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What is it with all these sponsored posts about plastic surgery nightmares? They’re everywhere. Tim Green (yet to go under the knife) is not impressed… Do you know the one simple trick for fighting tummy flab? Or which child stars have grown up ugliest? Or who had the 28 worst…
Sam Hill
January 21, 2016
MEF AsiaTech Focus

Indonesia: The world home of BBM

Indonesians, in common with other Asia Pac mobile users, really love chat apps. Indeed, an InMobi report from 2014 revealed that 97 per cent of mobile users in Indonesia access messaging apps multiple times a day. Surprisingly, perhaps, BlackBerry’s BBM remains their number one choice.
Tim Banks
January 20, 2016
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: 18 January

Fingerprint scanners driving the biometrics industry, IoT projects driving mobile devs, VR revenue set to pass $1bil, & the 4 billion unconnected. These and many more mobile related data points and reports in this week’s MEF market stats round up…
Sam Hill
January 18, 2016
MEF AsiaOpinionsVAS

Value added services in Asia-Pacific: part 1

The mobile value added services market is pegged to grow to a value of more than $7oo billion worldwide by 2020, and its the Asia-Pacific region that is the largest and fastest growing global region. In this first part of two-part special insights article on VAS in the Asia-Pacific region,…
Tim Banks
January 15, 2016
News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up: 15 January

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. report finds 90% of mobile health & finance apps vulnerable, Apple controls half of the smartwatch market, Google hires official VR boss and US bank customers officially prefer mobile to branches.
Sam Hill
January 15, 2016
MEF Asia

[Infographic] Digital youth in South East Asia

When you blend two trends - digital natives (kids) with mobile first markets - the result is a young demographic that is highly mobile literate and a strong indication of the mid-range future of mobile. This infographic from youth orientated marketing platform, SuperAwesome explores how these two super trends affect…
Tim Banks
January 14, 2016
MEF