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 & commerce snapshot
Global News Stories
SCREENSHOTS: Here’s A Complete Look At iOS 7 For iPhone
Business Insider
Apple’s new operating system for iPhones and iPads, iOS 7, will be available to the public in a few months. Want to see what’s new? Here’s a full tour of iOS 7.
Shopping: Smartphone users prefer websites over apps
Times of India
MUMBAI: More Indians prefer to log onto websites for shopping on their smartphones rather than using apps, a Nielsen Informate report said on Thursday.
Smartphone, tablet and PC shipments to surpass 1.7 billion in 2014
Yahoo News
Emerging markets are expected to greatly contribute to the continued growth of smartphones, tablets and PCs over the next few years. Research firm IDC projects shipments of “smart connect devices” will grow to 1.7 billion units in 2014, roughly 1 billion of which will be shipped to emerging markets.
King.com Dumps Advertising on its Games
Inside Mobile Apps
Consumers are used to being shown ads on their favorite mobile games. From stationary ads that rest across the bottom of the screen to ads that appear after a player’s turn in a popular multiplayer game, advertisements are simply a part of the ecosystem that don’t look to be going away anytime soon.
That is, unless, you ask King….
MasterCard exec: Mobile wallets are about experiences, not payments
Mobile Commerce Daily
A MasterCard executive at the 2013 MultiScreen Summit said focusing on payments is only the beginning of the consumer journey for mobile and digital wallets to take off…
Only 3 western mobile NFC services reach 100k users
Mobile Money Revolution
A new report from Berg Insight counted NFC mobile wallet services commercially live in 13 countries worldwide at the end of Q1 2013.
But it added that outside Asia Pac ‘only three have an effective addressable market of more than 100,000 people’.
Google snaps up Waze to add to mapping service
Yahoo News
Google is buying online mapping service Waze in a $1.03 billion deal that keeps a potentially valuable tool away from its rivals while allowing it to gain technology that could improve the accuracy and usefulness of its own popular navigation system.
Mobile music blooms in Africa
Tech Central
Music is not as bandwidth-heavy as video and there have been a significant number of online mobile music platforms launched in Africa in the past 12 months.
No surprise here. Telcos hoping for big bucks from connected cars
Gigaom
Connected cars will be a big business for cellular carriers as governments demand more embedded systems inside vehicles to meet safety demands. Tethering will also be big, but smartphone integration less so.
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