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Industry views: Facebook’s chatbot launch

Last week Facebook announced the launch of its bot platform for Messenger, opening up an API to allow developers to create bots so that people chat with organisations to get information, answer questions and transact. This means that by combining AI and natural language processing, users will simply instruct messenger…
MEF
April 21, 2016
Interviews

Spotlight on: Opera

In our continuing Executive Interview series, MEF Features Editor Tim Green speaks to Sergey Lossev of Opera about the great success of their mobile web browser, Opera Mini, and how their new product Opera Max is set to further tackle the issue of high data consumption. For ten years now,…
Tim Green
April 20, 2016
MEF AsiaOpinions

China’s perfect mobile storm

With the inaugural MEF Connects China only a few weeks away, Rimma Perelmuter, CEO at MEF, takes a look at the staggering growth of the country’s unique mobile industry. As a mobile market, China has grown rapidly to establish itself as a global mobile industry leader with a sophisticated mobile…
Rimma Perelmuter
April 19, 2016
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: April 18

What lies ahead for the SIM market? How is India’s GSM subscriber base? What is the market opportunity for healthcare wearables? 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
April 18, 2016
News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up: 15th April

This week.. The Facebook bots are coming – news and reactions, White House not sharing iPhone unlocking method, mobile /wearable payments to top $95bn in 2018 plus more global news you may have missed..
Sam Hill
April 15, 2016
Opinions

Want to talk to a brand? There’s a bot for that

Facebook wants to replace apps, call centres and maybe even websites with chat bots. Tim Green wonders if this is a new era for the internet – and if it’s a good idea for one company to own it… This week the manager of Southampton football club confirmed he sends…
Tim Green
April 14, 2016
InterviewsMusic

Spotlight On: RealNetworks

RealNetworks is on a mission to organise the world’s smartphone photos and videos. Its RealTimes app intelligently creates slick movie ’stories’ based around the same event. In our Executive Interview series, Max Pellegrini told Tim Green about the huge potential of this ‘personalisation’ product…
Tim Green
April 13, 2016
MEF