Half of the world’s mobile carriers are exempting at least one app from data charges, according to Allot. More often than not, that app is Facebook. The subsidized mobile internet is… Read more »
Until businesses understand and harness the context in which consumers use mobile devices, they will continue to fall short of customer expectations. Read more »
Last week, Mary Meeker revealed the newest in her annual Internet Trends reports, this one for 2014. The big news? Mobile and tablets. Mobile — Mobile phones are now in the hands… Read more »
Carrier’s SMS revenues are increasingly threatened by social messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. For the next few years, though, application-to-person (A2P) usage will provide a lifeline for the SMS… Read more »
Facebook(s fb) has asked the European Commission’s antitrust watchdog to review its $19 billion takeover of the messaging service WhatsApp, according to the Wall Street Journal and also my own sources… Read more »
Witness the power of forward-thinking net neutrality law in action! This sort of thing could be hugely detrimental to the growth plans of Facebook in particular, but it’s ultimately very pro-consumer. Read more »
The reverse takeover saves Kakao, a challenger to the likes of Line and WhatsApp, the trouble of going through a tiresome stock market flotation. Read more »
Big social media companies have typically paid only lip-service to privacy concerns. But Facebook is now introducing measures that will give people easy-to-use tools to control who sees their information. Read more »