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Spotlight on: The Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia is on a mission to spread knowledge across the world. It actively wants partnerships. But only if there’s no money involved. Tim Green talked to Wikimedia’s Smriti Gupta about the organisation’s unique proposition… If anything illustrates the minor miracle of Wikipedia, it’s the remarkable story of Ram Prasad Joshi.

Tim GreenApril 6, 2016

ID & Data Interviews Opinion

Industry views: Should Apple unlock iPhones for the security services?

Last week the FBI requested that Apple unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the killers in the December mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. We asked MEF members and the wider mobile community for their thoughts.

MEFFebruary 23, 2016

Connectivity & Wholesale Content & Advertising Interviews

Industry views: Which services will sit behind the wheel of the connected car?

Last month's CES in Las Vegas saw many of the large automotive firms showcase their vision of the connected car. A year before at CES 2015, Mark Fields, CEO of Ford, said: “We’re thinking of ourselves as a mobility company and not only a car and truck company. We want…

MEFFebruary 16, 2016

Interviews MEF Data Opinion

10 facts about the Bangladesh mobile advertising market

Kaymun Amin, CEO and Founder of MEF Member VuMobile takes a deep dive into the Bangladesh market, explaining why it presents such an exciting opportunity for advertisers, and how to maximise a mobile campaign’s effectiveness. 1) Bangladesh’s has a mobile internet base of 50million and 1.5billion impressions per month traffic.

MEFJanuary 26, 2016

Content & Advertising Interviews Opinion

Value added services in Asia-Pacific: part 2

Asia-Pacific is widely acknowledged as one of the largest and fastest growing markets for mobile value-added services (VAS) in the world. As a region it is mobile first and as such represents a major opportunity for the service providers.

Tim BanksJanuary 19, 2016

Interviews Messaging Channels

Industry views: how will mobile messaging fare in 2016?

Mobile messaging is increasingly the cornerstone of business to consumer communications. Whether it’s to authenticate a user of a service, a notification or as part of a marketing push, messaging is often the mission critical part of a growing number of mobile consumer services. There are however threats to the…

Tim BanksJanuary 5, 2016

Interviews

Industry views: how will consumer trust in mobile shape up in 2016?

Consumer trust in mobile is fundamental to operating within a sustainable ecosystem. MEF's recent Consumer Trust Summit highlighted the main issues with much of the discussion given over to developing best practice that fosters transparency in what companies do with user data.

Tim BanksDecember 22, 2015

Interviews

Retail focus: the current state of mobile retail in 10 statements

How important is click and collect? What’s happening with showrooming? Has the public embraced contactless? MEF Minute looks at how retail and mobile are intersecting in 2015...Mobile payments comprise over a quarter of global online payments Stats from Dutch payments processor Adyen say mobile’s total share of online payments is…

MEFDecember 16, 2015

Content & Advertising Interviews Payments & Commerce

Industry views: mobile money predictions for 2016

2015 has seen some landmark announcements around mobile money. Proximity payments from Google, Apple and Samsung are slowly taking off, direct operator billing is increasingly popular as an app store (and in-app) payment channel option and growth markets continue to realise economic and social benefits from people transacting via their…

Tim BanksDecember 11, 2015

Content & Advertising Interviews

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…

MEFDecember 1, 2015

Spotlight on: The Wikimedia Foundation

Industry views: Should Apple unlock iPhones for the security services?

Industry views: Which services will sit behind the wheel of the connected car?

10 facts about the Bangladesh mobile advertising market

Value added services in Asia-Pacific: part 2

Industry views: how will mobile messaging fare in 2016?

Industry views: how will consumer trust in mobile shape up in 2016?

Retail focus: the current state of mobile retail in 10 statements

Industry views: mobile money predictions for 2016

Connecting the African mobile ecosystem

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