The less bumpy way to ride e-commerce = Rakuten (Seite 277)

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Rakuten and Hulu

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Rakuten's quarterly service cross-use ratio 2018-2022

Published by C. Diep, Jun 1, 2022

In the first quarter of 2022, the cross-use ratio of Rakuten Members reached 74.8 percent. Rakuten operates a variety of e-commerce, financial, and mobile services, which can be connected via the cross-platform feature "Rakuten ID".

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240294/rakuten-service-…

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interview/the-telecoms-com-podcast-rakuten-mobile-big-5g-event-and-ericsson

https://telecoms.com/interview/the-telecoms-com-podcast-raku…

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Fever valued at over $1 billion

Feb 16, 2022 8:42am PT

Global Live Entertainment Startup Fever Raises $227 Million
Proving that live entertainment continues attracting investors in a post-pandemic landscape, global discovery platform Fever has raised $227 million in a round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

The round, which the firm claims “the largest ever for a live entertainment tech startup,” valued Fever at over $1 billion. Fever is 10% owned by Spanish media giant Atresmedia.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/fever-goldman-sachs-1235183…

Fever secured $35 million from Rakuten Capital, Atresmedia and Accel.

15 July 2019

Fever, a Madrid, Spain and London, UK-based company operating a business based on a mobile app for social events raised $35 million.

The investment round was led by Rakuten Capital, the investment arm of Japanese internet giant Rakuten, and included Atresmedia, Accel and Michael Zeisser, the former chairman of U.S. investments for Alibaba Group. Zeisser will also join Fever’s board together with Oskar Mielczarek, partner of Rakuten.

https://nordic9.com/news/fever-secured-35-million-from-rakut…

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zu 8062: Die Zukunft des E-Commerce im Metaverse

Die Zukunft des Metaverse wird immer greifbarer: So schätzt Bloomberg das Marktvolumen der Metaverse-Economy für das Jahr 2024 auf rund 800 Milliarden US-Dollar. Eine Google-Studie aus 2021 hat zudem gezeigt, dass 66 Prozent der Konsument:innen daran interessiert sind, Augmented Reality (AR) Tools als Hilfsmittel beim Einkaufen zu nutzen. Sicher ist: Das Metaverse wird unser Leben verändern, allein indem es die Grenzen zwischen der virtuellen und der physischen Welt auflöst.

Besonders interessant für die Bereiche Handel und E-Commerce sind meiner Meinung nach hybride Angebote, die die Grenzen zwischen virtueller und analoger Welt verwischen. Boutiquen und Kaufhäuser könnten beispielsweise auch im Metaverse besucht werden, die Kleidungsstücke werden virtuell anprobiert und die reale Ware analog nach Hause geschickt. Gleichzeitig können die Händler:innen und Marken ihre Ware aber auch virtuell für den persönlichen Avatar anbieten.

https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2022/05/26/e-commerce-im-me…

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Rakuten is after the acquisition of Robin.io excellent positioned in this coming trillion-market

The metaverse could be tech’s next trillion-dollar opportunity: These are the companies making it a reality

April 13, 2022

The metaverse is one of the hottest buzzwords in tech, and this far-reaching vision of a next-gen internet will rely upon an entire ecosystem of companies to make it a reality. We cut through the noise to explain what the metaverse is, how it's being built, and who's building it.

The business world is obsessed with “the metaverse”: the concept of shared worlds driven by virtual products and digital experiences that are highly immersive and interactive.

We already have virtual worlds featuring live concerts and online games where players spend hundreds of hours — but metaverse enthusiasts see a future where entire societies thrive in an online realm inhabited by avatars of real people.

While the space is still in early days, the longer-term implications may not be trivial. Some users — especially younger ones — may eventually earn, spend, and invest most of their money in digital worlds. The metaverse could represent a $1T market by the end of the decade, according to CB Insights’ Industry Analyst Consensus.

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/metaverse-market-map/

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Rakuten is the only operator which has “taken its own medicine” first with the launch of the Rakuten Mobile network in Japan

What aspect of the telco space excites you? Are there any industry trends you find particularly interesting?

In a way, it’s the scariest industry to be in. Blink and something has changed in the technology vendor or competitive ecosystem. Unfortunately, many legacy telco players aren’t able to keep up with this change. The mindset for how to utilize technology today is the same as 20 years ago.

