Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 7th September

The latest offerings from Apple, mobile in South Africa, Britain is dominating Euro Fintech, Twitter users in Indonesia can buy mobile minutes & data plus all the week's global mobile stories... Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight and data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories From TVs to the work desk, Apple wants iOS everywhere to be your companion for life The Drum Apple has claimed …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 31st August

Google to start punishing websites that force full-screen app install ads, IoT devices ripe for cyber attack, payments via social media drive mobile money transfer market to 13bn transactions this year plus all the week's global mobile stories... Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight and data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Google is going to start punishing websites that force …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 10th August

Google-bet, Blackberry BBM payments, the top 18 mobile unicorns are worth an average $9.3 bn and more global mobile stories... Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight and data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Google to restructure into new holding company called Alphabet The Guardian Google is dead. Long live Alphabet. The tech company announced on Monday that it would rebrand itself …

Enabling the move from cash to mobile money

Its no secret that much of the innovation around mobile money and mobile financial services is coming from growth markets.  Typically large sections of the population in these countries are un-banked and have limited access to any physical banking infrastructure yet feature phone and smartphone penetration is high.  Taken together these circumstances have paved the way for mobile money services which are maturing to become essential banking tools that allow more sophisticated financial services to be brought to market. In this guest blog, Sunil Sachdev, MD of financial technology company …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 14th April 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   Google Play Downloads 45 Per Cent Higher Than iOS, Says App Annie  Mobile Marketing Magazine Global app downloads from the Google Play store now exceed those from the iOS App Store by over 45 per cent, according to a report from App Annie. This has been driven by the prominence of Android in emerging markets which have …

Andrew Bud: How the world is banking on mobile

MEF Global Chair Andrew Bud takes a closer look at the data uncovered by MEF's research on mobile banking globally, and draws some interesting conclusions. MEF's Global Consumer Survey of nearly 10,000 mobile users in 10 countries is proving to be an inexhaustible source of insight into the changing world of mobile content and commerce.  Recently we were reviewing the detailed data regarding mobile banking worldwide in 2012, and some fascinating patterns became apparent. I recently spoke to Finextra, the website for the worldwide financial technology community, who wanted to get some detailed …