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Nearly 3m UK households have ditched their landline in the past five years
New analysis has revealed almost 3 million households in Britain have ditched their home phone in the last five years.…

NBA to reach new fans in Europe and Africa with landmark international DCB payment partnership
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has partnered with mobile payment and marketing specialists PM Connect on an international deal for…

Hutch and Fortumo launch DCB in Sri Lanka
In the continuing effort to deliver a universal service experience to smartphone users, Hutch, the preferred choice for mobile broadband services…

Domestic digital money transfer values to grow to $3.4trn by 2025, as mobile money drives growth
Digital domestic money transfer transaction values will rise from $2trn in 2020 to $3.4trn in 2025, driven by the growth…

EY announces alliance with Nokia to help business unlock the power of 5G and accelerate digital transformation
Ernst & Young and Nokia have formed a strategic alliance that is being rolled-out to other EY member firms across…

Telecoming and Evina sign a global alliance to enhance security in DCB payments
European technology companies Evina and Telecoming have signed a global alliance to work hand in hand in promoting DCB as…

Chinese social media site WeChat worth $68bn – more than three major Chinese banks
Testament to the power of social media – not to mention mobile payments – Chinese social app WeChat is now worth…

1 in 4 UK businesses worried about complying with EU online safety regulations proposed under Digital Services Act
Research reveals that many UK businesses currently feel unprepared for new Digital Services Act (DSA) regulation focused on protecting online…

Infobip acquires Europe’s largest tech conference Shift, creating a ‘developer experience department’
In an interesting shift in strategy, global cloud communications company, Infobip has purchased leading developer event Shift Conference, appointing its founder and CEO Ivan…

Conversational commerce will deliver $290bn globally by 2025
Total spend over conversational commerce channels will reach $290 billion by 2025, rising 590 per cent from $41 billion in…

NBA to reach new fans in Europe and Africa with landmark international DCB payment partnership
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has partnered with mobile payment and marketing specialists PM Connect on an international deal for…

Chinese social media site WeChat worth $68bn – more than three major Chinese banks
Testament to the power of social media – not to mention mobile payments – Chinese social app WeChat is now worth…

1 in 4 UK businesses worried about complying with EU online safety regulations proposed under Digital Services Act
Research reveals that many UK businesses currently feel unprepared for new Digital Services Act (DSA) regulation focused on protecting online…

UK app store consumer spend surpassed $1 billion in Q1 2021
In a stay-at-home year for billions of people, the app habit grew stronger in all markets analysed. According to App…

MEET THE PEOPLE Dina Janevski Farcic, SVP Marketing, Centili
Since June 2020, Dina Janevski Farcic has been Senior Vice President Marketing at Centili leading a team of content and…

Chinese social media site WeChat worth $68bn – more than three major Chinese banks
Testament to the power of social media – not to mention mobile payments – Chinese social app WeChat is now worth…

MEET THE PEOPLE Dina Janevski Farcic, SVP Marketing, Centili
Since June 2020, Dina Janevski Farcic has been Senior Vice President Marketing at Centili leading a team of content and…

UK government was leading advertiser in the UK for 2020 spending £164m
According to data presented by TradingPlatforms.com, The UK Government was the leading advertiser in the UK for 2020 with a total…

UK customers are engaging with brands again, as website traffic, email and chat interactions are higher now than ever
Data analysis of activity by leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform HubSpot’s 100,000 global customers reveals that the ramped up…

Yeesshh makes FT1000 list as new ad formats triumph
Pop and push notification ad format player yeesshh has been added to the 2021 FT1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies list,…

Chinese social media site WeChat worth $68bn – more than three major Chinese banks
Testament to the power of social media – not to mention mobile payments – Chinese social app WeChat is now worth…

MEET THE PEOPLE Dina Janevski Farcic, SVP Marketing, Centili
Since June 2020, Dina Janevski Farcic has been Senior Vice President Marketing at Centili leading a team of content and…

UK customers are engaging with brands again, as website traffic, email and chat interactions are higher now than ever
Data analysis of activity by leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform HubSpot’s 100,000 global customers reveals that the ramped up…

