02-Feb-12
Who Needs a Bank Branch When You've Got a Mobile Phone?

There's a great deal of discussion and debate around what will ultimately happen to banking as a result of the massive changes in connectivity, utility, mobility and customer experience taking place right now. Banks will be disenfranchised, losing direct relationships with customers as banks adapt to becoming pervasive providers of bank products and services, when and where you need them....

31-Jan-12
IBM acquires Worklight, eyes mobile device management

Worklight makes mobile development, middleware and management tools. Separately, IBM rolled out endpoint management software....

31-Jan-12
Starbucks Says It's Number One in World in Mobile Payments

Starbucks founder, Chairman and CEO Howard D. Schultz said mobile payment and mobile commerce is going to change the way in which consumers buy things, and he said Starbucks was the number-one company not in the U.S., but in the world, in terms of mobile payment, transactions and dollars....

11-Jan-12
Mobile Financial Services and the Emerging Global Middle Class

How Mobile Technology Is Broadening Financial Access in Less-Developed Countries While Driving Business Opportunities for Global Companies....

11-Jan-12
Emerging Markets Mobile Banking Runs Ahead Of Google Wallet

Mobile phones have changed banking faster in emerging markets than in developed countries, so they may provide an indication of where hot tech like the Google Wallet might go if it ever catches up with South Africa, Kenya or Bangladesh....

15-Dec-11
Mobile e-commerce rise puts strain on retailers

Mobile e-commerce users are becoming increasingly demanding of retailers, according to new research by Brocade....

13-Dec-11
Five mobile trends to look out for in 2012

The mobile landscape of 2012 is ripe with possibility. Globally, it’s estimated that 5.3-billion people have mobile phones. This means that there are more people picking up a mobile phone every morning than lifting a newspaper. Increasingly, it’s not only to make calls and send texts either — mobile data traffic is trebling every year....

12-Dec-11
International remittances to grow, but beware the fees

Remittances via mobile devices are set to reach $55 billion in 2016, most of this through traditional migration corridors, according to a new study by Juniper Research. Two issues might affect the growth, however. A lack of regulatory engagement with telcos in many jurisdictions will inhibit deployment as there is little co-ordination between each end of the transfer. Fees are the other, perhaps more serious consideration and the Juniper study calls for care when setting remittance fees....