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Industry Views: AI, chatbots and banking

Accenture's 2017 Banking Technology Vision report explores the role of AI in banking and customer engagement. It found that 78 per cent of bankers believe AI will revolutionise the way banks gather information and interact with customers. One of the key advantages highlighted was that whilst AI is increasingly automating…
MEF
April 19, 2017
MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News – April 18

What’s the news from the MEF community? Here’s your weekly round up of all the latest announcements from MEF members including product launches, partnerships, research insights and more… InTarget has cemented its position in the African and Middle Eastern mobile advertising market by exceeding the two billion monthly mobile ads…
MEF
April 18, 2017
News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up: 14th April

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Samsung’s new voice assistant won’t understand English when Galaxy S8 launches, Facebook Messenger now supports group payments, Telstra shares slump as TPG Telecom plans own mobile network and much more. Reports indicate that Samsung will delay the…
Sam Hill
April 14, 2017
5 minutes with

5 minutes with… Ubiquity

In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week CEO Dario Calogero introduces Ubiquity. Ubiquity Group is a global multi-channel messaging platform provider, focusing on ubiquitous communication for Large Enterprises, SME (small and medium-sized enterprises),…
Sam Hill
April 12, 2017
Opinions

Are corporate social networks the key to owning the customer?

Arthur Goldstuck, Founder of World Wide Worx, discusses the role social networks play in enterprise’s attempts to engage customers, and how MEF member Basebone has set out to redefine the relationship. When more than a quarter of a country’s total population is active on social networks, platforms like Facebook, Twitter…
Sam Hill
April 12, 2017
Enterprise Communications

Venmo: turning IOU into ‘how are you?’

US-based Venmo is a surprising thing: a social messaging app based around payments. Actually, says Venmo’s head of product Ben Mills, it’s not surprising at all. It was designed that way. MEF Minute's features editor, Tim Green caught up with Mills to discuss how the company has combined payments, messaging…
MEF
April 11, 2017
Interviews

Viacom: “Operators are the next wave of B2B content partners”

Viacom was active in mobile content right from the get-go – working with carriers to monetise brands like MTV. A lot has changed since. Brands went direct. But now Viacom is teaming up with operators again. The company's SVP Dan Reich explained why to MEF MInute... “Our priority is to…
MEF
April 10, 2017
MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News – April 10

What’s the news from the MEF community? Here’s your weekly round up of all the latest announcements from MEF members including product launches, partnerships, research insights and more… Indian merchants will get a smarter kind of POS device, thanks to a partnership between merchant acquirer Mswipe and authentication expert MYPINPAD…
MEF
April 10, 2017
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