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Reducing mobile payment friction to build music revenues in Nigeria

Nigeria has a flourishing music scene. But, thanks to rampant piracy, its musicians don’t make the money they deserve. Now, MTN’s and Huawei’s Music+ service is giving Nigeria’s music-mad population a viable alternative to cheap illegal CDs. MEF’s features editor Tim Green recently interviewed the service’s marketing manager Ebere Nzewi…
Tim Green
June 21, 2016
InterviewsVAS

Spotlight on: Mahindra Comviva

Mobile money is many different things. In our Executive Interview series, Srinivas Nidugondi, senior VP at m-money specialist Mahindra Comviva, talks to Tim Green about bringing mobile payments, savings and loans to Zimbabweans - while reinventing the ATM in mature markets...
Tim Green
May 12, 2016
InterviewsMusic

Spotlight on… PubMatic

Last year, Pubmatic commissioned a market study by Forrester, which predicted that digital display ad spent would soar from $20 billion in 2015 to $38 billion by 2019. Hurrah! Boom times ahead. But the big question is who will pocket the money? Will it be the publishers? The ones who…
Sam Hill
April 27, 2016
InterviewsMusic

Spotlight On: RealNetworks

RealNetworks is on a mission to organise the world’s smartphone photos and videos. Its RealTimes app intelligently creates slick movie ’stories’ based around the same event. In our Executive Interview series, Max Pellegrini told Tim Green about the huge potential of this ‘personalisation’ product…
Tim Green
April 13, 2016
Country Focusm-commerce

China market focus: mobile payments

China's mobile payment market is booming. Thanks to Alipay and Tencent, local consumers are very happy to make payments by phone - not just online but in store too. Now, new entrants like Apple and Samsung want to provide some competition...
Sam Hill
March 16, 2016
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