Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket
WhatsApp was sold for $19B, Instagram for $1B, Snapchat was bargained at $4B and Viber was sold for $900m. How are these valued and who decides these numbers when they are acquired?
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When a company is acquired, the value of the acquisition is typically determined by the acquiring company and the owners of the company being acquired. This can include negotiations between the parties, as well as valuations based on factors such as the revenue and profitability of the company, the size of its user base, and the potential for future growth.In the case of WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, and Viber, the valuations were likely based on a combination of these factors. For example, WhatsApp and Instagram were both acquired by Facebook, and at the time of their acquisitions, they had large and growing user bases, as well as significant revenue and potential for future growth. Similarly, Snapchat was acquired by Snap Inc. and Viber was acquired by Rakuten, these valuations were also likely based on similar factors.It's worth noting that these numbers are not final and can change over time depending on the company's performance post-acquisition.
https://www.quora.com/...decides-these-numbers-when-they-are-acquired
SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Calling all K-drama fans! From romantic moments that make you swoon, to tear-filled goodbyes and laugh out loud hijinks, K-dramas dominate so many of our viewing queues. That's why Rakuten Viki, the leading destination for Asian content, will host the first-ever worldwide celebration of Korean dramas with International K-Drama Day. Taking place on November 29th, the holiday aims to recognize the fandom and exponentially rising mass appeal of the genre that has dominated popular culture.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...ki-unveil-first-ever-135600165.html
POSTED BY ADAM WEARS
13 NOV 2023
Juniper Research interviewed Partha Seetala, President, Cloud BU at Rakuten Symphony, in November 2023. Rakuten was a Gold Winner for Network Virtualisation Innovation of the Year in our 2023 Future Digital Awards for Telco Innovation.
Partha Seetala is the President of the Cloud Business Unit at Rakuten Symphony and formerly the Founder and CEO at Robin.io. With more than 20 years' technology and product vision and expertise, he has taken multiple fully featured products from concept to market. He has conceived, designed, and built products in Scale-out Distributed Storage, File Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems, Big Data, and Information Analytics and the Containers/Kubernetes space.
Prior to founding Robin.io, which was acquired by Rakuten Symphony in 2022, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec’s information and storage management business, known as Veritas. In that capacity, he conceived, architected, and led engineering teams to take multiple products from concept to market. He was also an adviser on multimillion-dollar product lines, including NetBackup, Cluster File System, Veritas Cluster Server, and Information Fabric. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
https://www.juniperresearch.com/blog/...interview-rakuten-gold-winner
Artificial Intelligence Innovations in Open RAN mMIMO Will be Instrumental in Bridging the Performance Gap to Traditional RAN mMIMO
Nov. 15, 2023
Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) innovations in Open RAN Massive MIMO (mMIMO) solutions will play a pivotal role in improving performance to match that of traditional RAN mMIMO, according to global technology intelligence firm ABI Research. While traditional RAN vendors currently dominate the mMIMO market, momentum for Open RAN is building as the technology matures, with pioneering deployments from operators like Rakuten and DISH.
“Advanced AI and ML techniques are poised to help close the performance gap by enhancing key capabilities such as beamforming and channel estimation,” states 5G, 6G and Open RAN Research Analyst Larbi Belkhit. “Integration of these models, likely in the Distributed Unit (DU), will be instrumental for Open RAN vendors to maximize spectrum efficiency.”
https://technode.global/prnasia/...ance-gap-to-traditional-ran-mmimo/
"Rakuten Symphony’s products cater to the cloud-native platforms telco workloads run on-- from the RAN (Radio Access Networks) to core to MEC, as well as in orchestration platforms that focus on multiple domains, including the infrastructure and service layers.
When you're running a telco network, you're running at scale. The workloads that you run are sensitive to the performance that they require. Operators expect a certain level of reliability, low latency and high throughput."
(Millions of Yen)
Internet Services FinTech Mobile Total
Segment revenue 264,517 162,528 84,465 511,510
Segment profit (loss) 16,570 21,052 (117,591) (79,969)
Three months ended September 30, 2023 (July 1 to September 30, 2023)
(Millions of Yen)
Internet Services FinTech Mobile Total
Segment revenue 301,192 184,562 88,682 574,436
Segment profit (loss) 16,625 28,581 (81,204) (35,998)
23Q3tanshin_E.pdf
https://global.rakuten.com/corp/investors/
Reported By TANAY SINGH THAKUR JULY 9TH, 2021 AT 12:29 PM
https://telecomtalk.info/5g-in-india-will-be-majorly-oran/374408/
By Sricharan Mahavadi
Associate Director, Enterprise Solutions Architect Rakuten Symphony
November 16, 2023
I’m sure many of you have heard or are familiar with the term DevOps – a development and operations paradigm that integrates everything from planning to coding, deployment and operation. Next to DevOps there is MLOps, which takes the previous paradigm a significant step forward.
With MLOps, you can create a machine learning (ML) solution that uses field data to self-train and iterate, enabling organizations to maximize reliability and efficiency while requiring less manual labor or fewer experts.
Through MLOps, data scientists can focus on testing and validating data with a performance model that tunes the solution in the frameworks of performance, accuracy, availability or any metric that is valuable to improvements.
Below outlines the general considerations to keep in mind when choosing the right cloud-native platform to host Kubeflow and a walkthrough of steps involved in installing upstream Kubeflow and configuration with the cloud-native persistent storage and networking stack.
What is Kubeflow?
