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News Roundup

Global mobile news round up

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Blackberry wants to own mobile privacy, auto-insurers using IoT to monitor driver, Pepsi to launch a smartphone in China plus much more... BlackBerry plans to get back to its enterprise security and privacy roots, according to the…
Sam Hill
October 16, 2015
Industry Views

Industry views: what’s next for mobile and consumer trust?

The last few weeks have seen some interesting moves around ad-blockers and Safe Harbour and raises some important questions. Both point to the need for consumer data and the fragility of that relationship in terms of developing consumer trust for a sustainable business future. How should the industry respond? Perhaps…
Tim Banks
October 15, 2015
Opinions

What happened to the e-book revolution?

Hardly anyone buys CDs and DVDs any more. But paperbacks keep selling. Tim Green wonders why we don’t have our noses in a good e-book yet. There’s a bit of a row going on in the book publishing world at the moment. I don’t imagine it’s getting violent. Bookish types…
Sam Hill
October 15, 2015
Tech Focus

Tech Focus: mobile screens

Today’s smartphones are brilliant. But they do all broadly look the same. Can new display technologies bring back some experimentation? MEF Minute looks at screen innovation… It’s hard to overestimate the impact of phone screen innovation. Today, displays are so good we can happily watch entire box sets on them.…
Sam Hill
October 14, 2015
Guest blogm-commerceMobile PaymentsOpinions

mPOS – at the intersection of payments, service and engagement

Mobile-point-of-sale (mPOS) is disrupting the way payments are accepted and opening up new levels of customer engagement. Initially conceived as a low cost and convenient solution for small businesses (that traditionally weren’t able to process card transactions), larger enterprises from high-street retailers to healthcare businesses are experimenting with mPOS and…
Tim Banks
October 14, 2015
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: 12 October

Will biometric authentication be the norm by 2020? What's the forecast value of the digital revolution for India? What's the latest data on Android versus IOS numbers globally? You’ll find the answers to these and many more mobile data related questions in this week’s MEF market stats round up… Goodbye…
Sam Hill
October 12, 2015
Event

The Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars

The Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars, is an intensive 13-week programme designed to fast-track the next generation of innovative FinTech businesses, and applications for the third London cohort close shortly. The selected companies will receive a number of benefits, including residency at beautifully designed co-working space in Whitechapel, up to…
Sam Hill
October 12, 2015
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