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Facebank: 7 key facts to understand how Libra could change payments

Here are seven key points from MEF on what the recent announcement from Facebook on mobile payments means for the industry and customers. Facebook announced Calibra in June 2019, a new subsidiary to provide financial services via the Libra Network – Facebook is becoming a bank and using a blockchain…

MEFJune 25, 2019

Messaging Channels

Rich Business Messaging Guidelines launched

MEF has launched its Rich Business Messaging Best Practice Guidelines at ITW 2019, in Atlanta. Developed by participants of MEF’s Future of Messaging Progamme the guidelines aim to help accelerate the adoption of RCS for application-to-person (A2P) and person-to-application (P2A) messaging.

MEFJune 24, 2019

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News, 24th June

Get the latest news, interviews and announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… 3Cinteractive, the leading provider of rich communication services, announced a licensing agreement with AI technology provider and systems integrator Automagi to deploy RCS business messaging in Japan through…

MEFJune 24, 2019

News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up, June 21st

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week... everything you need to know about Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra, shares surge as slack joins the stock market, almost all mobile apps vulnerable to malware and much more. Facebook is planning to launch a cryptocurrency it hopes will…

MEFJune 21, 2019

Content & Advertising Interviews

Mobile Ad Fraud and safeguarding the app ecosystem

eMarketer predicts that in 2019 mobile ad spend will surpass $93 billion — a full $20 billion more than what it expects will be spent on TV, but one of the biggest challenges to mobile advertising growth has been invalid traffic and mobile ad fraud concerns.

MEFJune 20, 2019

Connectivity & Wholesale MEF Webinars & Workshops

Mobile IoT – Are you Cybersecurity Ready?

The Mobile IoT market is set for rapid growth over the coming years and providers are concentrating more on rapid widescale deployment with security often being a later consideration. This is not a tenable position as IoT applications can be mission critical and security needs to be at the forefront…

MEFJune 18, 2019

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News, 17th June

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… ForgeRock U.S. Consumer Data Breach Report: Data breaches cost $654 billion in 2018, 2.8 billion consumer records exposed ForgeRock the leading platform provider of digital identity management solutions, today announced the…

MEFJune 17, 2019

News Roundup

Global Mobile news round-up, June 14th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world.This week... Facebook launches app that will pay users for their data, European mobile traffic mysteriously routed through China for two hours, 5G sign-ups outpace 4G’s launch in South Korea and much more.

MEFJune 14, 2019

Syntonic co-founders Gary Greenbaum and Rahul Agarwal

Interviews

Member Interview: Syntonic

MEFTV speaks to Syntonic co-founders Gary Greenbaum and Rahul Agarwal about getting carriers into the app economy, and their three new carrier services they announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress. “Mobile carriers are not participating in the ‘app-economy’, which is about twice the size of the mobile data business…

MEFJune 12, 2019