals that Symphony’s financials are about to be published.

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Rakuten Mobile offers two-year free workout insurance with Apple Watch purchase

Rakuten Mobile has launched a campaign to provide free workout insurance for two years to users who have purchased an eligible Apple Watch on its website or Rakuten Mobile Shop.

In addition, Rakuten Mobile reduced the prices of 4 models such as Apple Watch Series 7, iPhone 13/13 mini and iPhone 12 in October, and is conducting a campaign to return 3,000 points to all members by switching to the whole family.

https://iphonewired.com/news/525480/

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My most important estimate for 2023

Today money-losing wireless business will grow into an earnings driver during 2023.

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Fostering Innovation in Ad & Marketing Company

November 11, 2022

Rakuten Super Point Screen is an app awards Rakuten Points to users simply for viewing ads. Since its release in 2015, it has grown into a successful business with a total of 15 million downloads*. This video takes a look into the essence of Rakuten Shugi as seen through the development of this service.

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Tareq Amin stopped the IBM-robbers

1 November 2022

Rakuten replaces Red Hat with open source Rocky Linux OS

By Caroline Gabriel

Rakuten Mobile had already dealt a blow to Red Hat’s hopes of leading the Open RAN cloud layer in May, when it said it would replace its initial partner with the Robin.io orchestration and cloud automation technology (Rakuten has also acquired Robin.io). Now it has announced further distancing from Red Hat, replacing its Linux operating system with Rocky Linux OS, from open source distributor CIQ. Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony, claimed the change would reduce the cost of the OS by 80%, and support a real time kernel for processing the most demanding RAN functions in distributed units (DUs) at the network edge. Rakuten Symphony will deploy the technology as part of its stack.

https://rethinkresearch.biz/articles/rakuten-replaces-red-ha…

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Rakuten Symphony’s 1&1 Update

POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 BY ROBERT CURRAN

A welcome progress report on the buildout of Europe’s most distinctive new mobile network.
Squeezing in between TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World last week, and MWC Las Vegas this week, Rakuten’s annual Optimism event might not have received the attention it deserved from the telecom community. But make no mistake: the update on Germany’s 1&1 offered important new insights on Rakuten Symphony’s progress in disrupting telecom beyond its native Japan.

In conversation with Symphony CEO Tareq Amin, Chief Revenue Officer Rabih Dabbousi, 1&1 CEO Michael Martin gave new details of 1&1’s progress and thinking on key aspects of its plans.

As well as highlighting achievements to date at 1&1, the discussion offered insights into industry-wide concerns including security and energy optimization.

https://appledoreresearch.com/2022/09/29/rakuten-symphonys-1…

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Rakuten Symphony CEO—„this close“ on brownfield wins By Sean Kinney, Editor in Chief

By Sean Kinney, Editor in Chief

November 1, 2022

Tareq Amin discussed the outlook for Rakuten Symphony software-first market approach

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20221101/open_ran/rakuten-sympho…

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Equity Capital and Cash of Rakuten increased strong through the operation

Announcement of Completion of Partial Share Transfer of Rakuten Securities, Inc.

As announced in the statement “Announcement Regarding Conclusion of Strategic Capital and Business Alliance between Rakuten Securities Holdings and Mizuho Securities” published on October 7, 2022, the procedures for transfer of partial shares of Rakuten Securities, Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Yuji Kusunoki, hereinafter “Rakuten Securities”) to Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Yoshiro Hamamoto, hereinafter “Mizuho Securities”) were completed on November 1, 2022.

As a result of this partial share transfer, the ownership ratio with voting rights in Rakuten Securities by Mizuho Securities is 19.99%, and Rakuten Securities became an equity-method affiliate of Mizuho Securities. After this partial share transfer, Rakuten Securities will remain as a consolidated subsidiary of Rakuten Group, Inc. and Rakuten Securities Holdings, Inc.

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2022/1101_01.html

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Industry Experts at MWC Las Vegas 2022 – Azita Arvani, Rakuten Symphony

Ocotober 28, 2022

Azita Arvani, North America CEO, Rakuten Symphony talks to us at MWC Las Vegas 2022 about how Rakuten Symphony is helping to accelerate Open RAN deployments, how this can reduce operational costs and how Open RAN can accelerate the introduction of new services.