Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

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Negative Operating CF (Excl. Tax) in the first nine month of 2021 of the non-financial businesses of Rakuten was „only“ $ 1.09 billion

Cash Flow Breakdown: Jan-Sep, 2021

The negative Operating CF (Excl. Tax) in the first nine month of 2021 of the non-financial businesses of Rakuten was „only“ 124.6 billion JPY (reduced by a positive flow from tax of 27.1 billion JPY = 97.5 billion JPY). This 124.6 billion JPY are about only $ 1.09 billion.

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I believe, most of this negative amount will alone reduced from the shutoff of roaming payments in the next months

„Rakuten doesn’t disclose its payments, but using KDDI’s disclosure investors can actually back out how much Rakuten is paying in roaming charges. In the most recent quarter (Jun-Sep 2021) Rakuten paid ~36b yen (= $ 316 million) to KDDI (34% of its mobile losses of 105b). So obviously, if they can shut off this roaming payment, it will go a long way to improving mobile economics. From October, Rakuten has started to drastically reduce the KDDI roaming area in 39 prefectures by switching to its own network. Going forward, the shutoff of roaming payments should be a major driver for narrowing mobile losses.“

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Reduce of the negative cash flow from operations will coming soon

„We estimate that Rakuten has paid more than JPY 30 billion to KDDI in the September quarter, which is one of the major reasons for the segment’s operating loss. We think that improvement on the segment’s loss may be the catalyst for Rakuten’s shares.“

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A positive cash flow from operations will come after my estimates in third or fourth quarter of 2022 - a lot earlier than a positive net-income, because the big depreciation for the gigantic mobile investments don't reduce the cash, this big investments were done in the past after the second quarter of 2022.

Starting in 2018, Rakuten members have been able to invest Rakuten Points. The service offers users a low-risk “mock investing experience” without needing to sign up for a formal securities account. Users need only choose between a “balanced” or “active” course and allocate however many points they wish to invest.
Of course, whether you earn points depends entirely on the performance of the stock market, but the initiative is clearly popular: Since launch, it has attracted over six million point aficionados — more than half aged 30 or younger.
Wander into a store

Rakuten Check is an app that rewards users for visiting physical stores and checking in. For shoppers, the service is a great place to discover new locations around the neighborhood, while stores can use the app as a marketing tool to encourage more foot traffic.
Shoppers can, of course, check in and receive points for visiting stores they were planning to visit anyway — most of Japan’s major convenience stores and many other large franchises are already registered to the platform.
Go for a stroll (if you’re 65 or above)

This one is geared more towards Japan’s senior citizens: The folks behind Rakuten Senior are using point incentives to help combat elderly isolation by improving senior IT literacy and encouraging community interaction through local workshops and fitness classes. The app also serves as a pedometer, rewarding users with Rakuten Points for reaching their daily 4,000 steps goal and stopping by participating check-in facilities.

Answer a few questions

Over two million Rakuten members are signed up to consumer research unit Rakuten Insight. The service offers regular surveys on a broad range of topics from shoppers’ attitudes towards sustainability or lifestyle changes during the pandemic, to specific questions about a certain company’s products. Point hunters need only answer a few easy questions to add to their mountain of treasure.

Hunt for bargains with your receipt
The Japanese onomatopoeia pasha! denotes the sound of a camera shutter — very fitting for bargain-hunting app Rakuten Pasha. The service’s basic function is very simple: Shoppers can earn Rakuten Points just by taking a photo of a receipt from a retail purchase. Eager point hunters can earn even more points by getting a special Tokudane coupon prior to purchase.
The app works with products from all of Japan’s major supermarkets and convenience stores, as well as from thousands of other locations. At the same time, it differs from services like Rakuten Check, Rakuten Pay and Rakuten Point Card in that individual point amounts earned (even particularly generous ones) can be applied regardless of where the purchase was made, what type of payment was used, and whether or not Rakuten Point Card was involved.
Rack up some serious points on Rakuten Ichiba

One point for every 100 yen spent on Rakuten Ichiba — this maxim has served as the foundation of Rakuten’s loyalty program since its very inception. But in recent years, the poi-katsu potential of Rakuten’s e-commerce platform has exploded, thanks in part to the beloved Super Point Up (SPU) program.

SPU lets shoppers use a number of other Rakuten services such as Rakuten Card, Rakuten Bank and Rakuten Mobile to multiply their Rakuten Ichiba point discount rate up to 15 times, with each additional service used adding to the tally. During site-wide events and promotions, rates can exceed 45 points per 100 yen — a discount that applies to all 300 million+ items available on the platform.

