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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…

MEFMay 23, 2016

Opinions

In-store mobile wallets: the huge market with no winners (yet)

This week the MCX abandoned its mission to be the US's primary mobile payment wallet. But who had defeated it? Well, here's the weird thing, argues Tim Green. No one. In August 2012, a group of the US’s largest retailers got together and decided enough was enough. They were sick…

Tim GreenMay 20, 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…

MEFMay 20, 2016

Enterprise Communications

The cost of fraud in the A2P SMS ecosystem, a back-of-the-envelope calculation

Fraud costs businesses and consumers money - but the size of the loss is often hard to quantify. As MEF launches a new Messaging Initative, Rob Malcolm, SVP of Corporate Development at Mblox, one of the 25 programme founders, explores what fraudulent activity is really costing the A2P SMS ecosystem...…

MEFMay 19, 2016

Country Focus Enterprise Communications Regulation

Brazil focus: the government’s on-off war with WhatsApp

Brazilian authorities have twice blocked access to WhatsApp, infuriating millions of app users. The issue illustrates the ongoing tension between the desire to protect personal privacy and also to pursue criminals. When nearly everyone has a mobile computer (smartphone) and a data connection and a messaging app, it means everyone…

MEFMay 19, 2016

Enterprise Communications

MEF launches new programme to tackle fraud and grow mobile messaging market

MEF has today 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. 25 companies have developed the Framework as part of a two-year programme launched in Q4…

MEFMay 17, 2016

Mobile Payments

The Global Mobile Money Landscape update

The mobile money landscape continues to evolve bringing new and increasingly convenient ways to purchase items in-store and online or transfer funds P2P. Check out the latest developments below in the mobile money landscape graphic. Defined by MEF's Global Working Group it categorises the ecosystem into in-store payments, online payments,…

MEFMay 16, 2016

Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: May 16

Is consumer appetite for apps on the wane? Has contactless spending finally gone mainstream? How much is the UK market for wearables worth? You’ll find the answers to these and many more mobile data related questions in this week’s MEF market stats round up…

MEFMay 16, 2016

News Roundup

Weekly mobile news round-up: 13 May

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week... Three O2 deal gets EU block, YouTube gets in to chat, Vodacom shuts down M-Pesa in SA and much more.

Tim BanksMay 13, 2016

Opinions

‘Alexa, what comes after the smartphone? And is it you?’

Amazon Echo started out as a great way to order recipe ingredients. But it might just herald the start of a post-smartphone world. Tim Green wonders whether the next new digital thing might begin in the kitchen... Shortly after the iPad was launched, a raft of videos went onto YouTube…

Tim GreenMay 13, 2016

Mobile market stats round-up: May 24

In-store mobile wallets: the huge market with no winners (yet)

Weekly mobile news round-up: 20 May

The cost of fraud in the A2P SMS ecosystem, a back-of-the-envelope calculation

Brazil focus: the government’s on-off war with WhatsApp

MEF launches new programme to tackle fraud and grow mobile messaging market

The Global Mobile Money Landscape update

Mobile market stats round-up: May 16

Weekly mobile news round-up: 13 May

‘Alexa, what comes after the smartphone? And is it you?’

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