Internet.org – an initiative led by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg – has teamed up with Unilever to nail down ways to improve internet access for millions of people across rural India.
...
WhatsApp founder and CEO Jan Koum has promised its mission won’t change and that it will remain independently run following its $19bn acquisition by Facebook.
...
Ericsson and Philips have announced that they are to collaborate on a smart street lighting initiative which will entail connecting lamp standards to mobile broadband links.
...
Sony has lifted the lid on a trio of new smartphones and tablets to augment its flagship Xperia line as the Mobile World Congress gets underway in Barcelona.
...
Nokia, Sony and Samsung are expected to unveil a welter of fresh smartphones at Mobile World Congress later today, as the battle for dominance in 2014 sales charts gets underway.
...
Summly founder Nick D’Aloisio has unveiled the next generation of Yahoo’s mobile news service News Digest for the UK market, designed to curate and summarise the biggest news stories from multiple sources in one place.
...
Ericsson and Facebook have announced that they are to collaborate on the creation of a new innovation lab to support the work of internet.org; an organisation broadening the internet to reach emerging markets end enhancing mobile accessibility.
...
Mastercard has extended its mobile payments proposition with the launch of Masterpass in-app payments, letting users make transactions from within any mobile app.
...
Mobile World Congress 2014, the annual trade show for the mobile sector, kicks off tomorrow (24 January) in Barcelona with around 75,000 delegates expect to descend on the Catalan capital.
...
Ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week, Nokia is the brand clocking up the most mentions, with 7,584 mentions discussing the brand using the MWC hashtag (#MWC14).
...