Every week, MEF Minute find the latest industry stats and reports from across the global mobile industry. Here we present a round up of all the reports and sources from throughout the month by sector.
A group of startups are competing to transform the restaurant experience. Here are the leading candidates… When experts discuss mobile payments, they often say it’s not payment that needs fixing. Swiping or tapping a card is no problem for most people. Instead, it’s the retail experience that needs an overhaul:…
Indonesia is a mobile first country. With a huge domestic addressable market and 95 million smartphone users its no wonder that the home-grown innovation and technology startup scene is thriving. Despite a complex regulatory environment and some false dawns in terms of government support, established VCs are actively investing.
Paper-based coupons are expensive to issue, time-consuming to redeem and hard to track. Yet they still dominate at retail. Here, MEF Minute looks at the challenges facing the mobile coupon sector. Consumers love coupons. According to the trade body ACH, marketers of consumer packaged goods in the US issued 310…
Consumer trust in mobile is fundamental to operating within a sustainable ecosystem. MEF's recent Consumer Trust Summit highlighted the main issues with much of the discussion given over to developing best practice that fosters transparency in what companies do with user data.
Its been a mobile Christmas for Brits with 91 per cent of people in the UK having used a mobile device in the run up to and during the holiday. This infographic from Weve looks at shopping and beyond, indexing a wide range of typical smartphone activities from organising travel…
How many us will be using the mobile internet next year? What's the value of mobile location based services? How will wearables impact the payment space? You’ll find the answers to these and many more mobile data related questions in this week’s MEF market stats round up…
Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week… Banking’s “Uber moment” is already happening, Google & Facebook fight it out for internet supremacy in India, Whatsapp suspension lifted in Brazil plus much more.