Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Article By : David Soldani 2023-06-15

Unleashing eBPF in Japan

Rakuten Mobile uses its eBPF platform to create custom code and load eBPF programs into the kernel dynamically, as shown in Figure 2. This makes it possible to estimate energy consumption of CNFs, derive performance counters and gauges of the transport network layer and 5G application and non-access stratum protocols, and detect and respond to unauthorized access to cloud-native resources in real time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RakutenUndervalued/...native_transformation/

 

Rakuten to Launch R-Toon, a New Digital Comic Distribution Service Coming as Soon as This Fall - Rakuten to collaborate with partner companies to jointly produce original, vertically scrolling digital comic titles.

Tokyo, June 15, 2023 – Rakuten Group, Inc. today announced that it will launch R-Toon, a new digital comic book distribution service, in fall 2023 or later.

R-Toon is a new Rakuten service that enables users to read original, vertically scrolling digital comic titles. The service will allow users to read one chapter a day free of charge. Users will also be able purchase comics on a per-chapter basis.

Rakuten has partnered with Shonengahosha Co., Ltd., Straight Edge Inc. and Nitroplus Co., Ltd. to start jointly producing original digital comics. The companies are currently developing new titles which will be released on R-Toon.

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2023/0615_01.html  

JUNE 11, 2023 19.37 EUROPE/LONDON BY JÖRN KRIEGER

Music TV broadcaster Folx Network is now distributing its three channels Folx Music Television, Zwei Music Television and One Music Television on Rakuten TV in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The channels are offered free of charge on the streaming platform and smart TV app.

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2023/06/11/...channels-to-rakuten-tv/  

Panel Discussion: Intelligence and Speed at the Edge

June 16.06.2023

Rakuten Symphony Symcloud Leader Mehran Hadipour talks intelligence and speed at the edge Networks are changing as organizations embrace cloud and edge computing strategies to deliver robust applications that can meet strict performance and latency requirements. Virtualization and disaggregation and the move to containerized microservices has resulted in new and complex traffic patterns within and across data center hosts. At Silverlinings Cloud Data Center Strategies 2023, Rakuten Symphony’s Mehran Hadipour joined industry leaders to discuss the evolving aspects of networks in an experience-first world. Watch now to explore the groundbreaking concepts of the virtualized edge, SmartNICs, DPUs and other ingredients necessary for increasing network performance, and how to make programmable networks a reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkO315l-eDM  

Dass Rakuten in vielen Bereichen exzellent positioniert steht m.E. außer Frage - und ist nach den mehr als 2 Milliarden Dollar aus der Kapitalerhöhung auch ordentlich durchfinanziert, wenn auch auf Kosten einer Verwässerung.

Bisher antizipieren die Märkte nur die Verwässerung durch die Kapitalerhöhung und ignorieren komplett die bessere Finanzierung durch den Zufluss von mehr als zwei Milliarden Dollar, der in entsprechender Höhe das Eigenkapital erhöht.

Aber diese Reaktion der Märkte ist m.E. kein Ereignis von Dauer und eine exzellente Kaufchance  

Rakuten DRAGON Service Breathes Fire into Live Commerce

June 16, 2023

Rakuten DRAGON is a new app that offers a platform and support functions for live commerce, from streaming to data analysis. It provides data unique to live commerce such as how viewers react to certain spoken keywords as well as what kind of information triggers a purchase, which can be used to increase marketing effectiveness. The service is getting ready to collaborate with other Rakuten services.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-F3cAnO9gg  

1&1 recently said it expected to launch its 5G offering for smartphone users by the third quarter of 2023

Germany’s competition regulator Bundeskartellamt is currently assessing whether Vodafone Germany or its affiliated company Vantage Towers unlawfully impeded newcomer 1&1 in the deployment of its mobile network infrastructure.

In a release, the regulator said it had started this assessment following a complaint filed by 1&1.

“We welcome the intended market entry of 1&1 as a fourth mobile network operator in Germany from a competition perspective. It is clear that to develop its own mobile phone network a company has to make high investments and take entrepreneurial risks when taking such a step. It is a key task of competition law to set fair rules of play for companies’ business practices. Powerful and dominant companies must not unfairly impede other companies. We will therefore scrutinize whether there are sound reasons for a delay in the provision of antenna locations for 1&1,” said Andreas Mundt, president of the Bundeskartellamt.

