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Mobile market stats round-up: 14 December

Singapore leads the world in smartphone adoption, how many wearables will be in use in 2016, in-store payments in the US for Black Friday. All this, plus many more mobile related reports and data points in this week’s MEF market stats round up… Tech-centric Singapore has the highest smartphone ownership…
Sam Hill
December 14, 2015
News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up: 11 December

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Are universal logins the next big money spinner for operators, Wal-Mart enters the mobile payments space, consumers are embracing digital health and wellness devices and Apple Watch 2 to be unveiled at March event.. plus many more…
Sam Hill
December 11, 2015
Privacy

Exploring consumer trust in mobile with Mozilla

At the inaugural European Consumer Trust Summit recently held in London, industry experts, regulators and startups gathered to discuss the issues surrounding consumer trust in mobile and how best to build trust in the mobile platform. MEFTV spoke with Chris Riley, head of Public Policy at Mozilla, a member of…
Sam Hill
December 10, 2015
Opinions

Estonia’s big idea: nation as a service

Identity is the online world’s biggest problem. If only we could prove who we are, we could make things happen really fast and very safely. So is the world ready for ‘sign in with Estonia’? Are you Estonian? Like the composer Arvo Pärt or the founders of TransferWise Taavet Hinrikus…
Sam Hill
December 10, 2015
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: 7 December

1.4 mil smartphones sold in 2015: global market slowdown, proximity payments to triple in value and 1.1 billion fintech customers will use mobile biopmetrics in 2020. Get your weekly dose of mobile reports and data in our global mobile market stats round up…
Sam Hill
December 7, 2015
5 minutes with

5 minutes with… OLA mobile

In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week, Michael Tomlins, CEO, introduces Infomedia Group subsidiary, Humley. OLA mobile is a global Mobile Performance company specialized in User Acquisition focused on CPA (Cost per Acquisition)…
Sam Hill
December 7, 2015
News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up: 4 December

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week… 34% of Thanksgiving & Black Friday sales were mobile, Swatch and Visa team up for wearable payments, Blackberry into Africa, out of Pakistan… plus much more.
Sam Hill
December 4, 2015
Guest blogMusicOpinions

Native advertising’s giant leap into mobile

As the debate rages on about ad blockers and the future of mobile advertising, Jay Hinman, VP of Marketing at Smaato explores how creative native ads remain one of the most effective tools in a mobile publishers arsenal. With all the hullabaloo around mobile ad blocking cresting in recent weeks,…
Sam Hill
December 2, 2015
AfricaIndustry ViewsMusic

Connecting the African mobile ecosystem

Last month, MEF hosted the fourth annual MEF Connects Africa during AfricaCom week in Cape Town, where MEF members and guests gathered to discuss the African mobile ecosystem an the opportunities and challenges it faces. We asked some of the attendees for their take on the mobile situation in Africa…
Sam Hill
December 1, 2015
MEF