Most of the services taking part in the SPU program also run their own point incentives separate from Rakuten Ichiba. For Japan’s diehard point aficionados, Rakuten’s SPU program may well be the Holy Grail of poi-katsu.

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Atri says, “With the success of Rakuten in Japan, people are getting more open, they talk to us a lot more…Coming to the business side, we really think RCP is the pivotal point where the ecosystem and the industry will change.

“I personally love our network in Japan because it’s our baby, we built it from scratch and whatever technology we are taking to the world has been tried and tested in Japan”.

Rakuten Mobile runs Open RAN and virtual RAN (vRAN) commercially to carry 4 million users’ traffic on its end-to-end cloud network. He states, “[We] are managing the first realistic CI/CD [continuous integrated/continuous deployment] pipeline of automation where you have auto-rollbacks and upgrades when you’re talking about the [biggest] number of edge clouds for a telecom network anywhere in the world, where you’re talking about having shifted everything from bare metal to a cloud-native approach on VNFs.”

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Rakuten Kobo is the perfect company for the intellectually restless. It is located at the intersection of so many technology and society’s current major themes: E-Commerce; brick and mortar retail; mobile phone; digital assets; hardware; and D2C and B2B. Much was discussed about international and regulatory nuances, supply chains and manufacturing, culture, content production, publishers and writers, moderation, curation, and censorship. Above all, I have a 500-person “born hybrid” company that has built a great culture with telecommuters around the world and has offices in Toronto, Dublin, Darmstadt and Taipei.

In all industries, about 20% of companies have suffered badly, and they do. About 60 percent do or will stay the same, and the remaining 20 percent had a product or service that people wanted or needed during a pandemic. We were lucky enough to be in that latter segment. It turns out that many people want to escape or the depth of understanding offered by books.

There was a disruption in the book industry between the author and the publisher. About 25 percent of the books we sell don’t have a publisher, and the customer doesn’t care. The book they bought had received excellent grades, excellent reviews, and it fell into the category they liked. Self-published books are on our bestseller lists and regularly go more than similar books by traditionally published authors. They are written and published by individual independent writers who contract with their own editors, hire their own cover designers, outsource marketing and do everything themselves. Can you imagine how much anxiety would exist in the music or video industry if 25 percent of consumption is produced in garages outside the traditional studio system?

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Vendor solutions in the LG Uplus multivendor interoperability test network included:

DZS C1216RO open fronthaul gateways featuring built-in GPS and network timing support, and the high performance xHaul enabled DZS M3500 Cell Site Router (CSR)

NEC 5G radio units (RUs)

Altiostar/Rakuten Symphony virtualised distributed unit (O-DU) and central unit (O-CU) software

Intel compute and network acceleration technology

Keysight Technologies test solutions, including a mix of real Test UE (NEMO PBM) devices and multi-UE emulators (UeSIM) as well as the CoreSIM Core emulator

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January 18, 2022 by admin

Connected TV will take its share of the advertising pie

The opinion of Marc Herbault, Media & Display Director of Rakuten Advertising

Connected TV (CTV) will continue to grow in 2022, with many households opting for smart devices. Even if most French people continue to consume TV via box operators, more and more go directly to their Smart TV (36%, an increase of 7%). This will accelerate in 2022, with the arrival of more and more applications and content. Brands and agencies are increasingly aware of the opportunity offered to them by TVC to reach consumers who do not or no longer watch traditional broadcasts. A CTV strategy thus makes it possible to play on complementarity with traditional TV plans, but also to bring quality to a VOL strategy on the most beautiful screen in the home with the finesse of digital targeting.

ajackiefeast.com/3-rakuten-predictions-for-2022/

Tackling affiliate marketing’s reputation problem in APAC

By Stuart McLennan - January 11, 2022

Asia Pacific has been slower to adopt affiliate marketing than the United States and Europe, but the region is gradually catching up as many brands and partners opt for a pay-on-performance approach, writes Stuart McLennan, senior vice-president for APAC at Rakuten Advertising.

Affiliate marketing has a reputation problem. If you think affiliate marketing is focused on discounts or less-premium brands, you are not alone. But the adoption and scale of the channel globally highlight the flaws in this way of thinking. Take Japan as an example; its sub-affiliate networks are well-established, with a projected value of affiliate marketing of $5bn by 2023.

