The less bumpy way to ride e-commerce = Rakuten (Seite 452)

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I am sure, that Rakuten Mobile had reached on April 7 between 4 and 4.5 million subscribers

"Tokyo, March 1, 2021 – Rakuten Mobile, Inc. today announced that applications for the Rakuten UN-LIMIT campaign initially launched in April 2020 offering subscribers their first full year of service free of monthly fees will close on April 7, 2021."

https://corp.mobile.rakuten.co.jp/english/news/press/2021/03…

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Rakuten India

https://corp.rakuten.co.in/about/

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Rakuten is growing very fast

Operating in various sectors from e-commerce to mobile network and financial technology, Rakuten has a market capitalization of around $16.4 billion. As the company grows and expands, it needs capital to continue to do so. According to Hiroshi Mikitani, Rakuten’s founder, chairman and CEO,” the company is growing very fast — even at this size — and we need more capital for the growth.”

Tencent appears to be Rakuten’s ticket to the Chinese market after failing to reach a partnership with the Chinese internet giant, Baidu. “Now, with a partnership with Tencent, we have a channel to export Japanese products to the Chinese market, as well as export Japanese content ... to the Chinese market as well,” stated Mikitani.

https://capex.com/de/market-news/expansion-is-pricey-for-rak…

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Positiv für Rakuten TV

Anthony Capano: Die Menschen haben in diesem Jahr mehr Zeit vor ihren Smart-TVs verbracht. 2020 war in dieser Hinsicht ein Jahr der Streamingdienste und dieser Trend wird sich 2021 fortsetzen. Demzufolge werden viele Investitionen in Richtung Video-on-Demand verlagert und dabei werden reine Abo-Modelle neben werbefinanzierten Streamingdiensten koexistieren.

Generell haben wir auch gesehen, dass viele Marken mehr in eine bessere Erfahrung für die Verbraucher investieren. Die Finanzdienstleister und die Reisebranche haben am stärksten gelitten, aber wir erwarten, dass sie sich wieder erholen werden. Die meisten Menschen sind sehr erpicht darauf, wieder ein normales Leben zu führen. Daher sehen wir, dass diese Sektoren sich erholen werden, wenn sie die schwierigen Zeiten überstehen können.

https://www.e-commerce-magazin.de/interview-mit-der-richtige…

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Rakuten is one of the owners of Acorns

Best for micro-investing

Acorns is a micro-investment platform. You don't need a lot to get started or to keep your investments growing.

If all you have is a little spare change, consider Acorns. This robo-advisor works by rounding up your transactions to the nearest dollar and putting the leftover change into your investment account. There's no minimum account balance or fees for trading, which some other picks have. But a basic account is $1 a month and you'll start investing your leftover money through their automatic Round Ups program. When you make a purchase on a linked card, your transaction is rounded up to the nearest dollar and your leftover change goes into your Acorns investment account. It makes investing hands-off you don't even need to worry about logging in to make minimum investment contributions. It's great if you don't have a lot of cash to devote to investing right now but still want to get started.

There's also a $3 a month personal account that has many accounts in one, including investing, retirement, checking and a physical debit card. The $5 a month family plan gives you investment accounts for kids plus investing, retirement and checking accounts.

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/investing/best-robo-ad…

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About the huge advantage of Rakuten Mobile

"People say that our advantage is that we are a greenfield operator, but I believe it is our people and work culture. We are not a telecommunications company – we are an IT company with highly skilled IT engineers, and that is a huge advantage."

— TAREQ AMIN, Rakuten Group Executive VP & Rakuten Mobile CTO

https://www.accenture.com/no-en/case-studies/communications-…

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Rakuten Mobile hits 1.77 Gbps on mmWave network in Japan

by Bevin Fletcher |
Mar 26, 2021 1:05pm

Rakuten Mobile achieved 1.77 Gbps throughput in a recent test on its millimeter wave network in Japan.

