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The Barclays Accelerator: Meet the Start ups

Last month 10 financial technology companies joined the new cohort of the Barclays Accelerator (London) Programme in partnership with Techstars. MEF members will have the opportunity to meet the start-ups at the 2nd Innovation Meetup to be hosted at Rise London on 30th March – see a preview of the…
Sam Hill
February 29, 2016
Opinions

All of MWC 2016 shrunk into 15 takeaways

VR is great to use but tough to sell. No one cares about watches. You can shove the new wearable idea in your ear. Phones have a problem – they're too awesome. Tim Green went to MWC16 and he's boiled down four days of noise into 15 easily digestible nuggets...
Tim Green
February 25, 2016
News Roundup

MWC news round-up: Day 3

Here's all the news announcements from Day 3 at Mobile World Congress. Today, biometric firm demo's the fallibility of smartphone fingerprint scanners using plasticine, Fiat Chrysler brings AR to its marketing, Xiomi unveils Mi5, Visa Ready programme extends to more connected devices and much more.
Tim Banks
February 25, 2016
News Roundup

MWC news round-up: Day 2

Here's the news from day two (Tuesday) at Mobile World Congress that will shift the mobile agenda throughout 2016. Cisco and Ericsson partner for 5G, Visa and Mastercard announce new ways to pay (including with your connected clothes or a selfie), BMW cars become moving relay stations to improve mobile…
Tim Banks
February 24, 2016
News Roundup

MWC news round-up: Day 1

This week the mobile world is at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Here we bring together the news stories from Day 1 that are shaping the mobile industry. Today, Samsung launches its waterproof S7 and S7 edge, Sony puts an AI assistant in your ear, LG goes modular with its…
Tim Banks
February 23, 2016
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: Feb 22

How big will the global mPOS market become? How do Apple Music's numbers compare with Spotify's? How much money is moving around the Venmo P2P payments app? 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
February 22, 2016
News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up: 19 February 2016

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Apple takes on FBI over customers rights to privacy, $4 Indian smartphone set to launch, Mobile drives South African ecommerce boom and much more.
Sam Hill
February 19, 2016
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