I am excited because this muscle memory is being completely disrupted by the software paradigm. What Symphony is trying to do is unshackle operators from various cost structures that come with building and then running a network. Once these companies start realizing the benefits this gives in terms of flexibility, speed to market and departure from traditional cost and procurement cycles, the brainpower and the innovative energy that will then be freed-up in their organizations can then be applied to actual value-added services and enhancing customer experience. This is more than a technology change; this is a mindset change.

What’s most impressive for me is that Rakuten is the only operator which has “taken its own medicine” first with the launch of the Rakuten Mobile network in Japan. I do not know of any current competitor willing to do that.

https://symphony.rakuten.com/blog/we-are-symphony-a-conversa…

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Rakuten has strong acitivities in India too

At the bilateral talks with Japan held on the sidelines of WSIS forum 2022, Shri Devusinh Chauhan urged the Japanese Companies to be part of initiatives of India in telecom sector. Japanese delegation at WSIS 2022 is led by H.E. SASAKI Yuji, Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination (International Affairs), MIC.

Shri Devusinh Chauhan said that India is one of the largest telecom networks in the world with one of the most affordable telecom services. Last year Government of India announced path breaking reforms in telecom sector to further boost the growth of telecom industry, promote healthy competition and enhance the penetration of broadband and telecom connectivity. These reforms will usher a new era for the sector and will encourage investment by the industry.

In view of the young engineering talent available in India, the Minister urged Japanese industry to consider establishing their R&D centres in India. This can start with small developments and scaled up to full development centre to cater to global requirements of the parent companies. We have also announced a new Semiconductor Policy. Under this we invite Japanese companies to partner with us. We are also looking to train 85,000 engineers in the field of semiconductor technology. Japan can be India's Knowledge Partner for this purpose.

https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/2058884-ai-r…

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Altiostar is a Rakuten-company

Central participants and improving sellers in the worldwide global cell 5G network market incorporate Ericsson (Sweden), Huawei (China), ZTE (China), Cisco (US), NEC (Japan), Nokia (Finland), CommScope (US), Airspan Networks (US), ip.access (UK), Corning (US), Fujitsu (Japan), Samsung (South Korea), Comba Telecom (Hong Kong), Contela (South Korea), Baicells Technologies (US), Acceleran (Belgium), Accuver (US), Casa Systems (US), CommAgility (England), Radisys (US), Altiostar (US), Siradel (France), Qualcomm (US), Octasic (Canada), PC-TEL (US), and Microsemi (US).

Read more: https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/small-cell-5g-network-mark…

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Quick update on Rakuten Mobile

Rakuten: ‘This is the most important industry and it shouldn’t be left to chance“

Andrew WoodenWritten by Andrew Wooden 6 days ago

Could you give us a quick update on Rakuten Mobile, what’s the last year been like?

For the Rakuten Group we’ve validated that the network, which has been built the modern cloud native software defined way, has equivalent or better quality than traditional build, so there is no reason now to believe that this technology doesn’t work at scale. And with high density deployments, Tokyo is one of the densest cities in the world, in terms of requirements.

We have 270,000 different cells in the network, and we have nine radio vendors on that. There’s only 250 operational people, these are people that touch the network to reconfigure it or to solve problems, and we are going to hold that at 250. So Tareq (Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Mobile) has got a hiring freeze on just to force the fact that we aren’t going to end up in a place where humans just add without knowing.

The core business of Rakuten is actually rewards, loyalty and points. That’s what connects at the heart. That’s a data science discipline. And the fact that now we have a data driven operation of the connectivity layer can become useful and available to inform and instruct value inside the broader ecosystem of properties. So beyond our 67% revenue growth, 35% of people shopped at Rakuten shopping, or Ichiba as it’s known, 20% of people applied for credit card for the first time and 10% of people applied to Rakuten Bank for the first time, and 12% started using Rakuten pay the first time.

So we want to show this highly efficient programmable network can start to play an enabling role inside the broader online ecosystem. And we can start to show the economics and the traffic management and value flow above the connectivity. Now for operators outside of Japan that don’t have an ecosystem, we are still speaking according to those findings. Because we can share the rewards and loyalty point systems, which is the core business that’s transposable anywhere.

The important message to all other operators is that there is opportunity to contribute to an ecosystem of connectivity. But you need to have a modern, responsive programmable network and be able to safely and from a privacy way use that data to participate in the ecosystem. So that’s the next year’s journey, to actually build and prove that story.

https://telecoms.com/515599/rakuten-this-is-the-most-importa…