IBM’s festive shopping season forecast
IBM has forecast another strong shopping season, with online sales projected to increase 15% over the five-day period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. This is among the predictions for the 2014 holiday shopping season based on billions of online and in-store...Africa takes to WhatsApp for messaging
WhatsApp is the leading third-party messaging application in Africa, according to new research from Sandvine, and accounts for 7% of total traffic on mobile networks. In North American and European markets, WhatsApp accounts for less than 2% of total traffic. This is...How the IoT could drive revenue
While almost everyone agrees that the Internet of Things (IoT) is poised for explosive growth and represents boundless opportunities – billions of connected things driving trillions in revenue – understanding where the revenue opportunities lie across different...Operators adapt to global digitalisation
Kathy Gibson reports from the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm – The Internet of Things presents enormous opportunities for telecommunications operators. Helene Barnekow, senior vice-president and chief commercial officer at Swedish operator...Code of conduct for mobile operators
The GSMA has launched a code of conduct for mobile money providers, outlining a series of common business principles to enable the development of safe and responsible digital financial services. The first mobile network operators (MNOs) to endorse the Code are Airtel,...