The less bumpy way to ride e-commerce = Rakuten (Seite 978)

[ellexi]

News von Go Jek, wo auch Rakuten investiert ist, interessant ist die Entwicklung im Food Delivery Bereich wie bei Careem. Ich denke das es bei den anderen Playern wie zb. Uber, Lyft in kürze auch zu einem Statement in dem Bereich kommen wird. Scheint so als ist der Kauf von Curbside eine vorrausschauendes Investment gewesen

Go-Jek's food delivery offshoot Go-Food plans 100 food festivals across Indonesia by year end
https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/food/go-jeks-food-del…

Go-Jek confirms expansion to Singapore
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/07/09/go-jek-confirm…

Go-Jek Gears Up for Business Expansion This Year
https://en.tempo.co/read/news/2018/07/06/056919776/Go-Jek-Ge…

[ellexi]

sehr gut für Rakuten/Curbside

Careem in talks to raise $150 million to launch food delivery business - source

http://www.euronews.com/2018/07/08/careem-in-talks-to-raise-…

[1erhart]

Genau, entweder gar nicht oder generell bei den letzten FÜNF. Ich lach mich wieder einmal wech.

[FlankerStan]

Rakuten Travel taucht jetzt auch in diesen Rennlisten auf

http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2018/02/booking-com-leads-in-s…

[1erhart]

SPIEON schreibt man so: SPION und damit ausspioniert so.

[FlankerStan]

Wer nicht von Mark Zuckerberg ausspieoniert werden möchte

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4178330-facebooks-stock-pri…

[FlankerStan]

A merger makes sense: Rakuten is an important owner of Lyft and Cabify

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/06/spains-cabify-categoricall…

[ellexi]

interessante Kundenliste des kürzlich gekauften Startups Curbside


https://curbside.com/customers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">https://curbside.com/customers/

Rakuten acquires mobile commerce startup Curbside

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/07/rakuten-acquires-mobile-co…

[ellexi]

es sieht so aus als kommt es zu einer Konsolidierung im Ride Sharing Bereich. Ich hatte schon einen Bericht gepostet das Uber an Careem interessiert ist und jetzt scheint Lyft an Cabify interessiert zu sein, wobei Rakuten durch beide Deals, falls diese durchgehen, profitieren wird und Rakuten auch Lead Investor bei Cabify ist.

A new twist in the story: Lyft negotiates the purchase of Cabify for 3,000 million euros

For 3,000 million euros, the negotiations between Lyft and Cabify are still in process. To take over the business of the Spanish company, Lyft would enter fully into the European and Latin American market competing with its biggest rival: Uber.
If the purchase closes, it would occupy the first place in the exits in Spain.



One of the most important purchases of technology in Spain is probably coming. If the case of La Nevera Roja or even Privalia was already good news for the sector, the next one to join the list could break all the metrics. According to El Confidencial , Cabify would be negotiating its sale for a more than millionaire amount.

3,000 million euros for the transport company, currently valued at 1,400 million . The only Spanish unicorn would pass into the hands of another transport giants worldwide. The reality is that many might think that Uber, his biggest rival in Spain, could have put such a large number on the table. And maybe not that volume, but conversations you have had with the company founded by Travis Kalanick . Without reaching a good port, the turn came to another of the giants: Lyft. With no presence in Europe and Latin America, there have been few occasions in which the greatest enemy of Uber in its own field, the United States, has felt the possibility of entering the Old Continent. And, in a way, it makes sense. If something shares Cabify and Lyft, in addition to the market segment, it is financing. Supported largely by Rakuten, the Asian fund , this could have functioned as a thread to generate conversations.

Already in his native country, the competition is enormous. If Uber acquires a bike company, JUMP , to enter another of the transport verticals, Lyft does the same. A few days ago, the purchase of Motivate was announced to address the segment of electric bikes. On the other hand, both giants also compete for Skedaddle , in the United States. A transport company for big events.

Returning to Spain, the formalization of this agreement is not clear. It could take months if the largest purchase operation in Spain is completed. At the moment, the Spanish company continues with its objective of going public in the United States between 2019 and 2020; A common goal with Lyft, which also wants to enter fully into the public markets. It also opened the doubt about the future of Cabify. With hardly any possibilities to grow via purchase, since the options are practically nil, there were only two ways: grow organically or continue with their financing rounds. Perhaps, in a certain way, the purchase is one of the quickest solutions taking into account that the financial arm of Lyft, which has large US funds, is far above the largest in Spain.

In a way, it is also not a surprise the entry of a new competitor into the market. For some time, several companies had been testing the possibility of approaching Europe, almost dominated by the Kalanick giant. Only Latin America, where the Asian player Didi had already entered fully, had some more player.

What prevented these companies from entering Europe? If there is something true in all this is that the valid rules in the United States are not so true in Europe . And it is a question that Uber can confirm precisely in the United Kingdom; his greatest stronghold was about to be set against him when the institution that regulates transportation in the cities withdrew the license to the US company. Months later, and with a trial ahead, Uber has managed to recover its permits for 15 reviewable months . Italy or France have also seen themselves in the position of having to regulate the sector. Like Spain, one of the most restrictive regions. Despite the growth of VTC licenses granted through legal channels,The critical mass needed to consider the opening of the business in Spain is still not interesting . A sector dominated by Uber and Cabify, controlling most of this type of permits, made it impossible for these competitors to enter.

It is precisely the issue of licensing that could leave the purchase of Cabify deserted. The latest movements by different municipalities , namely Madrid and Barcelona, ​​would be drawing a complicated future for any purchase. Mariano Silveyra already confirmed to this media that, if the creation of urban licenses in Barcelona is confirmed (once a judge determines the legality of Colau's decision), Cabify would consider leaving that market in the face of the impossibility of having a viable business .

And, in the line of VTC licenses, there would be the question of the owners of the same. A business in parallel to the technology that was even able to put pressure on Cabify to position itself in a negative way before a complete liberalization of the transport sector in Spain . Regulated under the ROTT (Regulation of Land Transport Regulations) and submitted to trial in the Supreme Court , the Spanish technology was positioned on the opposite side to Uber. The reasons? A total opening of the market would lower the price of the VTC licenses, which follow the same wake as those of the taxi, which would make these entrepreneurs lose their millionaire investments. In this sense, in fact, there were already rumors known by this means in which this sectorI would be pushing Cabify for a directive change to something this summer . Their requirements lie in a greater benefit for the performance of the permits granted to the technology. In this sense, the entry of Lyft as the universal owner of the company would surely leave these problems aside. More in tune with Uber than it seems, with a probability of opening the licensing market, Lyft would be more than in favor of this measure .

https://hipertextual.com/2018/07/facebook-compra-bloomsbury-…

[FlankerStan]

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