China – a nation with the most internet users in the world – has an over 40% share of the global affiliate marketing industry. And Australia is now a hot bed for publisher innovation to rival that seen in the UK and the US.

www.thedrum.com/opinion/2022/01/11/...reputation-problem-apac

Cross-pollination has been happening significantly between the mobile business and the rest of Rakuten ecosystem. Mickey has stated:

“There have been more contributions to the ecosystem than we initially thought. In fact, so beneficial that we had to ask ourselves if it was real”

Rakuten has the numbers to back this up. Consider: 19% of new mobile sign-ups (March to September 2020) were by users who had never previously used any Rakuten service. These users, within 6-12 months of signing up to mobile,

• 1 in 3 users started using Ichiba (marketplace) for the first time;

• 1 in 5 users signed up for a Rakuten credit card;

• 1 in 9 users became an online banking customer;

• 1 in 10 users started using Rakuten’s other payments solutions;

This is quite impressive - it means between 33 to 74% (depending on the overlap of cohorts above) of new mobile users were directed into the Rakuten ecosystem for the first time. What’s also impressive is when we look at new mobile subscribers who were already existing Rakuten users - after signing up for mobile, these existing users increased their purchase value on Ichiba marketplace by 60%. It looks to me that the synergy is well quantified and significant.

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Cash Flow Breakdown: Jan-Sep, 2021

Increase in cash and cash equivalents of Non-Financial Businesses was +145.7 billion JPY (= $1.27 billion)

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300 billion JPY ($ 2.62 billion) additional money was added for low interests at December 2, 2021

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So sind die Teams eingeladen, immer zu versuchen, sich zu verbessern, immer voranzukommen. Bei Rakuten ist es einfacher, erfolgreich zu sein, indem man ein Profi ist, der leidenschaftlich für das ist, was er tut. Darüber hinaus darf er nicht zögern, Hypothesen aufzustellen, sie in die Praxis umzusetzen und sie dann zu systematisieren (Shikumika),damit andere sie später anwenden können. All dies geschieht im Rahmen der ständigen Suche nach der Maximierung der Kundenzufriedenheit,die im Mittelpunkt all unserer Dienstleistungen steht. Schließlich ermutigt Rakuten seine Mitarbeiter, speed! speed! speed! im Tempo der Forschung und der digitalen Innovation zu sein, die sich ständig weiterentwickeln.

Die Omotenashi
Viele japanische Wörter sind buchstäblich nicht ins Französische übertragbar, weil sie eher eine Idee, ein Konzept darstellen. Dies ist der Fall des Omotenashi,dieser japanischen Vision der Beziehung zum Anderen, die die Kunst der Rücksichtnahme und vor allem der Gastfreundschaft hervorhebt. Mehr als nur Aufmerksamkeit, es ist eine echte Hingabe an den anderen, so dass sich dieser herzlich willkommen und respektvoll betrachtet fühlt.

Aus diesem Grund wurde das Kundendienstteam in Benutzerbetreuung umbenannt. Das Ziel? Betonen Sie, dass der Verbraucher, ob Verkäufer oder Käufer, immer im Mittelpunkt der Bedenken steht.
Die Unterstützung und Unterstützung der auf der Plattform vertretenen professionellen Verkäufer ist eine der Kernaufgaben von Rakuten. Daher wurde ein Team von engagierten und immer verfügbaren E-Commerce-Beratern aufgebaut. Mit dem Spitznamen ECCberaten sie, entwickeln Strategien und unterstützen täglich die digitale Geschäftsentwicklung auf der Plattform.Täglich müssen alle Teams Omotenashi in ihren Missionen berücksichtigen.

Asakai
Denn der Mensch ist für Hiroshi (Mickey) Mikitani, unseren Gründer und CEO, essentiell für die Entwicklung und das Wohlergehen eines Unternehmens. Denn für ihn ist es essenziell, dass die Mitarbeiter einer Gruppe über die Neuigkeiten informiert werden müssen. Er richtete ein wöchentliches Ritual ein: Asakai. Jede Einheit der Gruppe organisiert einmal pro Woche ein persönliches Treffen (oder eine Videokonferenz, seit Beginn der Gesundheitskrise), bei der alle Teams zusammenkommen. In Japan ist es eine Versammlung von mehr als 9.000 Menschen!
Konkret? Dies ist eine Gelegenheit, die neuesten Zahlen, aktuelle Bilanzen und neue Projekte zu teilen. So wird die Arbeit aller anerkannt und Rakuten bedankt sich für die Arbeit aller Beteiligten.
Darüber hinaus trägt jedes Mitglied der Gruppe auf seinem Herzen ein Namensschild, ein Namensschild: Er ist somit für seine Kollegen perfekt erkennbar und dieses System erleichtert die Kommunikation zwischen allen und stärkt vor allem das Gefühl der Zugehörigkeit. Sie können mit jemandem sprechen, den Sie nicht mit seinem Vornamen kennen, ideal in einer ständig wachsenden Gruppe.

