Each week the MEF Global team gathers mobile stories from around the world. Essential news or interesting nuggets, the Global News Round-up is an instant mobile content & commerce snapshot so you always have the latest insight, news and trends to hand.
Global News Stories
Mobiles Offer Financial Lifeline to Asian Migrants: Study
20 May 2013 – Jakarta Globe
Bangkok: Asia’s mobile revolution is set to transform the region’s financial services industry, offering a cheap way for millions of migrant workers to send money home to their families, a report said on Monday.
Google takes lessons from PayPal, Apple’s Passbook to drive mobile wallet adoption
20 May 2013 – Mobile Commerce Daily
Google is digging for mobile gold with a series of enhancements for Google Wallet that put the mobile payments solution into more direct competition with PayPal and Apple, but do not address its limited availability.
Nigerians Still Prefer Mobile To SMS For Online Shopping
20 May 2013 – Ventures Africa
Nigeria’s online megastore Konga.com has revealed more Nigerians use its mobile platform for e-commerce than its recently launched SMS platform, saying users were still getting used to the idea of an SMS platform.
Is Lagos Home to an African Tech Movement? – Monty Munford
20 May 2013 – Mashable
The Lagos taxi driver roars across the biggest bridge in Africa at 110 mph. Buffeted by the night wind, it feels as if we’re riding a motorbike.
I am with two South Africans and a guy from Silicon Valley. We’re all swilling from a bottle of so-called whisky, including the man behind the wheel. (When your taxi driver says his name is “Success,” things can’t possibly go wrong.)
Mobile Commerce Worth $4.29 Billion in Q1 in China, But One Company Dominates
21 May 2013 – Tech in Asia
We know that mobile commerce in China was worth $7.8 billion in 2012 – and is expected to rise to $41.4 billion in 2015 – but who are the biggest e-commerce brands among the nation’s mobile shoppers? New statistics from iResearch give us that answer and show that one company seriously dominates.
Global News Round-up – These articles are not written by MEF and do not represent any views of individuals, members or the organisation.
More of this week’s Global News:
- Mobile Payment Startup Payvia Buys Mogreet To Add Messaging-Based Marketing To Its Payment Platform (techcrunch.com)
- Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), eBay Inc (EBAY), Google Inc (GOOG): The Mobile Commerce Boom in 7 Charts (insidermonkey.com)
- Google closes Checkout, pushing thousands of merchants into Braintree’s arms (pandodaily.com)
- How Mobile Coupons Are Driving An Explosion In Mobile Commerce (businessinsider.com)
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