Consumers in mobile first countries are desperately hungry for digital services. But they can be held back by the cost of data. Opera is tackling this with its Opera Max product, which has won the Innovation in Mobile First Markets Meffy for 2016… It’s ironic that the countries where mobile…

Everyone is watching the development of chat bots and conversational commerce. US-based Kasisto is right at the heart of the space. It has launched its own banking bot and is helping others do the same. Kasisto won the 2016 Innovation in FinTech Meffy... The financial services space is fascinated by…

MEF Minute readers won’t need reminding that mobile is the most personal, universal and immediate of all media. People love this. Sadly, so do fraudsters, scammers and opportunistic marketers. As phone penetration has passed 100 per cent in many regions, unwelcome calls and texts have proliferated. Hiya Mobile says from…

Turkcell's My Dream Companion has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of visually impaired people. It's a worthy winner of the 2016 Meffy award for Innovation in Social Impact... With a small amount of modification, the smartphone can be a life-transforming tool for blind and visually impaired people. Turkcell…

OpenMarket and Virgin Trains scooped the Meffy 2016 award for Innovation in Mobile Messaging. They won for "Project Surge' - a delightfully simple but effective solution to congestion at Euston train station... Anyone who has ever waited for a train will recognise the mass stampede when platform number is confirmed…

TV viewers – especially younger ones – can barely watch without using their smartphones to comment on and share what they see on screen. Orange TV Clipping helps them do it. The tool has just won the 2016 Innovation in Content award… “For Millennials, watching TV without a smartphone is…

Here’s a selection of photos from the 13th annual Meffy supported by Mozilla and BIP which took place in London last week. This year’s ceremony featured a new format with an interactive demo zone to let the guests get up-close and personal with some of the finalists and the winners…

Last night, MEF announced the 2016 winners of its 13th annual Meffys international awards which measure commercial success and recognise innovation across the mobile ecosystem. Entries from 30 countries were received across the nine award categories with outstanding examples of emerging technologies, apps, products and services in mobile across all…