Nach dem Asakai folgt das Ritual der Reinigung: Sobald das Meeting vorbei ist, sind die Mitarbeiter eingeladen, ihren Arbeitsplatz aufzuräumen und zu säubern. Es ist einfacher, einen klaren Kopf zu haben, wenn ordnung um dich herum herrscht! Und vor allem machen wir Platz für eine neue Woche. Sogar Mickey tut es!

Rakuten France hat offensichtlich das Ritual von Asakai übernommen, aber durch die Personalisierung ein wenig, da es auch eine Gelegenheit ist, neue Mitarbeiter hervorzuheben. Die Originalität kommt daher, dass sich diese Menschen vorstellen müssen... Gesang! Speziell für Rakuten Frankreich wird diese Praxis von den Mitarbeitern mit Spannung erwartet... Die Möglichkeit, seinen neuen Kollegen mit Humor und Spontaneität zu entdecken!

Ikigai
Balance ist wahrscheinlich das, was Ikigai am besten widerspiegelt, das dem Einzelnen eine gesegnete Fülle in seinem täglichen Leben bringen will. Jeden Moment zu schätzen, Dankbarkeit zu empfinden, zu lernen, seine Tage zu verschönern, Ikigai setzt sich für ein sinnvolles Leben ein und ermutigt die Menschen, ihren Daseinsgrund zu finden. Bei Rakuten nehmen wir dieses Prinzip sehr ernst, lesen Sie einfach den engagierten Kommentar unseres CEO Fabien Versavau. In der Tat kann das tägliche Leben der Mitarbeiter von Rakuten France nur durch das Prisma des Ikigai betrachtet werden. Die Wichtigkeit, einen Grund für seine Handlungen zu finden, dass sie in Bedeutung und Wert verkörpert sind, wird ständig wiederholt. Ein menschlicher Managementansatz unterstreicht die empirische Anwendung von Ikigai innerhalb von Rakuten. Die Balance zwischen Berufs- und Privatleben wird daher von den Mitarbeitern sehr geschätzt!

Anglischisierung
Obwohl Rakuten eine internationale Gruppe ist, die in mehr als 30 Ländern vertreten ist, wollte Mickey Mikitani schon immer ein einziges Team bilden. Die Kommunikation muss daher fließend sein, um Grenzen zu vermeiden. So beschloss er vor vielen Jahren, ein beispielloses Projekt vor allem für Japan zu starten: Englishinization, englisch, das Englisch zur offiziellen Sprache der Gruppe macht.

In der Welt des E-Commerce ist die Unternehmenskultur von Rakuten wirklich einzigartig. Seine Verbundenheit mit seinen japanischen Wurzeln, sein Sinn für Service und seine zutiefst menschlichen Werte machen es zu einem bereichernden Ökosystem, in dem es gut ist, zu gedeihen.

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Rakuten Medical Announces FDA Acceptance of an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for RM-1995, a Conjugate of IR700 and anti-CD25 Antibody

Dec 15, 2021, 20:00 ET

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Open RAN Networks Enabling 5G with Standalone Core Takes Off

The ultrafast speeds of 5G, excessive bandwidth and coffee latency are opening a plethora of recent alternatives and complicated programs, reworking industries from production and healthcare, to Web of Issues (IoT), digital fact, and gaming, the probabilities are unending.

In line with the Aggressive Carriers Affiliation (CCA), the U.S. Executive and business stakeholders are targeted at the essential want to make sure that speedy 5G deployments national. Analysis and modeling from a number of economists and companies align to element the large affect 5G may have on our economic system and activity introduction, together with contributing up to $1.5 trillion to U.S. GDP and developing 4.5 million jobs.

Cell Community Operators (MNOs) have two techniques of supporting 5G. The Non-standalone usual makes use of present LTE RAN and core networks as an anchor, with the addition of a 5G part service. Non-Standalone will lock MNOs in with their present distributors because the interfaces don’t seem to be open and interoperable.

