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Global Mobile News Round-up: Week 11th May

Verizon buys AOL for $4.4bn, Apple Pay in China, mobile ad spend to reach $105bn and more... Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile…

MEFMay 15, 2015

News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 11th May

Verizon buys AOL for $4.4bn, Apple Pay in China, mobile ad spend to reach $105bn and more... Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile…

MEFMay 15, 2015

Europe Guest blog

Carrier Billing: The Price is Right…

Andy Bovingdon VP of Product Marketing at Bango, discusses pricing strategies for app developers considering carrier billing as a payment mechanism, and shares some invaluable learnings based on data and trends from their popular payment platform, to help maximise your app sales. Carrier billing – charging a digital purchase to the…

Tim BanksMay 14, 2015

10 things Guest blog

1.3 million Android attacks last year: ten steps to mobile security

Mobile's onward march is well documented. In a blink, phone penetration has reached a reported 6.8 billion (the population of the earth is 7 billion) and the next iteration of connectivity will see wearable devices shape a future that was unimaginable when the first text message was sent in the…

MEFMay 13, 2015

Guest blog

Privacy in mobile apps: there’s no such thing as a free lunch

MEF's recent Global Consumer Trust Survey found that 30 per cent of mobile media users cite trust as the single largest obstacle to using mobile to purchase goods and services. Concerns focus on the privacy of user data. Why would an app want to access data on my location, my photos, or…

MEFMay 12, 2015

Europe Event Mobile Payments

MEF members meet the startups of tomorrow with Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars

MEF this week hosted a fintech-focused Innovation Meetup with the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars, attended by MEF members and invited guests as part of our new and dedicated Innovation Programme. The event showcased the current cohort participating in the Accelerator based at the London Escalator, an open innovation space designed to support start-ups and entrepreneurs. Nine…

Tim BanksMay 8, 2015

News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 4th May

Federal court rules on NSA phone spying, Android app tracking concerns, Facebook and native ads, Mobile Internet ‘unicorn’ companies now valued at $575B worldwide and more... Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets,…

MEFMay 8, 2015

10 things

10 things you need to know about mobile vouchers and digitizing cash

Identified as one of MEF’s “10 Key Mobile Trends for 2015”, the creation of methods to convert “cash” to “digital money” is key to enabling mobile & Internet commerce. How does an aspirational consumer in an emerging market take their real cash and buy goods with their mobile? Here, Peter…

MEFMay 7, 2015

Guest blog VAS

Bluetooth Low Energy – at the intersection of retail, marketing and payments

The mobile payment ecosystem is characteristically fragmented with a host of different options that are vying for consumer attention as the technologies and services based on them progress toward maturity. NFC, Direct Operator Billing and Bluetooth Low Energy all have their strengths as transactional platforms whether that’s peer-to-peer, in-store or…

Tim BanksMay 6, 2015

10 things mhealth wearables

16 stats that show how mHealth is taking shape globally

MEF’s recently published mHealth and Wearables Report 2015 which revealed the usage trends and attitudes of 15,000 mobile consumers in 15 countries indicated that the adoption of health and fitness apps globally has grown year on year by more than a third, from 11 to 15 per cent. Similarly, the use…

Tim BanksMay 1, 2015

Global Mobile News Round-up: Week 11th May

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 11th May

Carrier Billing: The Price is Right…

1.3 million Android attacks last year: ten steps to mobile security

Privacy in mobile apps: there’s no such thing as a free lunch

MEF members meet the startups of tomorrow with Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 4th May

10 things you need to know about mobile vouchers and digitizing cash

Bluetooth Low Energy – at the intersection of retail, marketing and payments

16 stats that show how mHealth is taking shape globally

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