Fourth screen accounts for 1 in 4 table bookings
A new app for Windows Phone 8 from toptable is designed to help diners discover the perfect restaurant table and make an instantly confirmed booking. Apparently, mobile bookings now account for 25 per cent of seated diners in the UK. Not a lot of people know that. Continue reading
GoMo offers free tickets for prime Payforit event
Be at THE mobile payments summit or be square
Thanks to our close contacts with virtually all of the major players in the mobile payments sector, GoMo News is able to offer five free tickets to give away to attend the year’s most important event in this sector. It’s the Payforit Summit – organised by AIME, which will take place next month [June 2013] in London (England). Readers only have to go here to find out all they need to know about what Payforit is about. Now we can offer a few lucky readers the chance to be at the Summit which is dedicated exclusively to this mobile billing opportunity. Continue reading
Guest Post: Five essential sports apps for the iPhone
by Tony Buchanan, a writer who occasionally works with Favourit
If you are a sports lover and own an Apple iPhone then there are various great apps which you surely cannot do without. These apps will keep you updated with all information you need. You can get alerts about upcoming events and get news about your favourite teams and much more. Though, of course, there are many sports app that you can download (click on the links). I’ve picked five of the best of them which are listed below. They are all free except for one (Curly’s). Continue reading
Pontis reaches 300 million subscribers worldwide
Continuous, personalised engagement with subscribers result in greater loyalty and improved business results
May 21st 2013. Pontis, the leading provider of individual Customer Lifecycle Management (iCLM) solutions for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), has announced that it has reached 300 million subscribers worldwide, through dozens of tier one mobile operators across the globe. Continue reading
Ovum warns of emerging maturity for MNOs
Revenues from emerging markets to slow by 2017
Industry watcher, Ovum, has warned MNOs [Mobile Network operators] that emerging markets are good but its forecast for 2017 warns of ‘emerging maturity’. The company predicts that a concentration on BRIC [Brazil. Russia, India & China] whilst previously trendy might not be such a brilliant idea as emerging market growth slows. After all, low ARPU across emerging markets means that these markets generate less revenue and profit relative to their subscriber base. Steven Hartley, a telco strategy analyst, with Ovum warns Vodafone that it should worry about speeding up its palliative care for its European operations while it still has the Verizon Wireless cash cow. Continue reading
payvia combines with Mogreet for industry first
DoB platform acquires with rich messaging specialist
The acquisition of a rich media specialist, Mogreet by a US based mobile payments provider, payvia, has led to some pretty radical claims. For starters, payvia claims to be the leader in direct carrier billing (DoB) mobile payments. It then describes the combination of its DoB [Direct Carrier Billing] system with
Mogreet’s technology as creating “the first end-to-end mobile payments, user targeting and engagement platform.” Extremely useful, yes. But the first??? Continue reading
payvia acquires Mogreet to create the first end-to-end mobile payments, user targeting and engagement platform
Responding to strong industry demand, payvia, a Silver Lake Sumeru portfolio company, creates the first-ever solution combining mobile payments, user targeting and mobile marketing on a directly connected carrier platform allowing companies to seamlessly target, transact and engage with consumers
Press release
May 20th 2013. payvia, the leader in direct carrier billed mobile payments, has announced its strategic acquisition of Mogreet, an innovative mobile video and rich media messaging engagement solutions provider that is used by thousands of marketers, retailers, small businesses and developers including major brands such as Cox Media Group, Emmis Communications and Gamefly. The full Mogreet team will join payvia, with Mogreet Founder and CEO James Citron serving as payvia’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Continue reading
Vodafone’s full year revenues slump
No windfall dividend from Verizon payout, investors also told
Vodafone‘s shares are expected to take a dive when trading resumes this morning (21st May 2013) after full year results to the end of March showed group revenue to have slumped 4.2 per cent to £44.4 billion, with an accompanying decline in organic service revenue of 1.9 per cent. A further disappointment to investors is the news that the British operator is to keep in its own coffers the bulk of the £2.4 billion it recently achieved from its 45 per cent stake in America’s Verizon Wireless, rather than distribute it as a special dividend. Instead investors will get a final dividend of 6.92 pence per share. Continue reading
Sacked Nokia workers launch own smartphone using ditched technology
Meego never given a fair chance, they say, as new op rises from the ashes
A group of ex-Nokia workers who believe the Finnish manufacturer was wrong to ditch its Meego operating system have unveiled their own smartphone using the abandoned technology. The workers, who lost their jobs after Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop, opted for Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, set up their own company called Jolla soon afterwards and yesterday, with Meego now reborn as Sailfish, launched their first smartphone. Continue reading