5G Standalone (SA) makes use of cloud-based and Provider-Primarily based Structure (SBA) that optimizes community infrastructure with virtualized community purposes (VNFs), enabling operators to release differentiated services and products, making sure a better high quality of carrier. 5G SA Open RAN networks are perfect for new programs and can be deployed an increasing number of in 2022 and past as they supply ultra-reliable, lower-latency communications, permitting extra other people and units to make use of cell information on the identical time, thus enabling true 5G connectivity.

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Telefónica Deutschland : O2 / Telefónica activates Germany's first Open RAN mini-radio cells

01/17/2022 | 04:15am EST

Innovation in Munich:O2 / Telefónica activates Germany's first Open RAN mini-radio cells

O2 / Telefónica has activated Germany's first mini-radio cells with Open RAN technology in Munich.

As the first German network operator, O2 / Telefónica has activated the first mini-radio cells with innovative Open RAN technology (ORAN) in Munich. In addition to the very well developed O2 network, this will provide all O2 customers with even more capacity and higher bandwidths at busy locations in the future. The installation of pure 5G Open RAN mini radio cells ("5G standalone") will follow later in the year. With the compact, flexibly deployable latest-generation mini mobile cells, the company is able to increase 5G/4G capacities in the O2 network at high-traffic locations in urban areas faster than before. The mini-radio cells, attached to a building facade on Klenzestraße in Munich's Gärtnerplatz district, supplement the 4G/5G mobile network installed on rooftops in the city center, but do not replace it.

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European Telcos Sound Alarm Over Flagging Open RAN Progress

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, and others warn the continent is falling behind the U.S. and Japan

MICHAEL KOZIOL
21 DEC 2021

European telecom companies recently sounded an alarm that they may be falling behind the rest of the world in their efforts to develop open-interface radio access network (RAN) technologies. The technologies, called Open RAN and which would provide new ways to mix and match network components by “opening up” the interfaces between them, are widely believed to be an important opportunity to drive down the costs of network deployments and allow new players to enter a rigid market.

Five companies—Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, and Vodafone—published a report outlining why they feel Europe as a whole is lagging behind other regions such as the U.S. and Japan in developing Open RAN.

Open RAN surprised some in the industry with how quickly it has risen to prominence. The O-RAN Alliance was founded in 2018 with just five members. It now has over 260 members. Cellular “generations” such as 4G and 5G typically exist on a ten-year cycle of research, standardization, and commercialization. Open RAN is moving much faster, and even despite the recent concerns about lagging behind—or perhaps because of them—there is still a sense in the industry that Open RAN will make a big impact in the coming years.

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Samsung and Vodafone open UK’s first 5G Open RAN site

BY ADMIN ON JANUARY 20, 2022

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Predictions 2022: Metro Networks, Hyperscalers, Open RAN

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Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka and its infrastructure partner Edotco Services Lanka have launched an Open RAN trial in Sri Lanka. The trial site was deployed in Polatthapitya in the Kurunegala district, the Daily Mirror reports.

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Spanish Cabify expects online grocery delivery to Latin America in 2022

BY ROBERT K. DOUGLAS ON NOVEMBER 30, 2021

MADRID: The Spanish ridesharing app Cabify will start offering grocery deliveries in its Latin American markets next year after launching the service in Spain a month ago, Lucia Chavarri, vice president, said on Tuesday. new business.

“We will be launching our Cabify Super service next year in Latin America,” Chavarri told reporters at an event celebrating the multi-mobility company’s 10th anniversary, with the aim of capitalizing on a fuel boom by the rapid e-commerce pandemic.

The service, which allows users to place orders from nearby partner supermarkets, is expected to land in the leading Latin American market in the first half of 2022, a source within the company told Reuters.
The company operates in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. He did not specify which market he would enter first.

Cabify expects to generate $ 516 million in revenue this year and exceed its pre-pandemic baseline earnings, or EBITDA, in the fourth quarter of this year.

CFO Antonio Espana forecasts sales of US $ 167 million during the period, up 43% from the same quarter of 2019.

“The IPO is only one option available to us to fund our growth plans, and we don’t have a concrete date yet,” Espana said. “We want to continue to finance our conquest of mobility and to work on our recovery using our own resources for the moment.

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Everything You Need to Know About In-Store Cash Back

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