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Global Mobile news, 20th July

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Google hit with €4.3bn Android fine from EU, WhatsApp limits message forwarding to reduce spam & misinformation, phone data usage growth slows in the US, and much more… Google has been fined a record €4.34bn ($5bn; £3.9bn)…
Sam Hill
July 20, 2018
MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member news, 16th July

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… RealNetworks, a leader in digital media software and services, today announced SAFRâ„¢, a highly accurate, machine learning facial recognition platform, architected to economically scale with high performance and rapid processing to…
Sam Hill
July 16, 2018
News Roundup

Weekly mobile news round-up, July 13th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Facebook under fresh political pressure as UK watchdog, Zimbabwe’s first election without Mugabe turns into a data privacy minefield, HTC develops ‘blockchain phone’, and much more… The UK’s privacy watchdog revealed yesterday that it intends to fine…
Sam Hill
July 13, 2018
Digital IdentityOpinions

The four noble truths of digital sovereignty

Michael Becker, an expert advisor on identity & personal information management solutions, shares a unique insight into what it really means to participate in the digital economy, and how we as consumers, can balance the risks and many rewards. People reap tremendous value and convenience when participating in the digital…
Sam Hill
July 12, 2018
MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member news, 9th July

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Upstream, a leader of the mobile internet revolution in high growth markets, has today revealed that new low-end Android smartphone devices being sold to consumers in developing markets, many of whom…
Sam Hill
July 9, 2018
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Global Mobile News Roundup, 6th July

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. US declares China Mobile risk to national security, research claims mobile apps are secretly recording your screen, Is GDPR a blockchain killer..? and much more. The US government has declared another major Chinese telecom company a possible…
Sam Hill
July 6, 2018
Guest blogMEF LatAmRegulation

Brazil is on the verge of its new Data Privacy Law

Rafael Pellon, MEF LatAm advisor and partner at Focaccia, Amaral, Salvia, Pellon & Lamonica Advogados discusses the ongoing debate in the Brazilian legislature surrounding the adoption of GDPR-like rules governing data privacy for the country. At the end of May the House of Representatives in Brazil approved the Bill of…
Sam Hill
July 3, 2018
MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News, 2nd July

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Bango, the Cambridge-based mobile commerce company, has expanded the use of its billing integration technology, enabling customers to sign-up for Amazon Prime Video in the UK through a leading mobile operator.…
Sam Hill
July 2, 2018
MEF Webinars & Workshops

MEF Connects Digital – what’s up with the blockchain?

During the mid-nineties, consumers and investors discovered the idea of ‘interactivity’. Before long, companies started to add the word ‘interactive’ to their names. It was good for business. Soon after, they did it again with ‘dotcom’. Is there a equivalent magic word for the 2010s? How about blockchain? Don’t scoff.…
Sam Hill
June 29, 2018
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