Altiostar touted performance and automation capabilities of the virtualized cloud-native 5G network, which launched in September using the vendor’s Open vRAN software. Rakuten has an equity stake in Altiostar.

“This is a significant milestone for the Rakuten Mobile and Altiostar partnership towards commercial realization of a high performing, cloud-native 5G RAN architecture,” said Ashraf Dahod, CEO of Altiostar, in a statement. “The Altiostar container-based solution allows Rakuten Mobile to quickly provision new sites and turn up service for a customer in record time."

The announcement was light on details about the test, which took place in December, but noted the download speed was a gigabit higher than average download speeds in Japan based on Q3 speed tests from Ookla. Those results showed the fastest 10% of users in Japan saw average download speeds of 719.42 Mbps.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/operators/rakuten-mobile-hits…

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Rakuten will be a big winner of a comeback

"Heading into 2020, the Japanese tourism industry was a juggernaut that saw annual visitors to Japan surge from roughly 6.2 million in 2011 to nearly 32 million in 2019. With the 2020 Olympics on the horizon, Japan’s goal of 40 million annual visitors seemed within reach. But the pandemic reversed the upwards trend, forcing a sharp u-turn that saw international visitors tumble to a 98% decline compared to the year before."

https://rakuten.today/blog/voyagin-takes-japanese-culture-global-through-online-experiences.html

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Rakuten Mobile in India

February 25, 2021

Rakuten is expanding its research and development (R&D) footprint in India by doubling its workforce in Bangalore. It is also expanding its presence in Indore.

Amin said that it is working with all large Indian IT players to address the global telecom market. “...we are in deep partnership and collaboration to help that would help both us as well as the service providers in India to transform this industry, as well as the potential for global telecom transformation,” Amin said during a fireside chat at ETTelecom’s 5G Congress virtual event.

“...there is not a better, more exciting time for India, especially as India starts to become more apparent in its capability in hardware building and software architecture building for 5G network,” Amin added.

Rakuten’s CTO said that India plays a pivotal role in its transformation towards an open network platform architecture.

“The ICT industry in India has embraced the journey that Rakuten is moving towards...they not only embraced it, they wanted to participate, and are always calling us to say how we can help and how we can do more,” Amin said.

https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/5gcongress…

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EBANX and Cabify partner up to offer a new delivery service

Small merchants on EBANX Beep will be able to have their products delivered by the
LAST UPDATED MARCH 18, 202

Brazilian fintech EBANX, LABS‘s parent company, and Spanish ride-sharing firm Cabify partnered up to offer a new delivery feature on the mobility app. The new service will allow drivers to deliver objects and orders at the request of users or small businesses.

Consumers who buy physical products on EBANX Beep, a new online sales platform, will be able to arrange with the seller details for delivery, which will be carried out by Cabify. EBANX Beep was launched in March and allows the sale of vouchers for products and services that can be retrieved later on. The main goal of this feature is to help small vendors and autonomous sellers to keep some revenue during quarantines imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The new delivery service will be available in the next few weeks, in a pilot format for small merchants in eight cities in Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Brasília, Campinas and Santos.

“With Cabify as a logistical partner, we have further expanded the reach of small entrepreneurs – on the internet, with the EBANX Beep platform, and in the physical world, with Cabify drivers. Even those merchants who do not have a delivery structure will be able to sell and deliver their products, maintaining cash flow during this delicate moment”, says André Boaventura, CMO and partner at EBANX.

Cabify has also been working to set up partnerships with delivery apps, supermarkets, pharmacies, restaurants and other shop-keepers. “We are glad to help small retailers and Cabify drivers. The partnership with EBANX makes perfect sense for the moment we are experiencing. We have to add more and more companies so as to provide the greatest convenience and safety for everyone”, comments Luis Saicali, general director of Cabify Brasil.

https://labsnews.com/en/news/business/ebanx-and-cabify-partn…