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Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 20th April

Google launches Project Fi mobile phone network and ‘Mobilegeddon’ search tweak, Alibaba wants its merchants to just use smartphones, Facebook continues to make its money from mobile... and more... Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market…
Sam Hill
April 24, 2015
Guest blog

Mobile Convention London: Privacy and trust key to mobile success

At the recent Mobile Convention London, the first London based edition of the established Mobile Convention series (previously held in Amsterdam and Brussels) delegates from across the mobile tech industry heard from a range of visionary speakers on mobile engagement strategies. Amongst the many lessons, one stood out in particular: technology…
Sam Hill
April 22, 2015
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MEF Minute Wins A UK Blog Award

We don’t often write about ourselves but last week MEF Minute won an award so we thought we’d share the good news! Judged by an expert panel, MEF Minute was shortlisted in two categories in the second annual UK Blog Awards: Best Digital And Technology Blog, where we received Highly Commended…
Sam Hill
April 21, 2015
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Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 13th April

EU and Google antitrust, China leads on iOS downloads, 6% in the US plan to buy an Apple Watch 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…
Tim Banks
April 17, 2015
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
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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
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