Kubeflow is an open-source ML platform that runs natively on Kubernetes. The Kubeflow project has multiple distinct software components that each address specific stages of the ML lifecycle, including model development, model training, model serving, and the automated ML and CI/CD of models and data ecosystem. Kubeflow is ideal for data scientists who want to build and experiment with ML pipelines. It is also for ML engineers and operational teams who want to deploy ML systems in various environments for model development, testing and production-level serving using CI/CD automations.
Why MLOPs on Symcloud?
Symcloud Platform provides a supercharged Kubernetes platform with native integration between cloud-native storage, cloud-native networking stack and also includes an application management system with full automation management of both clusters and applications. Symcloud Platform has the built-in capability to create managed application snapshots that enable cloning, backup and migration of applications between on-prem and cloud or between data centers within an enterprise.
Symcloud Platform fully automates the end-to-end cluster provisioning process for the most challenging platform deployments for several applications, including Kubeflow, and even custom application configurations.
https://symphony.rakuten.com/blog/...ng-kubeflow-on-symcloud-platform
According to a market research study published by Custom Market Insights, the demand analysis of Global Retail E-Commerce Market size & share revenue was valued at approximately USD 3.5 Trillion in 2022 and is expected to reach USD 3.9 Trillion in 2023 and is expected to reach around USD 7.9 Trillion by 2032, at a CAGR of 8.5% between 2023 and 2032. The key market players listed in the report with their sales, revenues and strategies are Amazon.com Inc., Alibaba Group Holding Limited, JD.com Inc., Walmart Inc., eBay Inc., Shopify Inc., Rakuten Inc., Zalando SE, ASOS Plc, Flipkart Online Services Pvt. Ltd., Noon AD Holdings Limited, MercadoLibre Inc, and others.
https://www.investorsobserver.com/news/qm-pr/6851893857766725
Das hängt m.E. auch mit der gebetsmühlenartigen Gegenpropaganda zusammen, die von den etablierten Spielern gegen ORAN mit viel Einsatz, denn sie haben viel zu verlieren, gefahren wird.
Businesses are seen leveraging Advertising solutions to increase their visibility and attract new users. In 2022, the number of average monthly Ads impressions on Rakuten Viber reached astounding 6B worldwide, with 680,1M impressions in the Philippines, 605,1M - in Serbia, 580M - in Greece. Among the top-performing Ads verticals worldwide: travel which grew by 75%, real estate by 65%, and jobs
and education by 34%, FMCG by 23%, and retail by 22%.
https://www.forbusiness.viber.com/en/blog/post/...user-communication/
This year brands showed an even stronger interest in Rakuten Viber business messaging solutions as a tool to build connections with consumers in their favorite messaging app. In 2022, Rakuten Viber recorded:
A 87% growth in the number of new official Rakuten Viber business accounts created around the world compared to the number of newcomers in 2021. A substantial increase happened in the following countries: 825% in Hungary, 176% in Serbia, 158% in Bulgaria.
Tokyo, November 17, 2023 – Rakuten Mobile, Inc. today announced that its research and development (R&D) project into advanced edge cloud technologies for next-generation communications has been selected by Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) under their Beyond 5G (6G) Fund for Innovative Information and Communications Technology FY2023 Social Implementation and Overseas Development-oriented Strategic Program. As part of this funded project, from November 2023 Rakuten Mobile has started research and development on the advancement of edge platform functions for the next communication standard after 5G – "Beyond 5G."
Through this project, the company aims to provide stable services in the edge cloud by enhancing edge platform functions in response to the growing communication volume demanded by the Beyond 5G era.
The edge cloud has expanded to thousands of locations as communication areas have expanded throughout Japan, making centralized management of huge amounts of data in central data centers a challenge. In addition, edge data centers have limited physical space and cannot deploy ample resources for applications, so they need to be better coordinated with central data centers.
In this R&D project, Rakuten Mobile will work on enhancing coordination between edge data centers and central data centers, improving processing capacity in edge platforms, and developing technology for the integrated operation of containers and virtual machines. The company will also demonstrate the effectiveness of its technology in its own network by reducing latency and enhancing the performance of platforms for future multi-access edge computing use cases, in anticipation of Beyond 5G. Furthermore, by incorporating these technologies into the Symworld platform – a product deployed globally through Rakuten Mobile’s subsidiary, Rakuten Symphony, Inc., – telecom operators and enterprise businesses around the world will have access to these technologies.
https://corp.mobile.rakuten.co.jp/english/news/...%2520Communications
The ecosystem spans digital content, travel, and even mobile service with Rakuten Mobile, enhancing its omnipresence in users’ digital journeys. Businesses can establish online stores on Rakuten Ichiba to leverage Rakuten Advertising and Rakuten Pay for smooth shopping experiences.
https://covue.com/de/blog/top-5-super-apps-in-japan/
"We have various forms of support from banks and there will be no problem in us redeeming bonds. On top of that, we are working on improving cashflow throughout the Rakuten ecosystem," Chief Executive Hiroshi Mikitani told a news conference.
https://www.todayonline.com/world/...rities-unit-stake-mizuho-2301006
By a break-even in 2024 without any capital investment and after my estimates about 400,000 million JPY accumulated depreciations in 2024 the Rakuten ecosystem would produce cash of 400,000 million JPY (= about $3 billion). By capital investments you must lower this amount of 400,000 million cash through the amount of the capital investments.
Fiscal year is January-December (All values JPY Millions) 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
Accumulated Depreciation 343,199 207,183 140,249 84,268 53,700
Buildings 24,390 18,396 15,276 11,728 13,788 §
Machinery & Equipment 101,569 44,318 13,972 33,126 30,838
Construction in Progress 3 - - - -
Other Property, Plant & Equipment 75,017 59,560 48,821 10,902 9,074
https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/JP/XTKS/...nnual/balance-sheet