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Weekly mobile news round-up 22nd July

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Japan buys ARM for $32 billion, Apple is making billions from Pokemon Go, China's gamers are spending more on iOS than Americans, and much more. Japan's Softbank has agreed to acquire ARM Holdings, the giant U.K. semiconductor…
MEF
July 22, 2016
Opinions

Would you like an app with your pint?

Why should a bar owner take a punt on your mobile payment app if no customers are using it? A knotty problem. But still the startups come. Tim Green ponders a very overcrowded market… I got a sobering email this week. It was from DropletPay, a British startup with an…
Tim Green
July 21, 2016
InterviewsVAS

Spotlight on: Nazara

Nazara is targeting India's hundreds of millions of gamers with popular local IP and the best global brands. But it also has ambitious global plans. In our continuing Executive Interview series, Chirag Shah, Head of India and APAC business at Nazara, explained all to MEF Minute... A few weeks ago,…
MEF
July 20, 2016
Privacy

Consumer trust: real risks, richer rewards

MEF’s recent Consumer Trust Summit in San Francisco saw mobile privacy experts and regulators from the US and Europe gather to discuss the issues of privacy and security in mobile. Over the coming weeks we will be sharing a series of podcasts and in-depth analysis on the issues discussed. Here…
Sam Hill
July 19, 2016
Stats Roundup

Stats special: global messaging apps – part 2

In part one of our guide to ‘OTT apps' we laid out the stats behind how messenger apps are changing the way the world communicates – and re-shaping the mobile market in the process. Now as part of MEF’s Future of Messaging programme, we take a closer look at each…
Sam Hill
July 19, 2016
MEF Member News round-up

MEF member news: July 18

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Millions of MasterCard card holders can now tap to pay in store direct from the phones. Masterpass was previously available as a digital wallet for online purchases, but now the card…
MEF
July 18, 2016
News Roundup

Weekly mobile news round-up 15th July

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Google plans to train mobile app developers in India, Japan's Line aims to raise £1 billion in IPO, the iOS App Store exceeds $71 billion, and much more. Google has unveiled a slew of initiatives to educate…
MEF
July 15, 2016
Stats Roundup

Stats special: global messaging apps – part 1

Messenger apps are changing the way the world communicates - and re-shaping the mobile market in the process. As part of MEF's Future of Messaging programme, here is part one of an essential guide to 'OTT apps'... ‘OTT’ messenger apps emerged in a sudden burst at the start of the…
MEF
July 14, 2016
Opinions

Pokémon Go: how Nintendo ignored then won mobile gaming

Nintendo is a stubborn company. For years it said a big ‘no’ to mobile games. But when it finally relented. its game sent millions of people into a frenzy. Tim Green reflects the obstinacy that gave rise to Pokémon Go... By now, you’ll know all about Pokémon Go. Unless you’re…
Tim Green
July 14, 2016
MEF LatAm

The WhatsApp nation

Rafael Pellon, MEF LatAm Board Member and partner at Focaccia, Amaral, Salvia, Pellon & Lamonica, here explores the ongoing issues surrounding the repeated blocking of hugely popular Whatsapp across Brazil, and the knock on effects this has had across the region and the mobile app ecosystem. Almost a month since…
Sam Hill
July 13, 2016
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