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Facebook is leading the way in mobile disruption

Facebook is the most potent force in driving change across the mobile ecosystem. That's according to co-founder & CEO of Exicon Stefan Rust, who here charts Facebook's impressive catalogue of innovation and disruption.. After digesting some of the insights from Barcelona during Mobile World Congress, it's becoming more and more…
Sam Hill
April 12, 2016
mhealth

Digital health tech is disrupting how care is delivered [infographic]

Wearables and smartphones are changing the delivery of healthcare, offering more patient centric solutions, both in care delivery and diagnosis, and the possibility of saving significant expenditure. A Gartner, Inc. report forecasts that 274.6 million wearable electronic devices will be sold worldwide in 2016, an increase of 18.4 percent from…
Sam Hill
April 11, 2016
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: April 11

What's in store for global smartphone sales? How much are Kenyans spending via mobile money? Why don't Brit shoppers trust contactless? 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 11, 2016
News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up: 8th April

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Whatsapp switch on encryption for a billion customers, Facebook recommend businesses to chat to in messenger, LINE is under investigation for virtual currency and much more.
Sam Hill
April 8, 2016
Event

MEF’s Innovation meetup with The Barclays Accelerator

Last week we hosted the 2nd MEF Innovation meetup with Barclays Accelerator (London) in partnership with Techstars, hosted at Rise London, an open innovation space designed to support start-ups and entrepreneurs. Ten innovative startups on the bleeding edge of Fintech disruption, presented their business concepts ahead of networking and matchmaking…
Sam Hill
April 6, 2016
Interviews

Spotlight on: The Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia is on a mission to spread knowledge across the world. It actively wants partnerships. But only if there’s no money involved. Tim Green talked to Wikimedia’s Smriti Gupta about the organisation’s unique proposition… If anything illustrates the minor miracle of Wikipedia, it’s the remarkable story of Ram Prasad Joshi.
Tim Green
April 6, 2016
5 minutes withMEFTV

5 minutes with… iProov

In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week, Co-founder & CEO (and Global Chairman of MEF) Andrew Bud introduces iProov.
Sam Hill
April 5, 2016
MEF