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Spotlight on DOCOMO Digital

DOCOMO Digital is a different kind of mobile commerce provider: operator-owned and Japanese. But it believes this unique background gives it a unique advantage. The firm's CEO Hiroyuki Sato explained why to MEF Minute... Long serving MEF members will remember well the companies that essentially kickstarted the mobile content and…
Tim Green
July 6, 2016
InterviewsMusicVAS

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
MEFTVMobile Advertising

Mobile advertising in China is closing in on America

Rangar Kruse, CEO of Smaato shares insights into the state of mobile advertising in China, and reveals that China may soon overtake the US as the highest spending advertising market. We caught up with Ragnar at GMIC Beijing. According to the Smaato Global Trends Report, the United States consistently takes…
Sam Hill
June 17, 2016
10 things

10 things you need to know about India’s mobile market

MEF Member Bango takes a deep dive into the Indian mobile ecosystem, discovering a thriving, dynamic market. Here Josh Spoelstra shares 10 top tips to understanding mobile in India. New data from GSMA states that India will be the fastest growing mobile market in the world between now and the…
Sam Hill
June 7, 2016
Interviews

Spotlight on Syniverse

Every day Syniverse talks to enterprises and brands. Hundreds of them. In fact, the ‘global transaction processor’ connects more than 1,500 companies in nearly 200 countries. MEF spoke to CMO Mary Clark about the importance of trust, security and privacy in the brand consumer relationship.
Tim Green
June 2, 2016
5 minutes with

5 Minutes with… Digi.me

In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week Founder and Executive Chairman Julian Ranger introduces Digi.me What does Digi.me do? Digi.me enables the Internet of Me, where the individual is at the centre of…
Sam Hill
June 2, 2016
Enterprise CommunicationsInterviewsPrivacy

Spotlight on: Hiya

The best way to fight back against phishing is to help people to know they are being phished. So says Stanley Kim, general manager of communications experience at Hiya. He talked to MEF about the power of ‘caller ID’ to combat phone spam… Last summer, a study revealed that email…
Tim Green
May 25, 2016
MEF AsiaMEFTV

Views from the showfloor: MEFTV at GMIC Beijing

MEF Minute was at this year's Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing among the 25,000 mobile industry executives, entrepreneurs, developers and investors on the show floor over 3 days. We asked exhibiting MEF members and speakers from our own MEF Connects China event held just before GMIC, including Google and…
Sam Hill
May 25, 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
MEF