May 23, 2013
Telecom Lead America: Sprint has acquired Kansas City-based Handmark and its subsidiary OneLouder Apps, a mobile app developer and advertising company. The acquisition will enhance Sprint’s Pinsight Media+ advertising service. Sprint will gain from additional capabilities to drive tremendous ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: RuPay in India and PBOC 3.0 in China are giving tough competition to both MasterCard and Visa, dominant payment brands, in the m-POS market. ABI Research says alternative mobile payment developments including digital wallets and m- POS solutions are also challenging the ...
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Telecom Lead India: Qualcomm says Project Surya’s Climate Credit Pilot Project (C2P2) will use SootSwap, a mobile application, for monitoring the use of clean cooking technologies in 2,000 households in India. Over the past three years, SootSwap has been tested and validated both in the ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: OTT giant Tencent Holdings has reported 228 percent growth in active users to 194 million in the first quarter of 2013. Tencent is hoping to further monetize its Weixin, or WeChat, app. Weixin is similar to WhatsApp, Line or KakaoTalk, apps that allow users to swap messages, ...
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Telecom Lead India: Flytxt has shared the company’s strategies that have assisted the company to accelerate the growth. Flytxt says that Big Data analytics platform powers Flytxt’s growth in the Indian telecom market. In the last decade the world has seen unprecedented growth in the mobile ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Portugal Telecom has selected Intersec’s geolocation solution called IGLOO to generate new source of revenue through location based services (LBS). For Portugal Telecom, LBS is a strong focus area. Location based services revenues are expected to grow to almost $10 billion ...
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Telecom Lead India: The new Nokia Asha platform delivers developers a consistent quality application experience in the world’s fastest growing smartphone category, Nokia said after unveiling the platform as well as Nokia Asha 501, the first smartphone built for the new platform. Nokia ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Pakistan mobile operator Mobilink will bring Nimbuzz Messenger app to Mobilink subscribers. Nimbuzz, a mobile messenger application, has more than 150 million users in 200 countries and more than 210,000 new registrations per day. Mobile users of Mobilink, which has more than ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Viber has signed a deal with Pakistani cellular operator Mobilink to offer unlimited access to Viber’s mobile app. The exclusive deal will allow mobile phone users to send unlimited text messages and make unlimited HD quality calls to other Viber users. Mobilink, the #1 ...
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Telecom Lead India: Telecom start-up MobME Wireless Solutions has received in-principle approval from the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) for its initial public offering (IPO). India’s first telecom campus startup says credit rating agency CRISIL has assigned it a grading of 3/5, ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Nuance Communications has tied up with AutoNavi, a provider of location-based solutions in China, to bring intuitive voice-enabled navigation capabilities. The two companies will collaborate to launch a voice-enabled navigation product AutoNavi Map in the second quarter of ...
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Telecom Lead India: Shipments of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) declined from 33 million units in 2011 to 28 million units in 2012. Facts such as lower consumer spending in Europe and the high installed base of PNDs, especially in mature markets, have affected the growth. Berg Insight says ...
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Telecom Lead India: Bharti SoftBank (BSB) on Sunday said its free mobile messaging app — hike – crossed the 5 million active subscribers mark. The company, which offers free hike to hike messaging and 100 free hike SMSes every month to message friends who are not on hike, has ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Nokia’s location and mapping service HERE posted 22 percent decrease in Q1 2013 revenue to €216 million against €277 million in Q1 2012. Nokia’s poor performance in own phone business impacted location and mapping service revenue growth. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s strategies ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Vodafone and ICICI Bank are expanding M-Pesa – a mobile money transfer and payment service –to help 700 million Indians who had no access to conventional banking. Launched by Vodafone in 2007, M-Pesa is now available in eight countries — Kenya, Tanzania and the ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra aim to develop 30 Young CEOs in the system by 2015. The Young CEO program is a “by invitation only program” where the members are hand-picked by the management council. “I would like to focus on creation of our CEO FORCE – a model of ...
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