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Skip the scams, not the sparks: Rakuten Viber launches Viber Dating in the Philippines First

New Viber feature debuts globally with a safe dating experience for real people to make real connections

By Team Orange
February 16, 2025

https://orangemagazine.ph/2025/...nches-viber-dating-in-the-ph-first/
 

Rakuten Viki Celebrates K-Drama Fandom Across the Globe

January 30, 2025

Starting with Korean dramas (K-dramas), Rakuten Viki has solidified its position as the world's top streaming service for Asian content with over 95 million registered users globally, and the excitement levels peaked in late 2024 with the launch of its second annual International K-Drama Day. This video looks at Viki’s approach to content, while highlighting the key events and insights from K-Drama Day 2024, showcasing Rakuten Viki's commitment to bringing exclusive and diverse Asian entertainment to fans worldwide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cNHpT4LDTY
 

With over a billion users worldwide, Viber ranks among the top five messaging apps, mainly concentrated in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

To get a better look at Viber’s popularity, let’s take a look at Monthly Active Users (MAUs). As of 2021, Viber reported 820 million active users, a huge growth over the 260 million it reported two years earlier.
During the pandemic, user numbers grew rapidly as people turned to online groups to socialize and share information. Viber pushed this growth with initiatives like Covid-19 chatbots and e-commerce support. App usage remains strong in its key markets.

https://respond.io/de/blog/viber-for-business

 

Insights from Chief Revenue Officer at Rakuten Symphony

Feburary 20, 2025

In Episode 8 of Inside Track, Udai Kanukolanu, Chief Revenue Officer at Rakuten Symphony talks us through how he is bringing his decades of experience to in telecome to delivery mutually beneficial outcomes for Rakuten Symphony and it’s customers. Join Udai as he sits down with James Dartnell, Director, Corporate Communications, EMEA, to discuss what exactly goes into winning deals from start to finish, and how Rakuten Symphony are expanding the organization’s global reach by enhancing it’s own value proposition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnJz3IGZ1YY
 

Carousell well-capitalised, with healthy narrowing of losses

Sharanya Pillai

UPDATED Nov 14, 2024, 04:41 PM

SINGAPORE – Online classifieds operator Carousell remains well-funded by its investors, and an initial public offering (IPO) is not the only option to raise capital, said chief executive Quek Siu Rui on Friday.
“We’re so well-capitalised now that it gives us the ability to stay focused on execution,” he said when asked about the company’s plans for an IPO.

“When the time comes for us to think about capital raises, we will look at all options, IPOs being one of them. But there are also many other capital-raising options,” he said, noting that the company has the support of long-term investors.

It was last valued at US$1.1 billion (S$1.5 billion), and it raised US$123.5 million between 2021 and August this year, according to data platform VentureCap Insights.

https://www.straitstimes.com/business/...lthy-narrowing-of-losses-ceo
 

Mit Blick auf das Geschäftsjahr 2025 strebt die Rakuten Group an, "den konsolidierten Non-GAAP-Betriebsgewinn zu steigern" und "Rakuten Mobile wieder auf die EBITDA-Rentabilität des Gesamtjahres zurückzuführen". Wird das Mobile-Geschäft profitabel, wird sich die Profitabilität des gesamten Konzerns weiter verbessern.

https://en-54177.site-translation.com/posts/135121
 

Interview - January 16, 2025

Rakuten Securities is dedicated to building a better, more optimistic future by empowering individuals, businesses and societies to realize their dreams.

This has been a record-breaking year for the Japanese financial markets. In March 2024, the Nikkei breached the JPY 40,000 mark. We’ve had increased IPO activity, with 97 companies having gone public, raising over JPY 570 billion. We’ve also seen a surge in private equity deals, with values nearly tripling the annual average from 2018 to 2022. This backdrop has drawn an unprecedented flow of foreign capital into the Japanese financial markets, with foreign investments in Japanese equities reaching a ten-year high. What were the core reasons for the extraordinary performance of Japan’s financial markets, and what makes Japan attractive to foreign investors today?

One of the driving forces of this active market is that on the institutional and wholesale side, there has been corporate governance reform, but our core business is retail. For that, there was recently the introduction of the Nippon (Japan) Individual Savings Account (NISA), and the government expanded the tax exemption for the accumulation of wealth by three times the previous amount and two times more for other investment aspects. Overall, JPY's 3.6 million annual retail investment is now tax-exempt, and that has brought a lot of capital into the retail investment market.

https://www.theworldfolio.com/interviews/...s-defining-optimism/6631/