Zoom becomes Official Partner of Formula 1, continues Virtual Paddock Club
Formula 1 and Zoom Video Communications, Inc. have entered into a new extensive, multi-year partnership consisting of multiple touchpoints across the upcoming…

Coolwave launches global partner programme for service providers to rapidly monetise voice and messaging
Coolwave Communications, a global provider of voice and messaging solutions, has launched its global partner programme to enable service providers…

NBA to reach new fans in Europe and Africa with landmark international DCB payment partnership
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has partnered with mobile payment and marketing specialists PM Connect on an international deal for…

Hutch and Fortumo launch DCB in Sri Lanka
In the continuing effort to deliver a universal service experience to smartphone users, Hutch, the preferred choice for mobile broadband services…

Domestic digital money transfer values to grow to $3.4trn by 2025, as mobile money drives growth
Digital domestic money transfer transaction values will rise from $2trn in 2020 to $3.4trn in 2025, driven by the growth…

Facial recognition for payments authentication to be used by 1.4 billion people globally by 2025
The number of users of software-based facial recognition to secure payments will exceed 1.4 billion globally by 2025, from just…

Telecoming and Evina sign a global alliance to enhance security in DCB payments
European technology companies Evina and Telecoming have signed a global alliance to work hand in hand in promoting DCB as…

Nearly 3m UK households have ditched their landline in the past five years
New analysis has revealed almost 3 million households in Britain have ditched their home phone in the last five years.…

EY announces alliance with Nokia to help business unlock the power of 5G and accelerate digital transformation
Ernst & Young and Nokia have formed a strategic alliance that is being rolled-out to other EY member firms across…

Facial recognition for payments authentication to be used by 1.4 billion people globally by 2025
The number of users of software-based facial recognition to secure payments will exceed 1.4 billion globally by 2025, from just…

Push-to-Talk services being widely adopted in public safety sector
Demand for push-to-talk hardware and services has gained fast-paced growth over the past years, owing to rise in adoption in…

Telecoming and Evina sign a global alliance to enhance security in DCB payments
European technology companies Evina and Telecoming have signed a global alliance to work hand in hand in promoting DCB as…

Nearly 3m UK households have ditched their landline in the past five years
New analysis has revealed almost 3 million households in Britain have ditched their home phone in the last five years.…

Hutch and Fortumo launch DCB in Sri Lanka
In the continuing effort to deliver a universal service experience to smartphone users, Hutch, the preferred choice for mobile broadband services…

EY announces alliance with Nokia to help business unlock the power of 5G and accelerate digital transformation
Ernst & Young and Nokia have formed a strategic alliance that is being rolled-out to other EY member firms across…

Push-to-Talk services being widely adopted in public safety sector
Demand for push-to-talk hardware and services has gained fast-paced growth over the past years, owing to rise in adoption in…

Cost of 1GB of mobile data ranked in 230 countries: Israel and Kyrgyzstan are the cheapest
Data from 6,148 mobile data plans in 230 countries were gathered and analysed by Cable.co.uk between 8 December 2020 and 25 February 2021…

World Telemedia 2020 postponed until 18-21 May 2021… but Telemedia8.1 set to fill the gap
Having conducted extensive industry research into the likely impact of Covid19 on attendance levels and in consultation with sponsors, the…

New Media Services announce #worldtelemedia sponsorship deal offering huge advantages for businesses across the sector.
Despite the current global shut down, leaders in digital monetisation continue to provide essential value-added services and premium billable content…

WORLD TELEMEDIA MARBELLA Unlocking the DCB opportunity
Direct carrier billing is having a moment. If this year’s World Telemedia Marbella was anything to go by, DCB is…

WORLD TELEMEDIA MARBELLA Fraud – no longer a dirty word
Fraud used to be such a dirty word – especially in connection to telemedia. However, as this year’s show proved,…

WORLD TELEMEDIA MARBELLA Dating, media, games – the new face of telemedia VAS
The kinds of content that make up the value-added services (VAS) portfolio that sits atop telemedia’s carrier billing services has…