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Mobile Payments

12 stats that show how mobile money is growing globally

Mobile Money continues to gather pace.  This year’s Christmas period saw another record breaking year in mobile transaction volumes.  At the same time the halo effect of Apple Pay has seen the launch of similar services, notably Samsung’s Samsung Pay. Here we’ve collected the original reports, research and forecasts over…
Tim Banks
April 17, 2015
EuropeMEF Connects MWCMEFTV

MEF Meets the members @MWC 2015

Every year at MWC in Barcelona, we visit as many of our exhibiting members as possible to catch up with their latest news and announcements, get their views on how the mobile ecosystem has evolved in the past year, and where they see it going in the future. This week meet three companies…
Sam Hill
April 14, 2015
Enterprise Communications

Messenger wars: how Facebook climbed back to #1

According to Fred Wilson "the social media phase of the Internet ended" in 2014.  He should know, his firm Union Square Ventures spotted the emergence of social media early and profited from it, investing early in Twitter, Tumblr, Zynga and Foursquare.  Wilson is of course talking about opportunities to invest in new…
Sam Hill
April 13, 2015
News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 6th March

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 content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories FacePay? TechCrunch What if buying something was as…
Sam Hill
April 10, 2015
Mobile Payments

The Global Mobile Money Landscape – Updated

The mobile money sector is one of the most fluid in the whole of the mobile ecosystem, with more players entering and exiting, new tech and services being launched or trialed.  Here’s MEF’s quarterly update on the key players in the landscape. Defined by our Global Working Group it categories…
Sam Hill
April 9, 2015
5 minutes withMEF Connects MWC

5 minutes with…Novatti

In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week, Peter Cook, founder and the CEO of Novatti introduces the mobile payments specialists. What does Novatti do? Novatti creates and delivers innovative payment solutions to a global base of…
Sam Hill
April 8, 2015
VAS

MEF Report indicates strong uptake of mHealth in growth markets

Today is World Health Day, and MEF, the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, has published its mHealth and Wearables Report 2015.  Supported by AVG Technologies, the survey canvassed 15,000 mobile consumers in 15 countries across five continents, to analyse understanding, usage and attitudes to the new technologies and apps. The report is completely…
Sam Hill
April 7, 2015
MEF Connects MWCMEFTV

MEF Meets the members @MWC 2015

MWC in Barcelona gives us an opportunity to meet many of our exhibiting members, and to catch up with their latest news and announcements, get their views on how the mobile ecosystem has evolved in the past year, and where they see it going in the future. Meet three more…
Sam Hill
March 31, 2015
MEF