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News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up: 18th March

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Privacy Shield Pact detailed.. Google to update mobile search… The mobile payments war in China and much much more. U.S. officials will travel to Brussels this week to drum up support for a transatlantic data transfer pact…
Sam Hill
March 18, 2016
Opinions

Elvis cushions and the end of retail

What wouldn't you buy from your phone? Not much, says Tim Green whose discovery of an Elvis cushion in a junk shop led him to consider the future of shopping. Last weekend was Mother’s Day in the UK. To mark this occasion my lovely wife and I took a bracing…
Tim Green
March 17, 2016
Country Focusm-commerce

China market focus: mobile payments

China's mobile payment market is booming. Thanks to Alipay and Tencent, local consumers are very happy to make payments by phone - not just online but in store too. Now, new entrants like Apple and Samsung want to provide some competition...
Sam Hill
March 16, 2016
MEF Connects MWCMEFTV

MEF meets the members @MWC 2016

Every year at MWC in Barcelona, we visit as many of our exhibiting members as possible to catch up with their latest news and announcements, get their views on how the mobile ecosystem has evolved in the past year, and where they see it going in the future. Meet three…
Sam Hill
March 16, 2016
m-commerceMobile Payments

China’s FinTech revolution [infographic]

In 1997, Bill Gates said, “We need banking but we don’t need banks.” In other words its the FinTech services that support the ways in which consumers and businesses transact that are paving the way forward. For most, mobile devices are the centrepiece of the disruption and with that disruption,…
MEF
March 15, 2016
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: March 14th

Does the future of the tablet market belong to detachables? How many Brits use ad blockers? How fast is the growth in demand for smartphones from the enterprise? 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
March 14, 2016
MEF Connects MWCMEFTV

MEF meets the members @MWC 2016

Every year at MWC in Barcelona, we visit as many of our exhibiting members as possible to catch up with their latest news and announcements, get their views on how the mobile ecosystem has evolved in the past year, and where they see it going in the future. This week…
Sam Hill
March 14, 2016
Guest blog

Payment will be everything – everything must be able to pay

MEF Member Bango share their insights on this year’s Mobile World Congress, where over 100,000 attendees descended on Barcelona to sample the latest developments in mobile Tech. VP of Product Marketing Andy Bovingdon gives us his thoughts on the show and check out an interview with CEO Ray Anderson from…
Sam Hill
March 9, 2016
MEF