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Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 22nd September 2014

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot. Global News Stories Why the U.S. Lags the World in Mobile Payments Time When Apple announced…

MEFSeptember 26, 2014

Meffys

Finalists announced for 11th Annual Meffys

MEF today revealed the finalists for the 11th annual Meffys – the international awards for measuring success and rewarding innovation across the mobile ecosystem. The awards this year attracted over 250 entries from 30 countries across the 13 award categories, which includes new categories for mHealth, Mobile Education and Big Data. They are…

MEFSeptember 24, 2014

Guest blog MEF Data

Mobile Messaging Apps In Indonesia – Functionality Over Features

MEF Member InMobi has taken a look at the digital habits of Indonesian mobile consumers in a study that marks it out as a market with enormous potential. In particular the study puts mobile customer acquisition and monetisation under the spotlight, sharing insights into the most popular apps and how Indonesians…

MEFSeptember 23, 2014

News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 15th September 2014

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot. Global News Stories Feds officially kick off campaign to nail COPPA violators. Here’s why you should…

MEFSeptember 19, 2014

MEF Data

Be Prepared for NFC Marketing [Infographic]

Since the announcement that the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch will be adopting the technology, all eyes are on the energised role of Near Field Communication (NFC). Last week we found out what the industry thought of Apple's first serious foray in to the NFC mobile payments space, here, mobile marketing…

MEFSeptember 18, 2014

Guest blog

Waving but not paying – has Apple Pay put Weve on the ropes?

This week, mobile operator JV, Weve, announced that it was scaling back its plans to launch and support its mobile wallet just as Apple prepares to move in to the NFC enabled, wave and pay market with its iPhone 6 and Apple Pay. With iPhones accounting for roughly one third of…

Tim BanksSeptember 17, 2014

Uncategorized

Introducing Ricardo Bastos, MEF’s new general manager for LatAm

In August MEF appointed Ricardo Bastos as the new General Manager for the Latin America Chapter. He joins MEF as a seasoned mobile industry executive having held senior roles at Vodafone Group, Siemens as well as digital agency, Accedo Brasil. At MEF Ricardo will build on the platform that it has established as…

Tim BanksSeptember 16, 2014

MEF Data

How Nigerians use their mobile phones [Infographic]

CoCreation Hub, Nigeria’s first "open living lab and pre-incubation space", has released this, the second in its infographic series looking at how Nigerians use their mobiles, this time focusing on working professionals. 39.3% of the sample use their phones to access the mobile web - the most popular usage - and…

MEFSeptember 12, 2014

News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 8th September 2014 – Apple News Special

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot. Unsurprisingly, this week the mobile news was dominated by Apple's announcement of the new iPhones and…

MEFSeptember 12, 2014

Interviews

Industry Views: Can Apple Pay finally make mobile payments mainstream?

The announcement that the new iPhones and Apple Watch feature the NFC powered Apple Pay under the hood has been in the making for some time. With some heavy-hitting partnerships revealed, this of course gets Apple in to the mobile payments space in a big way, both in store and…

MEFSeptember 10, 2014