Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

in Südostasien:

Monetisation and AI are key areas of focus for Carousell
S'pore's poster startup eyes being No. 1 in South-east Asia.
BY NATALIE CHOY
THE BUSINESS TIMES

Marcus Tan co-founded Carousell with Quek Siu Rui and Lucas Ngoo while studying at the National University of Singapore six years ago. An overseas exchange programme to Silicon Valley showed them how companies were using technology to solve problems. It was a nirvana moment, said Mr Tan.

5 SEP 2018

SINGAPORE's poster startup Carousell harbours big dreams of becoming the world's leading online classifieds marketplace one day.
Do not discount this ambition; the six-year-old firm has already established a strong presence in the region with over 54 million items sold and 158 million listings in seven markets.

www.sgsme.sg/news/startups/...i-are-key-areas-focus-carousell

Rakuten Mobile Network Completes First Successful 5G Trials with Nokia in Japan
Tokyo, October 2, 2018 - Rakuten Mobile Network Inc., today announced that it has collaborated with Nokia to successfully conduct over-the-air 5G trials using the Nokia AirScale base station and the Intel® 5G Mobile Trial Platform.

Rakuten Mobile Network received approval for its Special Base Station Deployment Plan (1.7GHz frequency band) in April 2018 and aims to launch its first mobile services as a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) in October 2019. Rakuten Mobile Network is collaborating with a number of vendors including Nokia on the design and construction of its nationwide mobile network. Going forward, Rakuten Mobile Network and Nokia will also work closely together on 5G technology testing and evaluation.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2018/1002_01.html

jet.style/portfolio/case/...-development-for-the-russian-post

Hoffe ja früher oder später auf einen Börsengang von Lyft.
Lyft ist eine Perle, deren "realistische" Bewertung an die Öffentlichkeit getragen werden sollte. Als Rakuten Anteilseigner wäre das zumindest sehr positiv.

Rakuten Kobo stellt Kobo Forma vor: unseren dünnsten, langlebigsten und komfortabelsten eReader
- Ergonomisches, ultraleichtes, einhändiges Design ermöglicht einfaches Lesen im Hoch- oder Querformat - Seitliche Drehknöpfe für taktile Leser - Neue Bildschirmtechnologie erhöht die Haltbarkeit und die Fallfestigkeit

Toronto, ON - 2. Oktober 2018 - Die Zukunft des Lesens nimmt ab heute Gestalt an, denn Rakuten Kobo kündigt den Kobo Forma an, den größten und leichtesten 8-Zoll-eReader, der höchsten Lesekomfort bietet. Das Premium-Gerät wurde für hungrige Leser entwickelt, die auf die Wahl von Quer- oder Hochformat, Wasserdichtigkeit, ein innovatives Leichtgewicht und die perfekte Alternative zu sperrigen Büchern zählen.

translate.google.de/...obal.rakuten.com/corp/&prev=search

ikajo.com/blog/six-cross-border-e-commerce-trends-2018

das Amazon nicht leisten kann:

"Wechseln Sie in OverDrive mit integrierter eBook-Ausleihe

Leihen Sie Bücher aus, ohne dass Sie Ihr Zuhause verlassen müssen, indem Sie direkt von Kobo Forma aus mit dem integrierten OverDrive eine Verbindung zu Ihrer lokalen öffentlichen Bibliothek herstellen. * Alles, was Sie benötigen, ist eine aktive Bibliothekskarte. Suchen Sie nach den gewünschten eBooks und wählen Sie aus, ob Sie sie ausleihen oder kaufen möchten - so einfach ist das.

* Abhängig von der Bibliotheksbeteiligung, verfügbar in den meisten öffentlichen Bibliotheken in Kanada, den Vereinigten Staaten, Großbritannien, Australien und Neuseeland. Die Verfügbarkeit von eBooks hängt von der Bibliothek ab. "

to 14 Cities in Metropolitan Tokyo

Tokyo, October 4,  2018 - Rakuten, Inc. today announced the expansion of the coverage area of the Rakuten EXPRESS door-to-door delivery service to include the 14 cities of Fuchu, Chofu, Nishitokyo, Mitaka, Kodaira, Hino, Musashino, Tachikawa, Tama, Kokubunji, Koganei, Inagi, Komae, and Kunitachi in the Tokyo metropolitan area* .

Rakuten EXPRESS currently provides delivery services for goods from Rakuten Direct, Inc., a Rakuten Group e-commerce service offering daily necessities, Rakuten Books, and some of the deliveries handled by the Rakuten Super Logistics service, which provides logistics for merchants on the Rakuten Ichiba marketplace. In addition to Tokyo’s 23 wards and the cities of Ichikawa, Funabashi, Urayasu, and Matsudo in Chiba Prefecture, the service now covers 14 cities in metropolitan Tokyo—with plans for further expansion in the future.

