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MEF Member News round-up

MEF member news – September 5

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…
MEF
September 5, 2016
News Roundup

Weekly mobile news round-up 2nd September

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. EU order Appple to pay £11billion penalty, Facebook/Whatsapp privacy concerns, EU outlines net neutrality rules and much more. The European Commission has ordered Ireland to recoup 13 billion euros (£11bn) from Apple over a 'sweetheart' tax deal…
Sam Hill
September 2, 2016
Meffys

Meffys 2016 – 13th Annual Mobile Industry Awards open to entries

We are thrilled to announce the Meffys 2016 are open for entries. Now in their 13th amazing year the Meffys are the international mobile industry awards that set the benchmark for measuring commercial success and rewarding innovation across the global mobile ecosystem. If your company is pioneering mobile innovation or…
Sam Hill
September 1, 2016
Guest blogPrivacy

Understanding data protection: becoming a mobile privacy pro

With a broad raft of evolving legal requirements to meet, implementing practical steps for the handling of consumer's personal data can seem a daunting prospect. Here, Emily Hancock, VP of Legal at MEF Member Evernote lays out an invaluable roadmap for how to tackle this business critical issue, and see…
Sam Hill
August 30, 2016
MEF Member News round-up

MEF member news: August 30

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…
MEF
August 30, 2016
News Roundup

Weekly mobile news round-up 26th August

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Over 50 million watched the Olympics on Snapchat, Pokemon Go boosting other apps’ revenue, Samsung processes 100 million mobile payments and much more. Almost 50m people watched Olympics coverage on Snapchat over the course of the Rio…
Sam Hill
August 26, 2016
MusicOpinions

Your phone is the new piano, but a bit smaller

Mobile 'won' music. Only oldies use 'hi-fis' to listen to their favourites songs now. But mobile companies didn't win. Tim Green ponders what happened to Sony Ericsson PlayNow and the rest... Do you know when today’s music industry began? You might guess it was when the first sheet music was…
Tim Green
August 25, 2016
Meffys

Meffys 2015 winners 12 months on: F-Secure

With the 13th annual Meffys opening for entries on September 1st, we are taking a look at some of last year’s winners to find out what the accolade meant to them and what they’ve been up to since they celebrated their win. This week, we speak to F-Secure and Executive…
Sam Hill
August 25, 2016
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