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News Roundup

Weekly mobile news round-up: 27 May

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Microsoft backs away from smartphone business, Tim Cook on Iphone's expense in India, fraud in gaming costs $6.3bil and much more. Microsoft is signalling the end of its Nokia experiment today. After acquiring Nokia's phone business for…
Sam Hill
May 27, 2016
Enterprise CommunicationsIndustry Views

Industry views: A2P messaging and fraud

Last week MEF published the A2P Messaging Fraud Framework – the first release from its new industry programme The Future of Messaging. It identifies 11 distinct fraud types that impact the global messaging business today. The Future of Messaging Working Group consists of 25 founding members including mobile operators, messaging…
Sam Hill
May 26, 2016
Enterprise CommunicationsInterviewsPrivacy

Spotlight on: Hiya

The best way to fight back against phishing is to help people to know they are being phished. So says Stanley Kim, general manager of communications experience at Hiya. He talked to MEF about the power of ‘caller ID’ to combat phone spam… Last summer, a study revealed that email…
Tim Green
May 25, 2016
MEF AsiaMEFTV

Views from the showfloor: MEFTV at GMIC Beijing

MEF Minute was at this year's Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing among the 25,000 mobile industry executives, entrepreneurs, developers and investors on the show floor over 3 days. We asked exhibiting MEF members and speakers from our own MEF Connects China event held just before GMIC, including Google and…
Sam Hill
May 25, 2016
Enterprise Communications

Don’t forget about good old SMS!

Fresh from her recent talk at the B2B Marketing Expo on how to leverage SMS to make you a smarter marketer, Gillian Hughes, Vice President of Corporate Sales at Veoo shares her thoughts on the renaissance of SMS and how it is proving to be an effective channel for many…
Sam Hill
May 24, 2016
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: May 24

What's happening in the battle between Android and iOS? Which country dominates European digital spend? How much more lucrative are apps than the mobile web? You’ll find the answers to these and many more mobile data related questions in this week’s MEF market stats round up…
Sam Hill
May 23, 2016
News Roundup

Weekly mobile news round-up: 20 May

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Microsoft offloads Nokia for $350M, Android Pay debuts in UK, wearables market up 67% worldwide and much more. Microsoft is selling the feature phone business it acquired from Nokia back in 2013 to a subsidiary of Chinese…
Sam Hill
May 20, 2016
MEF