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20230605/5g/...urrently-assessing-11-case  

https://optimism.rakuten.co.jp/en/  

B2C e-commerce Market 2023 Current Trends, Rising Demand and Top Key

tanmay June 16, 2023

Top Leading Companies: Amazon, Walmart, Rakuten, Inc, Aliexpress.com, Alibaba.com, Ebay, JD.com, Flipkart, Lazada, OLX Inc.

https://www.reedleyexponent.com/news/...c-aliexpress-com-alibaba-com/
 

3 advantages that only Rakuten Drive provides to your business

Transfer even high-definition video files quickly: Rakuten Drive provides powerful convenience for editing videos or sharing works by allowing large-capacity and high-speed file transfers that are not provided by existing cloud services.

Anytime, Anywhere: You can access stored files anytime, anywhere through web, app, and extension, and fully supports a stable work environment with 3TB cloud storage provided per team member.
Collaborate safely with your team: All types of files can be stored in the cloud or transferred. And also you can safely transfer or share important files with password and expiration date settings.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RakutenUndervalued/...ten_drive_provides_to/

 

 

A Viber chatbot is an easy-to-use marketing tool that can display information to subscribers, collect data upon request, and accept orders according to pre-planned scenarios.

In this article, we will talk about how to create a Viber chatbot and automate your communication with clients using the Viber app.

https://sendpulse.com/knowledge-base/chatbot/...connect-viber-chatbot  

You can now join the Gen AI revolution via messaging app

Ask your phone questions or generate original, unusual images using generative AI, without need for any deep knowledge of tech.

By Naama Barak

February 26, 2023

Want to join the generative AI revolution but not quite sure how to do it? You can now easily use advanced models of generative artificial intelligence on your phone, courtesy of a far simpler-to-use messaging app.

Israeli-founded company Rakuten Viber has recently added an AI Chat & Create chatbot to its traditional messaging app, giving users access to OpenAI technologies such as DALL-E and Davinci on their phones.

https://www.israel21c.org/...the-gen-ai-revolution-via-messaging-app/  

Telecom transformation – A Tareq Amin conversation

June 16, 2023

Telecom operators can achieve dramatic economic and business results by trusting in a cloud-native future that entails owning system design, cloud-native processes and automated operations. Part of this future, Open RAN brings flexible and agile deployment choices.

Before adopting Open RAN, operators should reflect on their own organizations before deciding to decouple hardware supply chains as success depends on the right organization, people and skillsets that accelerate progress, rather than fearing change.

We sat down with Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Symphony who built a culture that does exactly that: accelerate change.

https://symphony.rakuten.com/blog/...mation-a-tareq-amin-conversation  

Tokyo, June 19, 2023 - Rakuten Bank, Ltd. today announced that it has surpassed 14 million customer accounts as of June 17, 2023.

Since it started as a digital bank in 2001, Rakuten Bank has been committed to providing convenient services to individual, corporate and sole proprietor business customers. The number of Rakuten Bank accounts has now surpassed 14 million, and the bank recently achieved the milestone of 9 trillion yen in total balance of non-consolidated deposits, at the end of March 2023. Rakuten Bank customers have been using multiple services after opening their accounts, such as bank transfers and using their accounts to receive salaries and bonuses. The use of Rakuten Bank as a main account is steadily expanding.

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/update/2023/0619_01.html
 

By Subha Shrinivasan

VP of Customer Success - Rakuten Symphony

A cloud-native approach enables an organization to do more with less, to be agile and build highly available and resilient applications. An organization's decision to adopt a cloud-native infrastructure is a business strategy as much as a technical one.

https://symphony.rakuten.com/blog/...perate-a-failproof-cloud-network  

Rakuten Advertising expertise in the vertical and their strong partner relationships have led to a highly successful program

Rakuten Advertising has provided strategic recommendations that have helped us to optimize campaigns and test new acquisition strategies with publishers. Their expertise in the vertical and their strong partner relationships have led to a highly successful program.

Jessica Joyner

AVP, Digital Acquisition Strategy at Wells Fargo

https://rakutenadvertising.com/affiliate/  

Cairns Oneil is proud to partner with Rakuten Kobo to create and launch the industry’s first ChatGPT powered ad unit. The campaign integrated technology from Adform and ChatGPT to dynamically generate and optimise content through Dynamic Creative Optimisation (DCO) headlines using Artificial Intelligence in banner ads.

“Rakuten Kobo is a leader in tech innovation, focused on making reading lives better,” said Lindsay Gray, director of marketing for Rakuten Kobo. “We have an eReader for everyone and serve millions of readers globally – no two are the same, and we want our messaging to be as tailored and personalized as possible when we engage with our customers. The ground-breaking AI-driven technology from Cairns Oneil offers the type of personalisation that our reading experience delivers.”

