Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… VICE has hired DOCOMO Digital to boost its Japanese business and Hiya is doing more to help iPhone users fight spam. Meanwhile Opera strikes a major blow in the digital privacy…

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Payments dominate MEF member news this week, with MasterCard and Paypal signing a historical agreement and Bango extending carrier billing on Windows 10. Others members featured in the round up include…

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Etisalat Nigeria is moving into m-health - it has just launched the Special Midwife Service targeted at pregnant women and new mums. And Orange has ramped up its m-money services in…

This week's big news from MEF members includes a significant new funding round for carrier billing giant Boku and the launch of an Alipay payment app from Wirecard in Europe. There's also news from Kaspersky, Deutsche Telekom and Mozilla... A consortium of investors from Silicon Valley and the UK have…

This week's announcements from MEF Members include the launch of a new SMS dashboard for enterprises by OpenMarket and a renewed push into the Asia mobile ad space by Telenor Digital. Enterprises that use SMS for customer comms now have a drastically improved tool for managing their campaigns. OpenMarket has…

Here are the latest announcements from MEF members across the mobile ecosystem. This week's posts include Bitbit's content deal with FC Barcelona, Wirecard's newest fiscal results, Boku's carrier billing deal with Bite and more. Mexico’s mobile VAS specialist Binbit has snapped up exclusive distribution of mobile content for F.C. Barcelona…

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Three years after trailing the tech for the first time, Barclays UK is to make available voice recognition for all UK customers. The move could hasten the demise of passwords.

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Mobile gamers can play over 100 titles as much as they want for a recurring weekly subscription, thanks to Upstream’s new portal. GAMEDOM is an HTML5-based gaming platform, which offers all-you-can-eat…

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… A new version of Firefox browser for iOS will cut processor use by 40 per cent and memory use by 30 per cent, says Mozilla. That’s so power-efficient, it help an…

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Indonesia’s financial institutions and retailers can easily accept EMV, NFC and bill payments thanks to Wirecard and Ingenico’s POS terminal partnership.