The expansion of Rakuten EXPRESS is part of Rakuten’s “One Delivery” vision for a comprehensive delivery service providing everything from storage to delivery for merchants on Rakuten Ichiba.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2018/1004_02.html

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by limiting the information that’s shown to other users — in addition to hiding phone numbers, it only reveals the profile photo and name, both of which the user can change at their discretion. Such anonymity isn’t so easy to achieve on Facebook.

venturebeat.com/2018/03/01/...itless-public-chat-communities/

www.forbes.com/sites/madhvimavadiya/2018/...nya/#4885a3be5158

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Deal could value Mideast competitor at more than $2 billion

Companies had previously discussed merging Mideast operations

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...i-ride-hailing-firm-careem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZST8vzdQcE

www.thenational.ae/business/...second-major-investor-1.172663

Indonesian ride-hailing giant Go-Jek is seeing its founding team, including CEO Nadiem Makarim, make attempts to sell their stakes in the unicorn amidst a rumoured recent funding round, according to people familiar with the matter.

One source KrASIA spoke to said that Go-Jek is raising a new round that would value the company at US$8 billion, while another told us that the company is looking at a pre-money US$10 billion valuation in the new round.

A US$10 billion valuation would catapult Go-Jek into the same valuation league with regional arch rival, Singapore-based Grab, which was valued at US$11 billion in its last round of financing.
Jakarta-based Go-Jek’s most recent US$1.5 billion round valued the company at around US$5 billion.

vulcanpost.com/647851/gojek-execs-sell-stakes/

techcrunch.com/2016/08/04/...nts-at-southeast-asia-expansion/

07 June 2018
Currencycloud, the leading international payment platform, today announced the launch of South Korea’s first remittance service by a non-bank, following its strategic partnership with the country’s leading credit card company, Hyundai Card.

The news builds on Currencycloud’s momentum in Asia-Pacific, with the UK-headquartered fintech signing 14 partnerships in the region in the past year and growing the volume of payments in the region by 66% in the past year since Q1 2017.

These partnerships include agreements to process business payments between the West and China with X-Transfer and to deliver local payouts in Europe with Geoswift. A strategic partnership has also been signed with EasyPay to facilitate the collections process for Hong Kong merchant service providers.

www.finextra.com/pressarticle/74244/...ip-with-hyundai/retail

Spanish delivery startup Glovo, which allows smartphone users to order anything they want from an app, has delivered 30,000 products in Bucharest in three months since it was officially launched on the local market.


Over 50,000 users downloaded the app and 800 delivery people covered the orders.
The app allows users to ask for the delivery of products from local partner-shops as well as documents or items forgotten at the office or at home.

The app aims to expand to other big cities in Romania as well.

www.romania-insider.com/...deliveries-three-months-bucharest/

Spanish startup Glovo, whose platform lets app users summon a gig economy worker to shop on their behalf, be it for a takeaway burger or a multi-bag supermarket shop, has bagged a €115 million (~$134M) Series C round of funding. Spanish press are reporting the round values Glovo’s business at more than €300M.

The lead investors in the Series C are Rakuten Capital, Seaya Ventures and Cathay Innovation, which had also invested in its Series B.

Commenting on the Series C, Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel, a managing partner at Rakuten Capital, told us: “Delivery is becoming increasingly global in reach. At Rakuten Capital, we are very excited about outstanding companies like Glovo, which continue to strike a mark by operating with utmost efficiency and filling an obvious gap in demand in Southern Europe, LatAm and beyond.

techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/...its-on-demand-delivery-business/

schon da:

www.codapay.com/company

Codapay is an alternative payment gateway in South-East Asia enabling merchants to accept payments using channels that every consumer can use, even if the consumers don’t have a credit or debit card. Coda has been able to help their merchants and merchant aggregators significantly increase their revenues and generate significant net-new transaction volumes respectively.

Coda Payments is a carrier billing provider that helps Telcos and Digital Content providers Collect Payment and Monetize their digital content respectively. It allows customers to use their mobile accounts to buy digital content on the web, mobile web and in-app.

CODA establishes direct IP-based connections and commercial agreements with mobile Telcos, and in turn provides a simple set of API’s to App Developers, Game Publishers, and Digital Content Providers who want to collect payment from customers.

www.blazeclan.com/coda-payments/

3 Dec 2013 · 2 min read
Coda Payments scores $2.3 million to make mobile payments without credit cards a cinch
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Coda Payments, a Singapore-based company working with telcos to implement easy payments for digital products, has secured $2.3 million in Series A funding from GMO Global Payment Fund, Rakuten Ventures, CyberAgent Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures, and Skype co-founder Toivo Annus.
With the money, Coda Payments plans to expand to Malaysia and Singapore. They’re also looking to hire a CFO and a product manager.

The company, which launched in March 2013, has already forged relationships with over 30 digital content providers from Asia. It is also partnering with two Indonesian telcos, Axis and Esia Mobile, each with 12 million subscribers.

www.techinasia.com/coda-payments-gets-series-a-funding

Rakuma-Fril GMS reaches $1.3bln U.S. in 2017
27 Feb 2018

Japan’s biggest e-retailer Rakuten Inc., recorded a 2.7 times jump in the combined gross merchandise sales (GMS) of its two consumer-to-consumer marketplaces in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2017, over the corresponding period a year earlier.

aimgroup.com/2018/02/27/...il-gms-reaches-1-3bln-u-s-in-2017/