“The opportunities that ChatGPT and AI technologies can bring to marketing are endless “said Robin LeGassicke, managing director of digital Cairns Oneil. “By integrating ChatGPT with our ad tech partner we were able to create a first of its kind ad unit and execution that will forever change personalisation and engagement in media.”

https://www.lbbonline.com/news/...il-develops-chatgpt-powered-ad-unit  

I can’t understand this decision from JCR, because Rakuten increased in the last months the equity capital about $2.6 billion ($2.1 billion through a share-offering and $0.5 billion through a sale of a part of Rakuten Bank)

“Rakuten’s Rating Cut on Uncertainty About Mobile Business

Finbarr Flynn and Ayai Tomisawa

Wed, June 21, 2023 at 3:06

The assessor downgraded its view by a notch to A- and said the outlook was negative for billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani’s company, which has racked up four consecutive years of losses.

Several of Rakuten’s bonds have fallen to levels typically considered distressed, while its shares have dropped 17% this year, according to Bloomberg-compiled data.

“Earnings improvement in the mobile business has been slow, and it will be difficult for this business on its own to move into the black in terms of operating income in a single month during 2023,” the ratings agency said. “The improvement in the performance of the mobile business is expected to take more time than JCR had previously assumed.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...-rating-cut-jcr-slow-074114215.html  

schon Ende 2023 einen Monat mit einem Gewinn dabei hat oder man dieses Ziel erst 2024 erreicht.

Wenn Rakuten Mobile beim Gewinn auch nur flat ist, stehen dann die übrigen durchgehend positive Bereiche für eine Gewinn von Rakuten zwischen 1,2 und 1,5 Milliarden Dollar - das sind bei ca. 2 Milliarden ausstehenden Aktien 0,60 - 0,75 Dollar pro Aktie.  

Rakuten sells its stake (47%) in Cabify

June 01, 2023

The sale of Cabify to UBS not only has economic implications, but it also involves a restructuring of the company's shareholder composition.

https://www.selligence.com/app/event/7wkm5o1yk68l9w7j37q  

Rakuten Kobo expands digital reading offering in the US and UK with Kobo Plus, the all-you-can-read and listen subscription

US and UK readers can now fit books into more parts of their day with read and listen subscription options for a low monthly fee

TORONTO – April 5, 2023 – Leading digital reading retailer and publisher Rakuten Kobo announces the US and UK launches of Kobo Plus, the all-you-can-enjoy subscription offering booklovers unlimited access to over 1.3 million eBooks and over 100,000 audiobooks for a low monthly fee.

The Kobo Plus catalogue is ever-growing, with more titles being added to the collection each month.

https://www.kobo.com/news/...all-you-can-read-and-listen-subscription  

sehe ich als exzellente Kauf- bzw. Nachkaufgelegenheit-  

Toronto-based Kobo Inc. grows customer base by 2.5M in Q1

May 28, 2013

The Toronto-based, Japanese-owned e-reader company says it now has 14.5 million registered users, with 15 per cent of its new users coming from the United States.

Kobo's customers were also reading 34 per cent more in the first quarter compared with the same time period last year.

Sales of the new Kobo Aura HD accounted for more than one in four eReaders sold at retail stores and sales of Kobo Writing Life self-publishing titles made up 10 per cent of revenue.
The company didn't disclose its revenue.

It also expects its growing library with books like Dan Brown's "Inferno" and Khaled Hosseini's "And the Mountains Echoed," will continue to grow its customer base as it expands to India, China and Russia.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/...tomer-base-by-2-5m-in-q1-1.1300030
 

Open Ran roughly two-times larger than the original open RAN 2023 projections published in 2020

Dell’Oro Group noted that open RAN revenues increased between 10% and 20% during the first quarter of the year, which was down from the more than doubling in revenues that occurred in 2022. Virtualized RAN (vRAN) showed a bit more growth in the latest quarter, with market revenues increasing between 20% and 30% year over year.

Despite the flattening, Pongratz said he is keeping his full-year prediction that open RAN equipment will account for between 6% and 10% of the total RAN market by the end of 2023.

“It is worth keeping in mind that our current 2023 revenue outlook for open RAN is roughly two-times larger than the original open RAN 2023 projections we outlined back with our first open RAN forecast published in 2020,” Pongratz added. “So there is no doubt that open RAN is, from our perspective, accelerating at a much faster pace than initially expected, even with the slower [year-over-year] growth rates in [the first quarter].”

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/analysis/...ran-adoption/2023/06/